BadBolts.com was originally a online database kept for the routes of the Red River Gorge by Team Suck.

Seeing the need for a better solution for tracking bolts, and using crowd sourcing to submit these bolts, BadBolts.com was born.

BadBolts.com is not intended to be a online guidebook, but rather to track bolt reports. With this, our information is submitted by user and updated by developers. Its accuracy should alway be subject to your own judgement.

BadBolts.com got major attention at the Access Funds' Future of Fixed Anchors Conference in November of '12, where we discussed issues, techniques, and hardware with other developers from around the world.

Check out the write-up and videos here

In April of 2016 and again in, The Access Fund again had a conference for the Future of Fixed Anchors, where we in attendance. The the concern for documenting hardware, condition, and replacement grows.