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7-Oct-2015 7:17:21 PM
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Upstairs Downstairs,23, FFA Louise Shepherd, Kim Carrigan 1981 traverses almost the entire Great Wall at Moonarie
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7-Oct-2015 9:29:08 PM
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quits at piddo, thought i'd swing to lithgow
the grade 3 crater traverse at kaputar. 5 stars
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7-Oct-2015 10:57:40 PM
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Animal Act, 300m 15 M? and Party Trick 370m 16m? on Mt Maroon in SE Queensland are both genuine traverses high up on a big face. The latter utilises a huge kingswing to cross a section of bare wall.
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7-Oct-2015 11:22:35 PM
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We forgot Orestes.
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8-Oct-2015 3:00:39 PM
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Doesn't Scarab (bundaleer) have a funny little traverse pitch on it?
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8-Oct-2015 3:41:29 PM
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On 8/10/2015 Pat wrote:
>Doesn't Scarab (bundaleer) have a funny little traverse pitch on it?
Yep.
Has anyone mentioned Flying Circus yet?
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9-Oct-2015 1:23:01 AM
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The Long and Winding Road at NarrowNeck ~420m girdle . . .
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9-Oct-2015 6:24:20 AM
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The Grand Traverse (15), Narrow Neck, Blue Mtns
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11-Oct-2015 9:03:55 PM
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Thank you :)
I have edited the first post to add the contributions (though skipping the ones I'm too ignorant to decipher).
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12-Oct-2015 7:58:02 AM
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At the Chimney Pots, Catwalk (15) 3rd Pitch is a 30m traverse that is sliding on your belly through a slot till you see the light at the end.
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12-Oct-2015 9:07:48 AM
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On 11/10/2015 euce wrote:
>Thank you :)
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>I have edited the first post to add the contributions (though skipping
>the ones I'm too ignorant to decipher).
You really should add The Masterpiece, at Piddington;
And The Long and Winding Road , at NarrowNeck ....
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14-Oct-2015 9:54:48 AM
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Since it seems gfdonc & Grinder are too shy to promote it, here is a link to Grampians: Red Tide, 1,013m grade 17 (19 pitches).
M. Jackson, S.Toal, 2-3 February 2013.
... Australia's longest route, and almost all of it a traverse that includes many easier grade (though still serious), pitches...
gfdonc says of the photo;
>Just to add some perspective, pitch 10 or 11 is on the left side of that shot - you're only seeing half the wall.
>There's a red stripe of sandstone at the 60-80m level that is the obvious line, hence the name. (Fizzles out about pitch12 unfortunately).
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14-Oct-2015 9:58:32 AM
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And here is another, more popular route, of quite a different flavour...
Mt Buffalo; Cathedral: Sultan Gd 20 has a nice* traverse on P2.
(*Kind of like a miniature version of Out and Beyond, inasmuch as the further one traverses along it, the greater the exposure becomes.)
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14-Oct-2015 11:24:19 AM
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Hot Flap
The Bard bum traverse
Lamp Lighter pitch 2
Watchtower Chimney first pitch has a very cool diagonal pitch
Skink 3rd pitch
- Mt Arapiles
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14-Oct-2015 12:26:55 PM
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On 14/10/2015 martym wrote:
>Watchtower Chimney first pitch has a very cool diagonal pitch
It's completely horizontal really and u walk rather than climb....cracker for a grade 12 climb though....
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14-Oct-2015 12:59:30 PM
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Don't forget the Sea Level Traverse at Frecycinet, Tasmania. Very sporting.
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14-Oct-2015 1:01:15 PM
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On 14/10/2015 shortman wrote:
>On 14/10/2015 martym wrote:
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>>Watchtower Chimney first pitch has a very cool diagonal pitch
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>It's completely horizontal really and u walk rather than climb....cracker
>for a grade 12 climb though....
He was off-route?
Heh, heh, heh.
... But that's the thing about a lot of lower grade routes at Araps, being that enjoyable alternative variants exist?
;-)
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14-Oct-2015 2:23:55 PM
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Oedipus Complex 12 , Bard buttress - traverse right to Orepheus keep traversing in a wonky way to Eurydices second belay to the Bard Nose reverse Bards traverse
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14-Oct-2015 3:54:39 PM
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We did go back a while ago and added High Tide (18) which was also a traverse, only one pitch of it though. But scarier.
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14-Oct-2015 4:17:40 PM
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On 14/10/2015 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>Since it seems gfdonc & Grinder are too shy to promote it, here is a
>HREF="http://www.chockstone.org/Forum/Forum.asp?ForumID=1&Action=Display&MessageID=118988&
>agePos=&Sort=">link to Grampians: Red Tide, 1,013m grade 17
>(19 pitches).
>M. Jackson, S.Toal, 2-3 February 2013.
>... Australia's longest route, and almost all of it a traverse that includes
>many easier grade (though still serious), pitches...
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>gfdonc says of the photo;
>>Just to add some perspective, pitch 10 or 11 is on the left side of that
>shot - you're only seeing half the wall.
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>>There's a red stripe of sandstone at the 60-80m level that is the obvious
>line, hence the name. (Fizzles out about pitch12 unfortunately).
>
I reckon traversing the last two kilometres of the big brown pipe to Carrum has more appeal (and is longer!)
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