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New Buffalo Guide 26-Jan-2024 At 12:59:00 PM IdratherbeclimbingM9

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Got my copy today.
Thanks Steve for your huge effort in collating it together and taking the time to verify what you could. It is a worthy testament to your efforts.

I thought I’d support the lesser outlets in buying my copy so here’s some feedback on that experience.
Myrtleford Information Centre has no copies but helpfully contacted Bright Information Centre which only has one copy of Volume Two (The Plateau - only!!) left.
I obtained the complete set from Bright Outdoor Centre, and that store has four complete sets left.

I had no idea that there are so many outdoor stores in Bright, and typically the last one that I went to was the correct one!
All good.
:-)

Hey gfdonc, do you want ongoing information / corrections to be posted to this thread for easy finding in future?

If so, I can start with Ethical Drum, Page 54, the first ascent used one only knifeblade (short thin one - partially set), to turn the second (upper) lip, otherwise it was a clean-aid ascent.

A recollection for the record…
In hindsight I regret the use of that blade but at the time I was mentally fried from placements below me crumbling as I passed them by that stage …
It’d be Gd M8 without the blade. To my knowledge the only attempted prior ascent was by Bill Andrews who fell from the first lip blowing out knife blades he had placed for protection enroute and taking a ground fall as a consequence.

Yeah it’s aid, so what’s with the details I hear some saying.
Well I will tell you. Elimination of aid by cleaner ascents matters, so knowing what first ascentionists did is important in that con_text.
Who knows, one day it might go free. I won’t see that in my lifetime, but when I started climbing mid grade 20’s weren’t heard of, let alone mid grade 30’s!
:-)