1. Would you think it likely, now, that your squire would prove a liberal-minded one in case of help - him being in a clove hitch, as you remark?

2. Preferred primary anchor into a Belay is a clove hitch or bite8 on the powerpoint - I prefer a clove for adjustability, sometimes using a purcell prusik as a second method to adjust my attitude to the anchor.

3. For this I Abseiled in from the top of the the crag, located the bag (by this point a little soaked as it was wedged in a gully behind a boulder), prussiked back out, then built a 3:1 'z' pulley system to haul it up, before scrambling back out on a rolling clove hitch