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Ben Nevis - Shame on you. What a waste of a crag. 10-Aug-2009 At 10:19:36 AM evanbb

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On 10/08/2009 ado_m wrote:
>Fix it up - it is about time that safety and reasonable bolting standards
>trump a first ascentionist "rights" to leave a crag in a poorly bolted
>(thus unused) condition!

This could easily degenerate into pointless bolting wars, but I totally disagree with this point. What you're suggesting is that every crag should be bolted for the lowest common denominator. Why does every crag need to be used to it's maximum? Why do others have to come down to your level? You might think it's unsafe, maybe you're just not good enough?

I don't think you are good enough or not, but just because you think it's unsafe, doesn't mean it is. There will always be someone who thinks a climb is unsafe; do we rebolt it to accomodate them? Do we put ladders up Everest because it's too hard without them?

Note this is coming from someone whose scope of climbing areas is thus pretty small. I know my limitations and I climb within them. Maybe you should try the same?