numb7rs
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I was part of an aborted trip to Pasture Gill this weekend (29th November). We opted not to descend after failing to find enough suitable anchors. The description from NFTFH mentions rigging the entrance from a chock stone and a spit.
The chock stone was obvious enough, but the only spits we could find were less than encouraging. To get to them we had to scrape off a layer of moss and silt, and they were rusted to buggery and somehow recessed ~1 cm into the rock. :-\ I wouldn't trust them to hold up my trousers, let alone a bunch of cavers. They were on the face of the rock on the NNE (uphill) side of the entrance.
Has anyone been recently? The latest evidence of a trip that I can find is YCC in April 2011. Does anyone know if these are the supposedly correct anchors, or if we missed the correct ones?
The chock stone was obvious enough, but the only spits we could find were less than encouraging. To get to them we had to scrape off a layer of moss and silt, and they were rusted to buggery and somehow recessed ~1 cm into the rock. :-\ I wouldn't trust them to hold up my trousers, let alone a bunch of cavers. They were on the face of the rock on the NNE (uphill) side of the entrance.
Has anyone been recently? The latest evidence of a trip that I can find is YCC in April 2011. Does anyone know if these are the supposedly correct anchors, or if we missed the correct ones?