Can anyone describe exactly what is installed?
Without letting slip the name of the venue, which I'm sure no one could possibly work out from what's been said.
I'm not sure what's there now, but last summer there was a "hand-rail" of tat running along the top of the whole buttress (though not visible from below), at least one bolt (possibly a whole two bolt lower-off IIRC) near the top of the E9 and then a fixed line running all the way to the floor down the HS, from memory with loads of in-situ knots presumably for clipping in lanyards. The fixed line wasn't visible from the main path as it's round the back, but it is certainly somewhere easily accessed by non-climbers which doesn't seem like a great idea.
Earlier in the day we experienced an E2 requiring an ab from a long dead tree surrounded by horribly loose rock, genuinely the worst belay I have had to use in many years. But I guess nobody has added any fixed gear there because they actually read the RAD.
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