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Mermaids Climb Chair Ladder

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overdrawnboy 04 Jun 2018

Abbed in to do this this afternoon armed with new CC guide to find smooth blank slab where https://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.php?id=51828 once resided. Could see no way to get to the pedestal stance just visible in top lh corner of the pic. It was there when the guide topo pic was taken, does anyone know when it went? Climbed last month according to the log with no mention of anything unusual.

Offwidth 05 Jun 2018

In reply to overdrawnboy:

Are you sure you had the correct descent. Sounds like what remains of Terriers Tooth, further right (South) when the first pitch fell into the sea. Hope we haven't lost another bit of this great seacliff. Dexter/Mermaid was a great combo.

stuartf 05 Jun 2018

In reply to Offwidth:

I'm pretty sure something big has moved at the bottom of mermaid's climb after a stormy winter a year or so ago. Can't remember the exact details though.

Offwidth 05 Jun 2018

In reply to stuartf:

Yes you are right... in this thread. I'd forgotten.

https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/ukc/newsflash_terriers_tooth_damaged_in_m...

OP overdrawnboy 05 Jun 2018

In reply to Offwidth:

This is definitely Mermaids not TT, on the right as you look down Ash Can Gully. Climbed round the rock scar looking for gear and ended up on the ledge in the corner 12 ft or so above where you move across to the main face. Certainly not V diff to go the old way, and the remaining ledge seems to be a bit poised in space like a pulpit. Everything above the bottom foot of the climber in the pic detailed above has gone. If it went two winters ago they must have used old pic to do the topo in the new CC guide.