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Steve Grossman
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Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 9, 2010 - 11:11pm PT
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Glad to see that Greg has joined in!
I met Rick White the year that he did the first Aussie ascent of the Nose. I have a slide of them around Boot Flake. Can't recall his partners name.
Sorry these guys couldn't stick around longer...
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Oct 19, 2010 - 06:46pm PT
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Here's a few from when I was there
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Steve Grossman
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Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 20, 2010 - 09:19pm PT
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Nice shots!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 6, 2010 - 12:11pm PT
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Beauty Bump!
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Feb 12, 2011 - 12:15am PT
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 13, 2011 - 08:37pm PT
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OY OY OY...
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Sep 28, 2011 - 12:35am PT
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Ausie bump.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 6, 2012 - 11:39pm PT
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Stumpy Bumpy!
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stokedsean
Trad climber
Canada eh, now Qld, Aust
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What a great thread.
Thought Id add some other personal fav climbing spots in OZ to the mix here...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 10, 2012 - 12:15pm PT
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This is a tidy bump...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2013 - 05:42pm PT
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Yearly bump...
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harryhotdog
Social climber
north vancouver, B.C.
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I visited Arapiles for the first time in March 1984. It's where I learned about "Fires" I was following a guy I was climbing with and he walked across this low angle slab. When I followed him I slipped right away as the rock is somewhat polished but he had NO problem on it with the Fires. I was sold.
There was quite a contingent of local "Punk rock climbers" at the time all climbing quite hard. I was 22 at the time and I remember this rumour going around camp of an "old guy" going through three partners in a day and climbing heaps. Well it was John Fantini at the tender age of around 40. Funny what old is when your in your early 20's. He was still climbing hard up at Skaha just a few years ago where he has put up many 5.11s and 5.12s. He red pointed a 5.12d on his 65th birthday a few years back. Seems to live off bananas alone.
Some guys from Sydney who took me under their wing, Australian hospitality!
At Mt Buffalo, this guy who I climbed with alot went on to become a serial killer who eventually got caught and commited suicide in jail in 1990.Nice guy I thought but was a "kicker and swearer" on the rock when he failed sometimes. Glad I never called him on it.
Ozymandias is on that feature
The Cathedral, this is long before the forest fire from a few years back that came through. It burned everything in it's path. It's barren here now.
Mt Piddington, Blue Mountains I think.I'm wearing Asolo canyons when I should of been wearing Fires!
I think this is at Booroomba rocks, ACT or Mt Buffalo
This is some early rendition of what they thought climbing walls should be and I don't even remember the university that it was at.Good thing I'm wearing a harness.
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Ben Emery
Trad climber
Australia via Bay Area via Australia...
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The Cathedral, this is long before the forest fire from a few years back that came through. It burned everything in it's path. It's barren here now.
Not at all barren now; the snowgums have sent out new shoots from the ground with a vengeance and the undergrowth has come back - which can make for the odd bush-whack. Mind you, there is plenty of dead wood sitting around from trees killed by the last fire, so the next one could be a really big one.
Buffalo's probably my favorite climbing spot in Victoria; move-by-move the quality of the routes has nothing on Araps but it has a more adventurous/big-day-out feel and a couple of multi-pitch routes that would be popular even in Yosemite. And of course it's about the only place in Victoria where I can bust out the portaledge without it looking completely silly... :-/
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