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Beta on Passport to Insanity? 19-Aug-2003 At 10:05:38 AM Onsight

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Hi everyone!

This is my first post so I wanted to start by saying a really big congratulations to Mike for the fantastic job on the web site — excellent stuff — and also to you all who are contributing to this forum. I think it’s great! It’s so nice to see an informed, positive and friendly discussion going on about Aussie (specifically Vic.) climbing. Keep it up everyone!

Beta on Passport: I had someone query me about this some time ago and I wrote the reply that I’ll post separately. Neil’s comments are spot on. The only thing I’d really add is that I set up the Tyrolean a bit differently – but perhaps this is because I came up the descent route (instead of climbing up the route) so that I could abseil down to photograph it. Instead of lassoing a spike, you can lower someone into the chasm, down about eight meters, so they can swing across to the other side and climb up (it’s really easy but it’d be a nasty fall given you’re belayed from the other side of the gap). Neil’s idea of setting this up beforehand and sussing out the descent is a very good one, there’s definitely the potential for an epic up there if you can’t find your way off!

Have fun!
Simon