Things to do, places to see. Despite what you might think, you won’t have fond memories of Young & Restless on your deathbed
“Take a look to the sky just before you die” Hmmmm. Don’t really have much to say, a bit of a bummer update. Did the Boven weekend, arrived Friday mid morning and had a lovely day. Was pretty useless on Saturday, but the highlight was definitely “Little Bonsai” (16). A really nice climb of...
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Fridge signed on the dotted line, we’ll be heading to Italy in about 12 months. some hard training until then as these are big routes and we don’t want to get spat off for no good reason after travelling all the way over the ocean. Some motivation - pics of the Italian dolomites from UKC:
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So I'm back at work after a very nice long weekend. We camped at Ezemvelo which is about 25km outside the town of Bronkhorstspruit. I did not try to check out the supposedly splendid bouldering there, but we did head out to Bronkies for some climbing.
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...or is it pre-mature posting?
Whooooooooohooooooo!!!! I can like to have weekend!!!!
Alrighty then. It's been a hectic couple of weeks and some serious changes along with it. I dare say I think it's all going to be OK. Let the bragging start:
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Captains log, star date unknown: My thighs are stiff from the uphill walk-in to Chosspile – Scotty could not get a lock-on. Feeling very motivated after climbing some of my hardest routes ever at Swinburne the week before, I tried the Philosopher’s Stone, a 20. To say I sucked would be a bit of an...
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….perhaps a bit late to be calling it that, but still, a mini get-away for me. Took off Wednesday, Friday & Monday, making it a looong weekend, so this is me wasting away the last couple of minutes at work for the week. Some cool stuff’s been happening. No, I still can’t ride the...
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Tags: Climbing, SANCL, Waterval Boven
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Hmmmm. Let’s see summertime is here, time to start dreaming again. Coming up: Half price bungee at Orlando Towers. Sounds like fun, not sure if my nerves will hold. No big plans for the weekend (yet). Maybe start working on that long planned bouldering wall….. yesss, my precious, that sounds like a brilliant idea. Got...
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Tags: Climbing, Full throttle, Gig, Swinburne, Waterval Boven
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Burnt some midnight oil, some weekend oil and then some more midnight oil – finally we have lift off for the ’09 Boven Roc Rally registrations on my very own creation called SANCL.org. Gustav liked & stuck to the idea of having a central climber database & ranking system and even turned down another offer...
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I took out some first time climbers to Bobbjeaans Berg ( a.k.a. Mutango Lodge ) this past weekend. It's not the greatest spot ever, but it's close by, and it's got the "Fairy tale" section with a bunch of realy easy / beginner climbs right next to each other. Actually it's quite...
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Tags: Climbing, Mutango, Projects, Swinburne, Wellingtons Dome
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The past weekend I went to Swinburne, a small town about 15km past Harrismith towards Durban. As far as I can tell, it’s more like a large service station & bus stop with a handful of houses nearby than a real town. We stayed at Appin House about 5 km out of “town” which...
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