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Protection on Gollum (Arapiles) 20-Apr-2011 At 12:58:09 PM JDB

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On 20/04/2011 gfdonc wrote:
>HTFU I think is the appropriate response ..
>

The Hobbitses are vicioussssssssss today.

Who has actually taken the whip on the first pitch of Gollum? (from the traverse) - I reckon you'ld come very close to the slab below then do an enormous pendulum.

The so called good gear was in Auto De Fe behind a really hollow sounding flake, the two R.P's half way along the traverse are marginal at best.

I have done WOTAS and thought that one bolt(on the first pitch) would have been adequate instead of 2, and yes the third pitch is bold. Who has had the whipper on that pitch? The ledge below once again looks like a landing point.

In all for bold, I just think sometimes a judicious bolt here and there would make some of these routes more user friendly, and as a long term Chockstone lurker I know that these notions would be deemed to be heresy in some quarters.