I was up there last night, and noticed a development that people should be aware of:
The wall above the scramble descent from Scar buttress has suffered a collapse recently, so is now threatened by loose rock (you could argue that it always was! Except now its worse and more obvious), while the collapse itself has completely undercut the earth ridge that is the walk off from the top of the Rip buttress.
Tread carefully and move quickly.
While we're on the subject, can any of the locals comment on whether the crack running across the top of Scar buttress itself is definitely getting wider or not. I feel that it is (you never used to be able to peer into the depths of buttress), but I'd like a second opinion! Curiously, the front of the buttress doesn't seem to getting any steeper.
Oh, and can people be gentle and not bounce when abseiling of the top of Epitaph as the fixed rope used for this purpose does now run over a fairly sharp edge (I assume it's stretched with age and use).
