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Rings on 10-Aug-2012 At 3:37:59 PM maxdacat

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On 9/08/2012 stugang wrote:
>
>Warwick drove from Sydney for a 2 day weekend at moonarie to tell me he
>had already climbed the worst route on the Great Wall (although had never
>bothered to write it up for 8 years (probably cos he was embarrassed) despite
>doing so for a couple of other notable routes in the meantime???), and
>he spent 40 hours in a car to tell me that he wanted the bolts chopped
>on this route he never bothered to record.
>
>This was in '89 and I was only 18 (and kind of impressionable) when this
>all happened. It taught me:
>-the previous generation of climbers are probably egotistical twats
>-the whole notion of the first ascentionist having a right over a piece
>of rock is a load of bollocks.

It teaches me that god damn!!! petrol prices must have been pretty low back then :p