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You Yangs - Flinders Peak Bolting? 5-Aug-2010 At 9:38:04 PM cruze

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On 5/08/2010 One Day Hero wrote:
>Everyone who climbs hard now had to start somewhere, and that probably
>involved sketching around on runout slabs.

Unfortunately I think that this thread is now being populated by opinions of people who have never climbed the route in question.

I have climbed this route ground up. I didn't think that it was difficult and I didn't fear for my life... (in fact I happened to have a wobbly for a completely different reason which I discussed in over here: http://www.chockstone.org/Forum/Forum.asp?Action=Display&ForumID=1&MessageID=83895&Replies=29 )

...but either the first bolt is too low or the second bolt is too high. That simple. If the route were in the Blueys or Nowra the bolts would be repositioned and nobody would think twice. If we were in Canberra we would complain about the shite old home made hangers and argue for 20 years before replacing them. Seeing as the route is at the little sh!tpile called the Youies which is just down the road from our little Melbourne, and a crapload closer than the Wimmera sandstone, I don't think that we should suffer the less than perfect (by his own admission) bolting done by a first ascentionist.