The Croesor ladder bridge rockfall

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simonrl
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14 years ago

Don't worry - not a new rockfall, but the rockfall that took out the ladder bridge a few years back.

I took a photo in there on Saturday which is a very similar view to one I took in 2007 before the rockfall.

Realised it would be give the opportunity to compare before with after:

2007:

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2011:

🔗Croesor-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-66762[linkphoto]Croesor-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-66762[/linkphoto][/link]

The slab that fell:

As far as I can tell the red circles the slab that fell - that would have made quite a splash...

🔗Croesor-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-66810[linkphoto]Croesor-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-66810[/linkphoto][/link]

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Edd
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14 years ago

Was quite a slab wasnt it lol. When we went to reccy pulling the bridge out john and i found a piece of hanging slate about 4 ft tall just over where people were going on boats so we brought it down to stop another accident. When we got hte bridge back up a few weeks later we took a good time looking at the top there to see if there was any more but it looks nice and stable now. Was a night mare drilling new holes tho due to the ammount of quatrz in the rock

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