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TR: Alive in a Bitter Sea (Katoomba Cliifs) 13-Dec-2016 At 5:50:30 PM WarwickB

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Hey Simon,

I'm getting really inspired by your comments.

Inspired to get onto some of those magnificent walls out there, rap down them, play around, put the odd bolt in and do some good old fashioned first ascent 'headpoint wank'. I'll send you the photos, reckon it will get you spitting and cussing for another thirty years. Such bile should shorten your life more than any 'headpoint wank'.

Your extended carry one in this thread is absent any coherent logic, other than that you're pissed off because someone (myself) climbed a bunch of routes on a magnificant wall in the Blue Mountains in a manner you don't agree with, and that some other people thought those ascents were pretty impressive for the time. Yeah, ok, I get it. You can stop frothing now.

All the bullshit about selfishness and egoism, comparing totally incomparable climbs and ascents with each other, dictating to all and sundry how they should do first ascents, makes me think the far right must have infiltrated the climbing community. So, what we are going to have to do up here in NSW is get those warrants out, the wire taps and telephone intercepts on, and pick up Mr Menz and his rabid, frothing alt-right nutters before they cross the border. Then we should chain them to iron rings in a darkened cell where they will be condemned to watch Echo Point wall being rappelled, bolted, top-roped, and the moves tried on rap, over and over again. Call it aversion therapy! Recon that will do it. Get some of the brain wiring straightened out after the melt down this thread seems to have induced.

Now, summer has arrived in the Blue Mountains. Time to get out and get rapping. There are some magnificant cliffs in the Grose Valley to start on. And here was me thinking my climbing days were winding down. I've now found a whole new purpose to revitalise a wonderful, inspiring, old tradition.

See ya
WarwickB