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TR: Bung Crag 24-Apr-2014 At 1:21:45 AM vwills

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Try vwills rather than rwills climbs next time you are there. I am seldom accused of placing too many bolts. However to be fair to the boys, the shorter routes, to keep you off the ground in the event of snappage do need bolts fairly close together. Maybe not slabs with 3 point contact so much, but if people are leading at their limit they may be very grateful. I was attentively belaying a friend at a different crag on a climb (not one of mine) which was a little run out between 4th and 5th bolt, he fell with rope out when about to clip the 5th bolt when a foothold snapped and I pulled him up about 30cm from the ground, having taken in an armful of rope and sitting down.

Having just left kalymnos I have grown very soft and was heard to remark today at a crag on Crete how far apart and scary the bolts were :)