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Questions regarding routes, bolt and grades. 20-Mar-2018 At 1:53:24 PM Jayford4321

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On 19-Mar-2018 bigchris wrote:
>On 19-Mar-2018 kieranl wrote:
>>If this is the Pinch then the bolts were placed in 1970 on the FA. It would help if you'd mentioned the climb name.
>
>>Grading : If this is the Pinch then it was originally graded 12 with 2
>>bolts for aid by BA and Bangla. IT was freed by Rod Young at grade 16 in
>>1975. They were all pretty solid on Buffalo wide cracks so I'd be a bit
>>wary about upgrading it.
>
>I'll leave it as a personal grade. Beware though, as a climb at 16, it's totally sandbagged :D
>
Uneed2 get BA to giveU tha recipe 4 growing cajones cos they graded it 12 wiff using 2 aid pointz just to get themselfs establishD in2 tha chimney , so if U din't find tha start of that 2nd pitch where they aided 2 B tha crux , then Ur retrograding tha chimney is way off mark cos they reckon tha chimney party is G12.
It only got G16 due RY freeing tha aid.