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Sport climbers - why don't you climb trad? 27-Jan-2013 At 4:29:48 PM tor.lattimore

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On 27/01/2013 ratherbeclimbinv9 wrote:
>Not sure that's really fair Tor. I think (predominately) trad climbers
>generally give out far fewer stars than sport climbers.

The numbers don't seem to depend that much on stars. In any case, my point wasn't how few starred trad climbs there are in NSW compared to sport climbs. It was that compared to VIC, the accessibility/compactness/number of trad climbs is pretty small.

Actually there are almost no three starred low-grade (<15) sport routes in NSW, but climbers quickly progress to being able to climb much harder (sport) routes, of which there are many. Essentially there is an easy progression into sport climbing in NSW via gyms, but getting into trad climbing is a lot more difficult and less fun here than it is in VIC.

Where in ACT/NSW can I, a beginner trad leader, go and climb 10 fun pitches of easy trad on good rock? Preferably multi-pitch.

> (and how's the shoulder??)

Slowly slowly :( Maybe in a couple of months it'll be good enough to climb a bit.