(Winnats head) The wood above the slot in Winnats is snapping, and the slot SHOULD NOT BE ATTEMPTED! A warning to all!

[pwhole]

It seems the same, I’ve been done several times in the last few months and nothing has moved.

SUSS and the TSG currently have a project in Winnats and I believe the plan is to put in some more scaffolding in the slot to make sure it doesn’t move anymore

Well I can only hope that some sort of enlargement happens at the same time, as there's barely room for two scaff clips horizontally at the moment. There's so much useful work to do beyond this (not just this upcoming project) that it seems a bit daft to risk lives for some sort of 'squeeze purity'. It only needs 5cm taking off all the way down - hardly a massive modification. I'm not large, but I can't compress my ribcage enough to get through it, though obviously gravity just wins on the way down - but not coming out, so it's always horrible and frightening, especially knowing it moves. I'm just not going any further than that from now on, sadly, if it stays the same.

 

[danthecavingman]

As an aside, I remember going down through the chokes in Winnats Head in the mid nineties. The old electron ladders on the collapsed Cornwall Avenue pitches were still visible completely mangled amongst the jumble of boulders. Wonder if they're still there? It's a daunting place to be down below the second choke.

 

[pwhole]

I think I might have seen a rung once! There's also a beachball-sized lump of dark blue cubic fluorite down there somewhere, which was very impressive.

 

[T pot 2]

Here's an observation for you, i follwed ben and mike through the slot before the stemple was put in place.