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Area	Location	Sub Location	Crag	Links
VIC Buffalo	(General)	(General)	The Cathedral	[ Cathedral Guide ]

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Loose rock at the Cathedral, Buffalo 25-Nov-2010 At 10:37:13 PM scooby

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On sunday markq, tim and I headed out to the Cathedral with the idea of climbing Maharajah via the flake start, and then catching up with the other aid climbers later in the day. It was a good plan until markq got hold of a loose block, which he then couldn't let go of without it dropping onto his rope.

Luckily there was three of us there and with a bit of mucking around we managed to get the rope out of the way so markq could release his burden. It promptly fell right where his rope was and bounced off down the hill taking out a tree as it went, check out the marks it left if you're up there anytime soon! Conservative estimate put the block at 50-60kgs. Anyway we finished the climb and decided to quit while we were ahead and wandered down to the Ovens pub (highly recommended) for a few quiet drinks and lunch.

It was interesting that this block hadn't come off before considering the traffic the route gets? I'd been up it a few weeks earlier with 6 others of varying experience and hadn't noticed anything loose. Possibly the recent rain has eroded a bit of dirt around the place?