Thought crossed my mind. On routes this hard drilling bat hook holes would definitely be considered sculpting so not an option. So the options are; bolt what you can on lead ground up and rap bolt what you cannot, rap bolt, run it out on super hard terrain with loose junk, go home. I suppose there is one other option. Really hard routes become TR's.
The selfish part of me likes the last option since it makes the possibility of me actually getting some hard climbs ticked off an option. Not Karl, Adam, mudmittens hard, but you know, fledgling hard.
yep, succinct statement of the main 5 options i was tossing around.
a variant for lower grades is get stronger, do it ground up.
or
permit a single bathook, because no route at pinns is really that long, which also mitigates against running it out on choss.
too bad it's so hard to T-off on an aider using bat hooks, that would permit spacing the bolts out with minimal unfilled hole type drilling.
if epoxy wasn't strictly illegal in NPS then back filling a bat hook hole might be rationale for using bathooks because the visual blight concern would be gone.
mrs. munge says run it out, "because if you are going to be crazy in a crazy place, be crazy in a crazy place." (do give her opinion more weight since she's never climbed inside of a gym?
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