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Re: [randyb] crack sport climbing:
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tomcat_ct
Nov 27, 2009, 12:09 AM
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I was so lost reading yet another post about this ongoing trad vs sport thing until I saw the post where someone said to just TR those quality cracks.
Why on earth is everyone losing the point that it's all about the line and the route and not how you protect it?!
I have a different personal opinion about this subject.I mainly like face climbing(I live in Romania where almost all areas worth to climb are limestone and conglomerate...) but I like climbing long multipitch routes.
Single pitch sport routes make a lot of sense to me since I don't want to carry a rack to climb a single pitch.It's also not much of an adventure to climb one pitch anyway.But if I go out to do multipitch stuff I don't expect anybody to bolt 7-10-how many you want or like- pitches for me.And I also don't want anyone to take the adventure away by turning a classic climb in to a blot clipping session.
c22,you're absolutely right!TR is the simplest way of going after those climbs without a rack.
And anyway, I believe that everyone who likes climbing enough, will end up after a certain period of time with a huge rack, climbing multipitch trad climbs for the shear beauty and exposure of the lines and not for the grades, ethics or other crap that doesn't really matter when you're way run out up there.That's just how I see it-I go out to climb and that's it.Being a second or TR on a climb without facing a monster whipper while leading doesn't mean that you didn't get to experience the beauty of the rock and the moves.And that monster whipper is probably waiting for you just around the corner when you eventually tie back in to the sharp end.
(This post was edited by tomcat_ct on Nov 27, 2009, 12:12 AM)
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