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Getting off the top of Mr Big 11-Mar-2017 At 10:26:53 PM prozac

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The guidebook entry for Mr Big (Megalong Valley) says "If doing pitch 3 take two ropes, either leave one tied into the belay at the top of pitch 2 or abseil 50m to top of pitch 1".

How does the "leave one tied into the belay at the top of pitch 2" option work?

AFAIU the problem is the abseil from the top of pitch 3 leaves the climber dangling out in space to the left of the top of pitch 2 so they need to pull themselves over and in, but to do it requires the abseiler to have the other end of the rope tied to those anchors. If they have that, they could have just done the double rope abseil from the top, so I wonder if there is more to it.

Thanks