I WAS ASKING A QUESTION DWYANER.
AND YES THE MESSAGE IS DISCOUNTED, PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH.
YOU KNOW I USED TO THINK I WAS ALL TOUGH ON BOLTS, BUT INSTEAD OF ATTEMPTING TO SWAY THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS, I WENT OUT AND SAW WHAT THE RAGE WAS ALL ABOUT. AND GUESS WHAT MY FRIEND, IT WAS FUN!
AND TRAD CLIMBING, AID CLIMBING, BOULDERING, ALPINISM ALL HAVE IMPACTS. I BETCA THAT LICHEN YOU LIGHTLY SCUBBED WILL ONLY TAKE ANOTHER 100 YEARS TO REGAIN ITS POSITION.
NORTH RIDGE OF STUART HAS GARBAGE ON IT, HAS WALLS OF ROCK PILED UP, HAS TOILET PAPER, AND THE LICHEN IS SCRUBBED AND THERE IS TONS OF FIXED TAT AND OTHER MISC. FIXED JUNK. LOOKS LIKE A PRETTY BIG IMPACT TO ME. I CLIMBED THAT ROUTE KNOWING THERE WOULD BE OTHERS THERE, NO WILDERNESS FOR ME! LUCKILY THERE WAS ONLY ONE OTHER GROUP AND WE DIDNT SEE THEM TILL DARN NEAR THE TOP.
SO WHERE IS THE IMPACT?? IT IS EVERYWHERE. EVEN YOUR VAUNTED FRED BECKY DID HIS FAIR SHARE OF IMPACT.
I SAY GO SPORT CLIMBING WITH AN OPEN MIND(IS THAT POSSIBLE) AND THEN COME BACK REPORT TO US WHAT YOU THINK.............