Maybe bolting isn't so bad...

Trundling via helicopter. Way cool.

so, if you clean and bolt via helicopter, does it count as a ground up ascent?

toys like that make me want to join the military.

Yeah, it puts bolting in perspective. But...

Helicopter wrecking ball! And they washed the rock off when they were done.

The description of the video on youtube is amusing:

NapalmNewt wrote:A helicopter smacks down a rock off a cliff face to eliminate a rock fall hazard for the road below. The helicopter than displays it's dominance of the Fjord by urinating all over the rock face. This is done to loosen and remove any remaining small rocks that may fail at another time and cream a volvo or saab on the road below.

Wow, that can't be cheap. Probably more cost efficient than replacing the road though.

I always wondered what those rockfall fences would look like after a good big hit. They obviously work great! Cool footage.

Billcoe wrote:Wow, that can't be cheap. Probably more cost efficient than replacing the road though.

Perin Blanchard wrote:The description of the video on youtube is amusing:

Could dropping water on key backcountry cliffs create sick ice climbs?? Dream a little dream.

According to my Dad, the Norwegians have a lot of money from oil prospecting so they can afford that kind of stuff.

In the US, we would just fire artillery at it. That's what we have a lot of.

This makes chosstafarians green with envy. My buddy Vince would love it more for cleaning off tick marks.

Speaking of artillery...

Sadly, we used to have a lot of surplus howitzer artillery from WWII that was put to good use in avalanche mitigation. Recoiless rifles were also used, but one exploded in the tube and killed the operator once and they fell out of favor. Artillery is not cheap anymore, as it is much more complex and consequently more expensive. So they use air cannons now amongst other methods.