In my previous blog - I posted a little thing (on purpose) about bolting a route that we originally did on trad gear - What many don't realize is that a lot of sport routes - could, infact go on trad gear - EASILY - at the New River Gorge for example, Freekie Stylee would go - (though scary as all get out) - Exoduster would go on gear, another route - Party in my Mind - which could easily have been bolted is a freaking awesome trad route - it comes down the the choice of the FA - on these routes that can go either way - I mean - yah - bolting an obvious crack is a no-no - but with the advent of today's gear - you can almost always get a crappy TCU or C3 in a horizontal.
So why a sport route - well - its basically a sport crag - there were no obvious cracks and actually placing the gear onsite would be downright scary since its horizontals....you'd have to guess fairly well to place a few of the pieces over your head....and if you blew it you, you'd ledge out pretty quick....
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So - We Can Start this Conversation by you Telling Me Everything that you did Wrong this Weekend. (5.10d) (maybe sinking some iron was one of them? *wink)
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