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Girlfriend friendly sport crag

dan_b

9-Mar-2012
9:29:08 PM

A break from people trying to hock ill-fitting gear from mtntools.

Taking the GF climbing in Grampians this weekend (an OK gym leader). I can lead around 23-24 (sandbag dependent), where as 20 on preclipped bolts is really her max. I have a small rack to make life a bit less scary for her but doubt she will be keen to get up any solely trad routes. So, (yes, after using the search engine) I reckon Van Diemens land (for myself), with Bad Moon Rising and Tribute Walls for her would be a good choice.

Thoughts?

nmonteith

9-Mar-2012
10:15:54 PM

VD Land & Tribute Bad Moon is a good combo.

Other options...

Red Rock Pinnacles (Vic Ranges) is another top sport for those grades. Heaps of variety.
http://www.climb.org.au/index.php?page_id=10&action=area&area_id=678

The Ravine
Heaps of good routes between 18-24. Very shaded.
http://www.climb.org.au/index.php?page_id=10&action=area&area_id=1189

Sundeck
Has some good routes in the low 20s but not much in the 23/24 grades.
http://www.climb.org.au/index.php?page_id=10&action=area&area_id=926

Sentinel Cave & Sentinel Wall
Sentinel Wall has two good easier wall routes (17&19) - the cave is right near by - steep pumpy - grades between 17-26.
http://www.climb.org.au/index.php?page_id=10&action=area&area_id=1070
http://www.climb.org.au/index.php?page_id=10&action=area&area_id=221

Guardhouse
Lots of fun short 21s-24s - one 18. Easy to combo this with Sentinal Cave
http://www.climb.org.au/index.php?page_id=10&action=area&area_id=588

dalai

9-Mar-2012
10:18:12 PM

The Ravine?

http://www.climb.org.au/print.php?action=area&uid=1189

Edit: Too slow...

ajfclark

9-Mar-2012
10:22:51 PM

On 9/03/2012 nmonteith wrote:
>Sundeck
>Has some good routes in the low 20s

And a large pile (puddle?) of diarrhoea at the base of one of the routes.

vwills

10-Mar-2012
7:14:02 PM

Thats not very funny.

MrsM10iswhereitsat.

12-Mar-2012
2:37:37 PM

On 9/03/2012 Mr Dicksonia wrote;
>Huh? I just look for a rounded rock about 1m high that I can bend them over. LOL

On 10/03/2012 Mz vwills wrote:
>Thats not very funny.

I agree Mz vwills, even if Derek my M10 love tells me that poster being a New Zealander might have been talking about sheep.

widewetandslippery

12-Mar-2012
4:13:36 PM

isn't it rather sexist to assume females are poorer climbers and less bold?

climberman

12-Mar-2012
4:45:03 PM

Take her somewhere busy and full of good looking young rippling men, so when she's bored shedless of listening to your spouting about the killer move on the third bolt, she's at least got some extra eye candy.

nmonteith

12-Mar-2012
4:50:44 PM

Two more crags that fit the bill...

Curiosity Crag (Vic Ranges)
Not a great deal in the sub 20 bracket - but enough to play for the day.
http://www.climb.org.au/index.php?page_id=10&action=area&area_id=770

Ruined Castle (Vic Ranges)
Multi-pitch sport at grade 20 + lots of harder routes.
http://www.climb.org.au/index.php?page_id=10&action=area&area_id=682

Eduardo Slabofvic

12-Mar-2012
6:02:38 PM

On 12/03/2012 climberman wrote:
> she's at least got some extra eye candy.

Is your girlfriend hot? If so, take to somewhere busy and full of frumpy middle aged men, so when we're supposed to be belaying, we've got some eye candy to be genuinely distracted by.

Dicksonia

12-Mar-2012
11:10:05 PM

Vanessa I deleted my message out of respect for good women climbers such as yourself. I apologize.
Sometimes alpinists have a wicked sense of humour that feminists somehow fail to grasp Or perhaps we're simply too oxygen deprived and unable to be understood coherently.
Anyway I'm just a simple alpinist who knows how to use a tool better than the next fool, however vocabulary is not my forte.

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