Blog from October, 2014

If you haven't seen it, check out Get a Dog up Ya's excellent Augmentium video below.

And their Pozible campaign to make a feature length Tasmanian Climbing Film:

 http://www.pozible.com/project/186941

Hi everyone,

I'm organising a cave rescue workshop this weekend with the local caving club and we'll be using Fruehauf for some exercises this Thursday/Friday (Oct. 23/24). This means there'll be quite a lot of cavers dangling on ropes on those days, i.e. using most of the cliff. So if you are planning to do some climbing those days it might be better to head to some of the other amazing  crags around...

Sorry if that interferes with your climbing plans.

cheers,

Andreas

Hi there, my mate and I were out at the Hazards on Sunday (19th) and climbed Stud City. We chose to descend via the new rap route. The climbing was great but it ended in a bit of an epic.

We ended up getting one of our ropes stuck after pulling the ropes on the first rap. Retrieval wasn't too easy as the rock is not too solid there and the rain was starting to come down. We then had to fix our other rope for the second abseil as it wouldn't have reached the ground. So we ended up having to leave both of our ropes on the rap route.

We're trying to get out there next weekend or the one after to get them, but if anyone's planning to be on the route please keep that in mind, and we'd be stoked if you could retrieve them.

Thanks

not wanting to start a flame war. Not trolling.

just curious about the rational to new bolts and chain at the top of third described pitch of Indian summer on the pipes. Awkward belay option. Is it just a rap anchor?  Belaying a  bit higher- moving onto cracked pepper to the new anchor there seems a better option.

cheers

dave

In researching my trip earlier this year I bought a bunch of guidebooks. I've got three that, unfortunately, I don't think I will ever get around to using so am offering them for sale:

First up, a Rock Fax guide to the Ariège:

Details here

Second, Aiguilles Rouge 1, by Michel Pola,
(English version) covering the area from the Brévent to the Chérzerys slabs:

Details here

Third, Auguilles Rouges 2, by Michel Piola (in French):

Details here

All three are unused, although I've put a star next to four routes on the Brévent that I thought I'd like to do.
Total value of all three guides is listed at UK90, or about $130. (The Ariège guidebook lists at UK 23.95; the two Aiguilles Rouge books at UK 32.95 each.)
Anyone interested? Ideally I'd like to sell them as a package but will split if that pie in the sky can't be realised. Offers?

I've been meaning for ages to update the printed guide books - The Tasmanian Climbing Guide (the black one), The Mountain, Freycinet, and the Tasmanian Bouldering Guide.

For various reasons, mainly that I lost a lot of the files, and that I had to write a bunch of new code to deal with the new online topos, this has been on hold.

But I've finally got the PDF generation working again, and updated it to work with the new topos. I'm aiming to get the new PDFs to print quality early next year.

Editing and feedback will help with this, so here's the very first draft of the TCG for anyone who has time to proof read:

Stuff that needs attention is:

• General wording, grammar and spelling. There's always more typos to fix
• New guides (Eldon, Table Mt, Dog Leg Crag, Apsely Edge, Red Rock Pt, Mersey Cliffs etc)
• Reordering of Organ Pipes to L to R
• New topos

Either fix it straight on thesarvo.com, or post corrections in the comments of this page

This first draft is pretty rough, here's my list of known issues:

• Lots of layout issues (eg wrong whitespace, columns, topos wrong size or rotation etc). I need to go through the whole thing and fix what I can
• Some pages have color blocks out of place
• No section headings (eg East, North etc) in the TOC, header, or tabs
• Freycinet topos needs redrawing in the new format (now done except for star factory)
• Bare rock topos need redrawing
• Topos
  • Some text isn't being truncated or word wrapped
  • Missing arrow heads
  • dark "dots" in the dark glow around lines - eg on Alchemy Wall topo
  • Some topos being layed out too wide

Hi Folks,

Seem to have lost my Gri Gri. Possibly at Lost World a few weeks ago - anyone found it by any chance? The release spring is broken.

Life's trickier without it - would really appreciate it if anyone's come accross it and could get it back to me.

Cheers,

Squib