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Rescue - Bunny Bucket 26-May-2014 At 12:48:07 PM PThomson

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Hey mate,

For us it was easy, because we were over on the "east side" of Pierces Pass (which is, strangely, at the western end of the pass) we basically emerged almost on the walking track down to Accacia Flat, and just had to follow it back up the hill (leaving a moderate amount of gear behind to facilitate the 3 abseils back to the ground).

If you bail off Bunny Buckets or anything over that side, you have to parallel the cliffline (trending vaguely down into the grose) back past mirrorball, below lunch ledge, the rap-in routes, and so-on until you eventually arrrive at the main walking track. You can't just parallel the cliffline the whole way as there are some difficult steep sections of rock around the Yogaphobic area. There are actually a few footpads (the guide describes them as "base jumpers tracks" from memory) but they weren't super-obvious 3 (or so) years ago. When you get to the main walking track its a doddle back to the car. Without a headlamp it would be a nightmare.

I think Neil's point is: recognise when you aren't going to achieve your goal, and back out while its still possible. On BBB you could back out of the route relatively easily up until the end of the roof-traverse thing. On Hotel C, up until the main traverse on it.

We looked at 2.5 hours of daylight, for 3 long pitches of obscure trad (22, 23, 22, respectively), and knew that much higher we wouldn't be able to back out. So we got back to the ground with a reasonable amount of daylight left, and Neil still had time to do the only repeat of my mini-multipitch route next to grasshopper wall before hightailing it to the car on dark.