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Araps or other spot near Melbourne! 12-Apr-2010 At 7:05:39 AM ambyeok

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My first climb ever was at araps, I crapped myself, it was tip toe ridge, grade 4 or 6. I cant imagine how you must have felt on muldoon. Im impressed by your enthusiasm.

You mentioned you had a harness, have you got a belay device, biner and nut tool? If not I could lend you those, you can send me a pm. Perhaps another chocky user has an old tent?

Araps has a culture where lone climbers can usually ask around and score a climbing partner. If you know the dates then you can post here too. If you are at araps trying to connect with a climbing partner than a cell phone would be useful, it would need to have an optus or telstra sim. There is also a payphone at the campground and internet in natimuk. If you cant score a climbing partner on any particular day then there is still a lot of good bouldering to be had, provided you are willing to foregoe a crash pad, which would limit some of the problems you can try.

If you can beg, borrow or steal a tent then getting up to araps shouldnt be a problem. The train (vline.com.au) costs about $25 and gets you to horsham (train or train + bus). Many enthusisatic types then hitch to araps which I believe is not too problematic. If your hitching then the 'overlander' does a daytime train trip all the way to horsham, arriving at a time when hitching would be much easier. The train station is a little out of horsham, its about 15 minutes walk to the centre; pop past safeway, grab your food and lots of water, then hitch on to araps. Not sure how you would cook hot food but the quality of routes at araps may justify a few cold tins of baked beans or the like!!! Buy some meths and you may be able to borrow a trangia off someone once they finish cooking.

Failing that, you always have the VCC trips, a google search of chockstone will reveal much about that.

Best of luck