Without watching the video that sounds really stupid. How can one set of bolts possibly interfere with another?
Quote from: Bradders on October 16, 2020, 08:28:32 pmWithout watching the video that sounds really stupid. How can one set of bolts possibly interfere with another?Pretty easily surely? If there's a really good route up a bit of rock, you could easily add another line of bolts a metre to the side. It would be pretty unclear what holds we're "in" for each route, and thus mess up the original route. Crags definitely get ruined by having too many routes on them
Quote from: Ged on October 30, 2021, 08:11:52 pmQuote from: Bradders on October 16, 2020, 08:28:32 pmWithout watching the video that sounds really stupid. How can one set of bolts possibly interfere with another?Pretty easily surely? If there's a really good route up a bit of rock, you could easily add another line of bolts a metre to the side. It would be pretty unclear what holds we're "in" for each route, and thus mess up the original route. Crags definitely get ruined by having too many routes on themProgress is just as proud as Northern Lights for instance. True North is just as proud as Urgent Action.
If all alternative versions, squeezed in lines and link-ups in this world got all their bolts chopped overnight I would not shed a single tear. (I do a lot of sport climbing)
Quote from: Bradders on October 30, 2021, 10:22:18 pmQuote from: Ged on October 30, 2021, 08:11:52 pmQuote from: Bradders on October 16, 2020, 08:28:32 pmWithout watching the video that sounds really stupid. How can one set of bolts possibly interfere with another?Pretty easily surely? If there's a really good route up a bit of rock, you could easily add another line of bolts a metre to the side. It would be pretty unclear what holds we're "in" for each route, and thus mess up the original route. Crags definitely get ruined by having too many routes on themProgress is just as proud as Northern Lights for instance. True North is just as proud as Urgent Action.Those routes aren't that close together?
That is true. True North and Progress are lines of least resistance up that buttress. What makes them so good is that there is no other way of reaching the top of each line. If only one section were blank, each route would be impossible. Same thing with Northern Lights.
Quote from: Kingy on October 31, 2021, 07:45:24 amThat is true. True North and Progress are lines of least resistance up that buttress. What makes them so good is that there is no other way of reaching the top of each line. If only one section were blank, each route would be impossible. Same thing with Northern Lights. Apart from Urgent and The Thumb for True North and North Star for Progress But they don't feel like link-ups, just like routes that share a short section. I apologise in advance to all link/connection haters for my dubious intentions towards the roof at Kilnsey, which includes establishing a million link-ups... blame it on the PIP joint.
And doesn't Magnetic North come quite close to Northern Lights?