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Ben Lomond Bolts Removed 19-Apr-2007 At 8:38:07 PM JakeB

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well i think this all started when a few of us were keen to get the petrol drill cranking and put up some amazing routes. mainly keen on the stacks bluff area. then the question came up about the bolts on frews flutes. if there is bolts (even for a rap) why can't we put them in to climb. so we asked the question is it Bolts or No Bolts. my mind has changed so much on this topic. but now for me. gerry did the correct thing. this state has so much god damm rock why f*&k the ben. oh and the tat. why has this become such an issue. because even before the bolts were removed there is was heaps of it about. because there was only one rap, which was on the left. i am sure we as climbers could clean the tat issue up. but i do think that when people were climbing of to the right on barb di, master blaster ect... they just do the first 1 or two pitches. and then rap.
over the next trips i will be doing my bit to clean this up. (weather looks good this weekend).
(can't see much tat in the photo neil, you must be good at photoshop :)
jake bresnehan