If you’ve never participated in establishing new climbing routes, you may be underestimating the amount of cleaning that is usually required. We climbers don’t look for areas without loose rock and vegetation so much as we clean loose rock and vegetation while establishing new routes.
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If you’ve never participated in establishing new climbing routes, you may be underestimating the amount of cleaning that is usually required. We climbers don’t look for areas without loose rock and vegetation so much as we clean loose rock and vegetation while establishing new routes.