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Bolted route near the Mt Hay/Butterbox canyon exit 26-Jan-2014 At 7:38:40 PM nmonteith

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On 26/01/2014 E. Wells wrote:
>So after reading this curious post i finally returned to said canyon and
>there simply is no such route as the one mentioned. Nothing has changed
>in the last five years with the exception of a staple added nearly to flexing
>unreccessed single ring anchor on top of standard climb out. It didn't
>surprise me.

Maybe the 'new' route is actually been there a while. I did that canyon for the first time in late 90s and remember climbing up something with only a couple of bolts and a bit of trad and it was reasonably easy. The last time I did it (2012?) I saw a line of many bolts up a short steepish crack system - presumed this was the exit route and climb up it. I was a little confused as it didn't feel familiar to the route I had done 12 years previously...

So maybe what you consider the normal exit is in fact a 'new' route that has been there a few years already.

* my memory is pretty bad these days.