General Climbing Discussion

Author	Havachatwithhexy...
HEX 29-Oct-2004 6:29:12 PM	' Breaking ' news ... >Police probe BASE jumper death >October 29, 2004 >A BASE jumper has died after a fall in Bungonia Gorge, near Goulburn in New South >Wales. >Police were called to Slot Canyon after a triple 0 call around 7.15am (AEST). >A Goulburn police rescue team discovered the body of the man at around 10.20am >(AEST). >The man's body is being retreived and inquires are continuing... ------------------------------------ Hexy's fav new-learn-ed concept for the day : A5's ' ...the onsight adventure ...' -----------------------------------
IdratherbeclimbingM9 29-Oct-2004 6:42:36 PM	Bummer re the BASE incident. Adventure is one thing; but it has its limits. Hope the authorities don't use these things to outlaw adventure (in all its forms) at Bungonia ... Like the Kachoong pic H-T. Reasonable pro is evident in it; ...Much better than falling upside down and relying on one pin (with allegedly a solid b/u cam above it from late in the thread).
HEX 30-Oct-2004 1:49:35 PM	Blue Mountains BASE - jumping-pioneer-extraordinaire ,(the late), Dwain Weston, in Climb-mag : '...climbers and BASE jumpers are among the few people that share the cliffs and the heights ... If you climb for long enough on big cliffs, chances are , one day someone will go sailing down the wall past you (maybe it will be a climber or abseiler but I'll bet it's a BASE jumper ), and when that happens , it'll be nice to have some understanding of what's going-on ...' ----------------------------- PB 24/07/2003 Thanks Mike, the hangliding ramp at Buffallo isn't really verticle but there's a good launch point at one of the lookouts. I haven't treked to the bottom yet to check out the landing area but will probably be being doing it soon. Do you have any photos of Red Rocks on Ben Nevis?? 150m would be great if it's not too underhung. *There are 2 jumpers who claimed to jump a cliff at Araps (the Bard*, I think). Can anyone tell me how high or how sheer it is and if there is anything else at Araps. I haven't been to Araps for years and it was before I started jumping so I wasn't really looking at it from a jumping perspective.. nmonteith 24/07/2003 Red Rocks is WAAAAY under vertical. BASE jumping requires free fall - you don't glide out from above - you would hit and bounce! Jumping from one pitch down from the top of the direct finish of Ozy would be my best bet. You would need to jump a good distance out but once travelling would have a good free fall for 200m or so. Bard Butress at Araps is no more than 100m high and not vertical. It woudl be very scary (impossible?) base jump. Perosnally i think climbers would prefer you NOT to base jump of our most famous climbing area!. We already have enough litigation issues with accidents at Arapiles. -------------------------------------- Neil gets an education : ' ...The Launch Pad , Blue Mountains : Even under-vertical cliffs can be jumped by taking a good run-up and then tracking ( angling your body so that as you fall, the air pushes you away from the wall ).The Launch Pad is probably the most demanding and intimidating jump yet done in Australia. When it was first jumped, no one knew if it would be possible to clear the under-vertical section of the cliff, even with a run-up and tracking...' ( Climb-mag ) -------------------------------------- PB 24/07/2003 Thanks Neil, can you please provide more detail on Ozy (location etc)? It sounds pretty promising. Extreme909, Mt Rosea is one of the places I've been planning to check out along with the Fortress, Eureka Walls and Taipan walls. Can you porvide more info on Mt Rosea such as location in the Gramps, access etc. nmonteith 24/07/2003 Eureka - too short - less than 50m free fall with trees at base. Fortress - maybe 70m free fall potential max. Bad place to have an accident. 2 hour walk in with heavy forest at base. You woudl have to get to the top of Passport to Insanty - which requires a tyrolyn traverse across a big chasm then you woudl need to rap down one pitch before you coudl jump. NOt possible in my humble opinion as it wudl be too short. Dalai 24/07/2003 Are there any cliffs in Vic that are?? Ozy may be the best bet in regards to angle and height but the landing would be nasty! Steep slope with trees (at least what remains after the bush fires). The only places I know of personally in Australia that people have base jumped off are *Bungonia gorge* and some cliffs in the Blue Mountains... ----------------------------------- The BASE-jumpers ethos : ' Take the best orgasm you've ever had, multipy it by a thousand , and you're still not even close ' Hmmmm, reminds me of that title I keep seeing in book-shops : ' Death--- The Ultimate Orgasm ' ... BASE-jumping thru the cyber-void , Luv HEX ...
