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Alex will miss Benny 5-Jan-2012 At 10:45:23 PM citationx

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On 5/01/2012 mikllaw wrote:
>Benny bucket? I haven't heard of that. but a bucket of bennies would be
>good.
>
>Two semi retired friends of mine turned up at the lower car park at 9am
>yesterday and were told by someone in a hammock that they were starting
>way too late for Bunny Bucket Buttress. They topped out at 12.05 and were
>going slow and yacking most of the way.
>
>You're right that the top walk loop is faster. A party of 3 is slower
>but Ubolts have probably dropped an hour off it. 4 hours for 2 people?

I didn't want to be the first to say it, but while I once had an epic following a party of two that just wouldn't let us pass (even though we did the first "half" of the climb in the time it took them to do a single pitch) that lasted around 8 hours, I'm also quite sure that I've done it in under 3.5 hours car-to-car... (I did know the start, did know the abseil/route and the walk back...)
Time is saved majorly when you do p1+2 together, simul-climb the scrub bit, do the roof and the next two pitches together and string the remaining two (?) together too (I can't remember if i did roof+one wall pitch together and the rest, or roof+two walls pitches together and the rest...)