Malbogies repegging 14 and 16th March 2015

Access was from the top by abseil, but the photos are in ascent order.

The first group are pegs thought to be on Malbogies, the second are pegs thought to be on other routes.

1. The farthest left peg reached on the traverse of the first pitch. The old peg is bent over and a new one inserted.

2. Continuing the traverse. An old angle is replaced with a new one.

3. The traverse continued. The old peg is irremovable; the new one is a blade.

4. The climbing becomes vertical. This peg appeared to be recent and was left untouched.

5. To the right is a blade under an overhang. This replaced an older blade. This is probably the inverted peg of Malicious.

6. The Malbogies belay. It sports five pegs, 3 old serviceable (apparently), one new, one serviceable re-situated to a better location.

7. The peg underneath the roof - two views

8. The guide mentions two pegs above this. One was in this grassy/earthy break and was rotted through. Not replaced as there are several good friend placements.

9.The final peg replaced like for like

The non-Malbogies pegs, again starting from the ground.

1. Very low down on the right. It is not clear to me whether this is on Malicious or The Murky Way. Either way it is a very recent peg.

2. To the left of the Malbogies line and up and left from its belay there was an angle in a pocket. Irremovable. This has been doubled up, and may look a little ludicrous (2 pictures). I presume that this is the fourth peg of The Murky Way description.

3. A white groove goes up towards the overhangs. I presume this is Malicious (?). In each case the in-situ peg has now got a companion (2 pictures).

4. Above there is an overhang with a replacement peg. Again I assume it is Malicious.

 5. Near the top there are twin grooves. Confusingly there was a peg in each. Each has now got a companion (2 pictures, the blurred one is of the RH groove).