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Buffalo Aid Climbing Extravaganza!!! 13-Feb-2006 At 4:00:40 PM maxots

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Thanks to neil for getting the news up before we even got home!

To give a little more detail: 'the strong team from canberra' was actually just a bunch of oddball aid climbers from canberra with flowers in their hair! (see photos for some daisy action!)
Chris Fitzgerald, Scott Young, Marcus Morley, Rohan kilham (sp???) and I left canberra on friday for a weekend of shenanigans!

On saturday: we rapped in, marcus and rohan going for the roof pitch of Haulden Caulfeild; chris and scott for copperhead road. Marcus lead the roof pitch on HC (A3+) with no troubles, and then he and rohan finished up the fang pitch on Ozy direct. Chris lead Copperhead Rd (A4+/A5?) I think in a little less than 7 hours more like 6 and a half? Anyway I rapped in a photographed this impressive lead, the third ascent of the route.

On sunday: scotto went straight to business on Clouded Queen, dispensing with all the rest and rapping in to the crux pitch. 20 bat hooks followed by a whole bunch of other craziness (pins/peckers/heads/cams...etc) and quite a fast time, im not sure how long though? rohan went in as photographer, some of the photos he took are up on the flickr site > they are pretty cool!

to top it all off HB was at buffalo so chris got to trade tales of the climb with the first ascentionist.

brilliant weekend at buffalo all around!

Trip report to soon be up at:

http://circus-maximus.blogspot.com/

Photos now up at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/78101100@N00/