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Giants Hole - loose boulder in roof near top of East West Passage.
The loose boulder is in the roof of the alcove on the right of the bad step between the scramble up and the start of West Passage.
Facing the drop/pitch with 2 resin bolts in the roof is an unstable/loose boulder. Its right side is perched on a plate of rock which has become detached from the wall (half of which has already come off), there is a vertical crack/air space between the plate and boulder and the wall. The left side of boulder is just resting on the wall.
The fall line of the Boulder is out of the alcove, through the point where instructors tend to stand to spot a group past the drop, down the pitch and into the bottom of the lower passage (the normal route in to the main cave system).
As this is a well used group route it might be best avoided or else use extreme caution if in that area until the boulder has been made safe or dropped in a controlled manner.
Jenny Potts,
DCA Hon. Sec.
Giants Hole - loose boulder in roof near top of East West Passage.
The loose boulder is in the roof of the alcove on the right of the bad step between the scramble up and the start of West Passage.
Facing the drop/pitch with 2 resin bolts in the roof is an unstable/loose boulder. Its right side is perched on a plate of rock which has become detached from the wall (half of which has already come off), there is a vertical crack/air space between the plate and boulder and the wall. The left side of boulder is just resting on the wall.
The fall line of the Boulder is out of the alcove, through the point where instructors tend to stand to spot a group past the drop, down the pitch and into the bottom of the lower passage (the normal route in to the main cave system).
As this is a well used group route it might be best avoided or else use extreme caution if in that area until the boulder has been made safe or dropped in a controlled manner.
Jenny Potts,
DCA Hon. Sec.
