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2 ropes hanging off Taipan Wall - RETURNED THANKS! 17-May-2010 At 11:01:40 AM ajlowndes

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Hi guys...

Yesterday (Sunday) my friend and I made an epic.... EPIC... day of ascending Taipan wall (Grampians), got to the top completely exhausted and walked along to the belay station at the left hand end, tied two ropes together and abseiled down just as it was getting dark. I arrived at the bottom and tugged on the rope that we had to pull - but the rope jammed in something at the top edge and after all amount of tugging pulling, shaking, walking out/along the cliff (and yelling frustrated words into the night), finally gave up. I had rope ascending gear but by then it was 7.30 at night (we had no light) and ascending 45m on a rope that is jammed in god-knows-what at the top and could slip at any moment isn't really how I wanted to continue into the night. Unfortunately everybody in my party had work today (Monday) so we had to leave the ropes and return to Melbourne. I don't have a car so can't return today. Otherwise I will go back next weekend and maybe they will still be hanging there.

One rope is a MUMC club rope - green 10mm, 60m and the other belongs to me - a purple Beal 9.4mm 60m which I would really like back. The purple (thinner) rope is going through the bolt anchors at the top so the green one is the one you pull because the knot is on that side. The guide book says watch for rope jamming and we did but at the top it seriously doesn't look like something that would jam so I honestly don't know what happened.

If you are in the Grampians in the Mt Staypleton area and make around to the belay ledge at the top (I don't recommend rope ascending - a walk might be easier/safer since no-one knows what the situation is at the top) and get the ropes off please call or message me - a slab of beer/wine will be offered. Also if you take a picture of the situation at the top so we know what happened and can learn from it that would be awesome.

Thanks for any help

Aaron 0424 38 38 31

(edit: changed the time we decided to give up - it wasn't as late as I thought, but still very dark - we faffed around and left grampians at 9.30)

(edit2: changed the title from "please return!" to "RETURNED THANKS!")