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You Yangs Pictorial 2.5.2004

nmonteith

4-May-2004
10:17:02 AM

Jono, Kathy and myself spent a very windy and wild day at the Northern Outcrop of the You Yangs on sunday. We tinkered on some of the excellent boulders and did a few routes before the weather really forced us home. This is a great crag in an excellent location.

http://www.mrppp.com.au/nhb/reports/02052004/index.htm

For the photo techies - these photos are a mix of Velvia100 slide and EOS300D digital. Can you spot the difference? :-)

jono

4-May-2004
10:35:17 AM

i can hear them all running to the northern outcrop at this very moment!

grimulace is a you yangs classic and possibly the best granite climb within half an hour of melbourne.

nmonteith

4-May-2004
10:41:40 AM

better than lysterfield?

dalai

4-May-2004
10:43:38 AM

The arete boulder problem looks very good!

Squish band is definitely a climb worth onsighting or dogging on toprope first!!

Nice photo's Neil as always.

shaggy

4-May-2004
12:47:06 PM

Neil, me thinks you need to play with the color balance on your digi.

Richard

4-May-2004
1:06:37 PM

to right, I don't think the sky was that blue!! (unfortunately...)

nmonteith

4-May-2004
1:18:07 PM

The blue sky shots are the Velvia film photos..

adamk

4-May-2004
2:31:49 PM

Yay for the Youies!!!!!!!!

Damietta

4-May-2004
5:53:22 PM

I haven't been out there before but am definitely tempted to after seeing those pix

Good one Neilo

nmonteith

4-May-2004
5:58:56 PM

..the hype continues...

oweng

5-May-2004
8:13:23 AM

Could we be seeing a You Yangs resurgence? If the trend continues, at this rate Strauton Vale might be Melbournes next 'super cliff'!

Get to Gravel Pit Tor & Northwestern Outcrop at the You Yangs and youll have a great day of climbing.

Damietta

6-May-2004
11:51:25 AM

BTW, Neil, have you ever sampled a New Zealand beer by the name of Montieth's? Their 'Celtic Red' is a winner. Just wondering if there is any connection

nmonteith

6-May-2004
12:01:45 PM

mmm tasty Monteiths. I have noticed they have started stocking it in Ararat's Safeway BottleO. No connection I am afarid. NZ is filled with the Monteith clan (South Island West Coast).

CJ

6-May-2004
4:06:56 PM

Nice pics... looks a bit chilly though. The true test of a Youies resurgence will be to see how many climbers get out there on the sharp crimpy granite through the Vic winter...
Totally harcore!

...slightly warmer in Sydney... Chris

nmonteith

6-May-2004
4:22:51 PM

Climbing in down jackets is scary on granite slabs. I always think I am going to slip off and rip open the jacket and losing all the fluffy feathers...

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