SAS Re-bolting Phase 3 completed

[gearheart]

The Squamish Access Society has completed Phase 3 of our re-bolting initiative. Thanks to everyone who made suggestions for the work to be done in this phase.
Phase 3 included work at the Smoke Bluffs including bolt and/or anchor replacement on Supervalue 10c, Geritol 10c and House Music 10c, Digital Dexterity 12c and 4 routes at Burgers & Fries (11a, 11a, 11c, 10a).
At Murrin at Nightmare anchor bolts and chains were replaced on Big Daddy 12b and anchor bolts, chains and protection bolts were replaced on And Metal for All 11d.
Much work was completed at Chek including the completion of the perma-draw project with 100 further perma-draws being placed on toxic lichen, circus and big show walls. The perma-draw work at these walls is now basically completed. At the Forgotten Wall bolts were replaced on Creepy Crawlers 11a, Creeping Right 10d, The Voodoo You Do 10b, Rug Munchers 11d and Junkyard Patio 11a.
At Toxic Lichen, Olympic Bid 11d, Ill Communication 13a and the Mutation 11c all received new anchors. At the Circus random bolts were replaced on The Fleeing Heifer 12c, Bottom Feeder 12d, The Wayward Bovine 12b and Neutered Bovine 11c.
The Daily Planet 12b received new anchors on every pitch above p. 1 and all protection bolts on p. 5 were replaced.
Full details of Phase 3 with many photos can be seen at http://squamishaccess.ca/

The reports on Phase 1 and Phase 2 can also be found at http://squamishaccess.ca/?p=699
and http://squamishaccess.ca/?p=687

The Squamish Access Society would like to gratefully acknowledge the efforts of Andre Ike at Westcoast Mountain Guides and Colin Moorhead at Squamish Rock Guides for their contribution to this work.

It's probably not too early to start sending in those ideas for Phase 4......
Todd

[smallman]

Daydream Believer at Ronins Corner needs a new anchor station.

[c-plus]

Hey that's pretty awesome! Thanks to everyone for their hard work. Keep it up guys!
-C

[Optimally-Primed]

There's about 20 things I love about Squamish. One of them is that our hardware is top-notch. Thanks to SAS and those who contributed to this project, our hardware is even better. Hats off to SAS and to route developers who do it right.

[smallman]

Agreed Jeremy.

[squamish climber]

A great example of how the Squamish Access Society is working on the behalf of climbers and another reason to join. I wonder what would happen to these climbs if SAS did not refurbish them? Of course a few community concious climbers would replace some of the hardware on their own dime. But other routes may fall completely out favour or deemed sketchy. The loss would be slow but perceptible. Thanks again