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Repeat and retrobolt best easy route at Buffalo 6-Mar-2008 At 1:36:20 PM jgoding

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Hi K,

feel free to ask Geoff yourself if you like. I've spoken to him about it a lot.

I've also spoken to him about the position of the established routes with the intention of trying to get
them as accurate as possible - that's why the lines shifted from V1 to V2. He has marked up my initial
topo and I've since revised it. He has then suggested some more changes but as I mentioned above I
feel that there may be some misunderstanding about which I am flagging as a potential new route and
the actual location of "High Heels" as mentioned above. I don't have anything more to add on that at
this stage.

All I can say is that memories may fade after 30 years, especially if it's been that long since you've
been back to this cliff.

And perhaps I wasn't very clear, or you mis-read my e-mail re run-out routes, but I'm well and truly
aware of there being a big precedent of long dangerous run-outs at Buffalo. That is my whole argument
about the need to offer some other, more modern style routes that are more suitable to people who like
living and want to stay alive and don't feel the need to prove themselves by running it out.

It is all about what the first ascentionist feels is reasonable in terms of protection. I'm attempting to
provide some other offerings so that the community at least has a choice in terms of what they
choose to climb, rather than there being almost no / hardly any good well protected routes at Mt
Buffalo.