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Climbers rescued off Margarine Ridge, Mt Hay 9-Nov-2011 At 11:28:11 PM Sturge

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On 9/11/2011 One Day Hero wrote:

>The cause of this 'incident', as far as I can tell, was a couple of woefully
>underprepared and undercomitted bumblies trying to do a route which was
>too big and hard for them, on a day where a sensible person would not go
>anywhere near a north-west facing wall!! This thing is not a summer route!
>What the hell is with all the clowns discussing whether 5 or 10L of water
>is needed? If you need 5L of water, then its too fuching hot to climb the
>thing! Come back in April and it'll actually be fun.

Couldn't agree more.
I think it was late March/early April when we did it and 2-3L of water was plenty. I'd hate to lug any more weight than that for the day.

Slightly off topic, the ACA guide says about the pitch 8/9 variant, "Apparently some people head straight up the chimney, but it looks bloody desperate!" Has anyone got any thoughts on grades for this? It felt at least a couple harder than the rest of the climb, but allows you to skip the really shitty belay.