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Liquid Insanity 18-Apr-2018 At 6:29:07 PM feetoffground

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Righto, I get the picture. I guess my judgement was a bit off in placing the bolts in this area. I’ll try and head down in the next few weeks and remove them, and hopefully get rid of those glue stains too..

In answer to a previous question, the problem with using the existing bolts for Highlines is that the quality of them varies wildly, but more importantly redirecting them to go off the aretes is often impossible as there’s generally no trad gear on these aretes. And if youre not all the way on the arete, there’s isually really bad fall potential.

Note: I would very much like to do some bigger Highlines around crocodile head and Thunder head. I will use trad gear wherever possible, but sometimes it just ain’t possible. So if anyone has any problems with bolts in these areas please let me know. I will also confer with the guidebook and try and avoid topouts of popular climbs obviously.

I hope that climbers will perhaps perceive highliners in a better light now, as we are more than happy to compromise with other user groups to ensure the most utility and least problems for all, we just wanna enjoy the cliffs like all of you!