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Tiger Wall - Dribble Bolting? 13-Aug-2009 At 10:39:06 AM mikepatt

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On 11/08/2009 robertsonja wrote:
>Dribble is a 4 pitch trad climb on the far right of Tiger wall. On the
>third belay there are bolts on the back wall of the spacious ledge. My
>partner and I managed to simply build two solid adjacent SERENE anchors
>plus place over a dozen placements that could be further used.
>
>(I couldn't upload a pic over 42KB, but we managed to surround the two
>bolts with gear)
>
>What are the bolts for?
>What consultation process did person(s) who placed the two bolts go through?
>Is this another example of a degraded trad climb?
>
>

Just so we can have all the facts please;

a) Did you clip the bolts to use for a belay before building the trad anchors?
b) Had you read the guidebook that mentions the belay bolts and decided to climb the route anyway?
c) Would you have bothered to even look at the route before it got two stars and a positive write up?
d) What grade do you normally lead on trad?

Having lead a few 50m pitches at Araps such as Kestrel I'd certainly gratetful for the bolts as I've usually place nearly all my rack on the route.