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How good is abseiling? 21-Oct-2003 At 9:08:31 PM Absala

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Just got back from a fantastic trip to The Arapiles!

While we were there we managed to do some great abseils off a number of climbs. We were lucky enough to find that once we got to the top of a climb called Agamennon we could walk around to some really good abseil chains not too far away. This one was a 30m abseil!! It was an excellent! It turned out that this abseil was at the top of a climbed called Muldoon which wasn't too hard for us to climb up. So we got a climber we meet there to climb up this for us so she could do the safety work for us to get up it. So we got the do this abseil twice which was really good! :)

We found some really good abseil places at the top of a climb called Procal Harum and another climb called Ethiopia. One climber told us it would be easier for us to climb Trapize to abseil off Procal Harum because that climb would be a bit too hard for us so we did that. That was a fun abseil but not as long as the one at the top of Muldoon. We tried to climb Ethiopia but it was really hard to get off the ground and we couldn't find anyone who would climb it first so we could follow. Unfortunately we had to leave that one but we hope to abseil off that next time!

We were wondering if anyone knew of any other good abseils that we could do next time because we are planning to go back to The Arapiles again soon. We would also like to abseil off a climb call Punks in the Gym so if there is anyone who would like to climb it for us so we could follow that would be great. We tried to climb that one two but it was even harder than Ethiopia!
And if anyone has any good abseiling tips let us know.

Thanks,

The Abseiling Crew.