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[svn r4749] Updated 1st pitch description to reflect 2002 rigging.

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<h2>Entrance and The Near End passages</h2>
The 204a entrance is directly opposite a 10m x 3m stone bridge from which it derives its name. The entrance itself is approximately 8m high and 5m wide, and leads down a boulder slope and round a right hand bend to the top of the first pitch. The 204b entrance is 15m away to the west, and this is the entrance which is rigged.
<p>The 204a entrance is directly opposite a 10m x 3m stone bridge from which it
derives its name. The entrance itself is approximately 8m high and 5m wide, and
leads down a boulder slope and round a right hand bend to the top of the first
pitch. The 204a entrance is 15m away to the west.
<p>From 1999 until 2001 inclusive, the 204b entrance was rigged. However,
this involved a rather shoddy decent down a gully, and so from 2002
the 204a entrance has been used.
<h3><a name="firstpitch">First Pitch</a></h3>
<img class=onright src="t/2p1.jpg" alt="First Pitch">
<p>A 3m climb down (handline useful) leads into the entrance gully and a ledge at the head of the first pitch, <B>Trick or Treat</B>, opposite 204a entrance. This loose, sloping pitch of 20m is rigged from a Y-hang on the right hand wall, with a rebelay and deviation. The pitch is tedious to prussik on return and is best climbed. The landing is by a large snow plug with an ice corridor round the edge leading to the top of a boulder slope. A rift passage on the right becomes too tight.
<p>The 204a entrance leads, via a short climb down, to a ledge overlooking
the first pitch, <B>Trick or Treat</B>. This is rigged with a traverse line
and a Y-hang in the roof, giving a superb and very airy free-hang to the
bottom.
The landing is by a large snow plug with an ice corridor round the edge leading to the top of a boulder slope. A rift passage on the right becomes too tight.
The snow level varies: in 2000 it was much higher than in 1999, rendering the original route impassable (see <a href="#1999">here</a>). A revised route was explored, which was the main route in 2001.
The snow level varies: in 2000 it was much higher than in 1999, rendering the
original route onward impassable (see <a href="#1999">here</a>). A revised
route was explored, which was the main route in 2001.
<h3><a name="jim">Second and Third Pitches</h3>