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TR: Alive in a Bitter Sea (Katoomba Cliifs) 14-Dec-2016 At 7:12:45 AM WarwickB

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On 13/12/2016 simey wrote:
>That sounds good Warwick. You establish some more headpoint wank routes
>and I will come up and retro Alive in a Bitter Sea.
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So, if I go and put up new routes, inspecting, rapping, and bolting them on rap, you will go and screw over an entirely different route contrary to the wishes of the person who did the first ascent? That's dictatorial, alt-right, bullying, and thuggery. Something I reject completely. As you might imagine, I don't respond well to being bullied and dictated to by some git I hardly know about something I've been doing for over 40 years, and which is important to me - climbing.

A response like yours could well result in an epidemic of bolt chopping across the country as people return the rock everywhere to its natural condition so routes may be climbed from the ground up, or not at all.

>But I do agree that I have made my point (although I reckon my approach
>of rap bolting for the majority leans more to the left whilst yours is
>far right).
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>What I am more amazed about is that Macca hasn't mentioned Shai-Hulud
>in this thread once.
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