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davidnn5
Apr 10, 2010, 2:15 AM
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So... I spent hours this morning walking near a sewerage (isn't THAT a delightful smell) trying to find a cliff that according to the guidebook is a 15 minute walk.
After leaving a beaten track, I found myself crossing a river (no less than three times), walking within 50 metres of a massive rockfall as it was occurring, scrambling up some dangerously wet rocks to get out of a valley, going back into the valley... Etc etc.
Every time I firmly decided to just walk back to the car and come back with a map, I'd see another landmark which could be the three forked tree next to the rock on a rise which seen from a westerly direction... (you get the picture) and be walking for another half hour, "just in case that's it".
Not an epic, but it always amuses me to spend hours wandering around like a dimwit just to not find a cliff face (I'm going to have to get a map I guess).
This is nothing compared to some fun I've had in the past bushwalking/finding cliffs, and I'm sure the same is true about many of you. I'm curious to hear others' stories about drek, disappointment and even death on the hike in (or out). The worst or best time you ever had finding a cliff..
Oh, and to anyone who's been to it, it's the Sewer Wall. Feel free to PM me directions (!).
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ebag17
Apr 10, 2010, 3:12 AM
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davidnn5
Apr 10, 2010, 3:25 AM
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Nah, it's a place in north Canberra, near a sewer plant.
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sbaclimber
Apr 10, 2010, 5:36 AM
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Um............that's only one route, not a whole wall
Now, this area here does have the Poo Pond Crag (right next to a sewage plant), but it isn't in the RDB.
@davidnn5, how's the Google Earth resolution in the area? I use Google Earth pretty regularly for pinpointing a crag and scouting out the best way to get there. That, in combination with a topo map for terrain info is pretty effective.
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evanwish
Apr 10, 2010, 5:41 AM
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ebag17 wrote: Mid conversation I realized he just constructed dog leashes for his 2 dogs out of pieces of webbing i had at the top on one of the anchors.... I hate crazy people.
Oh wow. Thats sketchy! Nice story.
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davidnn5
Apr 10, 2010, 6:00 AM
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sbaclimber wrote: Um............that's only one route, not a whole wall Now, this area here does have the Poo Pond Crag (right next to a sewage plant), but it isn't in the RDB. @davidnn5, how's the Google Earth resolution in the area? I use Google Earth pretty regularly for pinpointing a crag and scouting out the best way to get there. That, in combination with a topo map for terrain info is pretty effective.
Damn fine idea. I am stuck in my days of 'lets just go out and hope we don't die from something finding our way there and back'!
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sungam
Apr 10, 2010, 10:45 AM
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I bet about 20 people read the part about the river and thought "Fukken funk rock city".
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lena_chita
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Apr 12, 2010, 3:53 PM
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sungam wrote: I bet about 20 people read the part about the river and thought "Fukken funk rock city".
What, did camhead tell you about it, or do you have your own experience to rival ours? Do tell!
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qwert
Apr 12, 2010, 8:07 PM
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Somehow the trail that should be there wasnt.
Also we ended up at the wrong cliff, and so also on the wrong route. but when i realized it it was too late already, so i decided to go on. When i met the first rusty bolt, after a long stretch of more or less virtual protection, i decied to thread one rope through it, and downclimb, in the the hope that the mixture out of one halfrope toprope / 1 halfrope lead would work.
Luckily i did not have to test it.
qwert
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sungam
Apr 13, 2010, 8:22 AM
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lena_chita wrote: sungam wrote: I bet about 20 people read the part about the river and thought "Fukken funk rock city". What, did camhead tell you about it, or do you have your own experience to rival ours? Do tell!
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