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Havachatwithhexy... 23-May-2005 At 6:42:23 PM HEX

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Cube-arse --- clinical studies have shown that memory-loss is strongly linked to the use of m.................aw nevamind ...
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Philby :
>That said we are trying to build a civil society yet still trying to maintain the campfire >feel to the place and part of that appeal is to rag each other out. This has always been >a part of climbing culture...

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ASHES TO ASHES , FUNK TO FUNKY... Saturday, 31 July 2004, HEX :
>Robbins continues the vibe : '... The early days of prolonged encampment amid the >dying pines of Mt Arapiles have often been likened to the last days of a Burke & Wills >expedition, in which there were no survivors though much discomfort , craziness and >despair . Wholesale desertion by partners , loss of direction, motivation, perhaps >sanity being the least of one's exasperations....People were so horrible to each other >during this period that the only safe refuge from animosity lay in the deep , dark >recesses of the crag --- which accounts for the staggering number of new routes >recorded. Climbers returned to camp and tent under cover of darkness to avoid >intolerable periods of fire-side casting of aspertions, covering everything from climbing >to cooking ability. The smouldering embers of many a young hopeful's ambition were >stomped and stirred into the ashes of this dumping-ground of broken hearts and >shattered dreams...

Ooooooooyeeeeeah ... gotta luv that ' campfire ' feel, Phil ... just gotta be aware that someone might slip the occasional un-opened-can-of-baked-beans into the fire, and then cheerfully walk-away;-)

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