On 6/07/2009 nmonteith wrote:
>On 6/07/2009 robertsonja wrote:
> You mentioned that someone has climbed this
>>route without protection, hence my meaning was that the first ascentionist
>>could of done the same, or walked on past, however they drilled the rock,
>>hence my "drilled into submission" comment. The climbing effort was lowered
>>to suit.
>
>I just don't get why you are picking on that obscure route with a single
>carrot? 50m to the left of that route is about 30 bolts of various vintage
>on the Have a Good Flight Wall. Surely that is much worse in your eyes?
You have to start somewhere right? By making the ridiculous seem absurd (eg Touchtype where 6 new bolts were added last year for some 4m of shitty new climbing by a guide book author), hopefully the norm can be shifted.
Of course Good Flight Wall is worse, its a little bit of Nowra in the Wimmera.