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Moorhead '81 routes at Arapiles 12-Apr-2016 At 9:08:04 AM deep Van Winkle

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Seeing that list reminded me that it was that particular year I spent the winter and some of the spring in WA's Pilbara, working my sole stint in the mining industry. Big machines, lots of beer, hard hats, explosives, it was a blast. I've kept, but not perused for a couple of years, a letter Mark sent me towards the end of my time there.
It starts out something like this:-
"Now you may be hoping, while you work on your tan, that it'd be too cold for anything much to be happening down south. That would be mistake, ha, ha! No, no, no, don't even think for a second that nothing much has been going on down south. Only ....."

There followed a summation of obviously a frenzy of new route activity.

"See, you move away from the Pines and look what happens"