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Padlocked bolts – Buffalo South Gorge lookout 7-Mar-2007 At 10:34:20 AM WM

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They are the bolts of Dave Chitty the operator of the well known adventure company up there. He also puts out extremely obvious sandwich boards advertising his offerings in full sight of Vic Parks and obviously has permission for all his activities. He also offers to take climbers through the underground river as non-paying add-ons to his paid groups, and has made offers (to some) to use his 200m static for express rides down the north wall to the route of your choice. A good friend for climbers to have!

So long as parks are happy it's all win-win and a non-issue IMO.

PS the abseil there is quite short and much quicker descent is Glass Gully so the bolts are of little use to climbers for descent purposes. The pleasant toprope route Turkey Chute (14) is directly below here, and the only anchor for this is to sling the padlocked bolts and/or the lookout fence - don't know which is the lesser of two evils.