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Melton Creek Trip
Kyneton Guy
19-Jan-2015
1:49:17 PM
On the approach, I knew this was going g to be epic. Armed with my mat and crampons, I walked down the hill from my car to base camp.
It was much taller than the topo suggested. 5 meters in some parts! (I never believed any of that 10-15 Metre bs).

My first climb was the chocky advertised "walking blind". After making it a project, for around 2 minutes, it went. So happy, I nearly tripped over a beer carton left over from the last mountain festival no doubt.

I also tried a couple of other lines there but felt like this environment was too knarly for me. I packed up, took a wee in the creek which improved local water quality, then went to make sure my car hadn't been stolen. I had made the mistake of leaving git unattended for 20 mins.

Overall, don't undertake lightly. This is an unforgiving environment, mainly due to the socio economic problems in the surrounding streets and, like I was, you'll be happy to have survived your adventure.

A lot better then I expected.
timbigot
19-Jan-2015
2:13:04 PM
Ha,when do you link the photo stream from the dropbox account?
mattbrooks
23-Oct-2015
3:13:29 PM
One of the funniest bits about this crag that not many people know is that about 5 years after we started playing on rock here the council/or developers levelled all the area above the crag for a the estate and houses. In the process they bulldoxed all the soil and waste off the top of the cliff, burrying and shortening much of the crag lol That said it was never a very nice area socially ha ha

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