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Great, we climbed Eye, the 2 10s, and Prime Directive. Good thing we didn't take any whippers.

Spraqwa, Most of the bolts on Eye Of the Needle are metolius stainless 4 inch sleeve anchors. The first bolt was added by someone else after i did The FA. The anchors might need to be replaced, but i did not install them. There should be nothing unsafe about that route. Someone has given you the wrong infomation.It was fine the last time i was on it.

Tbone,
I did eotn recently and felt it was a "do not fall" route with regards to the gear. If those bolts are stainless, then the nuts are not, and have had a bad galvanic reaction with the hangers and are very rusted. In general, Funkrock is in need of a major gear overhaul. Most of those routes are over ten years old and many were put up with cheaper bolts (Manic, Go Easy Billy clyde, Prime Directive, Frugal Chariot, Hard core Jjollies, Porter's routes). Some of the latter routes were established with the onset of the standard of Rawl Five piece (There goes the Neighborhood, OJ, Liel au ciel, Appalachain spring, Red Hot Chili Pepper, Glory be,). These routes still look ok.

I would request that everyone make your posts about FRC bolts over at thered.org CAC forum. There are several issues relating to the Wilderness designation of that area that need to be considered and should really be discussed on thered.org bbs. Thank you for your cooperation.

Bill

BTW, for the record, I don't recall anyone saying that the climbs at Funkrock were irresponsibly bolted...except for people maybe criticizing their own work. My understanding is that there is a ton of water running up there and that is why it was a problem. So, no one was saying that the bolts might be sketchy b/c someone screwed up. Just that they needed to be redone.

I feel that it needed clarification.