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Massive grounder at duck reach 20-Dec-2009 At 9:43:26 AM Rob S.

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On 20/12/2009 dandan wrote:
>glad everyone is starting to heal up. ive only just started climbing in
>town and really have no 'ins' with the scene here, but just cant believe
>how so many different stories get passed around. at work today, a climber
>i know who has just moved here told me that a 'reputable source' told him
>you guys had nailed a contstruction bolt bought from bunnings into a cliff
>face, hooked a biner over the top of that and were using it as your top
>rope anchor, which of course slipped off and you fell 20m to the ground.
>i love small town gossip!

Thats pretty funny but I don't know where it came from, Hen started to lead off a ledge but Jules (belaying) wasn't anchored and so when Hen fell and
his only wire ripped, instead of just decking out on the ledge he collected Jules and they both fell off the ledge to the ground, about 8m.