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Top rope through anchors (solutions) 28-Apr-2011 At 1:46:55 PM another dave

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This thread will probably get recycled very quickly like all my other threads but its just an idea.

So everybody's read or started to read the Sheriff of Shipley thread. And from what I understand every single person who actually bolts/rebolts routes would kindly like everybody else not to top rope through the anchors.
So this thread is about finding ways to deter people who A: don't know B: don't care from TRing through fixed gear. (I think the vast majority of people don't know. I was once part of group A)

I saw one solution at Hillwood in Tassie. At the beginning of the guide there is a warning sign saying due to the nature of these anchors lowering off them twists the rope. (everybody hates a twisted rope hence why nobody uses munters because it twists the rope - but who here as tried it to find out). I am not entirely sure that that would have been the case.
Perhaps anchors could be reinstalled so that TRing would twist the rope if no draws are present.

Or a warning in the guide that your rope will wear out significantly faster. Due to rope rubbing on edges.

I'm just chucking ideas out there into the wind.
Any thoughts??????????