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Chris Baxter Passes 3-Mar-2010 At 9:04:23 AM dusty

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Bugger. Baxter goes to the big crag in the sky. Maybe more like a big gramps in the sky - he'd love that. Hope the guidebook editors and publishers up there will move over for him - they'll need to. A legend in his own lifetime and that was just how he wanted it. When I came to live in Oz in 1981, my lifeline was climbing. Outside work I knew three names - all climbers and Chris was one - and contactable courtesy of his contributions to Mountain magazine. I called. He was about to publish the very first Wild and up to his ears. But he took time to point me in all the right directions to jump start me into the Vic climbing scene. I'll never forget that - and a ton more things after. Condolences to his family and his many friends.