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Tiger Wall - Dribble Bolting? 12-Aug-2009 At 1:40:48 PM cruze

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On 12/08/2009 jrc wrote:
>Please don't bolt Brolga. It was safe enough with hexes 25 years ago. I
>did it again last year with cams and its just fine....if you want to clip
>a bolt go and do Hot Flap.
The irony of the situation is that routes like hot flap, mantle, antigone (the latter two more than hot flap) all have bolts that were placed years ago and aren't at all necessary by either modern standards or past standards. Having climbed all of them and found satisfactory passive gear (including hexes) near the bolts I have often wondered what was going through the heads of those that placed the gear in the first place.

Regarding the belay on P1/P2 of Brolga, out of interest are there good hex placements in the ledge-level horizontal? I found it to be quite smooth and flared on the three times I have done the route. Nonetheless a few cams makes a satifsactory belay.