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Ridiculous fear of your own bolts?


IdratherbeclimbingM9

28-Jul-2011
9:15:55 PM

On 28/07/2011 Hawkman wrote:
>I was cured of this fear after a 12m whipper on a 15m route onto 1 hr old
>glue. When I was falling I though i was in strife but since that bolt held
>ive been cured.

... though your undies have never been the same since?
;-)


Pat

28-Jul-2011
9:46:40 PM

Nor those of the belayer?


HM33

28-Jul-2011
10:23:35 PM

Yeah quite terrifying. He ended up above me and had to go up the proj to get the draws off for me


pmonks

28-Jul-2011
11:23:44 PM


rodw

30-Jul-2011
9:59:09 AM

On 28/07/2011 Dr Nick wrote:

>Got the 16 and 18, though the 16 needs at least one more bolt for it to
>be a comfortable lead for grade 16-ish climbers. And a crap load of traffic
>to clear the rest of the lichen, but that'll happen with time.

Nice work, btw you still got em as projects on ACA guide....also we will be at FdF walls on sunday usual time if ya keen.


macciza

30-Jul-2011
8:58:12 PM

My fear of my own bolts sometimes leads me to climb the routes on marginal gear instead . . . Why bother to put them in? Go figure . .


benjenga

4-Aug-2011
5:44:16 PM

I am glad that I am not the only scared pants out there. There is always that thought in the back of your mind that something could go wrong. I think when other people start climbing on your routes that fear goes away.
I have trusted so very poor looking bolts.


sliamese

8-Aug-2011
9:41:03 AM

i get a more irrational fear that the bolt will fail on someone else after i've been lobbing away on them.

but then i remember its pretty hard to put bad bolts in if using proper bolts (ie not carrots!!)

j.l.d

8-Aug-2011
10:33:45 PM

hey simon, when you get a chance update your blog. I really want to hear about your shipton spire trip.

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