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Eco Crag, Touch-Type? 26-Mar-2009 At 5:11:37 PM adrian

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On 26/03/2009 nmonteith wrote:
>One thing that comes to mind when contemplating bolting in a situation
>like this - will the new bolts be an escape path for leaders who get freaked
>about the original trad route? Is it possible to traverse off to them at
>other points of the original route?
>
>A bit like soloing while wearing a harness, or leading with a fixed rope
>running down the route. It's lessons the degree of commitment to the ascent
>and offers an easy way out.

Personally I don't think this is relevant at all. There are plenty of well protected, straight-forward climbs out there if people are nervous at the grade - what's wrong with committment being required?