Quote from: duncan on May 22, 2012, 11:00:48 amJCM demonstrating his strong opposition to bolt protected climbing:He does look quite disgusted by it in that photo...
JCM demonstrating his strong opposition to bolt protected climbing:
Does anyone know the state of play with this kind of issue in the US? You'd think the potential liability risk to bolters would be even greater than in the UK, given their disproportionate population of the more rapacious type of lawyer. However I am not aware of any discussion on a US web forum similar to this one - though I have not looked hard.Tangential to that, how about US-style ground-up bolting (one of the pillars of what yanks regard as "trad" climbing)? Almost by definition ground-up bolts are likely to be less well-placed and less likely to have been checked later, relative to normally-equipped sport routes. How would the legal analysis jcm suggests apply to those?
:geek:I think that's a route called 'Rambling Moses Weetabix and the Secona Park Seven' which gets 6b or 6b+ at Dancing Ledge at Swanage. Actually quite nice moves, if I recall rightly.