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| Me on 'Streak Of Lightning' on Blue Streak Wall |
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| Me sending 'Durakuto Han' 5.12b at Hawaii 5.0 |
Sunday, December 12, 2010
More pics from Onsight Photography
Here are a few more pics thanks to Simon Carter at Onsight Photography.. check him out!
The good times just keep rolling!!!
Things have continued to be amazing out here with days upon days of great deep water soling out in the bay and fun days of sport climbing on the island.
I just finished 5 straight days of DWS including a final mission for Simon and Monique before they headed home to Oz. It was great hanging out with some old friends from home :)
Jen has headed back to Yangshuo already and I will be off on the 20th so time here is drawing to an end so now I'm off to climb out in Butterfly Valley then it's all guns blazing out at the Temple Amphitheatre to get more routes bolted before I leave!
Heres some more pics for you all, enjoy!!!
I just finished 5 straight days of DWS including a final mission for Simon and Monique before they headed home to Oz. It was great hanging out with some old friends from home :)
Jen has headed back to Yangshuo already and I will be off on the 20th so time here is drawing to an end so now I'm off to climb out in Butterfly Valley then it's all guns blazing out at the Temple Amphitheatre to get more routes bolted before I leave!
Heres some more pics for you all, enjoy!!!
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| Fred enjoying the view on the way out into the bay |
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| Katie on 'Le Mekong' at Le Mekong |
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| Vu on the boat and Cassie swimming back after taking a plunge |
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| Good times |
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| Climbing at Tiger Beach |
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| Sarah on Le Mekong |
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| Me at Le Mekong |
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| Fred climbing at Tiger Beach |
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| Climbing on 'Balooning Around' at Le Mekong |
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| And again |
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| Monique Forestier climbing at Tiger Beach |
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| Me at Le Mekong |
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| Me again at Le Mekong |
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| And again |
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| Fresh crab for luch, oh yeah! |
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Ha Long Bay, continuing to be amazing...
Things keep getting better and better. My knee is well and truely on the mend, work has been great fun, a heap of my friends from Yangshuo are all here on Cat Ba including two of my favourite people in the world, Fred and Kre who are here climbing and working at Slo Pony Adventures with Jen and I.
I have been climbing pretty well since my knee being good enough to climb again and have done a stack of great routes including one 5.12d last week and two 5.12a onsights today. Good times!
Below are a few pics from Simon Carter of me deep water soloing the other day. If you don't know Simon check out his website: http://www.onsight.com.au/
Simon is an amazing clim bing photographer based in the Blue Mountains in Australia and you can find his work in climbing magazines and other publications around the world, check him out!
And heres one from my boy Lee Cujes. Check out his website: http://www.upskillclimbing.com/
... lifes hard out here ;-)
I have been climbing pretty well since my knee being good enough to climb again and have done a stack of great routes including one 5.12d last week and two 5.12a onsights today. Good times!
Below are a few pics from Simon Carter of me deep water soloing the other day. If you don't know Simon check out his website: http://www.onsight.com.au/
Simon is an amazing clim bing photographer based in the Blue Mountains in Australia and you can find his work in climbing magazines and other publications around the world, check him out!
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| Me on a 5.8 at Fishermans Way |
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| Me airbourne at Fishermans Way |
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| On a 5.11 at Fishermans Way |
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| Me campusing out on 'The Diving Board' at Unemployment Wall |
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| On a hard project at Unemployment Wall |
And heres one from my boy Lee Cujes. Check out his website: http://www.upskillclimbing.com/
... lifes hard out here ;-)
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
More Vietnam!
Ah the island life. Relaxed atmosphere, great seafood, relaxing on boats... life is great!
Things have been continuously amazing here despite my knee injury (don't worry, its all good and I am climbing again albeit carefully) and many good times are being had.
I have been working on the boats alot taking people out Deep Water Soloing and climbing on the islands.
