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HELP: places near melbourne to climb 15-Jun-2012 At 10:46:17 PM Ben_E

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On 15/06/2012 Wendy wrote:
>Of course, if he chose Vancouver or San Fran, he'd have to write off half
>the year that the crags were under snow ....

Oh, I dunno, if you're happy to learn to love the Pinnacles and make the odd long-weekend/week-long trip to J Tree then there's not too much climbing down-time living in San Fran. The valley is usually only really too cold to climb for a few months each year anyway.

(Edit: all sort of besides the point given the original question was not "what's the best climbing city in the world that also happens to have a university?")

I agree that Buffalo is a great place - worth a lot more than one trip IMO (let's face it, if you've got the Lindorff/Murray guide you'll probably spend the entire first trip getting completely lost while trying to follow their instructions for an easy "10 minute" approach).

One comment I'd make, Max, is that to get much good climbing in around Melbourne will require you to have a car (or at least friends with a car). I guess that's true of most places, though. What are you coming to study, by the way?