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Crag & Route Beta

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The Gib, Mittagong 29-Jun-2009 At 7:49:44 PM Breezy

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On 29/06/2009 mikl law wrote:
>
>The corner is Slow Twitch, sport, all U’s. The first pitch is a weird
>slabby 21 to a 3 Ubolt belay, the short second pitch is probably 24, very
>weird bridging. I remember some funkiness at the top.
>
>Down hill 10m to the right is the mega classic Sluj Gulpa. You definitely
>know you’re not on sandstone anymore Dorothy. The first pith is hard bridging
>to start, followed by a weird layback where you get your feet above your
>hand, and then a crazy hand traverse. The second pitch has a hard start
>and then balancy moves left along the edge of a void to a semi hanging
>belay. The third pitch is simpler but quite pumpy, traversing left to a
>flake system and laybacking up this to the top. Id say the route is 23
>with the first 2 pitches being weird and the third pitch being hard. Sport,
>a mix of stainless trubolts and Ubolts.
>

i agree i did these two routes about 10 years ago, they are great. Especially Sluj Gulpa, awesome first pitch.