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Isn't it time Frog joined the modern world? 13-Aug-2009 At 1:14:20 PM cruze

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On 13/08/2009 evanbb wrote:
>On 13/08/2009 Eduardo Slabofvic wrote:
>>Why are bolts the default solution?
>
>I suspect you're being a touch facetious (who me? he says) but I would
>argue that a well placed rap station (servicing a few routes) would be
>less obtrusive than, say, a concrete bollard. In the scheme of things,
>bolts are pretty little.
The problem that I would envisage is that, by virtue of the parallel cracks and the loose nature of the rock at the top of the climb, in order to have several multi-use rap stations you would have a situation similar to if not worse than, say, angular crack at Piddo, where there is loose rock to traverse from say the top of flake crack and it gets showered down upon those below. I think that you would end up needing quite a lot of bolted rap stations...