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Havachatwithhexy... 1-Mar-2005 At 10:21:35 PM Onsight

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On 28/02/2005 HEX wrote:
>Tis indeed ! --- but keep going son ! --- A very sexy-tangent you were
>flowing so freshly on !
OK then Dad! Good to know someone is interested but unfortunately it's not alway so sexy when you get down into the nitty gritty of Oz climbing and some of the factors shaping and influencing it. The number of really positive climbers who also obviously do understand and give a damn certainly makes it tempting for me to just gloss things over (figuratively speaking) but I also do think that we as climbers do need to think about the bigger issues facing the “sport” – as leaving that all up to associated “industries” and some of the influences from within might be unwise if, as it turns out, they don’t care about nor understand things like “ethos” or the “culture”, nor might not be interested in putting back into the sport in any meaningful way. There are already a lot of external factors at play. And I don’t want to wake up one day and wonder what the fk happened, at least not if it’s something we could have done something about beforehand.

As such I though anthonyk’s earlier questions were right on the money. But yeah, I understand it can all seem a bit too hard.

>Your thoughts-to-articulation are as good as ya photos and stimulate my
>own brain-waves like an exciting hover-craft-ride across the top of Damo/Bourge's
>sea of mediocrity ...
You’re too kind of course. And after reading the above I’m sure many will disagree my articulation is any good.

So let me just summarise that some to the issues I’m talking about are:

Ethos/culture/urbanisation and the loss of full-time scene,
climbing associated/dependant “industries”,
competitions and indoor,
and the “media”.

By the way – happy anniversary Hex!