Jenga in target11/1/2023 ![]() I have been adamant as the Peak Bolt fund stock holder that no bolts or equipment should be used to re-equip buttresses of questionable stability especially those that are likely to be climbed on by children and novices as they cannot make an informed assessment and evidently the people instructing them can't either. I was intending to replace them but had reservations about the stability of the rock in that area especially that sketchy pillar. I did a visual check of the belays on the "main area" of Horse Thief last winter and they were ok but I remember seeing some very worn carabiners on the "left hand wall" the summer before which is hardly surprising given the grade and the number of ticks logged. ![]() More about the Peak Bolt Fund and links to paypal should you want to chip in here: Has anyone noticed particularly worn kit at Horse Thief that I should target? Or indeed have you done a route a Moss Rake and noticed a worn out krab there? If so, please leave me your suggestions here. I've climbed a couple of times at Moss Rake this summer, but haven't been to Horse Thief for some time. The photos below show a krab that another climber took off a lower off at Moss Rake a couple of weeks back, I think he generously donated one of his krabs to replace it with, but it's anything that looks like that, that I will try and swap-out for a longer lasting steel ring. So I won't be able to do every route but should be able to replace any badly worn alloy insitu krabs. I'm going to get a dozen or so lower-off rings, and maillons to attach them with, from the Peak Bolt Fund. ![]() I've sort of volunteered and sort of been press-ganged into replacing worn out lower-offs at Horse-thief and Moss Rake. ![]()
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