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小黑你的路線福利社有誤?????
我知道的和我的個人看法:
1. P.156的福利社名字是我取的,蓋\第一階處盡是碎石,要甚麼有甚麼。我大約在1991年代爬的,之前並無該處明顯活動記錄。
2. P. 158的上方路線當時(Guide Book編輯時)金魚詢及該處記錄,印象裡聽人說過台北攀岩小黑(小黑很多...)爬過,但不知下半段的詳細。
3. P.158若分為上中下三段,下段不詳,中段不見得定要循P.158照片,上半段是重點,若曾有人依P.158照片實攀過,該路線名另議,福利社的名字係P.156的路線,P.158的福利社名係誤植。
4. Matt 和Stephen爬的哩,下段隨便他們喜歡(傳統的都差不多),Matt爬過兩次,可能都不一樣,中段偏右方atete,橫渡回到上段裂隙起攀、上攀裂隙登頂,循傳統龍脊下降。我不知道首攀之後還有沒有人再去嘗試這條路線的上段,我猜,我僅是猜測沒有;對不習慣的人可能太壯觀,對想爬難路線的人又不夠級數,現在的大環境確實沒有很多這種人口(不過好像一直也都不多, ha)。
5. 希望明顯裂隙路線(路段)不要打bolt,這不是傳統或運動攀登的分界線,也不是上方固定點有沒有的問題,如果有人完攀過,你認為算危險,就幫忙補上bolt,我覺得要補僅是補上方固定點,不是補中途確保支點,這是不一樣的意思,上方固定點提供該區所有路線完攀後安全的下降,龍脊的下降已經有意外發生的例子。
6. 傳統攀登另外的訴求是乾淨,當然是盡人事了。再怎麼乾淨這裡也有雙重標準的爭議存在,如果有人把一些bolt切掉,或是有人用水泥把裂隙補掉,也不是不可能的事。
7. 為什麼以前沒人爬大洞...嗯...加油!為什麼還沒有人去爬太魯閣的185K...為什麼還沒有人去爬匯德...,這些都是挑戰很高需要打bolt的路線,但從on-sight, ground up的觀點來看,如P.158的路線,是不能用增加安全性來取代另一種生命層次的追求,這也是為何經典能成為經典之處。在整個亞洲你能找到能爬5.11以上的傳統路線都不多了,龍洞甚至有可能有5.12以上的傳統路線,這該是我們引以為傲的。
8. 我個人不反對大洞打bolt的路線,只是希望後續去攀爬的人要多注意除了落石外,潛在會斷裂的岩點也是個很危險的課題。大洞地面那麼多的原有落石不是清出來的,是自然風化斷裂的。而當你丟落石時不要喊一聲\'落石\'就隨手往地面拋,最好等地面的人找好隱蔽處再丟,避免落石撞及地面岩塊又炸開後還是很危險。
蛋頭
以下轉貼4月4日和朋友爬完後門分手後,朋友想跟大家分享的意見,或許\提供不同的觀點大家可以思考,應該早點post出來,實在是今天才有空看email,sorry啦。
註記:抱歉不是翻成中文出來,簡單說就是請高抬貴手不要在裂隙路線打bolt。
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I have a question, or concern... On Sunday I saw one of the guys (I
guess
it\'s someone I met before, but I\'m not sure who) cleaning/bolting at
Great
Cave, up on the face near the crack you watched Stephen and me climb. I
wanted to say hello but he was up on the wall and I didn\'t have time to
stick around, so I wrote him a short note, first thanking him for all
his
hard work at making new routes, second inviting him to climb with me
sometime, and third asking him to please please not bolt the excellent
crack
route (Fu2 Li4 Hse4 - I wrote the name in Chinese characters) because
this
is one of the best trad routes in Long Dong and would be destroyed if
bolted. I invited him to call or email me if he had any question. I
hope
my note seemed friendly to him, I was certainly trying to be
extra-friendly.
