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Biggest/Nastiest whipper with no sad ending 24-Sep-2010 At 2:54:28 PM Terrapin18

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On 24/09/2010 tnd wrote:

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>The purplish cover was the last Pircher/Carter guide, early 2000's. There
>was a Carter one in 2007 then this latest one. So if they told you the
>purple one was the latest they were fibbing...

Yep that was the one....they were fibbing indeed! Luckily the Mountain Designs in Brisbane accepted the return! Actually the guidebook debacle somewhat explains your other point about the ringbolts. There is now a short 19 to the right of Schwing (called Empty Chairs) which was not in that older guidebook. We thought Schwing was the furthest right climb on that cliff, so we went up the 19 thinking it was Schwing (and hence my comment about ringbolts). I lead and was really confused as to where to go to get on the 2nd pitch...obviously :) I ended up traversing left, did the roof of the actual P1 of Schwing and was then on route again. After we finished, I actually then did the first pitch by itself again (thinking I was on It Goes!). It wasn't til I got home and looked at the online database that I figured out how confused we were.

By the way....climb.org still shows P2 as an 18.

cheers.