| Wings of Steel
Wings of Steel bolting gear. All Leeper hangers, which, it turned out, caused Leeper no end of grief. After our climb, he started getting extreme pressure to not sell large quantities of bolting gear. So, it seems that the climbing community after Wings of Steel started treating suppliers like Ed Leeper as though they were bartenders: "No more, buddy. It looks like you've had enough!" The route has at least 1 3/8-inch Rawl stud, as you see on the left. Our standard bolt was 1/4" x 1 1/4", as you see on the right. Tom Kasper has replaced all of the bolts and rivets (including at the anchors) in the first two pitches of the Real Start (not the Bogus Start).
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