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Havachatwithhexy... 10-May-2005 At 5:29:17 PM HEX

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anthonyk
10/05/2005
>...generally we keep our own australian standards at the National Measurement Lab in >Lindfield which is based on the international ones, but i don't know if we've got an >official australian standard for the onsight as yet...
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Hexyz sexy quote that has featured favourably on several threads ...

>Seems to me that the issue here is ONSIGHTFLASH ascents :

>Some dude rocks-up to Araps ; grabs his/her boots,rope,trad-rack,chalk-bag ; walks >up a gully ; goes " sak-ra-blur !!! --- what is dis magnificent line ?! " ; a >bumbly ,bouldering near-by , says " I'll giveya' belay, dude --- all I know is that it's >called Cobwebs and it's about USA 5.12d --- go for it !"

>Dude then climbs smoothly, confidently, all the way to the top, bearly stopping to >place the occasional runner...

>Chalk-marks are par for the course these days...
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