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Beta on Passport to Insanity? 28-Aug-2003 At 3:14:32 PM Onsight

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Normally I'm all for adding rap stations at places like this - in general there should be a lot more of them in the around the place... but in this particular instance I don't agree with adding one down the chasm (although I’m open to being convinced). As I explained in my earlier post it's pretty easy to set up the Tyrolean and, really, surely this is a big part of the adventure for those who want to do the whole route??? Otherwise you can just back clean the second pitch or rap off from the ledge above as Neil did (Neil, what anchors did you use there?). The Tyrolean is great fun! I've set it up twice trying to access the summit block which Passport climbs, and while this is the other was from which you'd approach it if you'd climbed the route, I don't foresee toooo many problems if you've just managed to get up Passport (or you can take Neil’s suggestion and set it up the day before). All you need to do is lower a climber about six meters or so down the chasm until they can swing across to the other side, and then they climb out. I'll try and post a photo of the Tyrolean so you can see the situation...

I'm not too strenuously resisting this if you guys want to do the work, but it'd be a lot of work and I really don't see it as necessary. Surely there are many more important places that need some rap anchors fixed?

Simon