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Climbing banned Centennial Trev Blue Mtns - NPWS 8-May-2015 At 3:37:36 PM spicelab

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On 5/05/2015 One Day Hero wrote:
>On 5/05/2015 Samcross wrote:
>>My kids read this stuff, how dare you One day hero!
>
>Good. Time for an alternative interpretation of daddy's hobby.
>
>You kids remember how daddy couldn't take you to soccer because it was
>super-duper important that he bolt all those new routes? And how all the
>other climbers would be so happy that daddy had made all those climbs for
>them to climb?
>
>Well, it turns out that daddy actually didn't find the place at all, bushwalkers
>had been going there for years. And the reason they liked to go there is
>that for an hour or so they could sit under a beautiful natural arch, have
>lunch in the bush, listen to the birds, and pretend that all the horrible
>parts of our industrial society didn't exist. Obviously, being only a few
>hundred meters from the road, this place wasn't really in the middle of
>nowhere. The funny thing about getting away from the concrete and steel
>and rushing and noise though, is that you can very quickly get the peaceful
>feeling of being much more distant than you actually are.
>
>Then daddy came along. And he brought with him a little road, and the
>steel and the concrete, and noisy rushing climbers, and the numbers and
>the beta, and the "FAAAAARK!!". Then it wasn't a peaceful escape from the
>crazy world anymore, it was just one more shitty bit of a developed planet,
>and all the bushwalkers were really sad. Daddy wrecked their peaceful place,
>and he didn't even put up any quality climbs in the fuching process. Most
>other climbers don't go to daddy's cliff, because they know life is too
>short to waste time dicking around on mediocre pox.
>
>the end
>

Don't ever change ODH. You're pretty much the main reason I keep coming back here.