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What's the scariest lead that you've ever done? 9-Apr-2009 At 11:01:39 PM Sir Chossalot

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Probably Big Glassy Corner, but we were aiding so I don't know if it really counts.

The 5th pitch began with me pulling out the carrot bolts that made up the belay we were hanging on (one completely out the other 2/3rds of the way) as I started to aid of them. After we recovered from that - putting the bolts back in wrapped with stickers off my helmet we found that the next two bolts were loose (able to be reomved with my fingers for the same sticker treatment) and that the knife blade pins I bashed into the thin corner above not much chop either - although I was a little up tight at this point so I could have under estimated the pins. I finally got what I felt was a good pin in about 20m out from the belay then followed a traversing line of bolts out to the left, I foolishly clipped a piece of old tat on the last bolt which broke as I stood up in my aiders. This sent me off on a pendlum bashing back into the corner at a rapid rate. A couple of bolts popped but luckily the stickers and tape on them kept them in the bolt plates so they could be bashed back in.

We decided that just as descretion is the better part of valour so too is cowardice the better part of descretion, and so valiantly backed off.

The palms of my hands are tingling just remembering it.