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9 pitch day 20-Jan-2005 At 9:23:26 PM deadpoint

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I remember it was way easier to clip the bolt from above and right, rather below and left. Was a funny episode, I launched up the DS, onsighting it, I looked up at the second pitch and discovered that the guide was incorrect in describing the bolts as 'shiney new ringbolts'. There was a line of shiney new carrots, hmmmm I did not have any bolt plates. I had to walk down to my pack retrieve the bolt plates, walk back to the base of the spillway, belay the second up the DS. Second then decided more food and water was required to complete this epic and walked down to packs and back up to the spillway. The DS is a massive 8m.
It started raining so we walked back down to our packs and started to pack up. The rain stopped, so we walked back up to the spillway and completed the rest of the climb without incident.