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Photos of Noddy, Norm and Tim on Simpleton 27-Mar-2005 At 11:18:02 AM Rocky

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yeh i kno Brendan Stemp, used to climb with him a bit when he was in horsham, havent seen him for a while though. cant even traverse on the wall!! the teachers are so tight about it, one time i was doing it in PE and my teacher yelled at me and my friend, somethin about liability and insurance. the gyms locked at lunch so cant really do anything anyway. at my old school it was awsome, Norm Booth, do you kno him? he opened the climbing wall every thursday afternoon, so id go there after school, climb with the students then, and then when they all left i'd stay and the grown ups would come and id climb with them aswell. about 3hours of climbing, i was buggered by the end though. one of the walls had an overhang at the top, the other one was all overhanging. of course there were plenty of hard ones to throw myself at and fail miserably on. went to the grampians yesterday with my parents and sister, just went walking up to this wildmans caves where he lived years ago, living off sheep he stole of the farmers. driving through the grampians was fun, im on my L's and i was driving our magna mitsubishi on the dirt back roads through the gramps, nice sweeping corners, corrogated ruts, thick sand which i got the car sliding in!!!, gees it was fun, specially the sand!!! goin climbin tomorow though, in at Gondwannaland, theres some good climbs around the 18-20 mark, some with bolts and chains that we will do laps on, pumps ourselves silly!! i love leading on bolts, you can jus clip and go, and you dont have to worry about dodgy gear when your goin for the dyno! see ya, wouldn wanna be ya, all at home, he he he, jus kidin!!