In reply to Babika:no, have you got an unusually low number of brain cells? I have plenty of quick draws and was just asking out of curiosity in case I decided to drive down from Inverness to do it.
Enough that it's worth only clipping the rope through every second bolt to avoid ropedrag. I'd have thought if you do this 20 quickdraws would be more than enough.
Although if you did this and then "top roped it" and somehow contrived to fall off, your sorry ass would drag all along the floor of the cave until you reached the river
Many years ago Martin and I did Adjudicator Wall and wall of Straws then the rain started, we did the Bat and then competed for the biggest swing from the back of the cave whilst being top roped from the final belay😀
Why not use two Gri Gris plus etriers to go bolt to bolt and trail the rope clipping single carabiners into each bolt ? Ive used this system several times on Kyrie Elison in Thors Cave
The thread at the end of Kyrie Elison also makes a good point to have a swing from, the ground drops away nicely just outside the cave entrance so it's quite nicely exposed.
I remember easy-rider etriers (I think that's what they were called) - single adjustable foot loop.
Paul Parker (of Leicester's Bowline) used to solo things like Mecca and The Prow with them after the sunday lunchtime pub visit. Mind you there were lots of things that Paul (still with us I believe) used to do which us newbies found a bit unnerving - he wasn't what you'd describe as risk averse 😁
I've never heard of them, Did they have a buckle at the top of the footloop ? I had a google but everything I could find under "easy Rider footloop" looked like it was more suitable atire for the Blue Oyster Bar out of Police Academy.
I used easy rider aiders for a few years, including Malham and El Capitan routes, a buckle and one loop for your thigh or foot as necessary - much better than etriers. Made by Troll perhaps? To Mike Hood - PP is probably still with us, we bike together most Tuesdays in the summer but I wimped out of the last one and haven't heard he came to grief during...
Actually thinking back it may not have been PP who had the easy-riders. Might have been Ray Dring, he was always buying the latest gadget like the talking rope.
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