• carry 2 prusiks
• always bring the guidebook up the route with us
• radios are a real help
• carry spare batteries (in a pocket)
• the first one on rappel should carry enough gear to build an anchor if necessary
• carry car key in pocket rather than leaving it in a pack at the bottom
• ditto for headlamps, even if we're not expecting to be on the rock long enough to need them

Table Rock

Rapping down from the top:

• finding the rap rings:
  • find square foundation
  • path is just off from the corner (just before path out to USGS marker) pointing in direction of route
  • go down to meadow-ish area
  • take scraggly path down left to dead tree and go on down to large bare rocks
  • rings are on the left (when looking down)
• two 60m ropes don't reach Lunch Ledge
• rap straight down through V into alcove to the rings at the top of the first pitch of My Route (on one rope?)
• rap from there down to dead tree on lower right end of Lunch Ledge (using both ropes)

Rapping down from Lunch Ledge:

• can't get from rings at the ledge to the ground with two 60m ropes
• either rap to the left over to the rings at the top of the second pitch of Jim Dandy (on one 60m rope) then take two ropes from there to the ground; traverse hard left from Lunch Ledge

  - or -

• rap on two ropes to the rings at the top of the first pitch of Helmet Buttress then rap on one 60m rope from there to the ground; the rings are on the right end of a ledge with briars (up and right of a tree at the base of the crack on the first pitch). This is easier to do if it's too dark to find the rap rings at the top of Skip, but not recommended otherwise because of the severe rope-drag which increases the chance of the knot getting stuck.