Kingfisher

This post was originally a comment in Kingfisher

Its been years since I climbed the King Fisher. Without seeing the line in person, I am forced to hold my opinion. However, if this is a photo of a bolt ladder to facilitate a quick and easy ascent for slackliners and/or base jumpers I must say that it would be sad. Harvey Carter drilled a ton of bolts on the Colorado NE Ridge aka the Colorado Bolt ladder which is to the left. That route is easy enough that anybody with a little aid climbing experience can eek their way up, therfore a bolt ladder parallel to it would not be justified. I'll be in the Fishers this January perhaps I'll be able to look a little closer at this.

One thing that I find interesting is that "glue-ins" are really expensive. Whoever put these in took the time and money because they plan on repeating it or people repeating it many times. I may be jumping to conclusions, but when guide companies use certain routes or buttresses for their businesses, they tend to may a route or replace anchors on existing routes with very bomber and uniform equipment to try to minimize risk. This may be the case, this may not be the case

tda