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Rescue - Bunny Bucket 26-May-2014 At 2:07:03 PM sbm

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On 26/05/2014 Superstu wrote:
>Was there an accident on BBB or was this just benightment?
>If its the latter, then surely if you're willing to head out to do BBB
>in Da Grose then you can just suck it up for a benightment if you screw
>up. Unnecessary rescues endangers the lives of the rescuers and gives the
>authorities good reasons to control or limit the climbing game.

A surprising amount of people do BBB as their first multipitch! And I reckon a good amount will never rap into the Grose to do anything else - even mirror ball is intimidating (19 on carrots! And it's, gasp, run out!), they cant place trad gear to do Tom Thumb, and they don't read the guidebook closely enough to know about Bellbird Wall.

I completely disagree with this, but I do know these people. And if someone broke an ankle or dropped their glasses they would definitely sit tight and call a helicopter.