My good friends Lee Cujes, Simon Carter, Monique Forestier plus Coco, Sam, Tamara and Audrey are all here climbing, boltoing and doing photo shoots. Yesterday we headed out into the bay for a day of deep water soling at Fisherman's Way and Unemployment Wall... good times! I took the biggest jump I have ever taken too. Topped out a 17 metre 5.8 and jumped from the ledge, so much fun but so terrifying! haha
Here's a few pics... I will see if I can get Mr Carter to donate a few pics for this blog for you all, I'll keep you posted :-)
Things have been continuously amazing here despite my knee injury (don't worry, its all good and I am climbing again albeit carefully) and many good times are being had.
I have been working on the boats alot taking people out Deep Water Soloing and climbing on the islands.
My good friends Lee Cujes, Simon Carter, Monique Forestier plus Coco, Sam, Tamara and Audrey are all here climbing, boltoing and doing photo shoots. Yesterday we headed out into the bay for a day of deep water soling at Fisherman's Way and Unemployment Wall... good times! I took the biggest jump I have ever taken too. Topped out a 17 metre 5.8 and jumped from the ledge, so much fun but so terrifying! haha
Here's a few pics... I will see if I can get Mr Carter to donate a few pics for this blog for you all, I'll keep you posted :-)
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| Monique and Coco |
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| Cruising to the crags with a basket boat and kayaks in tow |
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| Me less than half way up the 5.8 warm up at Fishermans way... you finish and jump from the ledge way up diagonally right from me... EPIC! |
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| The Candlestick aka The Polish Pillar |
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| Simon and Lee scoping out photo angles |
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| Jen chillin' on the boat... lifes hard |
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| The ever smiling Mr Cujes |
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| She is obviously always very busy around here lol |
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| Heading home into a brilliant sunset |
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| Sarah on a long lunch break, us Slo Pony staff have it pretty easy ;-) |
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| Nora... hilarious personified |
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Psyche and Physiotherapy...
Hey kids!
Things are rockin' out here in Ha Long Bay! Plenty of guiding work (I use the term 'work' losely here... hanging out on a boat in paradise, kayaking, climbing and bolting new crags isn't exactly work haha) and plenty of fun. We have started bolting a cool amphitheatre on an island about 30 minutes basket boat ride from Tiger Beach. It doesnt have a name yet but it will have maybe 20 routes in the end from maybe 5.8 to 5.14+, from vertical to ludicrously steep and from 1 to 3 pitches long. Plus we have 2 deep water soloing wall to develop right next to them if the water is deep enough there. Psyched.
One little set back though. I busted my knee climbing it Butterfly Valley this morning. It's not too bad so hoepfully I will be all good in a few days but I just have to keep it elevated and iced for the moment and then see how it feels tomorrow... fingers crossed!
The crew from China Climb arrived yesterday too. They are here to run a sea kayaking trip next week so town is full of fun folk right now and more are expected soon... psyched!!!
Heres a few more pics :-)
Things are rockin' out here in Ha Long Bay! Plenty of guiding work (I use the term 'work' losely here... hanging out on a boat in paradise, kayaking, climbing and bolting new crags isn't exactly work haha) and plenty of fun. We have started bolting a cool amphitheatre on an island about 30 minutes basket boat ride from Tiger Beach. It doesnt have a name yet but it will have maybe 20 routes in the end from maybe 5.8 to 5.14+, from vertical to ludicrously steep and from 1 to 3 pitches long. Plus we have 2 deep water soloing wall to develop right next to them if the water is deep enough there. Psyched.
One little set back though. I busted my knee climbing it Butterfly Valley this morning. It's not too bad so hoepfully I will be all good in a few days but I just have to keep it elevated and iced for the moment and then see how it feels tomorrow... fingers crossed!
The crew from China Climb arrived yesterday too. They are here to run a sea kayaking trip next week so town is full of fun folk right now and more are expected soon... psyched!!!
Heres a few more pics :-)
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| Jen climbing 'Big Brown B-Hole' 5.12a at Ben beo Harbour, right next to our apartment |
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| Slo - man, myth, legend |
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| Life is hard... |
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| The wall we are bolting at the moment, you can only get there by basket boat |
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| Awesome!!! |
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| Do you like it steep? |
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| Climbing and kayaking at Moody's Beach |
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