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@ -671,20 +671,20 @@ The photos of the same place from the Loser side in 2018 - description of trip i
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<div class="tripdate" id="2024-07-15d">2024-07-15</div>
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<div class="trippeople"><u>Wookey</u>, Sieds, Wassil</div>
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<div class="triptitle">1626/359 - Homecoming (1626/359)- 2nd Coming rigging</div>
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<div class="triptitle">1626-359 - Homecoming (1626/359)- 2nd Coming rigging</div>
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<p>Wassil was excited to finally make some progress on 2nd coming, so
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we walked over to Homecoming from top camp with a nice new rope to
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have a serious rigging attempt.</p>
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<p>
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<p>Met Charlotte's group at the entrance and had an awkward
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Met Charlotte's group at the entrance and had an awkward
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conversation about rope as they were short, but we wanted to use what
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we'd carried over to rig down so couldn't really spare any.</p>
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<p>
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<p>In fact on packing we realised that we could spare about 40m, but
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In fact on packing we realised that we could spare about 40m, but
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the others had gone. Sent quick-change Sieds down to try and catch
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them up but he was too late, so that didn't help in the end.</p>
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<p>
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<p>When I got to 2nd Coming I was _very_ impressed with the draft,
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When I got to 2nd Coming I was _very_ impressed with the draft,
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which is massive despite a very tall rift. Wassil and Sieds went off
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to start rerigging down the pitches and I was left to tart up the
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dodgy traverses, using my nice new Miwaukee M12 drill. I'd not
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@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ bits were rigged and which weren't. It was true that much of it didn't
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exactly _need_ a rope, but as a trade route it really wasn't very safe
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without one.</p>
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<p>
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<p>I started where the previous trip had left off after a couple of
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I started where the previous trip had left off after a couple of
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bolts, soon noticing that there was a perfectly good floor about 6m
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down so went to see why not just go that way. It was a bit narrow in
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places and after about 80m you end up pushed back up to the traverse
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@ -709,20 +709,20 @@ with would have been nice, as it was very hard to decide which bits
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should have a rope and which didn't need one, but as it was just me I
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did my best to make it not-shit. Did some gardening too.</p>
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<p>
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<p>Hours with no floor is a pain. I had to unchain a ~60m rope without
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Hours with no floor is a pain. I had to unchain a ~60m rope without
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anywhere to put the loops except one wedged rock. Turns out it can be
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done, by draping the rope carefully over your legs braced across the
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rift and taking a lot of care not to get things tangled, but that was
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another 40 mins gone.</p>
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<p>
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<p>Eventually the others returned, having run out of nuts, even the
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Eventually the others returned, having run out of nuts, even the
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ones scavenged from my rigging. I had put 11.5 bolts in (with a 4ah
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battery) and it still wsn't quite dead, so that was good. Wassil told
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me to put rope on the couple of sections I'd decided were easy enough
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to remain unroped, so apparently I should have just done the whole lot
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anyway.</p>
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<p>
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<p>I put one more hole in on the way out, near the top of Wallace,
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I put one more hole in on the way out, near the top of Wallace,
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just above the deviation, in order to get rid of the ridiculous offset
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rebelay and epic return deviation, but that finally did finish off the
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battery so I had to leave it as a job to be finished another time. 12
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@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ feels like bloody hard work, especially carying all your gear at
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2am. At least our improved reflectoring and cairning (and less cloud)
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meant we didn't get lost this time.</p>
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<p>
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<p>A good trip, although it was a pity I didn't get to see more of the
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A good trip, although it was a pity I didn't get to see more of the
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route in the end, as I was now decamping to Balcony to help get that
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rigged.</p>
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<div class="timeug">T/U: 11.5 hours</div>
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