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- From: AS.MSW@forsythe.stanford.edu (Marc Whitney)
- Newsgroups: rec.climbing
- Subject: Re: Is Climbing An Individual Sport?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 16:22:51 -0800
- Organization: Stanford University
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- In article <1993Jan25.224958.29453@nas.nasa.gov>,
- eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
- >do just what EVER they choose. Who gives a care and who says so for a
- >piece of rock? After all in the words of some: bolts are better than
- >placed pro [remember: I'm the devil in this one, I will assume you have
- >seen this in earlier posts or published articles], of in the case of
- >free climbing blank faces and performing chipping and bolting: These blank
- >faces are just diamonds in the rough. After all "a National Park is a People's
- >Park" there are too many regulations, laws and restrictions in the world,
- >and your losing your right to add protection in the form of pins or bolts
- >is just government intrusion in private lives. If a guy does a free-solo,
- >first ascent, then does that mean all subsequent ascents have to be
- >free-solo first ascents? A slew of Fairview dome routes at high standard
- >are this way. Does the Devil care to bolt these say in the name of safety?
- >Not on your life.
- >
- >Nothing personal, it's just that the regular devils' have posted any of this
- >yet.
- >
- Now whenever anyone slams in a bolt they can just say: "The Eugene
- made me do it!" :-)
-