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New anchors at Araps - What do you reckon? 9-Jan-2017 At 12:04:59 PM Andy P

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On the fence with this one and am not even a climber, but;

Is this the 'sanitisation' and 'dumbing down' of Traditional climbing by indoor plastic climbers who only ever clip bolts. Can see both Simey's well-put viewpoint/question about the skill to build a safe natural belay as well as KeiranL's point about minimizing erosion in the descent gully.

However, without consultation and a positive concensus from the wider climbing community I'd be most fearing that bolt rap stations will be popping up all over the joint and some (many?) will inevitably be placed by people bereft of the requisite skills at bolt location & placement. Shear vs Tension etc etc. See a bolt & chains & automatically think its bomproof ,,,, NOT ALWAYS!