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THE AUSTRALIAN RE, RETRO-BOLTING OPEN FORUM 12-Feb-2004 At 9:15:02 PM hex-TROLL

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OK , ya'al , we've Neil-y got this sorted : ' The Hex' was referring to the SECOND jardine traverse (pitch 22; freed by Lynn @ ~ 5.13b) , which goes '...underneath the Great Roof. This is the famous pitch that no one had yet been able to free-climb. Many had tried to do so , starting with Ray Jardine , who initiated the effort to free climb The Nose 15 years before . After several unsuccessfull tries to free climb past the Great Roof , Ray eventually abandoned his attempt. Since then , many other climbers had set out to make the first free ascent of this legendary route , but no one had succeeded.' (ibid).
This is where Rayjar' did the stuff I've mentioned re. angle-pitons.
Neil wrote : ' RJ chipped face holds...and led it CLEAN...' ; maybe running across the face on a pendulum-rope might be a bit 'cleaner' ; but that's the great diversity of ethical views for ya! Neil---thanks for contributing to the ' workable middle ground' , dude.

James---you're doing a few radical-back-hand-floating-re-entries off the re-bound waves of the 7th dimension, bro ! Ya fairly carvin' a gnarly slash off the rim of the caldron ,dude!
Now , what's this about '...associate with such insects...' ? ---you're not snakin' with the Wonderdog are you ?!
But I digress : allow a clue to the climb alluded to : it may or may not have been groovy attire in the 70's...

GILGAMESH : hopefully Malcolm is 'planning to address' , cos if anyone 'owns' Gilga' , it is he.Better hurry up HB, ---' The Ho' & VD are probably out there right now !!!

Luv , hex-TROLL.