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Heretic 11-Oct-2010 At 9:09:33 PM foreverabumbly

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On 11/10/2010 kieranl wrote:
>I don't quite understand why you'd want to spoil a classic climb by hauling
>bivvy gear up it, but whatever.
>However could you reconsider using one of Australia's great climbs to
>practise your bivvy skills?
>As the other posts indicate, there's not a great deal of ledge real-estate
>and, if you're staying up there overnight you'll probably be looking to
>take a dump at some point. In my book, planning on taking a dump on the
>belay of a classic climb is a bit anti-social. It's one thing to get caught
>short on a climb, another to basically plan to do it. So, unless you've
>got well-trained bowels, large corks or poop-pipe could you shift your
>bivvying plans to a less-popular area? Maybe one of the routes down the
>left end : there's some big ledges on The Stinger or a less-popular cliff
>: Green Gap, Mt Frederick, The Chimney Pots?

ha!

Its for a uni trip, so take your concerns up with them on area selection. And I will be taking a poo tube.