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Paul

14-Apr-2009
5:52:13 PM

Special thanks! to the person who managed to snap one of the poles in my tent which was setup in the pines and opted to leave the scene of the crime without any offer to repair or replace the damaged item. :-(

Richard

15-Apr-2009
12:54:36 PM

Actualy thought the crowds at araps very well behaved - was very suprised how quiet it was every night. Was stayplton noisy? Dileberatly didn't go there because of the school camp. Seemed like masses of cars and tents at araps, never seen so many, but not the long toilet queues or waiting for a climbs that i recall in the past.

bluey

15-Apr-2009
1:07:44 PM

Clearly you weren't in the ladies loos. QUEUES! and things got even better when the toilets stopped flushing.

There were heaps of tents, but everyone was really quiet....have the uni clubs lost their mojo?

allroundgoodguy

15-Apr-2009
1:35:13 PM

At least one of them is still going hard. The evidence was the large technicolour yawn deposited on the floor of the mens loos early Sunday morning. Of the hundreds of acres they had available to them, the middle of the middle cubical does not earn any extra points for location.
But kudos to them (or someone) for cleaning it up later.

gfdonc

15-Apr-2009
1:37:51 PM

On 15/04/2009 bluey wrote:
>There were heaps of tents, but everyone was really quiet....have the uni
>clubs lost their mojo?

Wasn't their mojo stolen from the Organ Pipes or something?

Eduardo Slabofvic

15-Apr-2009
1:53:10 PM

Congratulations to all for not requiring the meat wagon

climbingfool

15-Apr-2009
2:12:21 PM

anyone go collecting booty on tuesday?

Eduardo Slabofvic

15-Apr-2009
4:17:12 PM

I found booty on Saturday

.......any guesses where and what?

....and, No Mars, it wasn't your missing cams

patto

15-Apr-2009
5:40:05 PM

On 15/04/2009 Richard wrote:
>Actualy thought the crowds at araps very well behaved - was very suprised
>how quiet it was every night. Was stayplton noisy? Dileberatly didn't go
>there because of the school camp. Seemed like masses of cars and tents
>at araps, never seen so many, but not the long toilet queues or waiting
>for a climbs that i recall in the past.
>
>

Most definately well behaved. Too well behaved in my opinion. I did find it quit humourous that the largest party on Sunday night was the VCC.

ajfclark

15-Apr-2009
5:49:15 PM

On 15/04/2009 patto wrote:
>I did find it quit humorous that the largest party on Sunday night was the VCC.

Why is that amusing?

Paul

15-Apr-2009
7:06:37 PM

On 15/04/2009 Eduardo Slabofvic wrote:
>I found booty on Saturday
>
>.......any guesses where and what?
>
>....and, No Mars, it wasn't your missing cams

A yellow metolious cam on Arakness? I saw one of these which was over cammed but couldn't be bothered trying to get it.

patto

15-Apr-2009
7:40:53 PM

On 15/04/2009 Paul wrote:
>On 15/04/2009 Eduardo Slabofvic wrote:
>>I found booty on Saturday
>>
>>.......any guesses where and what?
>>
>>....and, No Mars, it wasn't your missing cams
>
>A yellow metolious cam on Arakness? I saw one of these which was over
>cammed but couldn't be bothered trying to get it.

Yeah I heard about this one. If I had known I reckon it would have been enough incentive for me to fit another climb in on Monday afternoon.

Paul

15-Apr-2009
9:54:43 PM

On 15/04/2009 patto wrote:
>On 15/04/2009 Paul wrote:
>>On 15/04/2009 Eduardo Slabofvic wrote:
>>>I found booty on Saturday
>>>
>>>.......any guesses where and what?
>>>
>>>....and, No Mars, it wasn't your missing cams
>>
>>A yellow metolious cam on Arakness? I saw one of these which was over
>>cammed but couldn't be bothered trying to get it.
>
>Yeah I heard about this one. If I had known I reckon it would have been
>enough incentive for me to fit another climb in on Monday afternoon.

The group after me claimed it I believe

gordoste

16-Apr-2009
5:12:46 PM

Talking about Arachnus, I did that on Sunday for the first time and instead linking p2 and p3 as suggested in the guidebook, I led an awesome long pitch directly from the 2nd belay all the way to the top (instead of going out R to the arete). 40m or so of foot ledges and dinner plates = awesome fun!! Recommend it!

Eduardo Slabofvic

16-Apr-2009
5:27:04 PM

Wudda ya gunna name it?

Zebedee

16-Apr-2009
10:39:18 PM

On 16/04/2009 Eduardo Slabofvic wrote:
>Wudda ya gunna name it?
Name it? Why not stick 4 bolts in it and give it three stars as well?

gordoste

17-Apr-2009
9:42:14 PM

I guess if you wanted to give it a separate name it would make sense to call it Arachnus Direttissima. Anyway you have to think a bit as the easiest path often requires you to traverse back and forth along the footledges to find the best holds. So you do a move, traverse a couple of metres to the L, do another move, traverse back to the R, do another move, etc.
I'm sure it's been done like that plenty of times before anyway, just thought it was worth mentioning as I really enjoyed it.

Eduardo Slabofvic

17-Apr-2009
10:01:04 PM

On 17/04/2009 gordoste wrote:
>So you do a move, traverse a couple of metres to
>the L, do another move, traverse back to the R, do another move, etc.

Call it "Space Invader"...........and give it a star (hehehehehfrhngwl)

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