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Longest climbs?

JDB

6-Feb-2013
12:29:58 PM

We are playing hot or cold aren't we?

prb

6-Feb-2013
12:33:08 PM

There's a facetious comment in the Adelaide Hills guidebook about a 10k mid-level traverse from Waitpinga Beach to near Victor Harbor which would be on greywacke (sandstone) interspersed with steep dirt. You'd have to be keen!

One Day Hero

6-Feb-2013
1:04:20 PM

On 6/02/2013 JDB wrote:
>We are playing hot or cold aren't we?

I was hoping for some cryptic, rhyming clues :)

PDRM

6-Feb-2013
1:19:44 PM

On 6/02/2013 One Day Hero wrote:
>On 6/02/2013 JDB wrote:
>>We are playing hot or cold aren't we?
>
>I was hoping for some cryptic, rhyming clues :)

Or at least a limerick that rhymes with Nantucket...

gfdonc

7-Feb-2013
8:58:56 AM

I'll put you all out of your misery. Shortman wins it.


ajfclark

7-Feb-2013
9:14:56 AM

Did you submit it to Argus?


shortman

7-Feb-2013
9:27:49 AM

That would be this bad boy.....

Guessing they finished in the evening....hence Red Tide.

gfdonc

7-Feb-2013
9:31:25 AM

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).


shortman

7-Feb-2013
9:35:26 AM

Thanks gfdonc.


shortman

7-Feb-2013
9:41:35 AM

On 7/02/2013 ajfclark wrote:
>Did you submit it to Argus?

Not yet.

kieranl

7-Feb-2013
9:51:14 AM

On 7/02/2013 gfdonc wrote:
>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).
>
>
The "obvious line" really appears to be those big horizontal stripes of greenery. Still, the late Chris Baxter would have been proud of you. It no doubt sits proudly alonside other gems of the genre such as The Twilight Zone, Sidewinder and (who could forget) the original F-Sharp.

dalai

7-Feb-2013
12:35:02 PM

Is it this Pacific Wall? https://www.thecrag.com/climbing/australia/grampians/north-grampians/area/12976837

From the link - "Pacific Ocean Wall is a spectacular wall of unbroken rock, 100-120m high, stretching for over a kilometer."

gfdonc

7-Feb-2013
12:40:29 PM

Yep, and you can see the line of Red Tide in the Ghandi topo.
Waterfall is dry at the moment, fortunately.

lacto

8-Feb-2013
12:15:56 PM

I would have thought the longest route would be a girdle traverse of the limsstone nullabor cliffs more likely to be 100+ km than 1000 m certainly a multiday climb


nmonteith

8-Feb-2013
3:04:18 PM

Is it a sport route?

kieranl

8-Feb-2013
3:15:28 PM

On 8/02/2013 nmonteith wrote:
>Is it a sport route?
Perhaps we could make that a project for Joe? Our steelmakers need an economic boost.

JDB

8-Feb-2013
5:04:44 PM

So, what is the largest number of bolts on a single climb in Australia?

I suspect this new route might send the metal detector off scale!!


bw

8-Feb-2013
5:11:16 PM

On 8/02/2013 JDB wrote:
>So, what is the largest number of bolts on a single climb in Australia?
>

hotel cali?

prb

8-Feb-2013
5:15:31 PM

There's an 11m grade 20 in the Adelaide Hills with 15 carrots!


E. Wells

8-Feb-2013
5:17:17 PM

'wake up and apologise' , Medlow Bath, 632 fixed brackets in 29mtrs of climbing.

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