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Australian Ethics 18-Apr-2007 At 12:18:21 AM James

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On 17/04/2007 shawkshaw wrote:
>isn;t there some isolated crag in QLD. Goanna point or something?

yep, no bolts, no names, no grades at Goanna Point - just rock up & choose you line (& its not even really that remote). There are a couple other similar areas in Qld. But the problem is these areas aren't published or publicised, so they can't be used as a 'shining' examples of bolt-free areas.

It seems that a lot of places (eg: Warrumbungles, Rosea maybe) that could be bolt free if they were discovered in these days of modern gear (micro cams & the like) had pins bashed into them way back when.

but the predomince of mixed route in Aust is cool (plenty of scary bold mixed routes round), the only real problem with mixed areas is this "grey" area & different people's interpretation - you will all be arguing about it for years to come.