I took a group on the Gladstone Pass/Lindeman track/Copeland Pass loop this afternoon, when we got to what I thought was going to be the trickiest scramble (a 2M moderately exposed rockface , which often has 2 fixed handlines, just before the upper scramble through a hole in the rock) I discovered three spikes have been fixed into the rock face.
I am sure they weren't there 3 months ago. It certainly made the ascent easier.
In other news, the landslide section of lindeman (on eastern side of Sublime Point) is almost passable at the moment, and someone (not me) has put a whole lot of pink ribbon to mark a track through the ferns. And only 1 leech all day!