Please show me one route in Muir where "tightening every bolt on a wall in one visit" occurs. I respectfully submit that this may be an exageration that gives a misleading assessment of the bolting done here.stix wrote:Call it whatever you want, i'm talkin about people havin to tighten bolts every time they're take a load. People tightening every bolt on a wall in one visit. Brand new routes or not, you shouldn't have to do that.
Yes, bolts loosen on this sugar-like RRG rock, but they do so because of the soft nature of the rock (and perhaps too many victory whippers) and not because the route developers are doing anything wrong. We've spent a hell of a lot more time and money developing and testing high-integrity bolting here in Muir than anyone else has ever done in the Red. It is disheartening to read misleading exagerations of an already recognized problem inherent in Corbin sandstone.
Rick