User Name:	Wollemi
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Location:	Blue Mountains, Australia
I Climb:	Gym Boulder Top Rope Sport Trad Single Pitch Trad Multi Pitch Aid/Big Wall Ice Real Mountains
Comments:	Staring back at 40 but never left my teens... Leading Eternity (18) at Mt Piddington has been my limit, but grunted up some grade 23 thing via top-roping at Coogee on Sydneys sea-cliffs early 2008. Have dabbled with ice-climbing at Blue Lake a couple of years back - I XC skiied in and was humoured to find out that the guys who have swung ice tools in Peru and NZ were on snow-shoes for a reason... I have found the majority of climbing to be cool and calculated, although the start of third pitch of Holy Guacomole! (in the ACT) involves sprinting down a slab then leaping up and off to grab a bottom corner of a dish. Guess it is the only dyno I have done, and it was a rush - delayed by the 3 or 4 moves that follow until you top out. I want to feel some adrenaline, so Im going to bridge-swing at the foothills of the mountain. Soon... I am being calculated in my pursuit of adrenaline, hence my use of visualisation and on-paper planning for a sea-kayak crossing of Bass Strait. Heck - I paddle through Sydney Heads to get what rock-climbing cannot offer me with respect to adrenaline. Although, I have paddled across Bass Strait thrice now (12/07, 02/10, 01/12), and found I was too busy with logistics or enjoying quiet beaches to be finding any head-space rush en-route. I have dabbled in ornitholgy - setting up mist nets, measuring and weighing aves, sometimes down to 7.5 grams for an adult female (Eastern Spinebill, I think). Once home or back at work I would rave over the living jewels in my hands that made me chatty - endlessly. Although many didnt relate to bird watching either; I certainly did not receive admonishments as I get when I speak of rock-climbing - which I have learned not to speak of very much at all to non-punters.
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Profile Topics:	General Discussion Imitation = flattery?   21-Jul-2011 Natimuk hotel   18-Apr-2011   (2 Replies) FF when roof climbing   8-Feb-2011 OT - The Pilot   4-Jan-2011 Climbing For Christ Australia   4-May-2010 Cheap travel for bouldering mats on Tiger Airways?   16-Jan-2010 carry on luggage   30-May-2009 mountaineering - not big time though   16-Oct-2008 Climbing in glasses   14-Oct-2008 Own your own crag..   6-Sep-2008 Base Jumping in the Grampians   16-Jun-2008 Lengthy Approaches   9-Jun-2008   (9 Replies) Trip Reports Buffalo Aid Weekend March 2010   23-Mar-2010 Cheddar Limestone in UK Trip.   5-Oct-2009 Find Climbers Unit deliverance to Wolgan   24-May-2014 Committed climbing partner wanted   16-Feb-2014 Looking for Leo - met @ Araps Friday 15th April.   20-Apr-2011 Climbing partner for Saturday 30th May.   28-May-2009 Canyoning and Climbing Partner Sydney   12-Jan-2009 Climbing Videos Hanging Rock rope swing accident   2-Feb-2015 Accidents & Injuries Climber hit by Lightning - Pierces Pass   3-Jan-2011 Climber hit by Lightning - Pierces Pass   3-Jan-2011 Fatality at Pierce's Pass   2-Jan-2009   (9 Replies) Tripping   1-Dec-2008 Crackneck - route beta, anyone?   2-Sep-2008   (3 Replies) Australians missing(?) in New Zealand Alps   15-Aug-2008 Gear Lust / Lost & Found Jymfit training device   16-Aug-2013   (1 Replies) O.T Alpacka rafts   6-Oct-2011 'Importing' freeze dry   17-Aug-2011 Helmet Recommendations   9-Feb-2011 EPIRBs for climbing (rock)   4-Jan-2011 Broken gear loop.   17-Dec-2010 New Blue Mountains guide   1-Jun-2010 Warm Pants?   15-Aug-2008 When is metallic gear too old ?   16-Jun-2008 double ropes   10-Jun-2008 Crag & Route Beta Name of Grose Valley climbing area   16-Oct-2010   (1 Replies) Nowra area surf spots?   8-Mar-2010 Birdwood Gully   15-Oct-2009 access to Mussel Beach Point Perp   11-May-2009 Narrow Neck   4-Oct-2008   (2 Replies) colo river climbing guide?   26-Jun-2008 colo river climbing guide?   22-Jun-2008 Climbing in the Blueys cancelled for Easter.   21-Mar-2008   (4 Replies)
Recent Topics:	General Discussion Touching the Void   16-Nov-2014   (3 Replies) Gear Lust / Lost & Found Jymfit training device   16-Aug-2013   (1 Replies) General Discussion Sydney area; Berowra Valley NP survey for NPWS.   9-May-2013   (4 Replies) Accidents & Injuries Mountaineer killed by lightning on Kilimanjaro.   4-Jan-2013   (0 Replies) General Discussion Zac Zaharias speaking about climbing Spantik   2-Oct-2012   (3 Replies)
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