HEX 2-Nov-2004 12:58:13 PM	-------------------------------- ... SPLAT !!! ... --------------------------------
PN 2-Nov-2004 1:24:35 PM	On 2/11/2004 HEX wrote: >-------------------------------- >... SPLAT !!! ... >-------------------------------- The sound of another one of Hex's cerebral haemorrhages?
HEX 3-Nov-2004 11:12:58 AM	no.
HEX 3-Nov-2004 1:22:30 PM	--------------------------- " Hexy ?! --- is that you ?! --- yeah ! , I think arm gunna makit, dude ! , but it's lookin' more rad than a base-jump off Bluff Major !! " " Yeeeeeeeeeeehoooooooooooooorrrrrrrrr !!!!!!! " ------------------------
IdratherbeclimbingM9 3-Nov-2004 1:26:20 PM	You are more bent than an old piton H-T. ... Still, its entertaining reading ! ----------------- Got a fright when he found you already at the summit eh ?
HEX 3-Nov-2004 1:37:49 PM	maybe...
PN 3-Nov-2004 1:40:08 PM	Hex/Poooooff Didn't think you were interested... but check this, it's updated every few minutes and is tracking the election results across the states as they are counted - note is US time. (For those not interested, sorry, Getbacktowork!!!! and if you're a lawyer, pack ya bags and git over there) http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/politics/results/2004/president.html This one is good too, more user friendly http://www.cnn.com/ Out, D
HEX 3-Nov-2004 2:07:47 PM	------------------------------ CURRENT TOTALS George W. Bush: 170 electoral votes John Kerry: 112 electoral votes " Ohhhhhh weeeeee like ta have a budweeza with Kiar-rrrry Oh we like to have one with Jaaaaaaaaaaarrn !!! --- HUH, HUH , HUUUUH !!! " --------------------------------
HEX 3-Nov-2004 6:57:22 PM	On 9sept, Oweng wrote : >I realise we were climbing in a poxy quarry in a semi-residential area, we're not talking >about the unspoilt wilderness here, but does anyone else find this amazing?... Arapiles pioneer & Hobart artist, Peter Jackson gets VERY amazed ! ... ' My landscapes usually embrace distant vistas and elevated views of big spaces. In contrast, Hare Lip[A Grade 17 @ Procters Quarry --- home of Tasmania's first sport-climb, Overdose(26) ] is a confined view of a shady rock wall. However the same aesthetics apply. The scene is very particularised. This applies to everything, including the lighting that challenges the tonal qualities of watercolour. I work from photographs. Then I draw the image before I paint it. Details are important. But before all these, I see it as a ‘vision’, not just a view to be painted. It has to have penetrated me in a private way, demanding further indulgence and more intimate knowledge. It is like a sexual attraction...' Oweng --- what is going on ' down there ' , with those suburban-quarries ??!!
HEX 3-Nov-2004 9:59:43 PM	gfdonc 3/11/2004 >At Buffalo on the weekend I confess to much angst at having to set up a hanging >belay on 3x 25yo carrots that were part of a ladder, hence hard to equalise. Well, not >so much the carrots, as the 25yo home-made thin keyhole hangers which appear to >be aluminium, stamped "RJM" (Reg Marron), and having to hang myself, partner and >loaded haul bag from them in the dark... Ahhhh, yes --- the infamous Reg Maron ... --- Regi-boy diluted Ewbanks M6 aid-route on The Totem Pole when the said Reg placed an un-necessary carrot-bolt above the sentry-box , on the first pitch --- to abseil off --- while attempting a ' solo ' ascent ... Not sure how he was going to claim a solo ascent when he had someone belaying him on that first pitch ... ----------------------------- Rob Star-chef-ski had an equally '...angst...'-ious time, gfdonc, when he found himself hanging from 3 x carrot-bolts, half-way up the beast : he told HEX, about 6 months later : " I was wishing there were 10 of the damn things !!! " ; At least they were stainless-steel --- the 13-year-old Ewbank ones having been replaced by Parsons&Bigg, on the 3rd ascent... ------------------------------ And finally, re the 2nd ascent (Kim& Lew',1974), there is an excellent account in Classic Climbs of Australia , where Kim recalls Ian abseiling down from the top, and then being blown back-up level with the abseil anchors, by a HUGE gust of wind !! --- now THAT'S 'angst' !!! Luv HEX ...
hardware 3-Nov-2004 10:14:07 PM	probably just there to make sure he didn't get his rope wet!
