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MOUNT COREE: A QUINTESSENTIALLY CANBERRA CRAG

SHARONA LIN UNLOCKED HER LOVE FOR THE OUTDOORS WHEN SHE MOVED TO AUSTRALIA’S CAPITAL AND QUICKLY DECIDED MOUNT COREE—NAMED AFTER THE ABORIGINAL WORD FOR MOTH—WAS THE CRAG TO CLIMB, ESPECIALLY IN SPRING. READ ON TO FIND OUT WHY.

Around about every August, I start to wonder what I’m doing with my life. Why don’t I feel fulfilled? And what are we all even doing on this planet we call Earth, anyway?

Then the September sun comes out, and I realise that all that existential dread I’m feeling is probably just because of the Canberra winter.

Canberra winter has downsides other than the casual existential crises—the cold, dry weather makes local climbing pretty hard. Not impossible by any

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