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Mt Buffalo 2016 Aid Festival w/end of 26-27 Nov. 2-Dec-2016 At 1:28:25 PM Danis

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I've also bailed off a big wall (not ozy) for no particular reason other than a sense of unease and things not being "perfect", so I can sympathize with you blokes. I suspect a major component to making sure you finish the route is just trying really hard to not bail, as silly as that sounds. In the future if I get any sneaky little thoughts telling me to bail I'll try to only do so if there's a good reason for them.

When I first did ozy, we walked in the night before, which was brutal but it ensured we got an early start the following day and arrived at big grassy just as it was getting dark rather than a couple of hours after. I think we decided to walk in that night because when we arrived at the car park we were too nervous to sleep at the time

It sounds like you've got all the technical skills, but just need time to adjust to the exposure. Get really fit and efficient at aiding and hauling etc so the only real challenge is dealing with the exposure. You could abseil into Defender and climb out if you wanted to "acclimatise" to the gorge a bit more before giving ozy another bash.