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Fully sick bolt wars at Araps 24-May-2016 At 9:43:08 PM kieranl

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Yesterday afternoon I went up for a look at Master Blaster (look as in with eyes, not as in try to climb).

For a route that has sat in mossy obscurity for most of my life and has recently lost it's fixed gear, I got a bit of a surprise. You could just about mine the chalk on this. Have a bunch of people sudenly decided that this is the most attractive lead at the mount or has it just been top-roped to death in the last couple of weeks?

I attempted the start of Morfyne many years ago but it never occurred to me to try this but it now looks like it might not be a bad route, as long as you live (but then again, who does?).

I didn't see the bolts before they were removed but I can't see how they would be more visually intrusive than all the chalk that's caked on this. It'd be interested to know if people are actually leading it or not.