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Hexes 6-Oct-2011 At 11:10:01 AM ..::- Chris -::..

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>This is area specific retard advice. Good for araps, bad for blueys and
>point perp, very bad for moonarie, death for frog and some tassie trad
>areas.
>
>Maybe if you actually traveled to climb a bit, you'd have a better idea
>about shit

Dude I agree your comment was partially correct as I do live in Victoria that is where I did *most* of my climbing (still is) I did climb many climbs out of VIC with that amount of gear, quite safely actually. You could still go to those areas and find *many* climbs to do.

Fairly obvious that doing a long parallel crack with 1 cam of that size is a bad idea.....

How you jumped from the above to "Maybe if you actually traveled to climb a bit" is off track and a little hurtful ; (

16 Years I've been climbing, Many Many different countries not to mention (apart from Frog) all the crags you listed......;-)

Anyways I can admit that I was wrong with my original post. (Thanks for highlighting it in a polite and friendly manner ODH)

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So I change my statement.... I did it tough with my 4 CAMS, had many many near death experiences... I can remember people watching me on the cliff and saying to each other ......"Is that guy MAD, heading up a TRAD route with only 2 sets of wires, a set of RP's 4 CAMS, a few slings and many long draws..... Crazy Crazy Stuff... that guys days a truly numbered"

My recommendations are that people starting out climbing you should have 12 sets of cams, 2 sets of Hex's, 3 sets of Wires including offsets, 35 Sport draws 40 Long sling draws, hooks, Bivy's, porta ledges, Poop Shoot etc.... ;-) Most climbers start out with $10,000 Racks and over the year just add gradually so as to not
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