Blog from September, 2008

The new Ben Lomond guidebook will be launched on Friday November 7th in Launceston and Saturday November 8th in Hobart. Everyone is welcome. Details for each event are as follows.
LAUNCESTON LAUNCH: Friday Nov 7th, 7.30pm at Pavilion restaurant, Yorktown Square. Cost $20.00 - includes light meal and drinks. Guest speakers- John Smart, Ben Maddison, Bruce Cameron.
HOBART LAUNCH: Saturday Nov 8th, 7.30pm at Climbing Edge Gym in Bathurst St. Cost: $5.00. Slideshow by Bob McMahon and guest speaker John Smart from NSW. Purchase the new guidebook for special launch price of $40.00.
For a sneak peak at the guidebook cover (draft copy - disregard white dotted lines as they indicate position of the spine of the book)see http://www.gerrynarkowicz.wordpress.com and click on link to guidebook cover.

Spring Cleaning time in the gear cupboard, I have the following cams for sale, call us if you're interested in checking them out. Cheers Adam ph 0435024192

Black Diamond Camalot (older style double stem) green 0.75 size $40-

Alien (orange, approx #1.5 friend) $60
Alien (red, approx#1 friend) $55
Alien (yellow, approx #0.5 friend) $55
Alien (green, approx #0 friend) $55

HB (same sizing as friends)Quadcam (double stem) # 1 $40- Single stem #3 $45-

Wild Country
Technical Friend #2.5 $55-
Technical Friend #2 $55-
Technical Friend #1.5 $45-
Technical Friend #1 $45-

The Tasmanian University Climbing Club is hosting a bouldering comp.

The comp will be run on the 2nd of October (Next Thursday) at 6pm. It will be down at the Uni Wall in the Sports and Rec Center (Google Maps link is posted below - i hope)

It's a pretty informal comp, but with some cool prizes for winning, and lucky door prizes for just showing up and being... well lucky..

But most of all theres going to be HEAPS of cool problems to crank out on!

LOCATION: Uni Wall, Sports and Rec @ UTAS
TIME: 6pm 2nd Oct 08
PRICE: $10 for members AND non-members

google maps link http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=108082847874416381159.000457b2416edc98951fe&ll=-42.897378,147.330179&spn=0.017354,0.029826&z=15

The new landowners of the property near Castille Crag in the North Esk request a phone call several days prior to visits by climbers. I met them today and they were easy going and happy to let climbers access the crag via their property, as long as they phone beforehand. The cliff is rather vegetated and lichenous these days, but after cleaning and climbing a few of the classics today, the quality of the climbs is well worth a visit. Phone JOhn Adams on 0409 393748 or
0407 393448 to arrange access.
Gerry Narkowicz