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Kim Carrigan BOOK 6-Mar-2017 At 4:37:45 PM ima.seriousyoungliza

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...there ya go Damo ....AND EVERYONE ELSE who cant see beyond the ' colour ' of the generation X ... good 'ol daze ...

On 5/03/2017 One Day Hero wrote:
>Yeah, but he didn't.

YEAH BUT HE DID ...sort of ......he fell off the slab at the top in the rain... so he'd already climbed above the crux ... so didnt clip the anchors BUT WAS CLIMBING GRADE 31+....which was equal to and maybe harder than anything Wolfy etal were doing at the time .........

>The reality is that Carrigan was onsighting and soloing
>about the same as everyone else in the Araps scene at the time.

AND ? ...

>What sethim apart was that he was dogging a couple of grades harder

HELLO !!!!!!!!!!!!!...best climber in Australia ....one of THE best in the world...and doing 1000 foot mega-classic-trad routes on Frenchmans just to show he wasnt a total dogging-production-line-dark-force that Claw portrays Kim as .......ahem ......

>Less than 10 years after he retired, dogging grade 30 had become no big
>deal. Fark, Steve Bullen smashed out the Ring Route like it was just any
>old thing at Thompsons. Carrigan (at his best) would not have been a standout
>climber in the Nowra scene in the 90's.

JerryM started on Punks in the arvo and finished it the next day ... so what ....r u implying that Wolfy was a bumbly for taking 6 days ? ...

>He was among the best of his generation,

VERY GOOD...AND WE'RE TALKIN WORLD WIDE HERE ...

>they were better than the generation before,

NO THEY WEREN'T ....apples and oranges...DONT U DISS EWBANK & CO

>the generation after was better again.

NO THEY WEREN'T....the crags of the 90s were just outdoor climbing gyms...

>Why the fuch are you so fixated on one dude?

well clearly YOU ARE NOW ...

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