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April 03, 2006
Red River Gorge: Muir Valley Opens Partially
Steve hangs on at the Meadow.
Photo by The WiredNut © 2006Slade, KY.- The Webers have reopened sectors in Muir Valley to climbing. This is from Rick Weber:
We're Back!... well partially, anyway.
With the efforts of a big group of volunteers working with our developers, these areas of Muir Valley are now re-opened: All of Rebel Camp Branch, including Bruise Brothers Wall and Sunnyside; Johnnies Wall, Tectonics Wall, and the Indy Wall (all of these in the Tantroft Hollow). Part of the Great Wall has been inspected and we hope to open it and the Great Arch area tomorrow -- depending on the amount of help we receive.
Here's the rule: Please climb ONLY those routes that are marked with either a yellow or green ribbon attached to the first bolt. Please do NOT move ribbons or climb routes that have not been inspected.
We are entering the data collected during the inspection into our route database at this time. And, we are very pleased with the condition we found the hardware in on these very heavily used routes. Dozens of bolted hangers and only one loose hanger found. No finger-loose bolts, and most of the bolts were found to be at or beyond 40 foot-pounds of torque. We Loctited EVERY quicklink to eliminate the problem of quicklinks being snitched off the climbs. When it becomes time to replace them, we will simply bolt-cutter them off. We also removed all the bolts on Methane Rising on the Bruise Brothers Wall.
Posted by WiredNut at April 3, 2006 06:44 PM