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Mt Buffalo - She 1-Oct-2010 At 3:58:29 PM cruze

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On 1/10/2010 One Day Hero wrote:
>On 1/10/2010 nmonteith wrote:
>>Don't get me wrong - it looks like one hell of a fun adventure - but
>all
>>that vegetation and seepage just doesn't make it look like quality. I've
>>had a blast on that wall clumping up mud, but i don't think i'd send
>an
>>international climber onto it! (apart from Ozy which is nice and clean)
>
>Spot on Neil!
>
>Have recently had a friend out from Colorado and he inquired about Buffalo.
>I told him to go get fuched. You don't visit Austalia from North America
>and get on our granite, its just total shit compared to what they have
>at home. For any aussies who wonder why granite is refered to in climbing
>lit. as "the rock of the gods"...........well may you wonder! They ain't
>talking about our fcuking granite, by a long shot!

ODH setting ACT/NSW/Vic crystalline granite to the side for the moment, I reckon there is reasonable granite in WA (Willyabrup), Tas (Freycinet) and some areas of N. Qld (Townsville). It isn't quite the same quality as the granite I have climbed on in NZ or Argentina but how does it compare to the glacially carved buttresses of N. America?