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Fixed draw cuts rope ~> fatality 26-Oct-2012 At 10:24:42 AM Seb

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ODH, its interesting that you find my level of toughness important. You should be happy that people like me exist, if everyone was like Alex Honnold your alpha status would be highly questionable. If you want to make climbing seem more masculine you better get all the women to stop climbing especially the ones that climb harder then you. Maybe MMA is a better option but I think they have women in that too. Not sure I get the John West thing are you saying only people with a certain gonad circumference should climb or that your friends are fish?

This thread shows an interesting perspective into peoples minds. So I will add abit to the story.

Some time in Jan I had a go at the hustler and so did my wife she does not usually like highly overhung climbing. She did ok on it, I did not tick it that day. So I thought that this is something we can work on together. I put on the perma-draws in the thought that she would work the hustler and I would work on the muscle hustler in the future. The main reason for this was to encourage her to try steeper climbs. The hustler might be abit beyond what she can do right now but there is nothing wrong with working on your weakness. For us to be able to do this without the perma-draws means I have to go up hustler put the draws then put the draws on muscle hustler then have a go a trying to actually do muscle hustler then clean both routes at the end of the day. At this point you are right ODH I am not capable of doing that. We have not been on the climbs as often as I would have liked this year. I think all up its been on five different days but we only try them when my wife wants to have ago at the hustler.

Whether I am going bolt to bolt or hiking it to the end and just not making the top is not really important to this story. We are enjoying the experience together and that is the important bit to me. Saying that I don't want to do something that makes everyone else experience on the climb not as good by leaving draws on the there forever. I do have to say that most people at the crag are very positive about the draws on these climbs. At least no one has said you are a soft c--k for leave the perma-draws there get them down now.