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Australian Climbs with great Mythology 4-Feb-2005 At 1:31:35 PM master of drung

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great topic, best thing about climbing that isn't actually climbing is drooling over desired lines and there stories however improbable an ascent is.
for what it is worth my two cents is as follows (excuse victorian bias)

Arapiles: the eighth, watchtower crack, the rack, procol harum

Grampians: the ogive, passport to insanity, serpentine

Buffalo: ozymandias, country road

Tassie: incipience, anything on frenchmans cap, precipitous bluff or ben lomond,
definitely the totem pole

NSW: the fear, anything on dogface or the three sisters

also infinity at frog buttress and without doubt balls pyramid.

i love the idea of the original ascent seeming highly improbable or dangerously committing.
As an afterthought the fact that i have never climbed any of these seems somehow important to how they inspire me whether they are well within my ability or well outside it, does anyone else have any clearer thoughts along these lines.