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Dear Simey 15-Jul-2007 At 1:51:05 PM Onsight

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Ahh, the memories...

>And since Steve added an additional bolt to the new first pitch, it is now a much less scary proposition

aka the Deep Play Varient. I innocently sand-bagged Lynn Hill on that soon after Steve and Enga had done it. "Hey Lynn, there's a new first pitch, apparently it's a bit easier...". No doubt Lynn would have been cursing when she found herself 13m up, with a hard very balancey move, looking at hitting the water... It was her first pitch of climbing in the country; "welcome to Australia, land of the sandbag". Turned out Steve had always intended there to be another bolt there but they ran out of time. Enga fixed it the following year.

Both of the first pitches are good. The original a bit more cruxy, though less sustained, and harder if you're shorter.