[pct-l] "All those nice people, and then there's ..." (Pct-L Digest, Vol 50, Issue 35)

[gschenk1 at roadrunner.com]

---- Heather Darnell <mom_and_alex at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Gary, Robert William (whoever you really are), et al: What's with the climber-bashing, 

Look at it this way, Heather. If Ray Jardine had ridden a motocross bike on the PCT and then claimed a speed record, hikers would feel the same way about him that climbers do about him chiseling holds in El Capitan. To a climber, artificially altering the rock in order to make an ascent is like kicking a little old lady and stealing her purse. It's worse than cheating, it is despicable.

So it goes.

Gary