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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Raining means training
Unforunately the past month has not been that great on the tickage side of things, the crappy weather in the mountains has not exactly been helping the situation either! After a brief New Years break it was back to Bell( a relatively new crag in the mountains) to finish a bit of unsettled buisness. Although Dan X and I got absolutely saturated on the approach to the cliff, it ended up being worthwhile as I sent Steve Grkovic's (30) in the Devils Circus cave. Although I felt quite strong on the route the conditions were quite bad, with humidity in the high 90s. Over the past 10 days I have tried persevering with bad Conditions in Blackheath before coming to the conclusion that maybe it will be more beneficial to myself and my climbing if I just simply TRAIN! As depressing as it can be, I am totally psyched! After watching a few Dani Andrada youtube clips Im back on the campus board....and hangin for Nowra :-) I have also been doin lots of laps in the Hood (villawood) to stay fit......I did forget to mention that a HD video camera is on its way so I can get some cool videos of random routes on this page, and hopefully make it a bit more exciting for you guys! So if I do look a little skinny it is probably because I am starving myself to buy this puppy. :-P
Scotty Pritchard has been busy with his new SLR camera so there will be some rad picks up next week!!! In the meantime train hard 1-5-9 :-)
New Gri Gri
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Rockin 2010
These are a few shots taken throughout the year at various locations.
Tassie, Victoria & NSW
Tassie, Victoria & NSW
2010 Wrap up!
All in all 2010 wasn't a bad year for me, after a Short climbing trip to Tasmania in January my psych levels were through the roof! Training was high on the priority list for the remainder of summer as it was difficult to hit the crag because of work. However I managed to climb most weekends, ticking several routes ranging from 27-30. In June I quit my full time job with Arctic Airconditioning to help build SICG Villawood, where I now work as a casual staff member.
The winter months were spent hanging out at Nowra with the likes of Local Will Watkins, South Australian (Beta king) Mick Wells, Rob & Carlie Lebreton, Matt & Bryson and (of course) Gav Phillips aka GAVATRON. In late June I ruptured an A2 pulley in my left ring finger, which slowed my progress drastically throughout the season. Fortunately the pulley didn't tear completely, so after 2 weeks rest and a bit of TLC i taped it as hard as I could and returned to the shoalhaven to send Dude Food(29) and a couple of weeks later Non Dairy(30) & Dungeon Master(31) fortunately all of these routes have big slopey holds!
In October/November I spent time trying to improve my onsighting abilities(as this is a weakness of mine), targeting lots of routes around the 26 to 28 grade. This was a good learning curve, onsighting is a totally different ball game! And something I need to work on! Also spent a bit of time at Bardens on Bloodline (31/32) thanks Amanda and Mitch. I got quite frustrated on this route(only managing to tick the 29/30 variant), but I am certain It will go when i return.
In late November we spent some time doing some photos, (thanks Scotty Pritchard & Dan X) that was fun! A lot more effort goes into this than I thought! In fact I think it is actually more intense than trying to redpoint a hard route.
In December I was very fortunate to become sponsored by Spelean (Five-ten, Petzl & Blue Water).
In my opinion the equipment I have been supplied with is second to none. Im very happy with the products.
What better way to end 2010 than a trip to the Grampians!
On the 13th of December Myself, Gav "Gavatron" Phillips & Byron Glover aka Mountain Goat or just MG. Headed down south to the Wimmera in search of some hard red sandstone. This was my first time at the Gramps so I guess you could say I was PSYCHED! Unfortunately we did not tick anything awesome, as we were very limited for time and had our fair share of casualties along the way. (Gavatron nearly cut his pinky off with a leatherman, I blew a tip on the first day & MG was sick for half the trip).
MG and I are planning on spending a long period of time down there in March/April :-)
So in a nutshell that was pretty much 2010!
The winter months were spent hanging out at Nowra with the likes of Local Will Watkins, South Australian (Beta king) Mick Wells, Rob & Carlie Lebreton, Matt & Bryson and (of course) Gav Phillips aka GAVATRON. In late June I ruptured an A2 pulley in my left ring finger, which slowed my progress drastically throughout the season. Fortunately the pulley didn't tear completely, so after 2 weeks rest and a bit of TLC i taped it as hard as I could and returned to the shoalhaven to send Dude Food(29) and a couple of weeks later Non Dairy(30) & Dungeon Master(31) fortunately all of these routes have big slopey holds!
In October/November I spent time trying to improve my onsighting abilities(as this is a weakness of mine), targeting lots of routes around the 26 to 28 grade. This was a good learning curve, onsighting is a totally different ball game! And something I need to work on! Also spent a bit of time at Bardens on Bloodline (31/32) thanks Amanda and Mitch. I got quite frustrated on this route(only managing to tick the 29/30 variant), but I am certain It will go when i return.
In late November we spent some time doing some photos, (thanks Scotty Pritchard & Dan X) that was fun! A lot more effort goes into this than I thought! In fact I think it is actually more intense than trying to redpoint a hard route.
In December I was very fortunate to become sponsored by Spelean (Five-ten, Petzl & Blue Water).
In my opinion the equipment I have been supplied with is second to none. Im very happy with the products.
What better way to end 2010 than a trip to the Grampians!
On the 13th of December Myself, Gav "Gavatron" Phillips & Byron Glover aka Mountain Goat or just MG. Headed down south to the Wimmera in search of some hard red sandstone. This was my first time at the Gramps so I guess you could say I was PSYCHED! Unfortunately we did not tick anything awesome, as we were very limited for time and had our fair share of casualties along the way. (Gavatron nearly cut his pinky off with a leatherman, I blew a tip on the first day & MG was sick for half the trip).
MG and I are planning on spending a long period of time down there in March/April :-)
So in a nutshell that was pretty much 2010!
Welcome to my Blog
Over the past 12 months I have come to the conclusion that if I don't begin documenting my adventures and experiences I will forget almost all of it! For this reason, (with help from a friend Dom) I have decided to start blogging the day to day stuff that occurs in my life. Although I consider myself totally computer illiterate, I think I am slowly getting my head around how this computer works and look forward to writing future diary entries:-) Read on, And hope you enjoy!!
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