Posted by Corbett (68.15.115.252) on December 01, 2004 at 15:58:46:
In Reply to: The Texas Mountaineer - Nov/Dec 2004 Issue posted by Arne G/Texas Mountaineers on December 01, 2004 at 09:54:39:
What I find especially interesting in Raleigh's article is that he soloed BSD all those years back with the intentional purpose of keeping the line boltless. He now says it would be okay to bolt it because the soil under the start of Bourbon Street has now eroded away. However, I always start Bourbon Street from near the right end of the "grassy ledge", first clipping a draw into the anchor, stepping onto the slab, then traversing left over to the first bolt. It's a runout, but not a solo to do it that way. Seems it would be much better to just rebuild and shore up the ledge below Bourbon Street to its original level than to bolt BSD just to make the start a little better protected.
We probably need to do that anyway because the ledge will just continue to erode until eventually all the moves off it are boulder problems.
Does anyone agree/disagree?
: For those of you interested in reading the latest Texas Mountaineers newsletter, you can now download it at:
: http://texasmountaineers.org/TM-Newsletter_NovDec2004.pdf
: The newsletter contains among other things an article by Duane Raleigh about retro-bolting at Quartz - something that some of you might be curious about. :-)
: Cheers, and feel free to give me/us some feed back.
: Arne