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9-Jun-2004 11:16:18 AM
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"ethics are a 9 to 5 luxury"
- Greg Child-
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9-Jun-2004 11:32:41 AM
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Moral Turpitude 23 is the first climb to the right of Square Gully aty Booroomba.
Was attempted totally trad in the early days - John was one of the more vocal no chalk and no boltaphiles at the time.
The ethics went and two bolts appeared in Moral Turpitude courtesy of John, I thank him for it.
When climbing I prefer to bend my ethics (bolts) when falling.
As a safety tip when climbing Moral Turpitude you must use double ropes, as you will crater if you fall cliping the first bolt. In addition the brackets are home made and require super small biners, I recommend using some mallions then clipping the biner into that.
Before the 2003 fires, I climbed climbed at Booroomba nearly every second week, so my slab technichque was pretty good. They reopened the park in February and I have been 3 or 4 times since - my loss of technique was very obvious, climbs that I have previously cruised as warmups, were now potential death routes.
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9-Jun-2004 12:31:34 PM
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I'll do it later
I'll do it later
And while I make excuses
The sun goes down
Mitsuo Aida
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9-Jun-2004 12:39:14 PM
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"I belay way harder than I climb." Fatboy (on another post)
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9-Jun-2004 1:39:21 PM
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"sometimes i eat so much i can't breath"
wolfgang
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9-Jun-2004 2:21:08 PM
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"Get out there now and become part of the glorious past in somebody else's future!"
Andrew Penney
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9-Jun-2004 2:59:41 PM
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"courage is having absolute faith in your own abilities, only fear can keep you grounded" annonymous
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9-Jun-2004 3:14:55 PM
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On 9/06/2004 Edward Frillypants wrote:
>> "Get out there now and become part of the glorious past in somebody else's
>future!"
>Andrew Penney
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>Is that from The Wolgan Guide?
Indeed it is. And a great quote at that! I don't think that any of the climbers that we consider influential ever set out to be that.
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10-Jun-2004 4:40:48 PM
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i think Edward Frillypants likes this thread
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10-Jun-2004 5:24:57 PM
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
Whatever you can do
Or dream you can do
Begin it
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it
And from a source the name of which escapes me:
Never look back, something is gaining on you
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10-Jun-2004 11:05:27 PM
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If you don't let go, you won't fall off.
Jerry Moffat, I think.
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10-Jun-2004 11:30:16 PM
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Dyno for that jug you cant see!
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10-Jun-2004 11:31:26 PM
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Don't fall now or you'll deck out
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10-Jun-2004 11:35:41 PM
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Yay 100!
Mark Twight being interviewed in a bar:
Talking about taking risks and trying to hear each other over a group of noisy young larikin climbers, was asked:
'You have any friends that are bold and like this?'
"None that are alive"
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10-Jun-2004 11:40:10 PM
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Not that great, but I wanted the hundred!
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11-Jun-2004 11:29:13 AM
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"If I wasn't so knackered I could jam this." From Baxter's Central Victoria guide of 1974, described as a "Queensland proverb".
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11-Jun-2004 11:38:24 AM
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"There's no such thing as a reach problem, only a power problem" 5 foot tall Lynn Hill
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11-Jun-2004 12:16:01 PM
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On 11/06/2004 dalai wrote:
>"There's no such thing as a reach problem, only a power problem" 5 foot
>tall Lynn Hill
hahaha! i LIKE this one!
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11-Jun-2004 2:35:26 PM
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"Flexible folk are rarely strong and strong folk are rarely flexible, but Lynn (Hill) has a wealth of both qualities"
John Long
& further from John Long
"She (Lynn Hill) stemmed her left leg out at about chin level, toeing off something I couldnt have seen with the Hubble Telescope. I sighed once more. I would never walk again if I tried that move"
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18-Jun-2004 8:13:40 PM
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"there's plenty of time at the last minute"
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"he who looks behind the bedroom door has been there once himself"
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