We climbed 5 pitches plus a little jungle scramble at the top of Thumb Peak today (a route named ‘Happy New Year’) to around 125 meters. It was the first time Zoe and I had climbed more than two pitches in one go (30 meters is a standard pitch, being half the length of a [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Climbing’
March 14, 2010
International Superstars
We had a few onlookers for our climb today at the ‘Twin Gate’ crag which was among the fields but much easier to find than yesterday (yesterday we set out to find ‘The Egg’ but a new road had been paved rendering our directions useless, and after getting lost among the mandarin orange orchards and [...]
March 11, 2010
China: the final frontier (an introductory post)
Yángshuò is known as China’s backpacker haven, but there just aren’t that many here – at least, not in nearly the same numbers as in Thailand (may have something to do with the expensive and hard to get visas, or the fact that it was 5 degrees celsius when we got here, though it’s since [...]
February 9, 2010
Climbing Crazy Horse in Chiang Mai
We got in a couple of days of climbing here in the 5th largest city in Thailand. The Crazy Horse Buttress is a local crag that’s been well developed by climbers from the city’s only climbing shop, CMRC. They run guiding services but also for 250 Baht they’ll shuttle you to the crag and feed [...]
January 22, 2010
Cricket and other creepy crawlies
We left Tonsai today for Krabi Town and air con. Yesterday was so hot that even the Thai ladies with the food stands at the south end of Tonsai beach were complaining. We brought something with us though, a large scary spider who hitched a ride in Mark’s backpack. We thought we had [...]
January 22, 2010
Mai pen rai e.g. ‘No shirt, no shoes, no problem’
We had a nice long post introducing Thailand and the climbing here at Tonsai and the Phra Nang peninsula but then our Wordpress app decided to eat it so we’re trying again.
Traveling to Tonsai Beach from Malaysian Pulau Langkawi was about as epic as the sixteen hour trans-Artic flight we took from EWR > [...]
November 4, 2009
‘Gunks, Birdie Party and a short traverse
Bill L. and I took a trip up on Monday to the Shawangunks and the Trapps. I can’t remember the first meandering “3 star” 5.8 we got on but it wasn’t particularly great. The view from the top of the cliff line was though and the sun was out, so I couldn’t complain. We hunted [...]
November 4, 2009
Red Rocks, Nevada – Badwater and Zabriskie Point
Went out to the desert. Climbed rocks. Spent $3 on slot machines. Drove out to Death Valley.
