TR: Jack's Rake

>
> Interesting reading. I also found the exit of Jack's Rake a bit hairy.
> I suspect there is more than one way to go, and I chose the wrong one!
> I had to crawl up a slab above an exposed drop.
>

IIRC correctly, you go around the corner a bit, just past the slab, and it's
much easier.

M.

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First time I done Jacks Rake, I wen over the (icy) slab on my bum. Last
time was last year and I missed it out completely.

The 3rd time I climbed it, a chap in front had an large old metal framed
rucksack, which hooked itself to the chimney part of the lower section of
the climb. This blocked up the route so a young lad had to climb around him
and "toggle" him free from above.

We would have clapped but we'd been hanging onto the wall for about 10
minutyes by then.

Arh, happy days.

Jhimmy.

>Yuk... had they fallen?
I guess so - no way up or down for them in places, and a grizzly end!

>(Poor things!)
As opposed to us who were (nearly) poorly things!!

Peewiglet wrote:

>
> Yuk... had they fallen?
>

One of them nearly landed on me a copule of weeks ago....

Climbing the rake on a wet day (2/3 August?), I made my way past the
lower dead-and-very-smelly one, to find a very fresh dead one above me.

When I reached the top, I chatted to the guy who'd been climbing 100m
ahead of me. In conversation it transpired that he'd only been faced by
*one* dead sheep, but had seen an unhappy cragfast one above the path.

In the space between us going up, the cragfast sheep had plummetted
(cue Monty Python etc) to its death.

I wouldn't like to speculate on the effect of being hit by a falling
sheep while on an exposed bit of the rake...

Tom

On 19 Aug 2005 03:11:55 -0700, "Tom" <breadbib@m> wrote:


>I wouldn't like to speculate on the effect of being hit by a falling
>sheep while on an exposed bit of the rake...

Scary, but imagine how it felt for the sheep...

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Interesting timescale - two weeks to become a putrid, maggot infested
corpse (just one of the many threads of discucssion we had!).

Sean

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:04:34 +0100, Bootlaces <bootlaces@m>
wrote:

>On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 18:52:05 +0100
>in <news:d17cg1dlquco8fhc9bnnu1q0td1hmf27bj@ >
>Peewiglet <pw@theretreadplant.com> wrote :
>
>> On 19 Aug 2005 03:11:55 -0700, "Tom" <breadbib@m> wrote:
>>
>>>I wouldn't like to speculate on the effect of being hit by a falling
>>>sheep while on an exposed bit of the rake...
>>
>> Scary, but imagine how it felt for the sheep...
>
>Eh?

Falling off the crag and hitting the deck. Even worse than being hit
by a falling object!

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