Harshness not at all intended.
My apologies if I came across that way.
Scree slogs are the worst.
I'll take climbing any day.

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It can be explained by the fact that he spent more time on rock walls and I spent more time on relatively easy mountaineering routes.

Good explanation.

CaT

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)