In this particular circumstance, the route setter seriously injured his back and has not worked in 2 years while he is battling over his work comp claim. This person has only put up 2 routes at this crag, but has over 80 routes to his name elsewhere. He is not new to routes. He is a friend of the developers and has requested that he be able to heal and send the route.
The route was repointed by a local climber who disregarded the request that was asked of him to his face on more than one occasion. He basically put his middle finger up at the other locals and said “fuck you im doing it”. What he fails to realize is that there are other climbers who climb the grade and we didn’t touch it. Its called respect.
This is an unfortunate circumstance for the originally setter is telling me he is going to pull both his routes down because of the climbers actions. I don’t agree with him doing that but they are his routes.
I wish there would have been some communication that would have taken place before the circus started.