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More 'Booty' on the Ben for returning

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Minus Two Gully 2nd (?) pitch.

Minus Two Gully 3rd (?) pitch

Reveal your character - Return the gear - See below.

Hi Alan

Just a quick request/plea to you, or any of your vast army of readers who might be in the NE Buttress area over the next few days.

Due to time constraints/condits/general feckwittedness, I regretfully left a couple of Beal 8.1mm iceline ropes (one mauve colour, one pink) on the lower half of NE Buttress, just dangling down to the right end of the First Platform on Sunday night.

If anyone does come across these and is kind enough to retrieve them, rather than swipe them as booty, there's a sizeable reward for return of mauve rope, plus they get to keep the pink one!

(Oh, and there's a manky bit of blue tat they're attached to that's up for grabs as well...)

We did Minus 2, by the way, which was fluffy and cruddy on the first pitch, but improved the higher you got - as did the spindrift avalanches! All very character-building. Here's also some pics of the unfazeable Susan Jensen shrugging off the spindrift streams with unwarranted cheerfulness. I wish I could climb like a girl...

Cheers,
Col
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Colin Wells

7 The Marshes

Hope

Derbyshire

S33 6RL

UK

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Minus Two Gully - 2nd (?) pitch.

Minus Two Gully - 3rd (?) pitch

Minus Two Gully - 1st pitch

NB:
Minus Two is a good route for descending by abseil as the anchors are good and the line direct.
Alan