You can pop many locks with application of a simple crowbar and/or Z-angle pin stack. Makes getting locked in or out a non-issue unless you get caught in the act.
The gritstone photos are 99.9% of the time posed after the FA with the climber back on the route with either hidden pro at the waist or a toprope hidden around the arete out of sight.
Um, lets say Catbirdseat announced he was gonna try to onsight the Bachar-Yerian.
Would you say "you go girl, I trust you have enough experience to know your own abilities, send" Or "Dude you are gonna make a big ugly splatter at the base"?
FWIW the "bush hell" mentioned, descending below the Memorial to the basin, is all of like 5 minutes and 100m horizontal distance long until you break out on the talus