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Traveling and climbing in Victoria 16-Mar-2012 At 12:29:08 AM yevquest

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Hi All,

I'm in the planning stages of a climbing trip, trying to decide between Australia and China. The Moon Hill Arch looks amazing but I've always wanted to climb on the Taipan wall (and China will be hot during my vacation). So currently I'm leaning toward Australia but I wanted to get some information from the locals so I've come here. I'd be coming from the States at the beginning of May, traveling solo for the first month.

My questions: Is it difficult to find partners to climb with during this season (May) at the Grampians or Arapiles? Specifically, I'm interested in the Taipan Wall but I'd like to sample different areas.

What sort of weather should I expect? I looked at http://www.grampiansvictoria.com.au/grampians-weather at saw for May the average max and min are 16.4 and 5.7 which seems ok if a little warm. Does this sound about right? How about rain?

On a related note, what about the same questions for the Blue Mountains (I know it's NSW and not Victoria) but it looks fairly stunning. I guess there I'd be keen to sport climb on routes around 23-30.

Cheers!