If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
The Man Who?
Its a wind up Bobert see Stephen Reids comments
The things people will do to wind up others
Anyways off to Germany this weekend, two weeks of bolt clipping
Bill
Has anybody actually confirmed that it's a BG'er that bolted it??
As far as I am aware no-one has admitted (ir)responsibility as yet.
There was just a question asked by a local climber and shop owner if the fell running community knew anything about it. For a while it looked as if an army BG relay team were behind it but they came forward to state that the bolts were already there when they put a caving ladder and ropes in place.
The bolts on BS were (and are) unnecessary since there are two valid alternatives (though admittedly Lord's Rake is a bit unstable these days) that take little if any extra time. Broad Stand is something of a bottleneck and if there is a slow or incompetent party there then any time advantage is lost. Walkers are unlikely, unwilling even, to carry equipment to use the bolts to cross just a few metres of ground.