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Gramps guide.......is it true? 28-Aug-2009 At 11:24:20 PM muki

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On 28/08/2009 nmonteith wrote:
>I don't own the ACA website, I am merely one of hundreds of contributors.
>I don't even have admin rights to it.

>The bouldering section of the ACA Gramps guide was NOT written by me.
>Your delightful prose should be forwarded to the main author, Steve Kelly.
>I'm quite certain that the print guide being written has utilized Steve's
>guide quite extensively.

>If you think the online guide is incomplete and only contains obscure
>information then I suggest you add your own extensively researched version.
>I'd like to see the online guide continue to grow so it always contains
>the most accurate and up to date information - the more authors the better.
>Where else can you find a complete guide to Australia's greatest cliff,
>Taipan Wall?

I think Simey and Trumpets guide is a good one as I don't particularly want to climb some of the more
recent (obscure) additions to taipans walls as they are linkups or chosy fillins that detract from Taipan.
I think your names on a few of those aren't they?

>Also, the Grampians section of the ACA website has many authors, including
>Will Monks, Joe Goding, Kieran Loughran and myself. Surprisingly none of
>us have been paid a cent for the work we put into research, writing, topos
>and keeping it up to date - and none of us expect to. It's a free resource
>for everyone to use.

I think Joe has a genuine interest in representing the the quality out there and I am awaiting his guide
in anticipation, some others are just self promoting, but that's to be expected of them, as the routes
they chose to put up are less than inspiring and must therefore be ego based attempts to immortalise.