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ACT climbing rack 17-Jul-2009 At 11:37:30 AM evanbb

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On 17/07/2009 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>You mean you have been sandbagging us on the CC thread? Heh, heh, heh.

Totally. It's the main thing they teach you at engineering school. If you don't know what you're talking about, just sound authoritative.

>I find the Booroomba slabs fairly spaced for any gear. Some bolt
>brackets will be useful too!

I actually haven't clipped a carrot there yet. Lots of fixed hangers.
Oh, and add some long slings to the list. Not that any trad climber, anywhere, should be without these.

>I also don't find Booroomba to be that 'pointy', but then again I climb more often on
>the sharper granite to be found in NE Vic.

It does vary a bit around the place. Some of the rhyolitic rock has sharp edged flakes, but smooth in between. I've spent a lot of time lately buried up to my elbows in 'easy' trenches, guiding some mates around, and these low angled cracks seem really feisty. Particularly some of the stuff out the Orroral ridge.

Again, not Booroomba specific, but if you're trad climbing double/half ropes are virtually mandatory. They solve so many problems, and I definitely prefer climbing on doubles these days. A lot of the funner multi pitch routes around Booroomba definitely benefit from doubles; it's not so useful at most of the other crags, which are mostly single pitches.