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Arapiles guidebook delayed... again 1-Aug-2008 At 10:41:15 AM gtempest

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Just for the record I didn't technically miss correcting the opening page. That's part of the site that I have no control over. Katherine is the Dreamweaver genius and she's banned me from going anywhere near it. ('touch it and you WILL die a horrible death') And if you are wondering why she doesn't just fix the problem...she's at home sick in bed. There is a red cross painted on her door and a guy out the front shouting 'throw out your dead'. I'm not going anywhere near her. She probably got sick from all the stress over finishing the Arapiles guide. I don't blame her. Suicide was beginning to look like a holiday.

The reason the Araps guide is delayed (again) is that the printer stuffed up the cover dimensions by not taking into consideration just how thick the glues and stitching on the spine would be. Unlike some all-singing all-dancing guides this one is stitch bound. If we had it burst bound (cheaper, nastier and quicker), yes it would be out by now but it wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes. We figure that if you are paying almost $60 for a guide you don't want to be chasing loose pages around the foot of Castle Crag. And you want to be able to still flick through it in your old age when all you have is your memories. If you no longer have your memories then at least you'll be able to wonder where the hell this remarkably intact rockclimbing guide came from.

The Arapiles Selected Climbs guide will be out in about two weeks. If you ordered the book off the Open Spaces web site (at the special cheap pre-release price) then I apologise for the delay. It will be worth the wait. If it isn't....then you know where Simey lives. If you don't... I'll gladly pass on his address to you. And he will be there for a while. I can't see him using his proceeds to retire to the French Riviera any time soon.

The price on the Open Spaces site (osp.com.au) will remain at $49.95 until Sunday 10 August. After that it will be at it's RRP of $59.95.

Glenn