The nice thing about the forests from Chilliwack to Boston Bar is that tyhe white pine blister rust went through 40 years or so ago and killed off a lot of the dense stands of the pine. The pines that are left are scattered through forests of predominantly Douglas fir and hemlock. These aren't attractive to mountain pine beetle so the remnant pines in this one area are making it through the beetle outbreak (which has peaked around here and is now forecast to start declining) alive.
I remember the Stubai Genius, specifically there was a sharp edge on the locking catch that made it a bolt-only biner IMHO cause it could damage a rope.
It was great as the bolt end of a draw though cause you could lock it open and put it on the end of a stick easily and it would lock itself shut once you managed to stick clip the bolt.
Not alot I do admit. But they have ruined my experience a time or two over the years of climbing.
In the early 90s I walked all the way from the parking lot to the dihedrals with a full size ghetto blaster on my shoulder playing public enemy, then my D cells ran out before the sendage. true story.
Let's say some dude was walking the slackline to the monkey mouth, the rope broke, and he fell on a climber below, killing both of them: would you then chop the slackline anchors?