James Hall to Titan exchange
Saturday 22nd of October 2016
Chris Scaife, Alex Ritchie, Tom Howard, Laurel Smith, Olly King, Andy Farrow
Our Berger reunion weekend was planned meticulously. We stayed at the TSG on the Friday and had the key for Titan for Saturday. We had also booked the YSS for Saturday night and had a Gaping Gill permit for Sunday, planning a Dihedral to Flood Entrance exchange.
Olly and Andy went down Titan and up JH; I was with Tom, Laurel and Xaaaaaaaaaaaaaandah, down JH and out Titan.
The first pitch in JH is a mine shaft of about 50m with a rebelay half way down. There is then a bit of traversing through the mine to the unfairly named Bitch Pitch. I don’t remember hearing any bitching from anyone. The 80m Leviathan follows very shortly afterwards and we were all down quite quickly.
The connection from here to Titan is mostly fun, with some easy crawls and traverses and just a tiny bit of horrible mud. We passed the other two in this passage.
Prusiking up Titan was much more pleasant than I expected and before long I sat at the head of the biggest pitch in the UK thinking the day’s travails were more or less over.
There was more to the day, but that can be discussed elsewhere.