In reply to DaveHK:
Seriously, have you been to Mason Lees or any other dry tooling venue? If you haven't you really should before getting sniffy about them. I regard myself as a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to this sort of thing and got quite righteously indignant when Newtyle got developed but then I went there and realised how ridiculous I was being. subsequent visits to the delights of Wales's premier drytooling venue "white goods" and Masson (where I have never donned a pair of axes) has only confirmed this.
Dont get me wrong, I think drytooling is really weird (and I have done it). But I politely say if you haven't experienced the delights of the sort of locations where its tolerated you dont really know what you're talking about.
I don't really know why I'm defending dry tooling I think it's a bizarre pastime, but desecration of climbing locations it really ain't.
Post edited at 21:40