Resurrection Wall TR - Jake and Factor

[Brad Young]

Yeah, you've got to do the best you can with the rock when rebolting. When I rebolted Tuff on The Frog two of the bolts came out with frightening ease (Beyer just slammed them into crap rock). They came out with little effort and, in each case they brought with them a large half-moon of rock from around the bolt. No way to re-use the hole, hell there wasn't really a hole left, only a crater. And I couldn't find good rock nearby. So, I tried to place the replacement bolts in good rock while not changing the character of the route. I had to place one of them over 2 feet away, because that was the only place I could find good rock. Since the climb is in  a waterchute, I tried to place the bolt at the same height, and I did so within a few inches, and this left the route essentially the same.

Do the best you can.

[F4?]

 I think the hardest part of rebolting is getting the new stuff in good rock. I think the upper belays might be like that.

[Jake M.]

This weekend looks good for Pinns - it is supposed be in the 70s.  What a difference a week makes.

Hey Munge, I agree it is totally bogus to copy images like that. Offering free storage space for image hosting could actually be a bonus for Taco users, but he could just as easily rolled the new system out and let people upload images themselves, and in the process make users agree with whatever terms he wants. He should have just displayed the TRs on the other page and not changed anything about them, but it looks like they integrated photos into a new system as well. Interestingly, the Photos tab also displays photos from the TRs. Maybe another approach would have been to store the full URL to the photos into database where he could also assigned them categories, allowing them to be used in multiple places on the site. That could theoretically allow someone the flexibility of storing images elsewhere, or on his server, based on their choice. There are probably many other technical factors involved, though.

However, I think the basic concept of attaching trip reports to route pages is a good one. Unfortunately poor execution.

[mungeclimber]

Jake, you're spot on.

RJ emailed me about the missing images. Kinda a weird email, but I replied explaining my intent to retain ownership in my images, didn't appreciate the migration, etc. and then explained what I had done to remove the images and immediately got an apology.  They thought they had sent out requests to all the users they were going to auto migrate and had received acknowledgements apparently, but made a mistake on my name when they were tracking the acks. Chris then followed up with an apology as well.  I just read it on my phone, so haven't read the full thing, but I appreciate the apologies for the honest mistake.

My faith in the climbing community remains steadfast.