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Bottom Feeders... 19-Jul-2009 At 9:43:14 AM contactgav

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Ado,
just a few things,
Did you not fully research this line to see if it had been climbed? it appears you haven't as i have seen it mentioned in guides before.
in retrospect, as it is an established climb, even though you had gone to the effort of rebolting it,theorectically you cannot put a tag on it and claim it as your project.
An open project is for all to try, if i'm not mistaken.
If the mystery climber knew that the line you rebolted was done, he does have right to climb it, like wise if it was an open project.

there is an example of this at berowra, there was a very old open project at the right end of the crag on carrots, someone has gone to the effort of rebolting it and put a red tag on it. i hope that they don't feel that it is their project

however the removal of the tag is another issue.
IMO he should of left the tag on, as you rightly stated the older bolts needed removing. and there could of been other issues such as glue etc...

In the past, when i have rebolted an established climb, i leave a noted tag on the first bolt stated when i had glued it and any other pertinant information that mey need doing, ie, removing old bolts , fixing lower off.

i suppose the lesson to be learnt is that,
if a person is going to rebolt a line, be it open project or route. best to research throroughly and find out about the route / line first.

Would you of rebolted the line, knowing it has been climbed already?