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The 16-Jan-2009 At 12:17:15 PM hipster

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Both these groups of bolters wre told by locals NOT to use expansion bolts in Blue Mountains rock. They went ahead and bolted against locals' wishes, and that's the disappointing thing.
Macciza what is acting appropriately. I would say acting appropriately is ensuring that no-one else goes off-route and dies. How long do you want to wait?? Till another accident?? Because, thanks to Simon, we know that these bolts are a time bomb and whoever goes up there next will surely not top out. There's 3 pitches of these rubbish bolts, and I'm sure Simon looking at a couple of them will in no way effect any Police investigation. It aint CSI, you clip a quickdraw to them, pull out and hey-presto!
There's plenty of climbers who don't know that an accident happened, and a tiny little sign at the top car park hardly cordons off the whole area as a crime scene. What if someone parks in the bottom car park for the walk in?? They'll know nothing.
Plenty of local climbers met these foreign climbers. Maybe it wasn't suggested strongly enough what would happen if they didn't want to bolt up to the very high standard the locals used.
Anyone who speaks Polish please e-mail those tools and tell them their routes above the lunch ledge have been removed, if they want any of their crap gear back to e-mail me and they can have it.
Ado