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Re-Bolting 14-Feb-2003 At 10:38:12 AM Jark

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Tim
I saw the good job you did on Chain of Fools the bolts look fat and bomber. It's great to see somone with the motivation to drag a drill all the way up there. Just a small constructive criticism, the bolts seem very close together, with bolts that bomber i don't think we need to replace the shoelaces 1 for 1 (i'm not sure that you did) but maybe on Weaveworld you could space them out just a little more. With the bolts on the headwall thats your call and if you've got the drive to bolt it then you can do what you please as far as i'm concerned. Maybe an anchor would be nice though, what do you think?
Keep up the good work your state needs it!

Keiren
I will finish the job, i've taken the nuts and hangers off the old bolts just the studs were welded in the holes, there's not enough deapth to bash them in patch over with glue so i need special tools to get them out, this is why i didn't finish it on that trip.
Also i didn't just fly dovn on a road trip and fire in some new bolts, i had climbed the route 6 months eairler on the old bolts, which i had to aid up and put hangers back on, and on my next trip i took the drill down specifically to rebolt that route so that other people would do it as it's a classic. Also on that trip Zach Vertrees and Mike Law bolted the continuation to the route which, when done will be one of the best, hardest and scariest (the bolts are 10m apart in places) routes it the country. This is why i think the first half deserved a rebolt.

I realise that it's easy to get a bit over excited on these forums and just start typing without thinking too much so i'll give you the benifit of the doubt and say you just got a bit riled up because you thought some out of town bumbly was comming down half c--ked and f---ing with your area. That would piss me off too but let me assure you i'm not that bumbly, pick up a Rock mag and do some research you'll find out who i am.
Keep on truckin
Jark