Well rope climbing was an original olympic sport back in the 1800s, so it might just be coming back, albeit in a slightly more modern context.
Quote from: rginns on February 26, 2013, 11:46:52 amAs a BMC member I'm not too keen on this. The inevitable end result if successful will be even more people at the crag climbing wall
As a BMC member I'm not too keen on this. The inevitable end result if successful will be even more people at the crag climbing wall
Come on, it's pretty easy to achieve solitude climbing in Lancashire!
Ah, the feeling of driving to Brownstones and seeing another car parked there. Are they climbing? Could there actually be someone else to climb with? No, they're just picking their child up from the stables, dogging, sniffing aerosols.
JB - Sounds like I erased the memory. That or it was presented as endless vague waffle instead of one yes/no vote.Like I said before, I think it's a bad idea, but if this is what climbers want then so be it. I'm not going to be boycotting anything, or giving people evils down the wall. I don't deny it will be great for a select few climbers and I say good luck to them, I'll be rooting for them with everyone else. Would that I were good/young enough to be among them. But I still think it's a bad idea. Not for any earth shatteringly powerful reasons that will silence the yay sayers. Just for the same old boring reasons you outlined already - more climbers, mostly indoors but with inevitable leakage onto the crags = more parking/access problems, faster erosion and polish, more frequent chipping, more tedious training bores, more happy-face-gits in team GB t-shirts at the wall/crag (but only if it’s a nice very sunny day). You know, old miserable hermit stuff.
Bad idea, will benefit a few, some people will make a heap of cash off it and everyone else will pick up the pieces, quite literally in some cases.
I'll reply first with my BMC hat on:This was at area meetings, sometimes on several occasions. Votes went in favour, despite some reservations. If you want to get pedantic I can drag out the agendas for say the Peak Area meets where this was debated and voted on.
I must admit I'm torn between ambivalence and indifference on this too.
Out of the now 10's of thousands of members what percentage attend area meets?I've never made it out to the Peak ones (I'm not adverse to going, but I have to balance going climbing against other stuff). There are regular mail outs to members every few months and this new-fangled internet thing thing which I would hazard a guess a greater proportion of members could/would use than attend meetings these alternatives could (or should) have been used. Could have rolled it into the last president election vote perhaps?
Maybe there should have been a vote to decide how to decide?
And if I could vote, I would chose Andy Kirkpatrick and Johnny Dawes as expert pundits. Anything better than Ed Leigh who blagged his way into the pundit seat for the BMX and MTB in 2012.
If you could get Ed Leigh kicked at the same time it'd be much appreciated.
And if I could vote, I would chose Andy Kirkpatrick and Johnny Dawes as expert pundits.
I still don't understand the logic of choosing lead climbing over bouldering.