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Trashing Tassie ... it's beyond salvation 15-Mar-2011 At 10:56:44 PM jesus

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Simey steps up to the mike :
>>>There is merit in keeping the cliff bolt free...

Jesus has a liddle confession to make ...but DAD approves anyway ...

Last November .... somewhere along the massive western flank of the Ben Lomond plateau ... at 2nd pitch height ... there are 2 spearing finger crack / seams (21/22)... Between where the first one ends and the second one starts ... is a vertical 7 metre rising traverse ... on small incuts and layaways (24) ... a sky hook was used ... on lead ... while hand drilling ... to accommodate the permanent fixture of 2 ss carrot bolts ... The pitch was then red-pointed ... plus more loooooooovely climbing above ....

And so ... the first QUALITY semi-bolted adventure route on Ben Lomond was established ...

BIG DEAL ......................... perhaps nuclear fallout over Japan is a bit more important than 2 obscure bolts in ' the wilderness ' ......

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