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Fully sick bolt wars at Araps 12-May-2016 At 11:06:52 AM uwhp510

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This seems like a decent place to pose the following...

In principle, should the first ascentionist retain the final say over whether a route can be retroed (or retro-chopped for that matter) or not in perpetuity?

As people get old(er) they sometimes become more (or less) risk averse/conservative, or even just plain weird in some cases. For example, Dave Mustaine from Megadeth is now a full on, born again, fundamentalist, Republican christian. So maybe, once a route is out there in public for 10 or 20 or more years, falling back on "but the FA said I could" should not the a total get-out clause for retro bolting/chopping.

I'm talking completely in the abstract here by the way. This isn't meant to attack any particular person as being old/conservative/weird.