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Ayers Rock 6-Oct-2006 At 3:21:34 PM SirOinksALot

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On 3/10/2006 nmonteith wrote:
>
>If you are talking about climbing areas being banned because of dickheads
>stuffing it up for others then
>there is plenty! Shady Buttress and Western Wall in Queensland come to
>mind. These were major areas
>in the early 90s but have been permanatly banned because climbers couldn't
>behave themselves and the
>(private) landowner shut up shop - for good.

Bollocks! Firstly Shady and western wall saw activity in the mid to late '80s. Climbing had been band there by the '90s. Don't know what myths you were told but climbing was band due to the increase of weekend traffic from Brisbane and the farmer valued his privacy. Dinosour went the same way.

Probably a good thing as most people would be demanding the routes be retrobolted in the name of safety.