Route Feedback: D.D.T.
Posted by: Roger Everett, 29.07.2021

The description and the diagram don’t tally for the upper part of pitch 2. The description says go up right at the end of pitch 2, then go right to the abseil point (of Tumbleweed presumably), the diagram shows it going left (as in previous guidebooks). Going up right (the finish to Point Blank) is totally awful and dangerous. It would actually be much better to finish up either Praying Mantis or Tumbleweed to make a 3 star combination, you’d only miss a few metres of decent D.D.T. climbing (i.e., for pitch 1, at the top of the main groove do the start of pitch 2 to the junction with Praying Mantis, then continue to the Praying Mantis belay). Unless of course one can exit right at the top of the upper D.D.T groove to get onto the final slab of Tumbleweed – didn’t investigate that).

Editor’s note: Lake District Rock describes pitch 1 only with an abseil descent.

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