[quote="Day Hiker"]Don't be too concerned with the voice of the elitist. I recently read that elite climbers shun basic healthy leg exercise out of fear that it might (gasp) create a bit of muscle mass. They would sacrifice lower body strength and overall body proportion and health for the sake of something as practically useless as 5.14 sport climbing. Pfffft.
5.14 sport climber preferred supplement:....
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I hate to say this but isn't this a form of elitist attitude
My attitude is be honest and be honest. If someone wants to be a sports climber and they are not affecting the access situation for those around us, let them have their fun.
I has hit with the charge of "Elitist" recently, Fatdad knows the thread in Mountainproject... but my attitude is just be honest about what you are saying. A rating only means a relative degree of difficulty as opposed to the numbers higher and lower, and its still relative. It doesn't denote anything of quality, (ie:
is the individual who is doing it any better or worse then anyone else as an individual or
is the route of better quality then a route of another rating. ) This is why I do NOT like to use words like
Hard, Easy or
Moderate to describe routes, since the words denote quality. They denote something that is variable to the individual who is doing it.
And as I've always said, climbing is basically a useless thing except for how it changes oneself and our views of that which is around us.