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Title: what the....
Post by: hongkongstuey on June 20, 2007, 01:59:13 pm: I leave town for a few days and come back to find some idiot has done this to a load of my problems - which weren't even that highball for f#$k's sake:

(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1037/569786329_eb9af7c85d.jpg)

same area shown in this clip: http://www.hongkongclimbing.com/gallery/videos/stusheko.htm

wankers....
Title: Re: what the....
Post by: SA Chris on June 20, 2007, 02:09:34 pm: Are you serious stu? Looks like a joke?? are they meant to be TR anchors, or for leading?
Title: Re: what the....
Post by: mini on June 20, 2007, 06:45:18 pm: Stu, that just does not look right, aren't they all a little close together? Or are there that many lines on what looks quite a small exspanse of rock?

Wounder!
Title: Re: what the....
Post by: Andy F on June 20, 2007, 06:49:48 pm: Has Zippy paid a visit to the colonies recently? ;)
Title: Re: what the....
Post by: GCW on June 20, 2007, 08:06:41 pm: If you stand far enough away does it say "Kilroy woz ere"?
Title: Re: what the....
Post by: hongkongstuey on June 21, 2007, 01:37:01 am: Quote from: SA Chris on June 20, 2007, 02:09:34 pm
Are you serious stu?

I wish I wasn't - it's gonna be a hell of a job to try and strip that lot out and get rid of the stubs etc (but at least my hanger collection will about double)

the guys who took the photos said there were about 50 bolts placed some as close as 30cm apart - in answer to other questions, there's only about 5 established problems on the wall (none harder than V5 or higher than about 5m, and all above a perfectly flat granite landing that can be padded out very nicely) - a case of pattern bolting for no reason, thought or consideration...
Title: Re: what the....
Post by: SA Chris on June 21, 2007, 08:07:42 am: So you haven't seen this yourself?

I reckon someones pulling your pisser. It's a photoshop job.
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Post by: r-man on June 21, 2007, 11:21:45 am: I thought that, but having just magnified the photo, if it is a photoshop job, someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure all the bolts are slighlty different. So I guess it's real. Bizarre.
Title: Re: what the....
Post by: SA Chris on June 21, 2007, 12:09:04 pm: Scott Muir been to visit?
Title: Re: what the....
Post by: hongkongstuey on June 25, 2007, 01:40:52 am: and everything went back to the way it should be... (other than a few small cement splodges)

(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1361/611231253_400990f7ce.jpg)

a total of 55 bolts removed in all - one of the rope access companies (run by a climber) had set it up as training venue apparently

(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1410/612689523_e997023a1d.jpg)

(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1195/612703143_b9d701435e.jpg)
Title: Re: what the....
Post by: Control freak on June 25, 2007, 03:34:15 am: Top effort Stu - at least you have got a good supply of hangers to keep you going for a few months :)
Title: Re: what the....
Post by: SA Chris on June 25, 2007, 07:53:44 am: Quote from: hongkongstuey on June 25, 2007, 01:40:52 am
one of the rope access companies (run by a climber) had set it up as training venue apparently

Fucking twats. Didnt' look like they were for climbing. Have you let them know?
Title: Re: what the....
Post by: Bonjoy on June 25, 2007, 10:39:20 am: Not much aid training value in bolts spaced at 30cm, punters.
Title: Re: what the....
Post by: clm on June 25, 2007, 03:47:52 pm: Dont let them know, they will ask for their hangers back
Title: Re: what the....
Post by: hongkongstuey on June 26, 2007, 01:23:56 am: Quote from: clm on June 25, 2007, 03:47:52 pm
Dont let them know, they will ask for their hangers back

we've taken the moral high ground and left them in the climbing wall to see if they've the bottle to turn up, face the music and get their hangers back.

if they're still there in two-weeks we'll divvy them up amongst the main crag developers in HK to ease their financial losses (the start of a HK bolt fund....)