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Tiger Wall - Dribble Bolting? 12-Aug-2009 At 9:26:05 AM cruze

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I repeated Dribble a couple of months ago. My partner led the third pitch. It was a fun climb, made even more fun by the fact that she didn't have to faff around setting up an anchor.

It quite clearly isnt a rap station, or to facilitate retreat, so perhaps the choice of bolts could have been different, but I don't bolt so don't really care.

I don't necessarily agree with putting in bolts in belays where the gear is a little dubious, but that part of Tiger wall is so isolated, and the rock often so crappy that I can understand the rationale in this circumstance. I would hate to see the recent increase in bolted belays at Araps be the thin end of the wedge and spill over to retrobolt belays like P1/P2 of Brolga just because a case could be made (eg multiple pieces of the same size in a flaring horizontal with thin, thinly protected moves off the belay).