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Freak occurrence? Bolt plate coming off 14-Jun-2016 At 4:25:49 PM rolsen1
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On 14/06/2016 patto wrote:
>A similar thing happened to me at Ben Cairn. I think it was on Digit Dancer
>(20). It would have been very ugly had I fallen and it is a slippery
>slab which is a long way from being secure.
>
>I never knew quite how the quickdraw and bolt plate came off, somebody
>else had placed the draw up to the one that came off. But it was probably
>the same behaviour as that video shows.

If it was the climb to the right of Digit Dancer then those bolts are really undersized (unless they have been fixed up.) Some might call it a feature though, you only need to shake the rope to clean the route!

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