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Area	Location	Sub Location	Crag	Links
VIC Buffalo	The Horn Environs	(General)	The Horn	[ Horn Guide ]

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Bolting at The Horn, Mount Buffalo 15-Feb-2013 At 11:31:38 PM Andrew Davis

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Back for a quick question as you are all speaking about and looking at this area. I find the attraction about this particular area is you can base your gear (even your kids and mum) in the grassy amphitheatre bottom of Pintle and enjoy a large variety of climbs all day. Its a simple rap off the chain top of The songlines or crowlands back to base clocking up 200-300m without crossing the same ground.
There is a thin balancey arete of good quality granite direct below LHV named Yeah Boys. Some people have asked about bolting it. It would certainly provide a more challenging way to get to the LHV than up the easy first pitch of Pintle. Its graded around 21 like so many other climbs in the area, which i would think is a negative, however its certainly not protectable with trad after the first 5 metres and it is a new route (Feb 2011) which the FA would be happy to see bolted in a similar nature to the spacing on Peroxide Blonde. If anyone gets there in the next while and climbs it lets us know what you think.