My panties are in a bunch. If youd allow some bolted crack climbs whats gonna stop more and more bolts, and people over the years forget how to trad, destroying whats makes the climbing experience important.
Every climber is obligated to chop'em and put the hangers to better use elsewhere.

LOL, what? you're going to tell me it's not? Not that I have a problem with it, having spent 2-3 times the price I paid for my car on gear. I don't mind buying gear a single bit, but do I think it should be necessary to force people who want to learn new climbing skills/moves to buy trad gear, I don't think so.

LOL, cause piton scars are natural? Repetitive gear placements that damage the rock are not a problem? A 4 foot lichen-free swatch of rock going up either side of a crack is natural? Give me a break. If you really wanted to be LNT, you would stay at home.

And it's not about entitlement, it's about sharing what I enjoy with other people. Personally, what I enjoy is climbing.

Nope, there will still be areas to go trad climbing, don't worry. There are enough places that are remote and hard to reach, where bolting is not practical/convenient/useful in regards to the traffic it will receive.

When you have people lining up (literally) so that they can each put in their pro to climb the crack and then take it out, I can't help but feel that it's a little pointless.

Leave no trace. It's that simple. Minimize your impact. The exact logic you use to justify bolting, would justify another to do whatever they want to the rock, just because they feel like it. Is that hold too sharp? go ahead file it down. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a foothold right here? let's just make one.

The very essense of the trade off rock to turn it into just another risk-free suburban entertainment option. As you suggest - man up - or stay off the routes.

This is such a perverse view of "climbing" as to require quotes. Kid, you're really are operating without a GPS for the first time here I see and a compass is going to be totally lost on you. For someone with a profile statement like yours, your context for what climbing "is" is pretty damn warped, though sadly probably not all that uncommon these days....

LOL, having never used a GPS to go climbing before, I find your statement quite hilarious! So tell me, what is my context of what climbing is? Don't you just love the internet where random people think they know all about you?

Littering doesn't damadge the environment either. I mean, in a couple of million years it will have all disintegrated and the earth will be back to normal, right? Nothing wrong with littering. It allows more people to keep their cars clean, save energy from taking out the trash, etc. It's more convenient and fun for everyone. Damn, if only everyone knew how fun it was to throw some trash against a sign when blasting down the highway. We should all just litter. f--- those elitist bastards who say we should have to fork out the money for things like trash cans and disposal services, we obviously don't need them. Personally I am poor, so I don't see the point in spending my money on things like trash cans or having my tax dollars wasted on landfills and disposal services when I don't need them. Littering is so fun, and I want to share this passion with everyone! People only use trash cans to be hardcore; look, I take out my trash so I am not a lazy pantywaste like the rest of you. If I had a trash can, that's why I would have it. And come on, a little litter here or there wouldn't encourage anyone else to litter, would it?

Seriously though, the bolt as little as possible ethic may have started out mostly as an elitist perspective, but it has evolved into a conservationist ethic. People don't like bolted cracks for many reasons, the most valid of which I think is the visual impace/LNT doctrine. It's about respecting the land enough that you impact it as little as possible, saving it for future generations. Thats not to say that all bolts are inherently evil, I personally think a tastefully bolted and visually appealing line is a wonderful addition to any crag, and there are many times when a bolted anchor is certainly the best option. Flame on!

It's about climbing using cams, nuts, hexes, etc. to protect your ass against a fall while you're climbing on a rock.

The reasons for doing it? There are about as many reasons are there are climbers. So don't try and dictate "acceptable" reasons for doing it.

so you calling crack climbers sissy

some traddies can be oh so righteous...i'm not for bolting cracks, i think variety in climbing is cool, but its such a purist s--- mentality, most of them s--- on boudlering which is "purer" and has less impact...

If you need to bolt a perfectly good gear lead in order to climb it, then yes, you're a sissy. And i believe the word I used was sissy, you're a big sissy. Here's an idea majid, pack up your bolt kit and head to Indian Creek, see what kind of reception you recieve.

The auto word filter turns the P-word into the S-word in all quotes, even if you have yours tuned as low as it goes. Even though you're seeing the S-word, they both likely wrote the P-word.

My panties are in a bunch. If youd allow some bolted crack climbs whats gonna stop more and more bolts, and people over the years forget how to trad, destroying whats makes the climbing experience important.
Every climber is obligated to chop'em and put the hangers to better use elsewhere.

Let the insults begin.