Category: Bolting
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LOs inserted and bolting work done on Honey Buttress
After the morning’s climbing at Honey Buttress, Andrew Warrington and Edward Sciberras spent the afternoon scrambling all over the face of Honey Buttress to install LOs and bolts to improve the infrastructure there. Lower offs (LOs) have been installed as follows: Fly With Me – 2-bolt LO Qaghaq tal-Ghasel – chain & screw-gate LO Honey…
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Further maintenance work done in Wied Babu
After the usual climbing session one fine Sunday afternoon in March, Andrew Warrington and Roland Sultana got down to some further work in this popular climbing area. Regular maintenance of bolts and lower-offs is a priority in this area, which has seen an increased number of climbers recently. Proper screw-gate LOs were installed on Kleen…
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Fat Boys on the Blue Grotto promontory retro-bolted
Another great Red Wall classic, Fat Boys E1 5b has been converted into a sport route making it a much more amenable climb since it is rife with loose blocks and doubtful looking rock for its bottom half. Over two afternoons of hard bolting and even harder jumaring, Andrew Warrington drilled and inserted 11 bolts…
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Repairs and installation of lower-offs at Argentier
After a successful barbeque at Argentier, Roland Sultana, Kurt Caligari and Andrew Warrington got down to some further bolting and repairs to the loose bolts on John Codling’s 7a route left of the corner – these bolts have now been secured and are ready to be used again. Lower-offs were also installed on Andrew Warrington’s…
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Installation of Lower-offs (LOs) on Piton Route
Piton Route on Great Face slabs at Xaqqa Valley has been fitted with 3 abseil-points/stances. The route can now be abseiled in three sections and lead using the new placements as stances. From the start it is 15m to the 1st stance, 30m to the 2nd stance and 30m to the top anchor (all distances…
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Installation of new Lower-offs (LOs) on Wied Babu west side crag
The Maltese Falcon; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; West Side Story; High Noon/Sly Goon; & Bogies Wall/Toqbi now each have a 316 stainless steel snap-link LO installed. When you reach the top of your climb, simply clip in and your belayer can lower you down, no hassles with finding belays and collecting them afterwards!