this is a good photo of why i call BS when people claim that TR/lowering through the rings is ok and that the rings won't wear a groove because they "rotate". top of incredible handcrack?

Yep, top of IHC. I have seen 15 or 20 kids (camp?) top roping thru the chains on this route before. I guess the counselor/guide didn't want to climb it again to clean and rap. Super weak. We climbed after them, and it looked like a massacre happened under the bulge, blood everywhere!

several years ago i replaced some hardware on this route. when i returned about a month later the hardware looked like your photo.