Getting ready for the ascent

Two open cold shuts for a belay anchor?!? Yikes! Where is this at?

Here's a little info I looked up on cold shuts...

Books.google.com
The American Safe Climbing Association

Is it only the first 'stick clip' to start on? Hope you can place gear like within arms length of them if possible.

Those are at the top of the route WC. The big question is, how deep are the grooves in those? They really just need to be replaced.

Galenmacd, how much experience do you guys have? If it were me I'd replace those things, but I've got a drill and have a lot of experience placing bolts. Maybe you could talk to some of the locals about it or even contact the American Safe Climbing Association about someone in your area that could go out and replace those anchors. I hope I'm not coming across as a snobby know-it-all, I would just feel bad if someone got hurt. :)

That's where I figured they should be, if at all. Looks like they are about 15 ft. off the ground, thus my thougt of a first clip. Is it like a practice wall?

at the very least, you should be belaying off draws to minimize wear onthe Shuts.

Hey, nice to see this shot moved to 'featured' status.

I agree use beaners. Top roping on fixed anchors wears them down way to quick. I also agree these should be replaced. those are an accident waiting to happen

My concern is why would they move a shot of a dangerous situation to featured status???? The shot is good, but moving it to featured would seem to suggest that situations like these are OK.
Cheers!

You could probably just throw your rope up there and get it in those cold shuts from the ground. I think that would be fun.

Looks like a 3 pc extension cheater stick could make the reach too. But I like the idea of a rope toss, even if it only caught one of the shunts. And do it blindfolded.

That's the top. It's actually about 20+ feet tall with 3 bolts...