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Just wondering (morphed to) DUNNS SWAMP


BundyBear

17-Mar-2010
1:48:29 PM

not at the Lost World


wombly

17-Mar-2010
2:17:14 PM

A dicky finger, an upcoming trip to araps and too much time spent boring students to death meant that the only day out in recent months was to Mt York, with an idea of attempting the numerous off-widths on offer and a potential attempt of the grand daddy of them all: The monster offwidth, 20m 21, with a short roof at half height.

The day started well with a clean lead of the offwidth corner Peppercorn (15), despite the damp conditions. From there it was onwards to Yank Yer Doodle, a 12m splitter given the currency of 18. A couple of early attempts, followed by lowerings to the ground showed that tape for the fist jams might be a necessary evil. After more grunting and failing the disease extended to my ankles and other body parts. Much dogging ensued to try to get the double hand stack technique down pat. At 1/2 height the crack became too wide for double hand stacks, but was still too narrow for a bridged foot. From here I came to understand the jeans and flannels worn by the 50's generation, and converted to french free to reach the top. from there it was choice of soloing the loose slab to the R, or the mossy, wet corner.

Adventure urges now sated, i baled to seconding duty while erika lead some of the classics near the obituary. Seems like i'll have wait for improved technique, more battle armour and cooler climes before an attempt to slay the monster is contemplated.

auspep

18-Mar-2010
8:54:44 AM

>On another note - I have just moved to a place called Rylstone. I live
>on top of Nullo Mountain. There are some really interesting rock formations
>around here (pagodas I think they're called). I'm looking forward to checking
>these out in the near future.

Was out at Kandos for work the other week and saw these formations on the way, they look awesome. I've been trying to get people keen to check them out. I'd liken them to the desert towers in Utah, but with trees up the sides to where the cliff starts. The cliffs behind Kandos look sweet too.

Also saw some limestone boulders up there too! Choss limestone, but still I reckon it's worth the drive out for another look. Only about an hour from Blackheath.

Get keen people!

hipster

18-Mar-2010
2:29:33 PM

On 17/03/2010 MonkeyBoy wrote:
>THE DEEP WATER SOLOEING AT DUNNS SWAMP IS FREAKING AMAZING

Ha Ha Ha that's a good one...you been talking to Mr.Carter?
The deep water soloing in Mallorca, Thailand and Vietnam is freakin amazing, Dunne's Swamp is truly shite!
Carter got me a beauty a few years ago. Showed me a quick photo, "accidentally", and then tried to play hush hush like it was the next mega crag with unlimited potential. I bought it hook, line and sinker. So off Vince and I headed with the sea kayaks, thoughts of amazing FA's, man we were gonna dominate. What a got-ya. We drove for hours. Then we paddled for hours. All too shallow or too chossy. I knew within half an hour of arrival we'd been had. Vince got tired from paddling and dishevelled from the stitch-up.We did a few of those lines in your vid, they weren't much chop at all sorry.
Did one ok line on land near the campground, looked alot, saw not much.Needless to say Carter laughed for weeks when he heard of our trip...
Simon, I still owe ya for that one!


MonkeyBoy

18-Mar-2010
2:43:34 PM

I had fun and well thats what matters to me - its a shame you didn't

hipster

18-Mar-2010
2:51:58 PM

I had fun but the climbing was far from amazing.


MonkeyBoy

18-Mar-2010
3:01:12 PM

OK it was my first forray into DWS so I was probably A little over excited about the whole thing - I dont climb that hard at the moment either so maybe the climbing was at a good level for me.

I would be interested to see if there are harder lines to put up there though.


Li

18-Mar-2010
3:27:19 PM

Each to their own. I had fun climbing at Cape Woolamai - Phillip Island. And that really is shite....but I had never climbed near the ocean, the company was great, and we just played around on the Pinnacle and some other crappy area for the day. At the moment we're scoping crags near our property, a bit of bush bashing to get there, not fantastic, but it's at our back door, and I enjoy going off the beaten track every now and then.

Wendy

19-Mar-2010
12:58:56 PM

On 17/03/2010 wombly wrote:
>A dicky finger, an upcoming trip to araps and too much time spent boring
>students to death meant that the only day out in recent months was to Mt
>York, with an idea of attempting the numerous off-widths on offer and a
>potential attempt of the grand daddy of them all: The monster offwidth,
>20m 21, with a short roof at half height.
>

I impressed that I'm not the only person resorting to offwidths as a means of still climbing with a bung finger. I can happily report that they were great training and after 2 1/2 months of couch and beer therapy followed by 1 month of fat crack therapy, 2 weeks of tickage of steep juggage nonsense has been going down in Thailand with no further finger hassles. Not that I'm going anywhere near thin faces for a while yet.


ajfclark

19-Mar-2010
1:27:18 PM

On 19/03/2010 Wendy wrote:
>2 weeks of tickage of steep juggage nonsense has been going down in Thailand with no further finger hassles.

Glad to hear it!

SteveH

26-Mar-2010
9:48:37 AM

Some pics from the trip to Dunns Swamp.

There are plenty of chossy walls and even more shallow water, so easy to see how you were had Ado. Heard the story from Simon a few weeks ago and laughed pretty hard!

Having four days and a crew made scouting out areas much more feesible and productive. One wall in particular was awesome climbing, solid rock, deep water, minimal cleaning and about 12 stand alone lines. A few proud and scattered projects await the next visit, just need to take some extra supplies in boldness!

Mmmmm, adventure!


BundyBear

4-Feb-2011
8:44:41 AM

Hey Steve,

We are heading out there for a few days. Do you reckon you could give some details on where these routes are. We probably wont have much time so more time climbing instead of exploring would be good. Thanks

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