Nylon fixed to anchors on "There goes the neighborhood"
Nylon fixed to anchors on "There goes the neighborhood"
Someone used quick links to attach a set of nylon dogbones with aluminium biners to the last link of each anchor chain. They may or may not be ok for now but I wasn't willing to trust them for cleaning or top roping. If I had had a knife or wrench with me I would have pulled them. They won't last forever and my concern is someone trusting them and falling from the anchors. Also, since the nylon dogbones are attached to the quick links at the bottom of the chain I had to run the rope through a chain link somewhere in the middle of the chain to clean on rappel which made pulling the rope a pain in the ass. I plan on getting back out to funk rock sometime in the next month or two so unless someone beats me to it I'm going to cut them off. I assume whoever put them there intended to do everyone a solid but those anchors are fairly exposed, nylon baking in the sun doesn't last.
Re: Nylon fixed to anchors on "There goes the neighborhood"
Fixed Gear is not allowed on FS land. Please cut them off (if someone doesn't beat you to it). Thanks!z56o2 wrote:Someone used quick links to attach a set of nylon dogbones with aluminium biners to the last link of each anchor chain. They may or may not be ok for now but I wasn't willing to trust them for cleaning or top roping. If I had had a knife or wrench with me I would have pulled them. They won't last forever and my concern is someone trusting them and falling from the anchors. Also, since the nylon dogbones are attached to the quick links at the bottom of the chain I had to run the rope through a chain link somewhere in the middle of the chain to clean on rappel which made pulling the rope a pain in the ass. I plan on getting back out to funk rock sometime in the next month or two so unless someone beats me to it I'm going to cut them off. I assume whoever put them there intended to do everyone a solid but those anchors are fairly exposed, nylon baking in the sun doesn't last.
"Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game." ~ Under the Tuscan Sun
Re: Nylon fixed to anchors on "There goes the neighborhood"
my concern, exactly! I might be headed to Funk rock next weekend, so I will fuck up some webbing if it's still there. I'll cut that puta.Josephine wrote:
Fixed Gear is not allowed on FS land. Please cut them off (if someone doesn't beat you to it). Thanks!
Re: Nylon fixed to anchors on "There goes the neighborhood"
I stand corrected. Bolts placed in rock are "fixed gear" - I was referring to fixed draws - which are not permitted.Savage wrote:my concern, exactly! I might be headed to Funk rock next weekend, so I will fuck up some webbing if it's still there. I'll cut that puta.Josephine wrote:
Fixed Gear is not allowed on FS land. Please cut them off (if someone doesn't beat you to it). Thanks!
"Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game." ~ Under the Tuscan Sun
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Re: Nylon fixed to anchors on "There goes the neighborhood"
Just to be clear the Daniel Boone National Forest considers fixed gear to include permanent installation of bolts, chocks, cam, and "straps" e.g. slings, quick draws, and permadraws. Bolts and anchors at existing climbing areas on existing climbs are OK, anything more is not.
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Re: Nylon fixed to anchors on "There goes the neighborhood"
I took the dumb nylon draws off the anchors without any tools last I was out there. Did you even try to unscrew the quick links by hand before you made a whole thread about it?
Re: Nylon fixed to anchors on "There goes the neighborhood"
silly Willy, this is the Red... we have people like you to do all that hard manual labor