>Do these people have a brain? Surely it is no act of genius to think,"
>gee, I get pretty tired after a few pitches at Shipley. I wonder what doing
>9 of them in a day might be like?
I think we've had this conversation before, Wendy. :-) I can't comment on brains and don't enjoy noob bashing- it just happens to be the 'culture of the day' and perhaps we can do something to a little more to dissuade the naive and save on precious rescue resources. It is unlikely many of them will be reading this forum of fogies ranting to the choir.
But since you ask: the party in question was overtaken by some friends before descending Mirrorball demonstrating to belay bunny how to set/up clean an anchor. Let's hope the next punters take your advice and practice this on the grey slab.