Here's some more info on the bolt removal on Dags in Beanland. The 14 bolts we removed had 3-4" Power's 5-piece plated bolts, but, for some reason I really don't understand, used homemade hangers. Not only were these hangers made out of what appears to be standard 1/8" metal L-bar stock, but the carabiner hole drilled into the stock was only 3/8". That means that just about every carabiner out there would not fit through the hole!!!!!
To add to the whole sordid affair, the person who placed these bolts used a liberal amount of silicone seal around the bolt hole and the base of the hanger, so much so that he basically glued the hanger to the rock. I tried to remove as much of the glue as possible, but I was not very successful.
It remains a mystery as to why someone would add 14 protection bolts to a climb that originally had only 9 protection bolts and then use poorly crafted homemade hangers with a carabiner hole so small that virtually no carabiner could even clip the bolt.
Tony B
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Oct 10, 2014
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Around Boulder, CO
· Joined Jan 2001
· Points: 24,705
Bruce Hildenbrand wrote: It remains a mystery as to why someone would add 14 protection bolts to a climb that originally had only 9 protection bolts and then use poorly crafted homemade hangers with a carabiner hole so small that virtually no carabiner could even clip the bolt.
Well, as Forrest Gump would quote his mother: "Stupid is as stupid does." Guy doing one dumb thing just might get a pattern going...
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