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TR - Thumbs Out 15-Apr-2013 At 2:37:04 PM Nick Clow

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Neil

Ok, I'll give you 33 years.

>* You've (Neil) made a mess of the Bentrovarto Wall by putting a lower-off
>3/4s of the way up two sport routes (YVP etc) at no logical conclusion.
> Have you been on these routes? Have you tried the extensions??

No, I haven't because I exercise some degree of discrimination and taste about what I climb. If I can see something is a non- or compromised line or aesthetically-challenged, then I don't climb it. I wish bolters would exercise similar discrimination before bolting 'routes'. The logical problem on that lower wall is to get up to the ledge. You've got a set of rings at, what, 20+ metres and another set of rings 3 or 4 metres below in the middle of nowhere? Are you telling me that this a class bit of climbing?

> I was no being deliberately provocative - but I can see your point. The super easy section where my route crosses Sweet Dreams is very runout - I didn't want any of my new bolts to be anywhere near Sweet Dreams. I say repeat the route and get back to me about it.

I won't be repeating that route for the same reason as above.