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Werribee Gorge Nobs 7-Jul-2008 At 3:53:25 PM ado_m

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Thanks Paul, that's a decent reply - I can see you are genuinely conscious of the impact of large groups on the atmosphere of the crag. I may well have aggregated the Monash group with another bunch who was there.

I pulled your top rope. You're right - there was a communication error here, and it's a problem with a lot of people on a small cliff - before pulling it, I asked someone from your group if I could pull the rope, and she had no problems with that provided I put it back up afterwards. Before that, I explained to her that I had been queing to do the route before you guys got there, and that my friends had asked the leader installing the top rope to hold off for a few minutes until I came back from taking a crap (but the message didn't quite make it for whatever reason). It was quite a long dump I admit.

I guess I'm just anxious about large groups (commercial, university or otherwise) dominating cliffs, and that's a subtext of my earlier post and deciding to pull the rope. That said, there is plenty of rock out there, and are more conciliatory approach would have been to climb another route or just move the rope over...