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24-Nov-2009 4:58:54 PM
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So what are they? We're not short of great rock but what iconic lines are left to do?
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24-Nov-2009 5:36:07 PM
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Plenty if you are a boulderer ;-)
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24-Nov-2009 5:38:16 PM
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somalia
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24-Nov-2009 6:46:52 PM
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Surely there are a couple more lines on the Punks wall..left of punks those beautiful bulges..pretty
insipring lines. Anything on there?
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24-Nov-2009 7:50:07 PM
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there's a post somewhere listing a few options to keep you occupied in the Gramps. It might be in the Ben frees Gilgamesh thread.
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24-Nov-2009 8:51:36 PM
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Barrenjoey Headland has a few soaring faces that need grid-bolting.
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24-Nov-2009 9:49:31 PM
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http://www.chockstone.org/Forum/Forum.asp?Action=DisplayTopic&ForumID=1&MessageID=1016&PagePos=&Sort=&Replies=30&MsgPagePos=0
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25-Nov-2009 10:32:59 AM
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On 24/11/2009 Winston Smith wrote:
>Barrenjoey Headland has a few soaring faces that need grid-bolting.
Mostly on the northern side...
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25-Nov-2009 10:46:19 AM
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So much to keep people busy, depending on their adventurouness.
Ben and Jerry' things on the Bluff. Inquisition. Oh, and Somalia is the route left of India, not the country.
Really long route at Wollombi Armidale.
West Face Yullidinida, at Kaputar.Makes Shah Jalud look like a picnic.
Large sections of Frenchmans.
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25-Nov-2009 11:26:12 AM
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On 25/11/2009 hero wrote:
>So much to keep people busy, depending on their adventurouness.
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>Really long route at Wollombi Armidale.
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>West Face Yullidinida, at Kaputar.Makes Shah Jalud look like a picnic.
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>Large sections of Frenchmans.
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These adventurous things sound cool, I guess that was what I was wondering, is hard sport climbing
the only future for Australia climbing. It doesn't seem as though much has been added in this vein
since Carrigan and friends.
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25-Nov-2009 11:41:27 AM
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Bungonia has sporadic action with hard long routes.
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25-Nov-2009 11:52:10 AM
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On 25/11/2009 hero wrote:
>Really long route at Wollombi Armidale.
Wollombi? Wollomombi? What ever.
http://www.nnsw.com.au/wollomombifalls/
It's an incredible piece of rock. There's a long wasy route between that and Chandler which I'm really interested in. What sort of rock is it?
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25-Nov-2009 12:17:10 PM
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There's an unclimbed offwidth at Pierce's Creek, and one at Tarana I believe as well.
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25-Nov-2009 12:28:19 PM
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My mistake on the spelling. The ridge is one of Australlia's great excursions. But downstream there is huge wall. The rock is not the best.
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25-Nov-2009 12:47:33 PM
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On 25/11/2009 evanbb wrote:
>There's an unclimbed offwidth at ... Tarana I believe
Where abouts? Is that the one above dr martens boots at deckout buttress?
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25-Nov-2009 12:50:34 PM
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On 25/11/2009 wanttobeastar1 wrote:
>These adventurous things sound cool, I guess that was what I was wondering,
>is hard sport climbing the only future for Australia climbing.
From what I have seen and read, it appears that the pendulum swings back to trad once the novelty of hard sport climbing wears off for the elite in that genre.
>It doesn't seem as though much has been added in this vein since Carrigan and friends.
What about the freeing of Ozymandias?
~> There is more on that wall that will go free in the future too.
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25-Nov-2009 1:01:30 PM
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On 25/11/2009 evanbb wrote:
>There's an unclimbed offwidth at Pierce's Creek, and one at Tarana I believe as well.
I heard about a fabled unclimbed offwidth at Black Range, with its whereabouts being mystical indeed.
~> Apparently one intrepid party went out to find and climb it, and were greatly miffed to find that it was a perfect fist crack instead, so they left it for someone else to rediscover...
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25-Nov-2009 1:35:30 PM
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right up the knifeline of Hanging Rock
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25-Nov-2009 2:35:11 PM
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You want offwidths. 10m horizontal offwidth ceiling. Top of the 150m Grey Wall. Gara Gorge. Armidale. Ripe for the picking.
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25-Nov-2009 2:52:38 PM
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On 25/11/2009 hero wrote:
>You want offwidths. 10m horizontal offwidth ceiling. Top of the 150m Grey
>Wall. Gara Gorge. Armidale. Ripe for the picking.
I don't really want off-widths, but I am an admirer. I liked Gara Gorge a lot when we climbed there.
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