Anyone been to High Tor in the last week? Had another report of retrobolting - on the main face. Might well be in confusion with the above but it would be good to know.
The DDDC ranger had 2 issues with bolting at High Tor. (He claimed to be a climber, by the way)One, according to him it's a SSSI partly for its geological features, so bolting it might be a criminal offence.Two, much more of an issue to him, was that the top viewpoints are popular with tourists. They need protecting from tripping over the top of the crag, so the DDDC promote hawthorn etc to form a natural barrier (a fence would work but be kinda ugly). Said bolter had chopped down a load of hawthorn so he could gain abseil access. Result=angry ranger.So to say it was a lot of fuss about nowt wouldn't be very accurate. If its going to be an ongoing issue which potentially screws access, maybe bolting needs to be stopped? Something to discuss with the main players anyway....
Ah good. Did you get anywhere right of Darius?
The second (the cutting down of hawthorn) has nothing to do with bolting.