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VIC Grampians Halls Gap The Watchtower (General) [ Watchtower Guide | Images ] 

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Watchtower new bolted line. 7-Mar-2014 At 1:44:29 AM uwhp510
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On 6/03/2014 Big G wrote:
>What about cleaning? The majority of cracks in the blue mountains had
>to be cleaned before they were climbed. Hardly leave no trace vs a bolt
>on face rock

Here here! I for one applaud the morally superior environmental credentials of those white knights of ethical purity (ie the ring bolters) who DO NOT clean their routes prior to climbing, thus confining their lichen murder to the small bit under each bolt (ie ~7mm^2 per hole, assuming they are using the accepted enviro-bolting method of 3mm hole diameter). Luckily for the lichens of this world, ring bolts on a route also ensure that it will receive little if any traffic and will soon fade into obscurity, thus further enhancing the enviro-credentials of ring-bolted routes as compared to the filthy, dirty, evil trad routes put up by those from a less enlightened age.

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