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Bendigo Climbers Wanted! 17-Feb-2005 At 9:59:00 AM Mike

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For a good number of years now I've been spoilt by the luxury of a series of climbing partners that were usually ready to climb anything, anywhere at the drop of hat. Unfortunately the local Bendigo crew has dwindled in numbers of late with people moving to bigger cities or even overseas. What remains of our little band is now more often than not bogged down by work/uni/footy/girlfriend commitments to point where I'm finding it next to impossible to organise a 2 day climbing weekend, and can barely scrape a 1 dayer together if at all.

Wanted: Local Bendigo climbers to share petrol costs for weekend trips to Araps/Gramps and closer 1 day destinations. PM or email me if interested.

All you need is an interest in climbing, petrol money and time on your hands. If you don't have a car, climbing gear or even know how to climb all that can be overcome. I'm happy to teach you the skills, and lead you up easy classics. In fact I prefer leading easy (grade 10 to 18) multi-pitch trad to dogging every move of some mid 20's sport climb while trying to follow the "well hard" types. Willing to onsight trad up to 18, and sport maybe a bit higher, and TR/second up to 23. Anything higher and you'll likely be bored with myself and the other locals I climb with.

Typically trips are informal and put together on a Thursday or Friday night for the weekend, pending the weather report and people's availability. We used to train at the Y-rock of a Thursday night, but with numbers low not sure if this is still the practice. (I haven't been there myself in sometime).

I'm also looking for local mountain bikers, but that's another story.