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Area	Location	Sub Location	Crag	Links
VIC Grampians	Northern	Mt Difficult Range	Mt Difficult	[ Grampians Guide \| Images ]

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Routefinding at Mount DIfficult 23-Feb-2009 At 11:53:11 AM bones

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Took some beginners to Mount Difficult yesterday, hoping for some relaxed multipitching. The routefinding wasn't relaxing, and I think the Grampian Select Guide had a lot to do with that. Don't get me wrong, the guide is great and the araps select guide even better, but I thought the route descriptions of the climbs on Mount Diffucult's main face were confusing.

The Beeline(13)* description (first pitch) says "Take the obvious line....if you use pipes to protect the crack then add a grade and remove the star". The obvious line should be the crack itself, but it didn't look like a 13 (another party said it didn't feel like a 13) and the pipe comment suggests it's not the line anyway.

The Kebab(11)* desription was similarly vague. The description says something like "Another obvious line". Is this sarcastic? It wasn't obvious to me. The second pitch says "turn the overhang on the right". Does that mean keep the overhang on the right, or climb right of the overhang. Both looked very unlikely for the beginners I was bringing up behind me. The diagram shows the line on the arete to the left, but the description seems to suggest otherwise.

Anyone else had trouble with these routes? Can anyone describe the actual line?