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Taipan 22-May-2006 At 3:13:24 PM KP

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On 22/05/2006 simey wrote:
>On 22/05/2006 shiltz wrote:
>>In response to an earlier suggestion by Simey that people should be establishing
>routes in the 8-18 range that also makes no sense to me. We're not property
>developers. Climbers attempt new projects as they find them.
>
>More codswallop. I deliberately search for quality easier climbs to establish,
>because that is what is lacking (not because that is all I am capable of
>climbing). And in the process I often ignore potential new routes in the
>grade 20-25 range. Why would I bother putting up insignificant routes when
>there are stacks of better quality climbs that I have yet to repeat? The
>only person I can think of who is putting up brilliant consumer classics
>in the grade 20-25 range is Mike Law and that is because he is getting
>onto some of the big cliffs in the Blueys as opposed to faffing around
>on little walls that previous generations deliberately ignored.
>
>I know there are a lot of climbers out there who don't mind putting their
>name to any old piece of rubbish, but I prefer the Mentz name to be reserved
>for routes of quality.
>

like that 'thing' in king rat gully, eh ?