I thought I’d written about this before, but … it seems not. Some time last year, or perhaps earlier this …
May 17, 2011 – 6:13 pm
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 …
August 29, 2008 – 5:47 am
revalerstr 99
This week a haze has descended on me, it is easier to stay in bed safe in the folds of …
June 22, 2007 – 1:20 pm
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 – 7:55 pm
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 – 10:26 pm
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 …
August 31, 2006 – 4:38 pm
burnley bouldering
For a long time, my favourite place to train was the East St Kilda railway bridges, four walls of crimpy …
March 18, 2006 – 9:15 pm
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 – 11:08 pm
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 – 8:44 pm
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 – 2:14 pm
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 …
November 7, 2005 – 8:10 pm
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 – 10:36 am
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 – 3:34 am
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 – 5:35 am
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 …
June 5, 2005 – 9:42 pm
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 – 1:57 pm
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 – 1:34 pm
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 – 10:03 pm
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 – 2:47 pm
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 – 5:53 pm
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 …
March 30, 2005 – 10:48 am
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 – 9:59 am
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 – 12:45 pm
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 – 2:19 pm
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 …
January 26, 2005 – 3:28 pm
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 17, 2005 – 3:32 pm
down at the ‘raps
Anyone who knows a climber in Australia has heard of Mt Arapiles, and pretty much every climber in the world …
September 26, 2004 – 2:46 pm
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 …
June 27, 2004 – 9:26 pm
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 – 11:40 pm
You Yangs
Yesterday I went for a quick dusk bouldering session down at East St Kilda railway bridges, cold and half-lit and …
April 25, 2004 – 11:20 pm
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 – 12:10 pm
edge of doom
It was such a beautiful afternoon, a slight breeze, blue sky like you only get in Australia, the sun was …