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Havachatwithhexy... 15-Mar-2005 At 2:42:11 PM HEX

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Copperhead Road (A4+) repeated
nmonteith
17/12/2003
>Gareth Llewellin (QLD) and Shaggy (USA) repeated Malcolm Matheson's testpiece aid >route, Copperhead Road (A4) on Mt Buffalo's North Wall last week. The crux pitch is >50m+ of very dicy hook and bad copperhead (mashie) placements with only a few bits >of good gear along the way. Gareth described being six sky hooks out from a string of >mashies and having to trust very small and insecure mashies in an overhang to >continue. This is a very bold ascent with possible 30m+ fall potenital most of the way >up the climb. The route is considered one of the hardest and most dangeorus in the >country...

There is also a route, reported as grade M9 , by Rick I think , lurking somewhere in QLD...
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