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Bolting at Piddo 11-May-2011 At 9:30:47 AM dave h.

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On 11/05/2011 nmonteith wrote:
>I'm not sure why the worry. About 100m right is the gridbolted Sporting
>Complex. Then on the main section of Piddo are heaps of bolted routes -
>things like The Plunge, SSSC3, On Edge, Psychodrama, Desiree, Thin Time,
>Flaming Youth... all well trod established classics. The difference is
>these are all grades in the low to mid 20s. Having a couple of easier sport
>lines just adds to the cliff in my opinion.

I've only done SSSC3 out of those ones. (Isn't that a 14 or 15? Or am I confusing it with a different route, the one I'm thinking of has some moves on an arete.) From memory the bolts on that (at least in 2006) were scary trad carrots. Not bomber U bolts. That distinction is relevant to my mind at least.

Anyway, I love Piddo. My favourite mountains crag. I don't care about what happens up around the wall just below Horne's point. But if someone went and put in filler routes lower down at the main area of the crag I'd be angry.