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Cactus Gloves 14-Nov-2003 At 3:41:49 AM Peter

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RE: Dinkum Dickhead

Have just read from page 6 "Rebolting".

Has anyone given a thought to "Know your enemy"?

Dave has a whole bunch of ammo now, which taken out of context, can hurt our cause greatly.

IMHO, the guys a nutcase with a cause and we should not be debating him in a public forum or in writing.

We should be gathering information, joining "The friends of the Grampians" and laying down some counter moves.

We need to document all of our unofficial ethics regarding bolting, our enviromental work within the parks we climb, focus on the rebolting and commoflaging(spelling?) of unsightly bolts, (photo's of new and old by the gifted ones can show how the new bolt are nearly undetectable)and present this to parks for there information. If we sit back on this one, HE WILL WIN, they always do.

I also think WE should go to Parks and ask them what we can do as an enviromental project(clean chalk, fix tracks, revegitate) all of this will help our case and let Parks know that we are also "friends".

Can we enlist the aid of the Everest Police group, they are quite popular at the moment.

Well Im in for the working bee if it gets organised.

By the way, I have posted this here as I dought Dave will be looking for any gear.

Peter