Well yeah scary bouldering for me ad my little group is basically the higher ones with moves that would make us fall backwards if we fell. I have already looked into learning about anchors and how that all works. I'm definetly not gonna just take dumb risks by going out there without knowing what I'm doing. If there is already a loop thing (the name escapes me I'm sorry) bolted in do we need to make an anchor or will that be enough to top rope? If by bouldering mats u mean crash pad Im not sure I wanna go that route. I saw a pretty expensive one at a sun and ski and it didn't look like it would do much more than save our feet from the rocks below. Probably wouldn't help from a fall from the things I've climbed and the scarier ones I want to climb.