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Passport to Insanity, new decent options 24-Jul-2007 At 11:02:16 PM goshen

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sorry to revive this long gone topic, but I have a reply that is relevant to the original post, so rather
than start a new one...

Just completed Passport on the weekend, and it most certainly is one of the most wild routes I've
done. The roof is daunting indeed, and kudos to HB, and the others that have free climbed it.

We did the descent as described in this post, and it worked really well, got off just on dark, and I'd
certainly recommend it as a reasonably quick way down. However, on each 'rap station', one of the
biners (there was one locking, and one normal on each) was sort of 'disintegrating'. The aluminium
was just flaking off - a lot, not just one the surface, but big chunks of it. We left one extra biner
as a backup. They were touching, and fully exposed to the elements I guess, but I am curious as to
know how this might have happened in only a few years?

I've seen many other bits of manky fixed gear that weren't falling apart. I didn't think to grab a photo
at the time (just wanted to get down)...