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Looks sweet

13%

I'm scared of heights but too weak to boulder

If you want to boulder, just don't clip the bolts

13%

Who cares what a road cyclist thinks?

I want the Samarkand Mikl back

10%

Probably the best route in Sydney

10%

This is having sex with the corpse of impossible

16%

Ultimate frisbee is now less stupid than climbing

35%

Topic Date User

How poxy is Mikls bolted roof boulder? 14-Mar-2018 At 3:08:17 PM widewetandslippery

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On 14-Mar-2018 Duang Daunk wrote:
>On 12-Mar-2018 prozac wrote:
>>It only looks pox in photos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVgKzRkRB8Y
>
>prozac bro, it still looks like pox to me. In fact the lameness extends
>to not even topping out , which any good boulderer would do , like when
>completing Wheel Of Life for example.
>
>It still defies historical precedent , and logic , to bolt it and spend
>extra effort clipping a lead rope to them rather than saving that energy
>for the moves , at what V2 maybe V3 if the lip is turned to top out?
>
>Was that you leading the two move wonder in the vid?
>
>Bro Wide is half right when he says
>> it doesn’t look like a ground breaking classic
>though is wrong about the desecration.
>But then again maybe dude would be ok with others retro-bolting his own
>pox?
>
>

My pox will never be retro bolted as it is pox, chopped maybe, could be a fair call.

I personally am against retro bolting. I have twentysomething secret local crags. Sydney is shitney, let them be contained