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16-Feb-2014 3:20:17 AM
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My vote......
Dramp
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16-Feb-2014 10:10:29 AM
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Bite your tongue, there exists no other pitch which is more out there!
Ordeal by Fur on the Sydney Sea Cliffs. I was lured onto it after reading it was a 21, it's 25 !
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16-Feb-2014 11:13:11 AM
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Everything I climb is sandbagged...
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16-Feb-2014 11:13:34 AM
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How about Llareggub at Araps? From a beginners grade of 12 to a not very well protected 17.
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16-Feb-2014 5:07:43 PM
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Think it's 18 in the latest guide.
Didn't Mikl put up a 23 in the you yangs that's 28 now?
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16-Feb-2014 5:33:44 PM
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I'd also be wary of anything Mikl originally graded 17. He told me that the hardest climb in Australia at the time was a 17 and therefore anything he climbed must have been that or less...
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16-Feb-2014 7:29:25 PM
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3D Wimpout at Berowra felt bloody hard for 21 the last time I was on it, but I think it's a combo of not having been out in a while and old school thin wall sandstone. Just about anything at the Big K. used to be amusing, but the new guide seems to have added 3-4 grades to everything.
Someone admitted to me that Butter Knives at Berowra might be a touch harder than 26 since it took them 3 months after doing a 29 at Araps in 3 days...
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16-Feb-2014 9:01:33 PM
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Pitch 2 of Lieben
and pitch 4...
and pitch 5 actually if you go wrong way.
I guess this was the 17 mikl based his grading on?
Resurrection corner at frog is a climb I try to remember when I think something may be 18.
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16-Feb-2014 10:46:53 PM
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"How about Llareggub at Araps? From a beginners grade of 12 to a not very well protected 17."
There is plenty of gear on Llareggub, its just a bit sustained and a bit hard to place.
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17-Feb-2014 11:04:53 AM
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Dramp? No way.
I vote for Pearls Before Swine. 20? yeah right.
Vandal probably has a few supporters, but I think 17 is about right.
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17-Feb-2014 11:09:35 AM
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On 17/02/2014 gfdonc wrote:
>Vandal probably has a few supporters, but I think 17 is about right.
I did it 2 or 3 times before it was upgraded, but given my present state of fitness I'd say it was 21 and getting harder - and that's before I'd step off the ground.
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17-Feb-2014 1:56:51 PM
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Prologue 11 @ Mt Piddington.
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17-Feb-2014 2:13:43 PM
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>Biggest sandbag
Anything that a dicky-ticker climbing partner karks on while on-rope with you when doing it...
☻
Heh, heh, heh.
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17-Feb-2014 2:25:27 PM
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On 17/02/2014 hangdog wrote:
>Prologue 11 @ Mt Piddington.
I reckon hangdog has it, now i know climbing isn't all about the grades but when you start out and done a few 17s and get on this beast you don't try it again til you climb twice the grade (22 not 34) and its still bloody hard.
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17-Feb-2014 7:12:31 PM
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Bozo (20) at Bartondale, Nowra. 10 years ago tried it with 3 others after doing Mega Mac and none of us could do the crux.
To the TS, what is particularly sandbaggy about Dramp? Bit goey and smeary at the crux, but I reckon there are plenty of harder 21s at Araps.
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18-Feb-2014 10:44:13 AM
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'The route that shall not be named' at 'the cliff known throughout the world' ....
3 S&C's? Come on, 1.5 at the most; they mustn't have climbed much in the Blueies ....
Seriously some of you Vic hard men should just have a hack and give it a shot . . .
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18-Feb-2014 11:47:01 AM
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On 17/02/2014 hangdog wrote:
>Prologue 11 @ Mt Piddington.
You tried to sandbag me onto this when I was learning trad, but then later confessed it's not a great one to start on
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18-Feb-2014 12:03:58 PM
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On 17/02/2014 spicelab wrote:
>To the TS, what is particularly sandbaggy about Dramp? Bit goey and smeary
>at the crux, but I reckon there are plenty of harder 21s at Araps.
I don't mind a bit of jamming but it seemed to be on another level....defo worthwhile.
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18-Feb-2014 12:23:25 PM
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You tried to jam it? Oh ...
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18-Feb-2014 12:31:52 PM
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Ballrace (17) at Piddo... I can walk up The Kraken (22) first shot, but fall off Ballrace as my next climb on the same day. Even on subsequent repeats I feel like I'm fighting tooth and nail for the first 8m of that climb.
-Paul
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