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Excavation at Animal Acts 12-Jun-2012 At 10:33:15 PM Dave J

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There was a visiting climber who, for reasons that escape me, was really into doing laps on Animal Acts. He probably did this over a 3 month period while he was resting between laps. Piling the rocks up neatly like that was probably the biggest bit of the mistake as it makes it extremely obvious that pebble shuffling has been done. Personally I would never have bothered with Animal Acts, the landing was, pretty reasonable and I cant imagine why anyone would want to climb it more than once but I have definitely moved stones I thought I might break an ankle on out from underneath boulders I thought I might fall off of. To me its a lesser environmental sin than placing a bolt....Roughly on par with building a cairn.

Given the current state of affairs, and the fact that said climber is no longer here, would you recommend throwing the rocks back under the boulder problem or scattering them down the hill?