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Fixed gear guidelines in the Grampians 13-May-2018 At 6:57:23 PM kieranl

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On 12-May-2018 One Day Hero wrote:
>On 11-May-2018 kieranl wrote:
>>Why 500m? I think it covers the majority of the remote areas in the Grampians.
>>But, open to suggestions on another measure.
>>
>I was wondering the same thing. Where did this arbitrary altitude come
>from? Then I went into the nati cafe and started browsing the collection
>of argus mags up on the wall. Wouldn't you know it, most of the new routes
>at araps in the last year have kieranl, a couple of bolts, and a loweroff
>in the description.......and araps is lower than 500m. What a tremendous
>coincidence!

Sorry to report that the 500m mark is not related to any devious plan to exclude Arapiles from the discussion. I thought that I'd achieved that end up-front by including the word "Grampians" in the thread title (this is a joke BTW).

While somewhat arbitrary it includes a significant number of cliffs, including Rosea and Bundaleer. Enough other cliffs are also close enough to this mark to hopefully make people take notice of it.

I can't see any real problem with people working out if their new route is in the moratorium range; just drag out the mobile phone and check the altitude. Even I can do that.