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White Scar Rockfall?

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numb7rs

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I've heard rumours of a fresh rockfall in White Scar, at the first boulder choke after the canal, encountered this Saturday (16th). Apparently it is significant enough that the party opted to turn around instead of continue. The source wasn't really able to give any more detail than that, as this wasn't a first hand telling.

Can anyone confirm or deny this? Has someone been recently?
 
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Nittynatty

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It was this last sunday, towards the end of Big Bertha there were a number of boulders blocking the passage. The orange line went through a smal gap that we couldn't get through. In hindsight is was probably just boulders that had been washed into the passage due to the rain on friday and saturday. The rocks weren't that big and the passage could probably be made accessable again,quite easily but as we had a very inexperienced caver in our group we decided against poking around in what we thought could be an unstable area. Probably was just over cautious but we didn't want to miss dinner ;)
 
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