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Ozymandias Direct – Trip Report – May 2011 24-May-2011 At 10:12:27 AM Lee C

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On 23/05/2011 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>On 23/05/2011 Organ Pipe wrote:
>>On 21/05/2011 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:

>>I couldn't let it go so watched the vid carefully pausing it every second
>>or so. And low and behold someone has scratched "Aid climbing s..." (I
>>assume it's "sucks") into the wall above the belay bolts.
>>
>>I spent a good 10 minutes there with Karl, and didn't even notice it!!!
>>
>>I agree it's a real shame.

>... ~> You now know how closely I scrutinised your TR!
>
>It is hard to imagine what the loser used, to scratch that onto
>the wall with.
>
>If it was a free climber the hardest item they would have had with them
>would be a nut tool, and I doubt that would make much effect on hard granite
>(unless especially sharpened?), besides, anyone who can free that route
>I would expect to (likely?) have better ethics.

Not to mention, if they were freeclimbers they probably wouldn't know...