258 Pushing pitch at end of Flap - Determination
Holly
With 3 bags between us, 1 with a drill + two for rope we headed to
the far north of Tunnocks for pushing my infamous lead. Mike chose to
come with me as he was blissfully ignorant of my lead! [smiley]
Rigged Hoorah for Boobies + cut end of rope for small pitch in the
Flap - which turned out to be perfect (this rope was orginally a 39m).
Then came the Flap! here Mike releasised he'd been sold a dud! But he
carried on relentlessly with his uber-bag + by following survey
stations we eventually found ourselves at the top of the pitch. Feeling
guilty for dragging Mike here I encouraged him to rig the pitch. We
carefully passed rigging items back and forth to each other in order to
not drop them down the ptich (we were nicely wedged above the pitch, but
smaller items would fall all the way to the floor). Mike beautifully
rigged the pitch as follows 
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A 39m rope was used, however Mike had to 'elastic band' the rope between
the Y-hang + the rebelay in order to reach the floor. At the bottom
Mike landed on a ledge with another pitch (estimated as 25m). Having run
out of rope and time we headed out with Mike declaring it as a good
lead.... MuWhahaha! Muwhahahahahahaha!! Determination pays off!
Although I'm not sure anyone else is going to be pleased. More
Determination is required for further trips and so it's name is born ->
'The Determiniation Series'.