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TR - Vent Crack Booroomba 22-Dec-2009 At 2:59:56 PM cruze

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IMHO Booroomba is an underutilised second-tier (ie not Araps etc) Australian crag. I think that bolt belays do have a place there. In fact, there are limited a number of bolt belays already there. Years of below average rainfall and a significant fire event have changed the bush and tree belays that used to be used at Booroomba. I doubt that you could ever place enough anchors at Booroomba to make this a walk-up user friendly climbing venue.

I agree that some of the classic combined climbs should be written up as such. We have discussed Vent Crack/Baryon/After the Reiving. Also Denethor/Ivory Coast, Determinant/Terminant Corner Finish, Possum/Carezissima Finish, Running Crack/Marmalade. These are all at a very moderate grade that might encourage a younger generation of climbers to forego a weekend at Nowra climbing whatchamacallit third from the left on the fourth wall (I too can hang my head in shame) to have a day out on the granite. There will always be the more remote and adventurous areas of Namadgi for those who can't stand the crowds.

In hindsight I wish that I had done more climbing at Booroomba when I lived in Canberra.

I would like to hear what Damo, Jamie, Justin etc think, as well as some of the other Canberrans like Bill, Keith, John, David, etc. I know that there was a push before I left Canberra to replace a fair bit of the existing hardware at Gibralter, Booroomba, Red Rocks. I also know that the Draft Management Plan for Namadgi was quite averse to the installation of any gear and was released just before I left. Has anything come of it?

Perhaps if you had climbed at Booroomba, Egosan, your view might not be so black and white?