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Returning to climbing after 29 YEARS! 23-Dec-2014 At 3:25:04 PM kuu

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On 23/12/2014 deep Van Winkle wrote:
>Hi Kevin, I don't know if we ever shared a campfire but to get a better
>handle on you I pulled out my prized Ewbank 1967 'Rock Climbs in the Blue
>Mountains' guide, flipped it open and almost straight away came across
>Hocus Pocus grade 8 The first ascent of the (Mt Piddington) cliff.
>A very fine climb indeed. K. Westren, Miss (how quaint) M. Hallston
>(1964).

I don't recall sharing a campfire with you but that could be because my brain is getting old ;-)

Meg Hailstone, better known these days as Meg McKone, is a regular contributor to WILD Magazine, often writing about exploratory walks in Central Australia and such places.

Earlier this year. Meg and I did a repeat ascent of Hocus Pocus to mark the 50th Anniversary of the FA in 1964. We didn't do the climb in quite the original style in that we used modern harnesses and shoes, and I must admit to having clipped some of the bolts that now dot the route.