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Climbing Tasmania's Totem Pole. 19-Jan-2015 At 10:46:07 AM johny

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On 15/01/2015 E. Wells wrote:
>Just as the new route with jumbo size inch thick tick marks all the way
>up it along with gold coloured hardware dynas does not do the icon justice
>nor does this flic of a chick toproping from halfway using fixed tyrolean
>do justice to what ought to be an adventure.

ABC had an angle on it that they thought would appeal to a broad audience. Of course, I would have made it way different.Considering it was made by non-climbers for non-climbers, it was a decent portrayal.Do you really think that Australia thought "wow they really sucked the adventure out of the Totem Pole"? Did ABC do the Totem Pole an injustice? Are you serious?

Also about "top roping" half the tote. Are you bitching because she did not lead both pitches? That is beyond petty. Also, the tyrolean was put in place to facilitate the video and was used by the camera guys to get to the tote quickly for filming.(how the f else were we suppose to do this?)

Garry has climbed the thing a dozen times. Libby has already climbed it. Everyone involved has climbed the tote before. The whole thing was staged for the ABC... DUH! And anyway what part of the "adventure" was removed by the tyrolean? The swing across from the mainland? This is totally easy now that the carrots were replaced(obviously not by us). Dude, you seem to be grasping at any pathetic reason to slam this video just to be negative. Is it personal or are you simply cynical in nature?

Also if you don't like Garry's new route, tell HIM about it. It had absolutely nothing to do with us filming gaz and libby climb the free route. It's like your just finding any kind of poison to inject.

And as far as not being like the Candlestick video from the 70's. First off it is not the Candelstick. There is no swimming to get to the Totem Pole. It is way less epic. Second, they had a 30 minute program on prime time with a MASSIVE budget, helicopters etc. They had tea at the Mayor's house! We had 5 minutes and a $0 budget.

What I find really disappointing is the negativity or complacency that continues to pour out of this ever more cliquey and irrelevant website. Climbing in Tasmania gets national news coverage(probably a first in years about any sort of rock climbing on national news) and the only two people to comment are hate filled cynics.

I am not really surprised by this chockstoners! This is why I don't post any more Tassie news on your "climbing" website.

Get A Dog Up YA!