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Broken holds, Glue and outdoor route setters !! 2-Oct-2003 At 2:54:09 PM Donut King

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glueing holds back on , "reinforcing" points of weakness...all sounds a bit contrived to me.

if the 17 turns into a 23 cos a hold disspaears then so bit it. i dont think any one should treat holds as replacable.

i remember climbing in the UK a few years ago, looking for "warm-up" routes and being gripped silly on HVS-E1 routes. they had seen soo much traffic over the years that what once was a positive hold had almost all but vanished...it was amazing.

No talk there about "resurfacing" the rock to improve friction (lets not talk about resin (pof) here)

if a vital hold breaks and the grade climbs a few nothches then does it become a "new" project???

Cheers

dk