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Werribee Gorge Nobs 6-Jul-2008 At 10:48:18 AM Paul

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I'm just using this thread because it allready exists (I'm not calling anyone a nob)

While climbing at Werribee Gorge yesterday I was shocked at the number of climbers who were using only a single bolt for their belays, with no form of redundancy. I would hate to see a fellow climber suffer an injury or worse from a preventable mistake like this.

On a different note. I took my home made portaledge substitute down to the gorge to try out, it worked with mixed sucess, but I wasn't looking to carrying between 5 to 10 kg of aluminium back to the car. When we were ready to leave I noticed a sling hanging half way up the cliff. The group next to us had a cam which was overcammed and stuck. After they had had a series of unsucessful attempts to retrieve it and failed I offered to have a go and ended up being sucessful in retrieving it. They were very greatful and asked what the cost was. I said that they could carry the frame of my home made ledge back to the car for me. I didn't actually expect this to hapen. But they did and I didn't get the chance to say thankyou as they had left by the time I got to the carpark so thankyou whoever you were.

Paul