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Blue Lake 11-Jul-2010 At 8:57:31 PM brendan

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On 28/06/2010 Damo666 wrote:
>I go to Blue Lake probably once or twice every winter. I go for the ice,
>not the rock, not the dry-tooling. Personally I think dry-tooling is a
>legitimate activity for practice for alpine climbing, but there's places
>to do it that don't affect good rock climbs. They have a huge problem with
>this in the UK - check UKClimbing.com for debates, incl the recent hard
>route by Dave McLeod.
>
>Right now, up high looks OK, but with a bushy approach down low:
>http://www.perisherblue.com.au/winter/snowreport/guthega.php
>
>There's a little cirque (quarry?) on the left side of the road as you
>drive in to Guthega that often has drools of ice OK for drytooling.
>
>
>
>This photo was a few years ago, early season.

this little quarry has formed up, not to the extent that it is in the photo, but if you were a hard man you could probably climb at least one of the lines