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22-Oct-2012 2:40:19 PM
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On 10/10/2012 Damo666 wrote:
>But those retailer ads really get me. They want to spend money on smarmy
>advertising which would be better spent stocking current lines and keeping
>knowledgeable staff.
My understanding is that it was not retailer paid advertising, rather a Rock magazine initiative????
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22-Oct-2012 3:05:08 PM
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So, they waste two pages of a thin magazine to try to persuade us to spend more money than we need to, on a woefully limited supply of outdated stock, from people who know less about it than we do?
I'm not sure which is worse...
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22-Oct-2012 4:22:52 PM
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On 22/10/2012 rodw wrote:
>I've seen many climber on this website refer to it as "the Arapiles" so
>I would hazard a guess that in itself isn't a good test.
Every time I've heard "the Arapiles" its always been from those Pommies
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22-Oct-2012 4:45:55 PM
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A friend used to refer to it as "The Arapiles Mountains"....
I sometimes use 'The Arapiles"....
but in both cases it is always a piss take
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23-Oct-2012 11:17:32 AM
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The correct term would be "an Arapiles"
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23-Oct-2012 11:31:35 AM
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The guy that taught me to climb used to refer to it as "The Piles". For whatever reasons ..
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23-Oct-2012 11:40:34 AM
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On 23/10/2012 gfdonc wrote:
>The guy that taught me to climb used to refer to it as "The Piles". For
>whatever reasons ..
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Sitting on cold rock will do that supposedly
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23-Oct-2012 11:40:52 AM
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Because that’s what you get from sitting around on rock ledges all day, as well as it being an abbreviation.
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23-Oct-2012 1:04:00 PM
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Seems to have caught on here:
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/outdoor/glenn-tempest-and-the-kachoong-route-arapiles.htm
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23-Oct-2012 1:27:21 PM
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Not only "the Arapiles", but "the Kachoong" as well...
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23-Oct-2012 10:55:54 PM
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On 22/10/2012 Damo666 wrote:
> He should be sentenced to 24hrs of listening to Dean Potter and Chris Sharma discuss being 'spiritual'.
No one deserves that shit!
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24-Oct-2012 12:13:27 AM
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goulburn boys vibing;)
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