Some of my week's highlights in Melbourne. Monday I went into "the city" ( how Australians say downtown ) and visited some of the local outdoor shops. I bought the new Arapiles guidebook and a bunch of carrot bolt plates. The guidebook is beautiful, full colour pictures and the carrot bolts are weird seems like it'll be harder to onsight sport climbs because you're fiddling with gear for longer. I met up with Paul and Ashley, and Mike who I went to high school with and had a few drinks at some local pubs. We found a cafe/bar called the Banff after Banff park in the Rockies, they even had a poster up of the hotel in Banff. They gave us free muffins, it's a nice place. Tuesday I walked around the University of Melbourne campus,
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