On 24-Jan-2019 One Day Hero wrote:
>Why aren't more people on here condemning these bolts? 5 fat U bolts as
>an abseil anchor at a trad crag. Are people so fuched up with concern about
>not making waves that they can't call bullshit on this extreme case abomination?
>
>If you don't speak up, idiots with drills will take that silence as approval.
>Then people like Macca and I are going to have to go chopping at established
>sport crags to reel this nonsense in.
I think the temporary silence is due to the jury still being out, as the perpetrators of said abominations have not yet been identified/confirmed.
There are enough anti-(stupid)-bolt fairies to sort the issue; some local, some prepared to visit from further afield* ... but, if it turns out to be army, or for that matter educational institution, or indeed commercial perpetrators, then simply chopping (although helpful short term message sending), isn’t necessarily a longer term solution.
As for chopping ‘their’ other routes as retribution for endangering overall climbing access, well, there mightn’t be other routes if it’s any of the institutional / commercial perpetrators?
(* if unsure of location - head to the logical spot to abseil down Fuhrer. Note: DC Adventure mob used to set up trad anchors with carpet edge protection for the purpose in that vicinity...). |