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Fully sick bolt wars at Araps 10-May-2016 At 10:22:47 PM simey

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Thanks for the detailed reply Macciza and good to hear your perspectives. But given the details you have provided about your recent ascent, I still get the impression that the route you described should retain at least a few bolts given that the protection sounds like shit and totally unappealing for a ground-up ascent.

Maybe there are other factors to justify why the climb might be better not having bolts in it (ease of top-roping it, history of the route/cliff, how it affects neighbouring routes, visual aesthetics) but unless it is a famous mega-classic up an outstanding line which has beckoned climbers for many a year, it is hard to see that people will want to go to the bother of climbing it in the style that you have described.