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death bolts and tree cutting at Earlwood 8-Mar-2010 At 10:43:05 AM Andrew_M

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On 7/03/2010 nmonteith wrote:
>Even weirder. How would the rangers know what is good or bad? There are
>plenty of really old manky carrots at that crag - are they removing them
>as well???

To fill in a bit more. When I told him that we'd already heard about the bad bolts, he asked whether we'd heard it from "Andrew" (didn't catch the surname - not me obviously) who was apparently a local climber who seemed to have some good working relationship with the ranger that we'd spoken to. It could be that "Andrew" had done the chopping, or perhaps he had reported to the ranger that the bolts had been chopped in a climbing community self policing action. He did mention that there had "apparently been some discussion online about it" which would probably be here on chockstone. Complete speculation. The conversation was pretty vague.

NPWS seemed keen that the orignal culprits be tracked down and set straight at least.