I have a question for 'Bigjobs'.
If you have a group of beginners, why make life difficult for yourself taking them on a trip that has a 'reputation'?
Why not take them on a trip down an easier mine, Cwmorthin for example?
Bit like taking a caving beginner on a trip down King Pot rather than Valley Entrance.
Totally agree.
I also have a question, are any of these competent and trained SRT guys stood either side of the ropes etc any of the same crew who thought it would be a good idea to abseil off the bridge in cwmorthin, with no back up, or safety and attached to something that really isnt the best idea to attach to?!
Whom when pointed out how stupid it was, just berated me and I believe all my posts and further threads got deleted about it.
Absolutely No 100% these people were not the ones who abseiled off the bridge at moel Ferna not Cwmorthin although one of them was on the camping part of the trip, he was the lad whos report you commented on and he is not proficient at srt either.
I can tell you that any mod or admin on a site will always get alarm bells ringing when a person signs up and immediately starts confronting other members and dishing out advice in a fashion that although may be correct in context is wrong in approach and this was the problem. I said that you had a valid point and best to start your own thread about it, and you did but whilst your anger was directed at the member who posted the pictures of someone abseiling off the bridge it was picked up by other members who have many years of SRT experience and after people saying that you were correct and your point was indeed a good point your continuation in asking why anyone would take SRT gear to Moel Ferna and pointing out the principles of SRT time and time again in the end just seemed to be an excercise in teaching your nan to suck eggs particularly after someone pointed out that you can use srt gear to get into Moel Ferna.
That is an honest answer to your question and from a moderators point of view it also just says here comes a shed load of tidying up, the best thing to have done would be to report the post and ask for the post or picture to be removed(which I did).
so in short yes you were correct but from were I was standing it was easier to delete the whole lot rather than pick through the whole thread or threads and try to edit it to make sense of it for members to read, although to be honest I didnt deal with it alone as most of the time during the day I am on my phone and cannot really do much with such a small screen.