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the lurkist wrote:I would leave them true to the original placements as much as possible unless they are clearly bad. That said, I am unaware of really bad placements on the UT.

bolters aren't omniscent doooood.....sport climbing is for chuffers and wieny wackers anyway...put those bolts for maximum fun...

just a head's up i guess, and maybe to inform those involved in the re-bolting (which has been awesome btw): the last bolt on Resurrection is now bad. about an inch and a half deep section of the rock broke away from around the bolt yesterday. i made note on a stone and placed under the route for anyone who plans to climb on this particular route for now.

Thanks Aaron. I am going out later this evening to investigate the rock around the hole and replace the bolt (in a spot with better rock obviously)... thanks for the heads up and the sign and sorry about the scare!

I'm guessing the bolt in question is an old expansion bolt as opposed to a new glue in?

I thought we removed the old expansions on that route.

It was one of the new glue ins

Resurrection is reborn and good to go. Bolt & glue were bomber; the surrounding rock wasn't so lucky. Someone needs to go on a diet

J/K & sorry if anyone had a good scare...I bodyweight-shockloaded the rest of the bolts & they are all bomber & in good rock. Also replaced all the remaining aluminum draws with steel permas. Now I just gotta send that mofo!

Thanx for the heads up Sarah & Aaron! The Lode was beautiful today.

Andrew wrote:Don't give me that height crap. In most cases I have been lowering bolts, not raising them, so suck it complainer.

Doesn't that make the last clip to the anchors really long?

Huge props to Mike Wheatley for carrying the weight of the Lode rebolting project this fall, and also to the legendary lurkist for climbin' back into the saddle recently too... thanks a million guys!!! Looking forward to a nice cold productive winter out there with you gents

Can we get a status update on this mega project? Did the cave routes get rebolted? I chipped in for the Madness, just curious if it's ready for me to start flailing on it.

Thanks for all the work, huge props!