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The Shaker - Mount Arapiles 20-Jul-2016 At 5:33:26 AM pmonks

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On 18/07/2016 kieranl wrote:
>But I digress. We were there, in Hunger Gully, on a glorious, sunny winter's
>day (well, it was sunny out of the shady gully we were in). We had unpacked
>and after one look at the climb and another look at the rack and rope I
>nominated my companion to lead. The rope, I was assured, had once been
>50 metres long and was now "about 47". The rack had been proposed to be
>a basic trad affair but somehow that had got left at home. What we were
>left with were a few wires, 4 slings, some hexentrics with cord that could
>the Indian rope trick, and three cams which appeared to have been rejected
>by Ray Jardine in the mid-seventies.

This sounds like most of my climbing trips with Ray Lassman!