I thought I’d written about this before, but … it seems not. Some time last year, or perhaps earlier this …
May 17, 2011
Surabaya, Indonesia Climbing Gym Job Opening
Those of you who have bothered to read supernaut for at least a few years (oh I have pity for …
June 22, 2007
my baby is gone
Before I came to Adelaide, I dismantled my beautiful aluminium bicycle and along with half of my hiking gear, put …
December 14, 2006
burnley bouldering overpass
A late-morning ballet class, a lot of cycling, and a mid-afternoon boulder down at Burnley. I was feeling like chocolate …
December 11, 2006
英西峰林走廊攀岩 rock climbing in qingyuan county
Under many different names but mostly known to us as Kowloon as in what Mongkok is a part of in …
November 19, 2006
lerderderg gorge tunnel
A trip to Lerderderg Gorge yesterday for a leisurely afternoon of hiking along the Tunnel trail, a hacked laceration through …
October 13, 2006
shooting them like rats, dogs
A truly disgusting start to yesterday was reading about climbers in Tibet on Cho Oyu watching the Chinese Army massacre …
August 31, 2006
burnley bouldering
For a long time, my favourite place to train was the East St Kilda railway bridges, four walls of crimpy …
June 11, 2006
虎跳峡 & 玉龙雪山 tiger leaping gorge and jade dragon snow mountain
Some photos of five days I spent wandering through Tiger Leaping Gorge, some from the high trail, others from when …
May 31, 2006
going on holiday
I’m going on holiday. For more than a week, maybe even two weeks… One place I’ve always wanted to visit, …
April 23, 2006
第三届广东现代舞周 3rd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival
Last year I was less than flattering about the dance I saw at the 第二届广东现代舞周 2nd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival, …
March 18, 2006
a pothole in jiulong
So I came back early. It was getting wet, which was slightly funny considering it hadn’t really dried, and trying …
March 17, 2006
eeeeeee!!! blog!!!!
I was going to write a whole bunch of stuff about a whole pile of stuff, lots of exciting Guangzhou …
February 15, 2006
transylvania avenue
Cosmin, who was one of the mob of Guangzhou climbers that descended on Jiulong every weekend while I was in …
December 30, 2005
feel the pain, baby
There’s been a complete lack of indoor climbing in Melbourne since the place in Collingwood closed a couple of years …
December 16, 2005
独生一代 – single child generation
Park 19 in Guangzhou has been off the internet for a few weeks now, and when I visited the studios …
November 7, 2005
x-sports in china
One of the last times I went climbing at Jiulong, was the monster Hong Kong/Southern China climbers visit to Bamboo …
September 19, 2005
the old man of hoy
It’s possible that on the one day off from dancing in the week I would be best served by lying …
September 13, 2005
抱石广州 bouldering in guangzhou
Rain didn’t stop bolting in Jiulong, and two new routes went up, overhanging and around 10d/11a. No pictures yet… but …
September 2, 2005
southern china + guangzhou rock climbing
I guess Guangzhou mustn’t be that skanky wet furnace of mugginess and hysteria inducing heat anymore, though it’s hard to …
July 24, 2005
the hills are alive with the sound of wheezing
The best way to climb hills in Switzerland is by drinking coffee and eating pain au chocolate until late morning, …
June 13, 2005
eco-tourism in guangdong
I’m an avid map-reader. I’ll spend hours pouring over all kinds of maps looking for something, nothing. Lately it’s been …
June 5, 2005
罗岗 Luogang bouldering
I know everyone wants to dirt on the show last night, but bugger that. I’m going climbing. So, after a …
May 24, 2005
yingde – the next jiulong
It was the last trip before the humidity rotted even out bones, and the vampire mosquitos were swarming, lecherous and …
May 16, 2005
heavy gravity in yangshou’s bastard cousin
The gravity was especially strong in Jiulong on Saturday. In addition to the kind of humidity that can rot the …
