A stupid and iresponsible post imho encoureging people to go and climb routes when they are NOT in condition by Suggesting an accent. if you have made an accent it is completly unethecal and WILL NOT COUNT as a winter accent
I would Never Joke about and Accent hich are unethical and out of condition. This route and all the turf on it Could be riuned by This iresponsable and behavier. Why oh Why caNT people ust Wait until routes Are in consition properly?
And people come On here to this froum and defend unethical accents like this. It really bugs me. The delicate rock will be All scratched and it will Ruin the Downfall for summer accents.
Listen Richard, there wont be a single piece of ice developing on the downfall yet! And its pretty obvious from the OP that nobody has made an ascent today using tools!
You are just proving my points in other threads, that people are to quick to jump on the ethical/conditions band wagon! Thanks for that.
I don't think he is. I just think he jumped on the band wagon without reading or knowing anything about the downfall. I don't see why anyone would want to take "the piss" in that way. Doesn't really prove a point, Does it?
Perhaps, but i'd be more inclined to believe he's messing. Journalist or not, it takes work to fit that many mistakes into one sentence..
"I would Never Joke about and Accent hich are unethical and out of condition. This route and all the turf on it Could be riuned by This iresponsable and behavier. Why oh Why caNT people ust Wait until routes Are in consition properly?"
In reply to Tim Chappell: OK, rumbled. But what does it tell us about our other contributors that someone could have taken that stuff seriously?!!
And thanks for the compliments about the old gits cycling - AKA the Wednesday Woblers, great guys and still at it.
It tells us that more often than not, people are always preaching about conditions and ethics. When they have very little idea about routes and even actual winter climbing.
Anyway, you had your ten minutes of fun, I'll be sure to post a link on your website haha
> the ethics/conditions preachers have actually got to me, quite a lot :-/
Well they've got to me too, and so have the people who spell ascent "accent".
I'm not usually a wind-up man but I thought the OP was brill because we all looked... , and once I started ... sorry for any offence.
Ah well, back to footie headlines ho hum...
some of us have climbed the downfall on days like this - there's no rule that says you have to do it as an aid route with picks and sticks, people did once climb outside in the wet
Went up Kinder Scout today, now there is quite a bit of snow up there.There seems to be bit of ice in places, looks like the downfall is just starting to freeze in places.Its no where near in condition but to a mere beginner like my self it looks like it could one day freeze this winter.
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