As someone that doesn't get invites anymore to climb much more than the 90% 'obscurities' anyways I'm quite pleased with the rebolting of the obscurities since it will likely draw out more people away from the congested areas. But that doesn't mean now isn't the team to turn toward the remaining Monolith climbs. Thx for stirring it up!
My recommendation would be to try and identify a key stakeholder at each of the Bay Area climbing gyms to solicit funds and people (Brad doesn't have to pay for all the bolts in the area
). That may also identify who has bandwidth to go down midweek. Being able to go midweek means you have the opportunity to do glue ins for longevity. Also, it seems that those that climb the hard lines regularly should/would be more interested in the effort since they are the ones hanging and whipping. There is always interest expressed, but the transfer of knowledge is not always easy to line up. So maybe it is a 3 day affaire? Training day for newcomers. Then day of removal. Then day of placement. (assuming you have multiple volunteers and want to minimize the total number of days that monolith is down for maintenance). Even if down midweek, it would good to have a communications plan (i.e. posting to more broad audience than just mudncrud).
If you go on weekends and use mechanical bolts, then more of just labor being organized (experienced labor since we don't want a novice beating the crud out of the mud while extracting. Then again, sometimes it's hard not to break the mud.
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One aspect Greg was concerned with in re: glue ins - lowering off. I.e. is there a specific crux that most get stumped by, and will end up lowering off through the glue in as strong newbie? Something to consider if you go that way. i.e. should that crux bolt be a regular hanger mechanical to permit replacement over time and discourage lowering off the glue in and instead have folks be encouraged to use a leaver biner.
thoughts?
