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?   21/07/2011 Natimuk hotel   18/04/2011   (2 Replies) FF when roof climbing   8/02/2011 EPIRBs for climbing (rock)   4/01/2011 OT - The Pilot   4/01/2011 Climbing For Christ Australia   4/05/2010 Cheap travel for bouldering mats on Tiger Airways?   16/01/2010 carry on luggage   30/05/2009 mountaineering - not big time though   16/10/2008 Climbing in glasses   14/10/2008 Own your own crag..   6/09/2008 Base Jumping in the Grampians   16/06/2008 Lengthy Approaches   9/06/2008   (9 Replies) Trip Reports Buffalo Aid Weekend March 2010   23/03/2010 Cheddar Limestone in UK Trip.   5/10/2009 Find Climbers Looking for Leo - met @ Araps Friday 15th April.   20/04/2011 Climbing partner for Saturday 30th May.   28/05/2009 Canyoning and Climbing Partner Sydney   12/01/2009 Accidents & Injuries Climber hit by Lightning - Pierces Pass   3/01/2011 Fatality at Pierce's Pass   2/01/2009   (9 Replies) Tripping   1/12/2008 Crackneck - route beta, anyone?   2/09/2008   (3 Replies) Australians missing(?) in New Zealand Alps   15/08/2008 Gear Lust / Lost & Found O.T Alpacka rafts   6/10/2011 'Importing' freeze dry   17/08/2011 Helmet Recommendations   9/02/2011 Broken gear loop.   17/12/2010 New Blue Mountains guide   1/06/2010 Warm Pants?   15/08/2008 When is metallic gear too old ?   16/06/2008 double ropes   10/06/2008 Crag & Route Beta Name of Grose Valley climbing area   16/10/2010   (1 Replies) Nowra area surf spots?   8/03/2010 Birdwood Gully   15/10/2009 access to Mussel Beach Point Perp   11/05/2009 Narrow Neck   4/10/2008   (2 Replies) colo river climbing guide?   26/06/2008 colo river climbing guide?   22/06/2008 Climbing in the Blueys cancelled for Easter.   21/03/2008   (4 Replies)
Recent Topics:	General Discussion Sydney area; Berowra Valley NP survey for NPWS.   9/05/2013   (4 Replies) Accidents & Injuries Mountaineer killed by lightning on Kilimanjaro.   4/01/2013   (0 Replies) General Discussion Zac Zaharias speaking about climbing Spantik   2/10/2012   (3 Replies) Trip Reports Choose your parents well...   26/12/2011   (7 Replies) Gear Lust / Lost & Found Found in Blue Mts   30/06/2011   (35 Replies)
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