FYI, there is a milk jug at Red River Outdoors for rebolting dontaions. Money goes to buying hardware to replace bolts/hangers/anchors, not to bolt new routes.
Oops, I've never been on Redriveroutdoors.com I was cornfused, the anchors are probably great. I think it's Flutterby blue with the spinners for anchors, that should be torqued down a little. Sorry, I'm a dipshit. I'm keeping a wrench in my pack
The anchors on Flutterby Blue were tightened yesterday. Thanks for the heads up on them. Team Muir has been checking anchors the last few weeks. If anyone finds something loose, plese PM one of us.
Ascentionist wrote:Cool story about lurkist. Was at Roadside once with Lurkist, EJ and some other people. Lurkis led Pulling Pockets (pre-rebolting) and lowered off. EJ went up on TR and when she got to the 3rd bolt started dogging pretty hard. At one point when she came off the hanger popped and she swung out from the wall.
Lurkist looks up and said as casually as only he could be, "Oh yeah, that was loose when I was up there. I tried to tighten it by hand but decided to just climb on."
Interesting this post is here. The Lurkist replaced a long-time spinner on Crazy Fingers on Friday. Apparently it was pretty bad. The last bolt spun like mad. He was going to replace the second to last too but couldn't get it out. He said it will have to be cut but that it's okay to climb on for right now.
Jesus only knows that she tries too hard. She's only trying to keep the sky from falling.
Oh, I said all of that to say, thanks all you re-bolters/route maintenance people! You are what sets the Red apart from all of the sketchy scary areas I hear about from travellers.
Jesus only knows that she tries too hard. She's only trying to keep the sky from falling.
Sunshine wrote:Rebolted Steelworker today. One anchor bolt nearly came off with finger pressure. Upper crux bolt broke as soon as I put the socket on it and started to turn. I have no idea how it could have held body wieght, much less a fall