But I also wonder if there are plans to put bolts in that crack - I
saw a
diagram on some Taiwan climbing bbs (on the net) showing where they
plan to
bolt and it appears that they are considering bolting that crack.
It\'s not a personal matter for me - I don\'t own that crack, and anyway
I\'ve
already climbed it twice and enjoyed it without bolts. But I feel very
strongly that to bolt this crack (which I feel is one of the ten best
trad
routes in Taiwan!) would be taking something AWAY from so many
Taiwanese
climbers of the future who hope to learn good trad skills. Especially
that
crack (which I call Commissarry Crack), being so unique for it\'s long
dihedral of wide-crack jamming; there is no other route like it in Long
Dong
(or likely, in all of Taiwan). If good cracks at Long Dong are bolted,
then
Taiwanese climbers will have fewer opportunities to learn to climb in
natural and fully-committed style that is required if they hope to
succeed
in the larger arenas of big-time rock climbing elsewhere in the world
(Yosemite, the Alps, the Himalaya, etc). I\'m trying to present the
\"big
picture,\" not just focus on my own selfish desires or the idea of
creating a
convenient \'gym\' on which people can learn. Of course there are many
good
quality faces at LD that should have bolt-protected sport climbs on
them...
and I expect most of the routes they are developing at the First Cave
will
probably make very good routes. I support that, and many climbers will
benefit. But many other climbers will also benefit by the presence of
classic cracks (of outstanding quality - I feel Long Dong has more
potential
on the global climbing picture for its cracks) which are left unbolted,
so
that those who learn to climb safely on removable protection can
experience
the satisfaction of climbing routes that weren\'t \"prepared\" for them by
someone else. Commissary Crack could make a magazine cover and attract
visiting trad climbers from other countries (sport climbers will always
go
to Thailand instead; but a good presentation of Taiwan\'s unique seaside
crack climbing will draw traditional-minded visitors). But if that
magazine
photo showed bolts next to a fist crack, it would do as much harm to
Taiwan\'s reputation in the climbing world as did all of Makalu\'s Gao\'s
antics on Denali and Everest in the 1990\'s.
As I said I don\'t even know for sure if there are plans to bolt
Commissary
Crack, or any other crack routes for that matter. But I hope the
people who
are bolting can understand how important it is for the future to leave
good
cracks unbolted, to preserve adventure and keep the opportunities for
younger climbers to learn to climb self-sufficiently, safely, on
traditional
gear. I would be happy to meet with any interested parties and share
my
perspectives and my experiences from climbing (sport, trad, alpine,
ice,
mountains, etc.) among many different local climbing cultures and
ideals in
over 15 different countries.
Do you have any thoughts or recommendations on this? I don\'t want
anyone to
be offended by my position or think I\'m just some foolish outsider who
is
meddling in other peoples\' business. I just hope those excellent
cracks
(and the satisfaction of climbing them naturally) can be preserved for
Taiwan\'s trad climbers. It\'s a very important point to me, and should
be
important to anyone who cares about rock climbing.
Matt
(feel free to forward or append)
p.s. Yuji Hirayama was just awarded Climbing Magazine\'s Golden Piton
Award
for
Best All-Around Climber of 2003. The magazine editors specifically
pointed
out that although Yuji\'s focus is exclusively on rock climbing (i.e.,
less
“all-around” than others who mix ice climbing, mountain climbing,
etc.),
his successes – and even his failures – on Yosemite\'s big walls were
so
strong, so amazing, that he must be recognized as “one of the greatest
climbers ever to touch rock.” Big praise from a big magazine that
doesn\'t
often give big praise so easily. And Yuji\'s historic climbs on El
Capitan,
Washington Column, and Sentinel Rock, it should be pointed out, were
onsight
climbs of specifially non-bolted crack routes. These are the type of
world-class rock climbing objectives that future Taiwan rock climbers
should
dream of and aspire to.
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