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Fixed Gear: Rusty fixed carabiners

The two fixed carabiners at the top anchor are too rusty to be considered safe. Needs replacing. These carabiners are connected to bolt plates which look in acceptable condition but rappelling off these plates isn't safe for your rope. Avoid until replaced.

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Created 2 years ago

description

As for PT but stay on the arete. Take 3 brackets!

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Route history

1 Jan 2004First ascent: G. Short & P. Mort

Warnings

15 May 2021 Warning Fixed Gear: Rusty fixed carabiners

Location

Lat/Lon: -33.55299, 150.21994

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Grade citation

19 Assigned grade
19 Tony Williams
22 [21 - 22] ++ grAId

ethic

Many and varied, please try to respect them all!

Retro-bolting has occurred several times over the years and is generally condemned and dealt with swiftly.

inherited from Mount York

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Quality

Mega Classic
Classic
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Don't Bother
Crap

Overall quality 42 from 24 ratings.

Difficulty - 19

Soft Touch
Easy
Average
Hard
Sandbag

Based on 1 ratings.

Suggested Grade

19

Based on 1 ratings.

Tick Types

Onsight 11
Flash 3
Red point 2
Top rope 1
Attempt 9

Comment keywords

tricky dangerous runout nice fun good amazing pleasant cool offwidth jamming arete fist thrutchy hands dodgy crack traverse hard sandbag

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Author(s): Simon Carter

Date: 2019

ISBN: 9780958079082

The latest comprehensive, latest and greatest Blue Mountains Climbing Guide is here and it has more routes than you can poke a clip stick at! 3421 to be exact. You are not going to get bored.

Author(s): Simon Carter

Date: 2019

ISBN: 9780958079075

Simon Carter's "Best of the Blue" is the latest selected climbing guide book for the Blue Mountains and covers 1000 routes and 19 different climbing areas. For all the sport climbers out there, the travellers, or just anyone who doesn't want to lug around the big guide that's more than 3 times the size - cut out the riff-raff and get to the good stuff! This will pretty much cover everything you need!

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