User Name:	IdratherbeclimbingM9
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Location:	Mt Buffalo (near enough) Victoria, Australia.
I Climb:	Gym Boulder Top Rope Sport Trad Single Pitch Trad Multi Pitch Aid/Big Wall Ice Real Mountains
Comments:	Roped-soloing (aid) Country Road at Mt Buffalo. [A larger version can be found in photo of the week archive here.]. (Photo: courtesy of A. Secomb.) Roped-soloing (aid) M5 Sportclimb ~> the top pitch of Strange Ritual on the headwall of Ozymandias Direct/Lord Gumtree at Mt Buffalo. ... Equalised hooks on a dubious (can feel it but not see it), crimp to top-out ! Read about this climb here; (re photos below). (Photos: courtesy of I. Kable.) A link to yet another photo of the week from its archive ~ Lest We Forget (how to free climb? Hehheh9), can be found here. This climb is at The Rock (between Holbrook and Wagga Wagga NSW). Official Chockstone statistics say that I am in the lowest percentage climbers group; (My preferred option of aid = 13% only*) I can live with that,.. since some would call me antisocial anyway? (*13% and falling as more Members register on this site!) Although I ticked Boulder, Toprope & Sport; I really only (occasionally) play on them as physical training for Adventure (Trad) Climbing or Aid, (prefer multipitch in both cases). "Climbing without risk is not really climbing" ~ Yvon Chouinard. ... and I would add that the day the mental component is taken out of climbing is the day that the adventure is greatly diminished. ~> I am exploring adventure (my mind?), through the medium of roped-solo-climbing (esp. hard aid), for extended duration periods... ~> M9* is something to aspire to. (*Highest Australian Aid Grade at present, on an open ended system.) ~ Good judgment comes from experience; Experience comes from bad judgment, and/or lessons learnt from others. ~ That is why climbing is a game; ... ... of survival. Enjoy the moments while you can. "A first ascent is a creation. It is more artistic if it consciously rejects the use of certain climbing aids that are not essential to the success of the climb." ~ R.R. "The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." - Grace Murray Hopper. "It isnt what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about". ~ D. Carnegie. Record of my user name to make sense of historical posts; due Chockstone started 06/06/02; my 1st post was on 17/06/02 (lurked for 10 days); & events since have seen my user ID evolve ... A5iswhereitsat M8iswhereitsat M9iswhereitsat Idratherbeclimbing IdratherbeclimbingM9
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