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The 9-Feb-2009 At 12:06:56 PM Onsight

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Following on from what Andy has just said....

Another thing we noticed is that the very last (top) bolt on the route had a LOT more thread sticking out than any others that I saw. About 2cm sticking out.

This last pitch climbs up at an angle, so they either repositioned their rap rope several times or bolted on the way down (I think more likely) which would maybe make this the first bolt they placed on rap. All the other bolts had little thread sticking out (they looked good) but we could also loosen at least 90% of the nuts by fingers. This is just my theory, but it's almost as if knowing they were having problems tightening the bolts, their solution was simply to not tighten them much at all.

This is a translation of Cujics statement on a Croatian forum in relation to this:
"As the rock is soft 2-3 of them started rotating, and others were tight (at least then). What atmosphere conditions did later, it's the question. "