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Fatality at Arapiles 11/11/14 17-Nov-2014 At 10:30:34 PM Wendy

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On 17/11/2014 patto wrote:
>
>Umm.... Speaking about navigationally challenged... I have been down
>King Rat Gully once before (though my memory is vague).
>
>I climbed Toccata on morning after too many vodka shots the night before.
> We got lost, missed the descent from the Organ Pipes and somehow ended
>up descending down King Rat Gully. I remember it being scrambly but nothing
>sketchy. We ended up going back to a bed in town and sleeping off our
>hangovers.

That is quite impressive ... but then i managed to get lost many years ago on tiptoeridge on new years day in a similar state, so who am i to talk?

From what I have heard, they were not on any of the usual suspects in KRG, which as Sabu say, are liberally serviced with anchors. There are some scramble accesses, but you can always pull out a rope if you don't like the look of them. Or climb something else. These guys had come up an easy route over near Hunger Gully and coming down the left side of KRG, where almost noone does anything these days, hence no anchors or obviously travelled ways off. I don't know exactly where or what though.