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Mt Buffalo Gorge questions 14-Nov-2015 At 4:10:59 PM Jok

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>This sounds like a good plan to me, though if it isn't hot you could cut the water back to 3 litres per person per day if you had too.
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Thanks, good to know I'm on the right track.

>Leeper style cam hooks can speed up aid ascents if you are comfortable
>using same.

I got a pairs of three different sized Moses can hooks, I'm going to try practice with them before we go down.

>Apart from that, I assume you have done your homework by reading everything
>you can find about Ozy, on this site and others...

Yeah I have read everything from trip reports to Andy Kirpatricks "The dark art of bigwall soloing"

>From the Hang Glider ramp veer to your right going downhill into the gully
>behind it. Continue down the gully and you will pick up the old (now mostly
>disused) tourist track to Mushroom Rock. Continue on past said rock and
>you will notice the occasional rock cairns leading you on the 'southside
>track' that switches back on itself from time to time.
>With haulbags it is awkward in places. Be careful of any fixed ropes at
>sketchy bits that you may find in place, as the anchors for them have been
>known to be dodgy...
>

Thanks that's a big help. I'm always suspicious of fixed gear, I don't even trust bolts completely I would take my own passive trad anchor over bolts anyday.