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Who retro'd The Creekside Crag?

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cdec · · SLC, UT · Joined Jan 2007 · Points: 654

So someone has retro bolted 3 routes, Chutes and Ladders (Anker, Bedford) Thieves Reprieve and Face the Fax at the Creekside Crag and added a 3rd route to the East facing wall.
Alien was the first to fall several years ago and now these 3. All so tightly bolted you could z clip. These routes were spicy, yet very climbable trad/mixed lines that were climbed for 20+ years in the style that they went up in. They were part of the fabric and a page from the history of our canyons and now they are bolt ladders.

What's done is done but my hope is that this will not continue here. There are so many options now in the Wasatch. The last decade in the Cottonwoods has been one of tremendous development of well protected sport climbs that require little gear, skill or balls. Please leave the climbs that require a touch of these things alone.

If you don't own/can't place the cams or don't like the run-outs then figure out where the well protected sport climbing is rather than figuring out where to place the bolts on the routes that are beyond your ability.

Garret Nuzzo Jones · · Salt Lake City, UT · Joined Feb 2012 · Points: 1,436

I have no idea who did it but all those routes have been bolted since at least last year sometime. I remember climbing them last summer and being kind of confused since MP lists them as trad routes. Fortunately the lovely Isogram hasn't been touched.

cassondra l · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2008 · Points: 335

An angle grinder,insta-crete, and a bit of initiative can fix this problem.

marty funkhouser · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Dec 2007 · Points: 20
cassondra wrote:An angle grinder,insta-crete, and a bit of initiative can fix this problem.

I'm with you but I like to add a bunch of random items to the list to throw off the internet flamers:

I can fix that with an angle grinder, a water balloon, some scrambled eggs and a tube of neosporin.

I can fix that with an angle grinder, a rusty steak knife, some dolphin safe tuna, and a dog whistle.
JCM · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jun 2008 · Points: 115
jeff lebowski wrote: I'm with you but I like to add a bunch of random items to the list to throw off the internet flamers: I can fix that with an angle grinder, a water balloon, some scrambled eggs and a tube of neosporin. I can fix that with an angle grinder, a rusty steak knife, some dolphin safe tuna, and a dog whistle.
And a penguin.
Mikey Seaman · · Boise, ID · Joined Sep 2010 · Points: 5

Not funny. You two suck

Paul Wilhelmsen · · sandy, ut · Joined Aug 2012 · Points: 231

I met the guy who bolted those climbs, he also put up a climb called something like a$$holes in leather (referring to the motorcycles that make hearing your belayer/climber impossible) further down the canyon, it's a really fun 5.8+ sport climb on the wave wall. I honestly assumed he put up the routes originally. Cool guy, said had put up a lot of routes in big, when I asked what his tag was on MP he said he didn't have one, and said he didn't post his new routes anywhere.

DrApnea · · Wenatchee, WA · Joined May 2011 · Points: 265

Also newly bolted in BCC is the anchors on Layback Crack (only a 5.5) at Storm Mountain. The bolts are halfway up what was the second pitch of the climb, right next to a nice crack, only <40 feet from the established belay anchors at a ledge, and next to a bomber tree if you ever did want to belay there. People are looking for excuses to use their drills in the cottonwoods.

cdec · · SLC, UT · Joined Jan 2007 · Points: 654

Not new at all. In the guide and on MP. He either doesn't know or doesn't give a shit. Either way sucks.

If someone who does care enough to occasionally check on what's up in the Wasatch sees this thread and knows who's drilling these bolts perhaps they could let the person know that what they are doing is not cool.

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

Northern Utah & Idaho
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