On 8/06/2011 davidn wrote:
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>"Hardest, most daring and spectacular". Red rocks? Sport capital of
>Canberra? I thought Damo was, among many other climbers, totally enamoured
>with Booroomba.
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>Here's hoping they go to Bungonia next - that would be worth watching.
Damo has been trying to sell Red Rocks for a long time. If you ignore the birdshit and a few loose blocks it has an outstanding concentration of quality 18-22 routes. If these routes were located at Shipley or Thompsons they would get dozens of ascents every weekend.
The penny just dropped... so ODH is THAT Damo!
Can it possibly be the same friendly, easygoing and (yes, hard to believe) modest climber that I have met several times at Nowra and Diamond Falls?
Hard to believe, but ODH is actually a nice guy in person! Not quite as funny as his (slightly nasty) online persona though!!!
On 8/06/2011 cogsy wrote:
>The penny just dropped... so ODH is THAT Damo!
>Can it possibly be the same friendly, easygoing and (yes, hard to believe)
>modest climber that I have met several times at Nowra and Diamond Falls?
>Hard to believe, but ODH is actually a nice guy in person! Not quite as
>funny as his (slightly nasty) online persona though!!!
Funny stuff, Chris, I thought the exact same thing!
faark me - if you are gonna start on a journey to capture Australia's "top 50 climbs" don't ya think you'd filter it to only climb (or publish) to something in at least the....hmmmm....top 10,000.
If they keep climbing this crap this book is going to take longer to get together than the fuching cafe. What's more they are going to do more harm than the strong $AUD in keeping the climbing tourists away.
Well I thought Bosch Imperialist at Red Rocks Gorge was better than most grade 20s at Arapiles. And what is wrong with visiting a few lesser known crags on our travels? It was too wet for us to visit Booroomba that day anyway.
As for the video... well that was so Chockstoners could be introduced to ODH (whom I am hoping will write up a little report here so he can slag us off good and proper).
The videos should get better over the next few weeks, but our focus will be researching and photographing climbs for the book (which probably will take a few years before it is published).
On 8/06/2011 davidn wrote:
> My comment about the hat stands, but ignore
>the other.
Screw you guys, the hat is cool.........besides, in 30yrs you'll all be wearing one too. The difference is that while you're all self conscious about it, I will be totally comfortable and doing way better with the grannys as a result!
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>Let's hope they do Cave Route eh!
I'm not gonna give too much away, cause I don't wanna ruin the surprise each week.....but no Cave Route I'm afraid. I was pretty keen to get those guys on the route just for the sake of climbing it, but its not really book material.........too hard.
I totally support Simey and Gareth's idea of trying to get as many easy climbs as possible into the book. It should be a (mostly) acheivable ticklist which inspires people to travel the country, rather than another catalogue of hard routes which are out of reach for 90% of climbers.
On 8/06/2011 cogsy wrote:
>The penny just dropped... so ODH is THAT Damo!
>Can it possibly be the same friendly, easygoing and (yes, hard to believe)
>modest climber that I have met several times at Nowra and Diamond Falls?
>Hard to believe, but ODH is actually a nice guy in person! Not quite as
>funny as his (slightly nasty) online persona though!!!
I'm so dissapointed!
And where were the flames that come out of his butt??
I can't believe I threatened to hit that guy! I feel so ashamed!
Sorry Damo.
Still keen to climb though?!?
I hate internet tough guys....hmmm....that would make a good t-shirt.
On 9/06/2011 nmonteith wrote:
>On 9/06/2011 useful wrote:
>>A sad sad day for chockstone.
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>>8 June 2011 - the day ODH's cover was broken. Stick that one in your
>calender
>>M9.
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>How could anyone NOT have worked this out previously? His full name has
>been on his profile for years...
you miss the point. It's like Chopper Read coming out and actually fessing up to looking and behaving like Ned Flanders in real life.
On 9/06/2011 useful wrote:
>you miss the point. It's like Chopper Read coming out and actually fessing up to looking and behaving like Ned Flanders in real life.
And what was worse was the fact that when climbing together and conversation turned to Chockstone, Damo actually expressed concern about hurting people's feelings!
His modus operandi for ODH is to simply express an opinion and turn the volume up to 10 for a bit of entertainment value - which works fine for most folk who can handle a bit of robust internet debate, but Damo was concerned about a few folk who might have taken his comments a bit too personally and lost confidence as a result.
I wasn't impressed with all this nicey-nice talk and told him off.