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To carrot or not to carrot 4-Nov-2004 At 12:50:27 PM Susan

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Why the talk about 'rusty' carrots? How can 314 stainless rust? Don't tell me people use anything else!??

By the way, regarding deadpoint's comments about "Like being 15m above your last bit of pro about to clip a carrot and slipping on a wet patch." and "Come down/up to Booroomba if you want to see removable, sheared, sagging and rusty carrots." ...

In WA, there was one climber who was renoun for being a 'hardman' (translation - "wanker"), who's favourite practice seemed to be rapping off the top and putting bolts on hard slabs (eg Gibraltar Rock - 270 m) at about 20 - 45 m intervals. A fall meant either serious injury or death - ever taken a 90 metre fall onto your belay? The last time I did one of these climbs, I put an extra dozen bolts in on lead. Did I tell anyone? No, because I would have been slagged off for retro-bolting an 'existing' climb. Similarly I once bolted a route that someone once soloed (an overseas climber confused the grades and the climb) and has never been done again since. The bolts were almost immediatly chopped, so now no one can still do this climb safely.

Anyway, gotta go - the boss is looking over my sh