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climbing as anti-anxiety prescription


IdratherbeclimbingM9

30-Jan-2011
10:43:39 PM

On 28/01/2011 One Day Hero wrote:
>North wall of Buff is a stretch at 250m, Bungonia south wall is probably
>a bit shorter than this....both nicely steep though. Many of the big Grose
>cliffs are broken by massive bushy terraces (doesn't count)......Mt Banks
>looks reasonably big and unbroken, maybe approaching 300m? Warrumbungles
>aren't as big as they look, Flight of the Phoenix has 50m of traversing
>and its still less than 300m all up. Not sure about the Tassie cliffs,
>I think that 400m of vertical rock in oz is a fantasy. When I've seen/climbed
>500m cliffs overseas, its been immediately obvious that they're a fair
>whack bigger than what we've got at home.

I reckon a check of guidebooks would show more than 300m climbing at places like Buffalo Gorge*, Bungonia, and Warrumbungles.

(*I know for sure that a 200m rope is iffy about reaching the second belay off the deck on Ozy, and I am pretty sure that Big Red Supergiant at Bungonia breaks the 300m mark).
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earwig

31-Jan-2011
12:32:26 PM

Applying a little basic climbing math shows that: 40m x Anxiety = 400 m


billk

31-Jan-2011
12:46:07 PM

On 31/01/2011 earwig wrote:
>Applying a little basic climbing math shows that: 40m x Anxiety = 400
>m
>

I reckon that's the answer for sure. Any journo who had climbed in the Gorge or at Bungonia or on Frenchman's Cap would be well known to everyone already.

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