langcliffe
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Has anybody ever made sense of the CNCC rigging guide for the top section of the Twilight Zone in Notts Pot?
The route was originally developed by Dave Elliot and Dick Lawson in the early 1980s. Regrettably, I never did the red bolt route, but the description indicates that there was a deviation 3 metres below the top Y-hang (probably just to keep the rope out of the rift), and 12 metres below that a fixed line aided a pendulum across to where the current Y-hang is at the end of the traverse at the Double Buckets Ledge level. From there, the route follows the current Twilight Zone route.
The CNCC rigging guide implies that from the top Y-hang one descends to a deviation which drops you directly onto the Y-hang on the Double Buckets Ledge. I have had a look a number of times, and cannot work out how a deviation could drop you to that rebelay, as there is a roof above it. Nor is there anywhere I can identify where a deviation could be fixed. The only option is to drop onto the Double Buckets Ledge and rig the standard traverse to the rebelay.
Any comments, anybody?
The route was originally developed by Dave Elliot and Dick Lawson in the early 1980s. Regrettably, I never did the red bolt route, but the description indicates that there was a deviation 3 metres below the top Y-hang (probably just to keep the rope out of the rift), and 12 metres below that a fixed line aided a pendulum across to where the current Y-hang is at the end of the traverse at the Double Buckets Ledge level. From there, the route follows the current Twilight Zone route.
The CNCC rigging guide implies that from the top Y-hang one descends to a deviation which drops you directly onto the Y-hang on the Double Buckets Ledge. I have had a look a number of times, and cannot work out how a deviation could drop you to that rebelay, as there is a roof above it. Nor is there anywhere I can identify where a deviation could be fixed. The only option is to drop onto the Double Buckets Ledge and rig the standard traverse to the rebelay.
Any comments, anybody?