Another week unceremonially bit the dust. It was a short one, but we’ll miss it no less. After all it was a good little week, and all weeks go to heaven, I think. The status report: Wild-wild-outside: Short holiday in the Freestate went well, no climbing done but got in PLENTY of sleep. Was...
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Wow, what a week. It feels like a lifetime since last weekend, in a good way. Not that I’m not REALLY looking forward to leaving work today, but it’s been a good week packed full of interesting conversations, new opportunities, ironing, washing floors and sleeping like a log in my now almost totally dark bedroom. I’ve...
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What is bouldering? What is a bouldering wall? Shortly, bouldering is a condensed form of rock climbing. The routes are short, steep and hard. An artificial wall is used for training during the week as the rock climbing or bouldering locations are often too far to get to after work. I’m in exactly that position...
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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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It's been a while since I last tinkered with the SANCL site. No major comps happening and everyone's watching the Rock and Road trip with Adam Ondra.
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Enough FLA’s already ? ;-P Acting on some functionality requests, and the apparent interest in seeing a national (sport) climbing league, I’ve decided to create a new website, to pool it all together, instead of lots of different little sites diluting the attention of a small community. Enter www.SANCL.org – short for (The) South...
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A quick punt for one of my projects. I’m very proud to say that my Gauteng School Climbing League site is progressing nicely. It started of as a simple html page with contact details of the comittee, and by now I’m just short of making available the online capturing of competition scores, and live...
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