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VIC Buffalo	The Horn Environs	(General)	The Horn	[ Horn Guide ]

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Bolting at The Horn, Mount Buffalo 14-Feb-2013 At 8:18:15 AM rolsen1

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On 13/02/2013 Miguel75 wrote:
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>On the otherhand if someone decided to bolt Death Gate I would kick up
>a fuss. It's only a gr13, but the rock is crap, the gear is crap and its
>kinda exciting to have it there as something on which to test yourself,
>if that sort of climb floats your boat. If it were bolted it'd be nothing
>but a chossy WG climb, only without the ledge running through the middle;)
>
>snip
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>I'll be at Buffalo this weekend and will look to climb Profanities. I've
>done the Pintle LHV and didn't need the bolt so that's saying something;)
>

The big difference is that you've climbed the WG climbs (many times) before, I assume you haven't climbed Profanities? Despite all these posts no one yet has gone out climbed the climbs and reported back with facts. If this was retro-ed by someone in the club I doubt there would be the outrage.

While you're there, is the bolting of Profanities (a climb nobody climbs) inline with say the bolting of Big Fun (a climb everyone does)?

And my 2 cents on the Pintle LHV, only climbed it once (before the bolt) had read/heard it was run out but found it fine. But again no one has bothered to go up there and place the gear and report back with facts.

This thread does nothing to encourage bolters to come forward and justify there actions or discuss their future intentions.