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Castaway or When Nina can get it up 28-Mar-2012 At 1:59:45 PM f_ladou
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On 28/03/2012 nmonteith wrote:
>One way of adding an extra (grade 22) pitch and not having so much abseil
>traversing is to actually climb Subliminal pitch 1 (the big traverse) as
>the first pitch - then at the last bolt lower-off down to the ledge where
>Castaways pitch 1 anchors are. That probably sounds confusing.

Yes, it does sound confusing but I think I get it. So, basically climb up (or rather traverse) pitch 1 of Subliminal until above the first belay of Castaway, then ask your belayer to lower you a few meters to reach it. Cunning.

Doesn't that just replace some pfaffing around to the left by some faffing around to the right?

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