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the armory

de_climber

24-Sep-2012
3:37:16 PM

Does anyone know where the armory isin the blue mntns?

benjenga

24-Sep-2012
4:18:15 PM

Nope but prey tell if you find it.

kuu

24-Sep-2012
4:41:20 PM

On 24/09/2012 de_climber wrote:
>Does anyone know where the armory isin the blue mntns?

Lithgow, but it's no longer operating.

http://www.lithgow-tourism.com/samuseum/index.html

PDRM

24-Sep-2012
4:43:51 PM

On 24/09/2012 de_climber wrote:
>Does anyone know where the armory isin the blue mntns?

This maybe? http://www.thecrag.com/climbing/australia/blue-mountains/the-fortress

de_climber

24-Sep-2012
5:56:14 PM

thanks guys but Pretty sure its a bouldering area in upper mntns

Mr Poopypants

24-Sep-2012
6:34:31 PM

On 24/09/2012 kuu wrote:
>On 24/09/2012 de_climber wrote:
>>Does anyone know where the armory isin the blue mntns?
>
>Lithgow, but it's no longer operating.
>
>http://www.lithgow-tourism.com/samuseum/index.html
>
>

Nicely done, Kuu.
:-)

G.

technogeekery

25-Sep-2012
7:59:17 AM

Thanks for posting that Fortress link - looks just like my speed, lots of long, easy adventurous trad :-)

ajfclark

25-Sep-2012
8:22:33 AM

On 24/09/2012 de_climber wrote:
>thanks guys but Pretty sure its a bouldering area in upper mntns

Only reference I can find online is a one liner about a Garth Miller problem: http://www.australianbouldering.com/list.html

Maybe track down Garth and ask him?

Superstu

25-Sep-2012
9:04:35 AM

On 25/09/2012 technogeekery wrote:
>Thanks for posting that Fortress link - looks just like my speed, lots
>of long, easy adventurous trad :-)

Mikl put together a mini guide a while ago..

http://www.sydneyclimbing.com/confluence/display/nswrock/The+Fortress

I can barely climb anything at the moment, so big long easy choss is looking appealing.

de_climber

25-Sep-2012
9:24:27 AM

Funnily enough i bumped into garth a month ago but it didnt cross my mind to ask him

pmonks

25-Sep-2012
10:01:27 AM

On 25/09/2012 Superstu wrote:
>Mikl put together a mini guide a while ago..
>
>http://www.sydneyclimbing.com/confluence/display/nswrock/The+Fortress
>
>I can barely climb anything at the moment, so big long easy choss is looking
>appealing.

Hayden's Butt Crack is loads of fun <insert endless jokes here>. He and I did it in 2000 or so as a through trip from Govett's Leap, which was a nice little adventure. Then the storms rolled in, Hayden gave me all the metal gear and ran off, leaving me as a human lightning rod on the exposed walk out - lightning was striking the next ridge to the east, about 500m away! Needless to say, I was forced to replace my underpants after that trip...

BTW it might be worth hooking up with Hayden - he's a lot of fun to climb with and has a particular penchant for long scary choss routes! If you haven't done it, Margarine Ridge is a long super classic at a very relaxed grade.

[edit] Hey Chockstone developers - can you please fix Chockie's HTML escaping? It's annoying as crap to have to manually escape < and > every single time!

technogeekery

25-Sep-2012
1:09:50 PM

On 25/09/2012 Superstu wrote:
>I can barely climb anything at the moment, so big long easy choss is looking
>appealing.

I'm always up for long easy choss... drop me a line if you want to play hooky during the week some time.

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