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Impacts-sport vs trad 16-May-2005 At 5:28:28 PM Rocky

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On 12/05/2005 Rich wrote:
>On 12/05/2005 climbingjac wrote:
>>My understanding of history is that the Aborigines dabbled in the odd
>bit
>>of rock mining at Araps too.....??
>
>bloody think they own the place! :P

high up on tiger wall just near the roofs that syrinx goes through there are some chippings that you can see, nothing major, but it has long since stopped.

i was just speaking to my dad (Keith Lockwood) last night and he said that just the other day, saturday 14th he was at a working bee up pharos gully at araps making the tracks better by laying rocks and cementing them in place, just like at the organ pipes, this is a good practise i think because it removes a lot of erosion that we do walking all over the bottom of the cliffs.

arapiles it being looked after quite well at the moment. it cant all happen at the click of your fingers either, its a long process that costs money and time, but a lot is being done by cliff care to protect our cliffs.