Land owner turned flakey. Don't go up there till I can get solid permission.

Is this the crag off 46 on the left side?

Nah I wish. This one's in Cambria, on the hillside above the high school. It's in the slater guidebook so check that out, or just google earth Scott Rock.

I've seen people bolt with a nice dewalt .. Do you really need a Bosch?

Oh definitely not, I just meant any chordless rotary drill. Dewalt would be ideal too.

I don't have a drill, but I'm in Cambria and can help out.

To be perfectly honest .. I don't understand why these big rotary drills are needed. Why can't a nice cordless drill like a powerful dewalt do the trick? They used to use hand drills. I haven't bolted much on my own, but never understood why the Bosch rotary was the go to.

hand drill... you'll appreciate the routes a whole lot more.

My friend actually offered to hand drill the route but he doesn't really know what he's doing. Besides I think it would be way too difficult to safety sport bolt the route with a hand drill as the rock is very hard dactite/granite, if anyone has a rotary drill around here I could turn this previously unclimbed face into a fun new safe sport crag! So let me know.

Well I learned a lot and that explains a lot. Coming from the southeast the rock is really soft. No drill here - sorry guys. Not yet anyway.

You may want to contact the Safe Climbing Association. They do more bolting/rebolting work in the USA than pretty much any other person/group out there.

I would be willing to bet they know someone in your area who A) has a drill and B) would be willing to mentor you whippersnappers and teach you the finer points of developing and bolting a crag. It's certainly worth an e-mail.

www.safeclimbing.org/

Thanks for the suggestion! Ill check that out.

I've hand drilled quartzite many times. Alot harder than any Granite I've drilled. If you can afford the right bolts, you can afford a hand drill. Do a practice hole, it's all you'll need to figure it out. Yeah, it's laborious but so what. So you only get one or two routes up a day, big deal. It'll give you more time to TR the other lines and suss out the details of exactly where you want the bolts ...AND... you'll be more thoughtful about how many as well as were you decide to drill.

You don't need to get the whole thing done overnight. Savor the experience ;)

My buddies and I hand drilled our first sport route, in 1987. Then went and bought drills and have never looked back at that idiocy again.

Drilling a 1/2" x 3" hole in hard rock with a hand drill could easily take 45 min per hole. F that!!!

Just go and buy a drill. It's a very valuable tool to have aside from route bolting. You could even sell it when done for close to the new price, making the difference kind of like renting it.

Get in touch with John Knight on here. He can probably help you out. He was always helpful and funny when I'd run into him climbing at Bishop Peak.

Also, I've TR'd a couple of routes there. Hike climber's right around and up the hill and you can access the top. From here, there are plenty of trees to sling up there. Really cool that the property owner is letting you develop it.

Land owner turned flakey. Don't go up there till I can get solid permission.