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Grampians fire: looking forward 20-Jan-2014 At 10:06:57 PM f_abe

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It must be a dire situation if you're appealing for climbers to be the economic salvation...I'm happy to help out, but the extent is ice cream and beer...but sincerely glad the outcome was as it was the other day, I don't know what it's like to see hell approaching, but I sure as hell hope I never do.
The other reality is that people will continue to climb in an area even if it is 'closed'. I...ahh...know someone who saw a lot of activity in the vic ranges last year. Including a ranger that gave a smile and a wave to...ahh...my mate when perhaps he should have been receiving recriminations.
But since when did climbing become so PC? Aren't we the ones holding dole bludging drug taking bums with such reverence (i.e. see any araps giude for talk of the golden years). What about pics of climbers on famous buildings with flippant comments about 'cops at the top' etc?
Last week, at Buandik, I ran into 2 parties that had been to the lost world, vic ranges super crag with the best routes in the cosmos (aka weirs creek) and gondwanaland. They professed complete surprise that area was closed. Or ignorance. But the end results the same. Us sad fukkers that hang out here know about it, but if you don't frequent these hallowed pages of wisdom, where's the info? A gate across a road? Who hasn't experienced the thrill of going somewhere they 'shouldn't'?
I'm not saying it's good. Or bad. It just is. Just like Halls Gap is a touristy entity that's good for ice cream and beer and people who want a grampians experience far different to the one we go for. And good on em. We've all been there.
But I, for one, can't wait to get back to Bundles. But I can't see my $8 on ice cream making a hell of a lot of difference. And why should it? If Halls Gap didn't exist it wouldn't matter in my world a pinch of shit. Selfish? Yes, cos I like climbing. At the end of the day, we all say the 'we're a community' thing, but I call bullshit. Climbing is an individual thing, we just need someone else to do it with. Like sex. Unless we wank. Then we go bouldering.