HEX 3-Nov-2004 10:21:37 PM	Good point, Hardware ! >--------------------------------------------------------- > >--------------------------------------------------------
oweng 4-Nov-2004 12:57:42 PM	On 3/11/2004 HEX wrote: >Oweng --- what is going on ' down there ' , with those suburban-quarries >??!! Whilst I cant claim to share Peter Jacksons apparent ardour for the quarries, I can appreciate the small joys that can be found when you see something beautiful hidden in a stark environment. However the only painting I can see myself undertaking in the quarries is that digital form popular with pre-schoolers, with my artistic vision displayed not in water based paint, but using a white powdery medium. Love your work on this thread Hex, especially the old quotes you seem to dredge up from old publications. Keep them coming!
HEX 4-Nov-2004 1:53:07 PM	Ohhhhhhhhh ! , Ahhhhhhhhh !! --- excuse me, Oweng , while I roll-around luvingly in the warm-oily-massage-of-a-post you deliciously delivered thru cyber-space !!! ... --- Thanks for the appreciations --- I realise you ' speak ' on be-half of many people , who perhaps are unable to express such concepts with such vivid-lust-for-life capacity as you have here ... ; I am stoked that you are the first dude to use the term '...THIS thread ...', vsv the cauldron days/daze , where the punters insisted on ' YOUR thread ' ... Hexy gets inspiration , not only from doggy-eared climbing-mags from yesteryear, but also from comments, and ideas that get excreted onto ' this thread' ...; Sometimes they initially act like a road-side-bomb-blast !! , but usually the universal-climbing-spirit rises from the wreckage , like ' a fart dissapating in the breeze '(thanx Kieran), and spur ' The HEX ' on ,and prefferably up, to consider fresh angles , etc,etc,etc ... --- Many thanx to those with the political-guts who dare to contribute to anything associated with ' that bloody hex #$%^& ' ... ; and thanx for ' allowing ' Hexy to conduct cross-thread-raids to gather tit-bit-ingreedy-ants for brewing-up groovy-shit on this warping/mutating/cyber-evolving thread ... Luv HEX ... --------------------------------- Look-out ! --- A5 has joined The Seekers ...
IdratherbeclimbingM9 4-Nov-2004 2:05:56 PM	Your thread is this thread. This thread is our thread. Our thread is your thread... .. from the Arapiles forests ~> to the Cauldron back-waters ... (etc) This thread was made for you and me .. >whatever (thanks KL) ! ~ The tapestry of life is made up of all the individual life strands that we are. ~ -------------------------------- 'Peter, Paul & Mary' ... (& Damieta) have nuthin on da Hex-Troll ! --------------------------------- Is that a yellow van coming over the hill or the parting clouds revealing the sun ? ... in the wake of D surfa! Peanut butter comes in cubes?? _____________________________________ Damieta under the floorboards buffer zone. _____________________________________
PN 4-Nov-2004 2:13:29 PM	A5/Hex, I am worried about you 'both' at the moment, please see me in my office after school. Naughty little boys.....you're in vewy big twubble Cheers D ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes. That grasshopper mouse has progressed to the next level. He displays cunning and mischief and a desire to learn D (surfing the clouds above the pigglet, the woman in the red dress/addax)
HEX 4-Nov-2004 2:21:06 PM	---------------------------------- From: wombats: To: HEX: Subject: Re: ?! Date: 4/11/20049:16:37 AM Message: On 3/11/2004 HEX Wrote: >>Oh I like ta have a beer with Carwyn >>Oh I like ta have a beer with Wyn ! >>But I like beer & he ? likes gin !!! >>blah blah blaaaaaaaaaaaa !!!! >>Luv HEX ... >You're strange! >Yes a he. >C. " Are you talkin' about me Hexy ?! " ---------------------------------- Strange, eh ? --- yeah , true ! --- apparently bent as an old piton ,too ... Ever seen a wombat turd ? --- they're CUBIC !! --- now THAT'S strange ! ... Luv HEX ...

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