Replacing bad bolts has nothing whatsoever to do with ethics or 'laws', whereas retrobolting established routes does. And when you are talking about adding bolts to long established climbs then you are just asking for trouble regardless of what the FA thinks because at that point your 'community' is vested in the climb.
we all make and break our own rules, i find that's it's best not to make the rules in the first place. i like what JH has done out at beacon, except for the anchors on Dastardly, Summer Daze, Dod's (which have been removed) and RR (which have been removed) cause i don't believe in retro bolting cause ur kicking the guy who put the route up square in the NUT SAC. i don't really like the way he has done it but it was a good thing, but JOSEPH is part of the ruling class so what does one expect.
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