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Open Grampians projects


phil_nev

16-Mar-2009
12:54:32 PM

He has also just sent the obvious link of tunnel to caracas into fat and sassy @ 29.


HM33

16-Mar-2009
12:57:56 PM

Good to hear his move back south has been successful on the climbing front!


IdratherbeclimbingM9

16-Mar-2009
1:25:58 PM

Good stuff kp.

Hmm.
~>When are you going to show them how to do the 'grit'?
;-)

Lee C

16-Mar-2009
4:36:16 PM

Speaking of Grampians projects, the Groovy extension got its first ascent today by Ben Cossey.
Originally bolted 7 years ago by Zac and Mikl and dubbed the Groove Train the name has stuck and the
grade he thinks is 33. It seems this might be the first of a new wave of routes on Taipan wall that climb
the wall in a single pitch and are bloody hard.
More info coming on http://www.cosseyclimbing.com

16-Mar-2009
4:59:53 PM

Awesome work Ben!

The extensions to snake flake and invisible fist also look pretty damn impressive too.

On 16/03/2009 phil_nev wrote:
>He has also just sent the obvious link of tunnel to caracas into fat and
>sassy @ 29.

Cheers fellas.

The link up at millenium has been dubbed "Tunnel Vision". It's a very fitness based route (ie. no really hard moves.) Am keen to get others opinions on it. I'm sure once sick nutter incorporates it into his training regime, it will drop down to 28!

Nights in Venice is quite cool. The top is rather bouldery marty. I added a bolt to prevent people hitting the sloping ledge if they peel off up there. It's an awesome compression move on little edges.

Messin' With the Kid is also a great little route. The route climbs like a competition route ie. each move is a little harder than the next. I really liked this route. Credit to Marty for envisioning the line.

Dave J

17-Mar-2009
12:50:43 PM

On 16/03/2009 Lee C wrote:
>Speaking of Grampians projects, the Groovy extension got its first ascent
>today by Ben Cossey.

Wow! the first of the next generation of routes on taipan. Inspiring stuff!

17-Mar-2009
3:00:50 PM

On 16/03/2009 kp wrote:
>Awesome work Ben!

yes indeed. I see he did a 34 in the blueys just beforehand too ... I hope he's now moved on to some of the other projects listed on this thread while he's running hot!

here's a picture of the man and the route - but not together! (groove train is the line of chalked holds up the black streak on the L, the groovy anchor is at bottom left)

>The link up at millenium has been dubbed "Tunnel Vision".

The ACA Millennium page has now been updated to show this new link. a whole bunch of other corrections and additions have been made too, thanks to Ross & KP for the feedback


alrob

17-Mar-2009
5:16:51 PM

On 16/03/2009 kp wrote:
>Awesome work Ben!
>
>The extensions to snake flake and invisible fist also look pretty damn
>impressive too.
>
>On 16/03/2009 phil_nev wrote:
>>He has also just sent the obvious link of tunnel to caracas into fat
>and
>>sassy @ 29.
>
>Cheers fellas.
>
>The link up at millenium has been dubbed "Tunnel Vision". It's a very
>fitness based route (ie. no really hard moves.) Am keen to get others
>opinions on it. I'm sure once sick nutter incorporates it into his training
>regime, it will drop down to 28!
>
>Nights in Venice is quite cool. The top is rather bouldery marty. I
>added a bolt to prevent people hitting the sloping ledge if they peel off
>up there. It's an awesome compression move on little edges.
>
>Messin' With the Kid is also a great little route. The route climbs like
>a competition route ie. each move is a little harder than the next. I
>really liked this route. Credit to Marty for envisioning the line.

it really is great to see KP taking up the torch, and filling in the gaps and missing links left behind by Nathans years of filling in the gaps and missing links left behind by Jones/Saunders/Atkins/Wyithe years of .................

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