Can anyone shed light on the recent removal of the 2 pegs from this route?
Is someone on a ‘clean-up’ campaign? The pegs are not crucial, but without it would probably merit E5 rather than the current E4.
It’s rather odd, given that a few weeks ago they were in pretty good condition and not desperately in need of urgent replacement. The lower blade was one of mine - replaced about 10 years ago.
Rather, I suspect that trad thieves are casing the joint for another Matlock robbery, having seen musings about this in another forum.
If you know this route, it was retrobolted with a hard independent start in the early 90’s but the bolts were removed soon afterwards.
It looks to me like someone is eying it up as bolt fodder again.
