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What got you started? 11-Jul-2003 At 8:12:09 PM Megan

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I was another one of those people that climbed anything that was available as a kid - however growing up in plains country, this didn't involve rocks. I remember seeing people climbing off on distance rock faces when going bushwalking in places like the Grampians and the Warrumbungles with my parents (and picking up the idea that they were crazy people). But I never actually saw people climbing, or realised it was something people actually did, until I found an ad for the Mill in my Uni diary - I was fascinated by the idea of a climbing gym, and dragged various unwilling people to go there with me, until one of my friends in the Uni Mountaineering Club gave me membership as a birthday present and forced me to go climbing with them - my first outdoor trip was to Arapiles a couple of months later, and after being hauled up multi-pitches and climbing well into the dark (in the middle of Winter) I couldn't wait to go back.