The Path Re-Bolted

https://gripped.com/routes/the-path-5-14-at-back-of-the-lake-has-been-re-bolted/

Took me 20 minutes...

"We believe in being gripped, but not run-out-on-a-black-Alien gripped." 

 gymbots are winning 

No names for the shaming? Boo.

This is awesome.  I’m going to add a bolt ladder to Flex Luthor and claim the second ascent.  

I believe in being gripped, just not “unrepeated because it’s hard as shit” gripped.

Whose coming with me?

Trad climbs with added bolts are just as much fun as sport climbs with bolts removed.

"One of Canada's most tried trad routes"

at 5.14 R...suuuure

Retrobolted, not re-bolted. Retrobolting is adding bolts, rebolting is replacing old bolts that are already there.

A well-crafted....ahem, sorry, let me try that again...a well-reported news story should get it straight!

lol

Did any of you outrage monkeys check the date? :-/

Auden Alsop wrote:

Ruined it :(

There’s enough mindless idiocy in this world. I should know, for I am the schmuck. 

Could be worse - some chipping happened in Colorado:

Some of the old guard still think manufacturing routes is okay, while the majority of the climbing establishment believes that walls and boulders should remain in their natural state.But what happens when an already manufactured route is altered further? Is chipping upon chipping a greater or lesser heresy? 

These questions are central in the new front of the route-manufacturing battle opened up at the Pump-O-Rama Gym in Chippendale, Colorado. The first climbers who came into the gym early this morning discovered that the gnarly purple problem in the back left corner of the bouldering cave had been marred beyond repair.

“Someone had chiseled a crimp into the Pusher sloper at the crux,” reported one of the first climbers on the scene.  “Like, why would you even do that? You could just take it down and put a crimp up.”

https://www.climbing.com/news/tensions-flare-over-chipped-routes-at-local-colorado-climbing-area 

https://www.climbing.com/news/yosemite-national-park-to-install-auto-belay-system-on-el-capitan/?itm_source=parsely-api

If only. Top rope the world.