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Warrumbungles 31-Mar-2010 At 12:45:30 PM evanbb

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On 31/03/2010 wallwombat wrote:
>I need to seek professional help. I really do.

Well, I'm not arguing with this, but maybe not a Doctor, just an English teacher or something. The main problem seems to be that someone mentions replacing anchors and using a power drill to speed the process and you think this means bolting the whole Bungles. There is grey in between.

I don't buy the slippery argument either, which seems to worry you. The same 'logic' has been applied to Ben Lomond, that bolted anchors will give a Green Light to bolting lunatics and then we're off to the races. I don't think that's the case at all. Using Piddo as my example, which the Bungles have some parallels with, there are loads of bolted anchors above trad routes, and some trad routes that could probably use a sneaky bolt here and there. And they've been like that for years, with no indication that Flake Crack is about to be bolted because 'who has a #3 Camalot these days anyway'.

I think your fears are coming from a sane perspective, but reality seems to show they are unfounded.