In reply to rachelpearce01:
Actually, I made a mess of that! The wire needed to be extended with a long sling (120cm). That would have been my plan. However, I was 100% sure before I set off that I was NOT going to do it. And this wasn't a case of reverse psychology or anything like that (which I may have used before). I'd been faffing on the route an hour before and could not even do the moves as it was damp. But I wanted to at least do the very bottom traverse in to see what it was like. I was aiming if possible to get to the big pod 1/3 of the way through the hard bit knowing I'd fall after that. Basically I didn't bother taking the sling. Luckily I took the wire! In the time I took to get ready and traverse and climb the conditions totally changed, and I found myself at the wire thinking; I either drop off without clipping the wire onto good gear in the pod below (scary), clip it and lower off (a single not so awesome wire), or press on without clipping it at all (actually the best option! Though a fall from the crux would be very close to the ground), or clip the wire and go, now knowing if the wire pulled out through drag or in a fall, I'd maybe hit the ground from the crux due to the extra rope in the system). Tough set of choices! Lesson!!! Always prepare for every outcome. In this case I expected to fail but succeeded (but will never know what would have happened if I fell). Still, it didn't sink in, as on Lexicon I expected to succeed and failed, and my gear had not been sorted the way it should be (again - this time just rushing it). I ended up ripping gear and on one badly loaded snap-gate!