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year long climbing trip around oz 26-Aug-2011 At 7:35:04 PM citationx

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On 26/08/2011 Wendy wrote:
>People rave about freycinet too me, but not a single route sticks in my
>memory ... I find this mildly disturbing.

I find Tassie the best. Shame you couldn't get off the ground on the pipes, I think they have the greatest climbs around, longest sustained finger locking sections in the country! (Alright, i've never been to Frog, but this route was at least 90m!). In fact, I did it with Alice. While it was snowing. It was still one of the best climbs I've ever done. And a climb that I DO claim to be the best i've ever climbed is the current photo of the month - Harlequin. You start undercut, then into a sickle-crack followed by a perfect hands corner crack, then you get the juggy, overhung section, then there's turning onto the slab with the crack, until the crack peters out and you're left to slab unprotected for 5m to the chains. BRILLIANT! Clearly you can't remember anything cause you haven't climbed the right routes! And the there's the 250m crack/slab/edgey route on the Hazards (Arocknaphobia, maybe?) Gold!
You really should return to Tassie. It's the best.