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Mount Keira Bolting 20-Mar-2014 At 5:38:31 PM lionelterray

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The Mt Keira thecrag.com area email user received this email from " batey "' on the 17/3/14 .

From BATEY "Brigetta Face Mt Keira
Hi Mate, Wondering if you were the one responsible for the Retro Bolting of Brigetta face at Mt Keira. Notice there is a lot more bolts then ever existed not to mention a number of the routes now listed as sport climbs and rings less then 1 foot from perfect trad placements. Did you speak with FA and the greater climbing community about the bolting of these routes? There is a good chance the next day i have off work the bolts will be getting chopped as well as a larger number of the retro shit that you are responsible for. If you can give me a good reason to not chop them im open and listening."

In reply, I said :
" re MtKeira bolting project:
- Graeme Hill, Ant Prehn, etal (original crag developers and FA'ers) were consulted on numerous occasions (both in person and via email) .

- a Facebook site - with 60+ users - existed for the 1 year time frame of the project. A log of the routes to be bolted appeared there, and each 'worked on' route was posted there .

- Dave and Gavin were asked on MANY occasions to come and have a look at the work and did so on 'at least' one occasion .

- when I last did a site visit to the crag with the National Parks local head ranger ( Jamie Erskine ) , he specifically stated that " absolutely no new bolting or changes to existing bolts were to be done without first consulting with him". I & HC group were informed about this.

So in summary, you can not unilaterally alter anything at MtKeira - the appropriate National Parks Ranger has been cc'ed on this correspondence.

p.s. re sport/trad. routes: Yes, Space trucken/nursery/nurlegs/crawdad are just another example at MtKeira of trad. routes being extremely close to sport routes - it happens "