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Guide (human not paper) for Mt Buffalo |
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6-Sep-2015 9:44:27 PM
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Any of you mt buffalo aficionados have a recommendation for someone who guides on Mt buffalo. Heading up there for the week after Christmas on a (non-climbing) family trip but keen to shred some skin for the day and get a feel for the place, with a view to some aid-climbing nonsense.
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7-Sep-2015 9:03:51 AM
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Hey mate,
I live at the base of Buffalo and would be happy to head out for a day to show you around. If you drop me a line closer to the time we can work out a good time to head out.
Cheers
Tim
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7-Sep-2015 7:16:18 PM
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Thanks Tim, I'll pm you closer to the date, now just to buy my bodyweight in tape...
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8-Sep-2015 11:23:00 AM
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On 6/09/2015 Roast_chook wrote:
>Any of you mt buffalo aficionados have a recommendation for someone who
>guides on Mt buffalo. Heading up there for the week after Christmas on
>a (non-climbing) family trip but keen to shred some skin for the day and
>get a feel for the place, with a view to some aid-climbing nonsense.
If tshaw's offer falls through you could possibly use the Local Commercial Guide.
Another possibility given that you have mentioned aid-climbing, is to attend the Buffalo Aidfest proposed for 21-22 November, where you will get good information both general and specific for Buffalo and Aid..
Regarding shredding skin and needing to tape up, Buffalo has quite a range of granite coarseness. Most of it isn't too gnarly, and some of it is downright slick, though the inside of some unweathered cracks and certain places elsewhere up there are 'as you think' they are.
You are more organised than I am by knowing what you are doing that far out in time.
It is likely I will be up Mt Buffalo around that time myself, but also have some motorcycling mates passing through on their way to Tasmania too (that I will be riding locally with), so what day/s I would possibly be climbing-available are unknown till just after Christmas.
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8-Sep-2015 8:28:44 PM
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Thanks for that M9 - I've been hankering after the aidfest for a while but no can do this year, hence the very forward planning (and the need to apply in triplicate for a family holiday leave pass).
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9-Sep-2015 3:37:15 PM
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On 8/09/2015 Roast_chook wrote:
> (and the need to apply in triplicate for a family holiday leave pass).
Be more of an arsehole to the family, then go climbing and be sweet as pie to them for a week, then start heading back into arsehole territory again. Soon, after a few repetitions of this cycle, they will be insisting you go on regular climbing trips. Do a really good job and the wife will organise them for you!
I discovered this by accident, but you could surely do it deliberately. For proof of efficacy, I've just been to Fontainebleau for a few days, on my honeymoon with a wife that doesn't climb. ;-)
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9-Sep-2015 3:59:32 PM
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On 9/09/2015 ajfclark wrote:
>On 8/09/2015 Roast_chook wrote:
>> (and the need to apply in triplicate for a family holiday leave pass).
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>Be more of an arsehole to the family, then go climbing and be sweet as
>pie to them for a week, then start heading back into arsehole territory
>again. Soon, after a few repetitions of this cycle, they will be insisting
>you go on regular climbing trips. Do a really good job and the wife will
>organise them for you!
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>I discovered this by accident, but you could surely do it deliberately.
>For proof of efficacy, I've just been to Fontainebleau for a few days,
>on my honeymoon with a wife that doesn't climb. ;-)
And aint the travelling lightening you up a little bit too......Clarky almost made a funny that normal people will get, :)
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