May 13, 2005
jiulong again
I’m off climbing again in sunny Jiulong again tomorrow for the weekend. Expect lots of dirty photos of drills going …
May 4, 2005
jiulong super-crag
Jiulong turned into a bit of a tourist town this weekend. Three carloads of climbers plus a few others ate …
April 30, 2005
climb, you pathetic little human
I’m off tomorrow morning for a couple of days up at Jiulong again. It’s the big trip. Nine days of …
April 2, 2005
Joseph Rock rises again
Reading the Green Guide at Orange yesterday, the last name I expected to see getting airtime on SBS this week …
March 30, 2005
cock rock
In an effort to make everyone see what an awesome place Guangdong province is to go climbing in, it looks …
March 15, 2005
climbing at mt rosea
The long weekend meant a trip to the Grampians with the Vic Climbing Club for three days of long, multi-pitch …
March 7, 2005
another day at jiulong
We set off for Jiulong with the same driver and his white car with the dropped shocks around seven along …
March 1, 2005
Jiulong – you ain’t in Hong Kong anymore
A while ago, I saw some photos of a place just north of Guangzhou that looked so like Yangshou, the …
February 11, 2005
are we having fun yet?
So I didn’t make it to Yu Shan, but found some granite to pull on at some other peaks in …
February 11, 2005
vertical limit
I’m off to Hehuan Shan for the next few days. My plan to climb Yu Shan alone was thwarted, so …
January 26, 2005
qing yuan, guangdong’s yangshuo
When I first knew I was going to China, my first thought was, “Damn I need to find where to …
January 21, 2005
陽明山國家公園 yangming shan
Today I went to 陽明山國家公園 Yangming Shan National Park, a 1/2 hour scooter ride up into the hills north of …
January 17, 2005
down at the ‘raps
Anyone who knows a climber in Australia has heard of Mt Arapiles, and pretty much every climber in the world …
January 8, 2005
asian blog awards
The results are in for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards. Go over and check it out, and see some new …
January 4, 2005
in the footsteps of joseph rock
There are a whole pageload of new blogs over at sinosplice china blog list, but only in only one is …
December 20, 2004
第三现场 – 第二届新年国际音乐节 live home 3
After a couple of months of silence and a website announcing the days of 第三现场 Live Home 3 were over, …
November 16, 2004
shit place for a swim
The Three Gorges dam is nothing much more than a giant toilet, slowing to a grinding halt the flow of …
October 4, 2004
art and freedom vs. money in shanghai
With the recent issues in Australia of arts funding being sent on a round trip through the local abbatoir, and …
September 26, 2004
x-cube the manolo blahnik of climbing shoes
After 18 months and four resoles in a pair of Boreal Stingers I purchased in Toronto, the last resole did …
September 23, 2004
城市當代舞蹈團 ccdc – silver rain
城市當代舞蹈團CCDC in Hong Kong is currently celebrating its 25th anniversary, and tonight is performing Silver Rain at the Hong Kong …
August 22, 2004
chinese sci-fi and fantasy
zhwj 中国幻想文学基地 is the one-stop shop for anything to do with Science-Fiction (科幻 kehuan) and Fantasy (奇幻 qihuan) coming out …
June 27, 2004
climbing in beijing
The magazine that got me out of my apartment and finding Guangzhou has a cover story on the one thing …
May 30, 2004
You Yangs
Yesterday I went for a quick dusk bouldering session down at East St Kilda railway bridges, cold and half-lit and …
May 23, 2004
Chinese Mountaineering Team on K2
The climbing season on K2 has kicked off, with 54 expeditions attempting to summit the mountain made famous by prominent …
April 25, 2004
Eastern Peak
I have big issues with crack climbing. Mainly because I don’t really know how to do it, so there’s lots …
April 12, 2004
edge of doom
It was such a beautiful afternoon, a slight breeze, blue sky like you only get in Australia, the sun was …