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Ideas and issues: Morialta, SA 16-Mar-2009 At 12:14:45 PM prb

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I hope to get to the meeting tonight so I need to think about the issues raised above...

I always thought the parking was pretty good but I accept people have other opinions. Things can get
busy on the occasional Saturday or Sunday afternoon but apart from that it's OK. Not hearing cyclists
coming down the hill is probably the major hazard! And it's interesting going through the farmer's
property when he has a bull in there.

My philosophy would be use engineering to protect the landscape from erosion rather than use
engineering to protect us (like fencing the top of crags) because we're climbers not tourists and we
accept the risk. Using rock steps, backing and landfill where possible would be preferable to wooden or
metal steps, platforms etc. I wouldn't take someone on their first day along the Billiard Table track
unroped, but it can shock beginners into thinking, hey, this is a bit serious - maybe I need to be careful
out here at the crags. The best idea I can think of would be to run a chain along the side of the hill that
you can clip periodically if you wanted to rope up between Popular Miss Conception and Fascination.

I agree the walk down to The Buttress is a challenge, but you're unlikely to die. You do it once in the
wet then you don't do it again in the wet.

Resignation at Far Crag? Resurrection!

There was a distressed koala on the ground at Boulder Bridge the other week. He/she drank about
750ml of water out of my bottle. Another in a tree was watching and came down and finished it off!
They would have welcomed the weekend rain.