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Illawong - new route? 18-Feb-2010 At 7:46:53 PM voodoo

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In the SSS guide just before Olympic Spirit (15) it mentions "there's a big choss cave just here with an unclimbed corner / roof crack". Well, today I climbed that crack.

When I got to the top nearish to the crack and set back a bit I found an existing DBB. Now I realise that the SSS guide isn't always totally up to date, but the ACA Route DB is incomplete for the area and thecrag.com is currently offline - so I can't look it up those places either! Does anyone know if this is a new route?

Lastly, I did notice that one of the bolts had a whole bunch of tatty string tangled up on it - but then there was a huge mass of the same tangled string all over the place up there and in the cavey scoop below it. It looked to me like all the other rubbish dumped/thrown off the cliffs in the area - but it did cross my mind that perhaps this was someone's project?! Oops, naturally I couldnt see the DBBs from the ground and being a totally trad climb there was no indication that this could have been a project (and, indeed, I'm not convinced that it is) - I just read the unclimbed bit in the guide, had a blast up it and only then stumbled across these anchor bolts (I was preparing myself for a walk-off style topout).

Can anyone shed any light?

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