Caveman Ken
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Anyone know this route well?
Jingling Pot, Little Gully Route.
I was down there yesterday, trying this route. Once we were at the lip of the main shaft there was a bolt on the right wall (where the traverse to Lateral Cleft starts). Then another one on the left in the roof of a small bedding plane. I used these to rig the rope. I spotted another bolt further back in the bedding plane but decided not to use it as I was trying to get a free hang down the shaft. Down I went, after about 10/15m two problems became evident:
1) The rope above me was rubbing on the rock.
2) I could see a re-belay bolt to my left but it was well out of reach. To get it I would need to pendulum. Yikes!
So my question is: Is this how you do it, with a pendulum?
Or did I miss something? I looked around and down and couldn't see any other bolts.
Thinking I was in the wrong place I came back up and explored along the traverse but there appeared to be no where else to hang the rope other than to continue on the Lateral Cleft route.
Jingling Pot, Little Gully Route.
I was down there yesterday, trying this route. Once we were at the lip of the main shaft there was a bolt on the right wall (where the traverse to Lateral Cleft starts). Then another one on the left in the roof of a small bedding plane. I used these to rig the rope. I spotted another bolt further back in the bedding plane but decided not to use it as I was trying to get a free hang down the shaft. Down I went, after about 10/15m two problems became evident:
1) The rope above me was rubbing on the rock.
2) I could see a re-belay bolt to my left but it was well out of reach. To get it I would need to pendulum. Yikes!
So my question is: Is this how you do it, with a pendulum?
Or did I miss something? I looked around and down and couldn't see any other bolts.
Thinking I was in the wrong place I came back up and explored along the traverse but there appeared to be no where else to hang the rope other than to continue on the Lateral Cleft route.