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TR: Bung Crag 24-Apr-2014 At 8:58:27 AM Damien Gildea

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I wasn't clear. I've never broken off any such edges or plates, anywhere, and would not normally climb up one of these pagoda features if I was going to be breaking off big bits.

On top of The Pagoda itself the plates are huge and just lying around and I don't think anyone has broken them off via climbing. It's those plates that I was referring to. There is/was a 'fixed' rope part-way up the pagoda and someone mentioned possibly Scouts or others have been doing stuff there?

On these short routes I mentioned above, the edges *are* a bit friable, some of the 'jugs' might actually be pretty weak and small bits have clearly broken off via climbing, though not necessarily any more than any other Blueys area. eg. Tom Thumb has a large number of very small edges that have clearly been broken off climbing.

We scoped out some other potential routes, including others on The Pagoda, that are more regular Blueys rock and not so plated or weak. I think walking around the general area on recovering flora might be more of an issue?