Rebolting Ozone ... What are these!!!

[MrGecko]

A general Portland vicinity rebolting effort is under way and during a session at Ozone these anchors were discovered on the route called The Crumbling as well as used for top anchors on the route Meth Rage.

 

These are lag bolts and were driven into a drilled hole as is. This is why education regarding bolting is important. Anyone can basically buy a drill and start assembling a sport route with little to no instruction. Others think they can save a few dollars here and there but in the end its your neck that is hung on the line or maybe placed in a cast if not worse.

 

Support your local rebolting efforts with the ASCA but donating. A month's gym membership fee would be a good donation amount.

 

Donate here: http://mazamas.org/about-us/donate-to-the-mazamas/

 

Be safe out there!

 

 

 

[Ben Beckerich]

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[Bosterson]

Do legit climbing bolts (Powers, etc) have some sort of very obvious marking on the bolt head so that a climber could quickly and visually confirm that the bolt is probably a real climbing bolt vs an industrial fastener (which I think is what the the ones pictured are, per the cross post of this thread in the Access forum)? Sort of the way you can see the "Mad Rock 25KN" stamp on the hanger to immediately distinguish it from homemade ones.

[MrGecko]

For identification markings on the bolt head, these HCA/Hilti coil anchor lag bolts have the traditional three lines indicating a Grade 5 bolt as well as the letters CY & C stamped on them. If you see this then they are likely one of these HCA bolts.