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General Climbing Discussion

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THE AUSTRALIAN RE, RETRO-BOLTING OPEN FORUM 31-Aug-2004 At 7:47:03 AM oweng
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I think the struggle between reconciling (spelling?) the visualy offensive nature of many sport climbs with the obvious enjoyment that can be derived from them is one of the things that I (and im sure many others) struggle with.

Just as in the past climbers struggled with the introduction of chalk, just as no doubt climbers struggled with the first uses of carrot bolts on trad routes.

Of course its worth noting that sports climbers wernt the originators of the ugly line of bolts. This distinction goes to aid climbers with their 'murder of the impossible' via the construction of A1 bolt ladders.

I've wavered a few times in my opinion on sport climbing, I look forward to wavering some more as the debate about bolting continues!

In relation to the Paradiso, its sprouted more bolts recently, most notably (to me) on a wall I had been working on as a potential hard-grit style trad climb. Now there's a case of someone retro-bolting a climb, prior to the first ascent!

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