mike, My vote, as if it matters, is to leave the ones you placed. Seems like that is the better way to do the route. I have seen where moving a bolt or two a little bit one way or another will make the route flow way better, while not making it easier.
Plus, out of all the "locals" I would think you are still more qualified to make a judgement on a route of this grade.
It seems there is a precendence in the red of moving bolts to make routes safer, easier to work, or to follow the beta in which routes are actually done rather than the way the route was thought to go at the time of bolting... that said why is this route different other than its grade?
While we are raising millions of dollars on this issue trying to find the truth, I think the bolter should be Tar and Feathered for not putting the bolts in the correct location to begin with.
Hugh Sucks.
"My Shit is Fucked Up." --Warren Zevon and Terry Kindred.
Saxman wrote:I say we make Hugh remove the two bolts he fucked up.
Basically, yeah. I can safely say if I had found the holds Mike did I would have more than likely moved the bolts to accommodate the line. Oh well....
You boys sort it out. Play nice, now, or I will take my bolts and go home.
"It really is all good ! My thinking only occasionally calls it differently..."
Normie
