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THE AUSTRALIAN RE, RETRO-BOLTING OPEN FORUM 28-Aug-2004 At 12:51:21 PM oweng

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Hex & Climbau,

Climbau’s on the money, I was poking fun at your argument that placing too many bolts is effectively retro-bolting a climb before you climb it. I took this to mean that at times people are placing an extra bolt because they are thinking ‘well I don’t need the bolt, but someone else might think its unsafe, so I’d better whack one in now to save it being retrobolted in the future’. Its not that I disagree with this, more that I wanted to point out that that argument can be continued easily by saying ‘well I don’t need a bolt here, but someone else might think its unsafe and retrobolt it, in which case I might as well whack one in now, but hang on if the climb does get retro-bolted it will probably get chopped by someone else anyway, so I might as well just not put the bolt in anyway.

Hmm, this is getting harder to understand than a David Lynch film!