Good to see you writing trip reports for once, seems like you had fun. Glad you beat your demons from last time.
Sorry I was not in to give you your hangers. I was planning to just lie in bed and feel sorry for myself but with the brilliant blue sunshine I felt well enough for a trip. Not knowing what you were doing (I had not checked) I went on for a guaranteed easier trip with YSS which turned out to be a pool sink pull through to Lanc Hole. When I got underground I perked up massively so I could actually have easily come on your trip after-all.
We noticed that you could bypass the Dry Pitch through a crawl/squeeze or an exposed traverse.
Err you should have remembered that one Chriss, we went that way last time we were there, or at least I did so you would have seen the way. What are you like lol? The exposed traverse though is avoidable by that squeeze through the bedding plane. I was not daft enough to try the actual traverse lol.
The 2nd – was the chimney free climbable? Probably, if you were desperate, but neither of us were tempted to try it.
I can confirm the chimney is free-climbable I climbed it upwards my first time down there, its rather tight at the top. The trick is to traverse from the bottom of the pitch on narrow ledges so your already a couple of meters up, then thrutch your way up to the top. You know I am not the best climber so it can’t be too hard.
By the way then if you had not rigged it and had not climbed it, how did you get up?
