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The new Blue Mountains guidebook 11-Apr-2007 At 3:56:42 PM mikepatt

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Hey, I've just got to say that I used the guide on Monday and the photo topos did there job. Arriving late at Bardens (4:30pm) we raced down the gully feeling just like HB in the Buffalo movie. This was reinforced by a) the prescence or HB's van, and, not suprisingly b) the man himself, probably climbing with a Mexican bumbly blindly following chalks grades and marks.
Anyway we threw down the gear, I tossed a bandolier of draws over my shoulder (Louise Shepard style) and launched up some ring bolted line I thought may be about 16.. anyway after three moves I thought the route was familiar so I down climbed and consulted the photo topo. Wow, the bush right beside me was right there on the page and no, I hadn't climbed the route before..
Suddenly the scene changed and I was belaying, a beautiful young blonde strolled along the base of the crag and idly started chatting with some other climbers. I thought again I was either in a movie or a dream, as the sun set on the western horizon.
Wow, the power of books.