General Climbing Discussion

Topic	Date	User
An international bolting debate	23-Jan-2011 At 12:48:58 PM	tmarsh
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On 23/01/2011 singersmith wrote: >Thin edge of the wedge; not chopping encourages more of the same. "Chopping" >usually doesn't involve mechanically shearing the bolts, but instead simply >unscrewing them and taking them out. Often, the holes are filled with >epoxy and rock dust/chips. If only this were always the case. I can think of half a dozen or more routes that have had bolts 'chopped' by various civic minded people who often cite 'environmental' concerns for their actions. And on all of those routes, they have left behind rock scars, craters, mangled rubbish or empty holes. I've never understood this. Epoxy putty is cheap and easy to use.

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