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26-Sep-2008 11:59:23 AM
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Nice one bruv!
Ha, speaking of glassy I hear the original route needs a repeat... asked Penney for beta but he was pretty vague, sounds like a proper sandbag!!
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26-Sep-2008 12:14:49 PM
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Macciza, did you get the email I sent you a couple of weeks back on that very subject? Your PM box is full too....
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26-Sep-2008 1:41:47 PM
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On 26/09/2008 evanbb wrote:
>Stoked that despite forgetting about the start of School Hols we got accommodation
>at Currarong, right out on Point Perp! And the forecast looks awesome!
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>With Point Perp this weekend, Booroomba next and Piddo last weekend, that's
>3 classic trad crags in as many weeks. Christ it's good to be back in the
>game...
What about the Rock?
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26-Sep-2008 3:03:33 PM
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On 26/09/2008 gordoste wrote:
>What about the Rock?
I'm holding off on that for the moment, as I'm moving there for 3 months over summer. Camping on top.
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26-Sep-2008 3:45:36 PM
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Stoked to try out the new Tri cams today, awesome little gadgets, went in real nice, didn't end up falling
on them yet, can't wait!
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26-Sep-2008 4:08:57 PM
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On 26/09/2008 bomber pro wrote:
>Stoked to try out the new Tri cams today, awesome little gadgets, went
>in real nice, didn't end up falling
>on them yet, can't wait!
So did ya get the wired tricams of heavenly bliss.
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26-Sep-2008 5:03:08 PM
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Nah, the little camp micro Tri cams .125 & .25 I think, ones black and the other is white on spectra sling.
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26-Sep-2008 5:17:16 PM
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I'm sold on them. I spent five minutes trying to clean one of Bomber's tri-cams out of a horizontal break on Lamplighter at Araps, and was amazed how persistent the little blighter was at hugging the rock for such a simple protection device. They are a good price, on special, at my favorite OS gear site (apologies Steve):
http://www.backcountrygear.com/catalog/climbdetail.cfm/CMP100
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26-Sep-2008 8:30:58 PM
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On 26/09/2008 Capt_mulch wrote:
I spent five minutes trying to clean one of Bomber's
>tri-cams out of a horizontal break on Lamplighter at Araps, and was amazed
>how persistent the little blighter was at hugging the rock for such a simple
>protection device.
wow! sounds just great!
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26-Sep-2008 9:23:02 PM
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On 26/09/2008 Capt_mulch wrote:
>I'm sold on them. I spent five minutes trying to clean one of Bomber's
>tri-cams out of a horizontal break on Lamplighter at Araps, and was amazed
>how persistent the little blighter was at hugging the rock for such a simple
>protection device. They are a good price, on special,
It's a good thing they're cheap because it sounds like you'll be leaving a few behind in the cliff.
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26-Sep-2008 9:45:59 PM
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On 26/09/2008 Phil Box wrote:
>So did ya get the wired tricams of heavenly bliss.
I got some. I like em!
When I first saw them on Hawkman's site, I thought they would suck compared to the ordinary tricams but the wire thingo is awesome. The wire's flex really works to cam the placement in.
Another nice piece of Eastern European climbing technology. All I need now are some Estonian biners to go with the Czech tricams and the Ukrainian cams and I'll have an entire Eastern European rack.
Then I will die.
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26-Sep-2008 11:53:03 PM
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Hey WW I heard they just found a bunch of old pre cold war ropes in a warehouse in northern Russia!
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27-Sep-2008 9:06:37 AM
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so stoked.. The season finishes tomorrow and that means climbing,climbing and more climbing. Stoked on new cams and new gear and new climbs.....I cant wait to get out of falls creek!!!!!!!!!
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27-Sep-2008 9:42:41 AM
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On 26/09/2008 bomber pro wrote:
>Hey WW I heard they just found a bunch of old pre cold war ropes in a warehouse
>in northern Russia!
word on the street is someone's TR set-up failed at kangaroo point the other day. Could it be they got an early line on bomber's relics....?
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27-Sep-2008 5:08:51 PM
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I'm not sure how even a Russian rope would just fail, if that's what happened, the different reports list
different causes for the accident, first one "rope broke" second one "he was scaling down the wall when
he slipped" that second one is definitely an office stooge trying to make shit up to explain what happened
I hope the guy is going to be OK, but if he was using line bought at the local hardware store, then that
would explain the rope breaking !
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27-Sep-2008 5:56:55 PM
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Ropes don't break. I have a 16 year old Edelrid dynamic that I've towed my van with. I occasionally rap on it and will continue to do so. I do, however, quite regularly do that incredibly tedious test of the rope's core by hand. I reckon I'd rap off old Russian ropes as long as I'd checked that there cuts or damage to the core. I would never consider leading on it, though.
Anyway, this doesn't belong on this thread.
I'm stoked tomorrow is Sunday and I'm going to go climbing.
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27-Sep-2008 11:27:14 PM
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Stoked that cool hand lock & I found an awesome section of new climbing at the Piles, one route went
ground up, the other will need some major finessing to finally send it, much harder crack than Paladin
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28-Sep-2008 5:00:37 PM
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28-Sep-2008 5:50:59 PM
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Oh dear....
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28-Sep-2008 5:53:43 PM
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what will you name them??what grade?? (ewbank & carrigan)
bomber hand lock?
hand pro?
non flushing crack?
this is missing from the new guide?
seriously tho, stoked for you and cool hand.
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