yeeeek!!!

Wow!! A weekend of testing the limits...Climbing more sought-after Frog Buttress testpeices...

The mega-exposed borderline 29 (5.10-)....just AWESOME!!









and the classic rock architecture of devils dehedral (5.10+)





Unfortunately my weekend ended in pain...a dislocated knee (from a nice whipper) and probably a couple weeks off the rock!! Hey whatevers, time to study, yoga and study...maybe study...

Time is moving fast-forward!!!!

Cool!!! Just gotten a job with a well known Aussie environmental consulting firm, as well as trying to maintain my full-time student status and trying to find time for climbinga couple times a week, and surfing at least once a fortnight to ensure sanity....

Heres a couple photos of me surfing perfect small waves at Ti Tree Bay, Noosa Heads National Park this weekend...

This surf was as fun as it looks!!!

Another Weekend...

Another amazing climb went down....this was a really exceptional one...Called Sunburn Buttress...

You gotta just love Australia...its mid winter, we still go multi-pitch climbing with no bags, no shirts and just wearings shorts and sunscreen!!! Up and down in four hours...a couple of bolts in the right spots, some good gear, some bad...overall awesome climbing with good movements and lots of variation in the climbing, from cracks to corners, to juggy overhangs to thin face...about sustained 5.10 in a couple places with lots of air and funky featured volcanic rock! Super fun...and no epics!

Sweet. So lucky to be here in SE Queensland right now.

Its been a while....

Since the last post....sorry people who care! Well its been busy as! On the school front I am securing a thesis project doing environmental planning for a coal mining operation in Australia. Hopefully this pans out... Back into--and fully immersed in the incomprehensible grind of the mAsters degree, time is a valuable commodity.

Yet one finds time to have one last weekend of climbing glory at frog buttress with my trusty French climbing partner Vince. We hit up many classics, notebles include our fav route Gladiator 10a, see below...



group shot after several laps of off-fingers on this route after the initial lead...


Later I onsighted my hardest crack yet...Sorcerers apprentice 5.10c/d on the thin and inspiring lines off the warlock ledge..also see below...

too cool....


starting the apprenticship...


these are photos from after our weekend of glory, climbing test peice classics under perfect winter conditions and returning for Vince's farewell party!!!....



Unfortunately our weekend of amazing cragging was slightly marred by the knowledge of yet another classic swell on the coast, refracting into the numerable Australian East coast coves and beaches....Thanks of course to Mr Leon Hunter for sending me the photos of 'HOW GOOD IT WAS'!!! Haha....either way everyone is smiling like lunatics...

Talk soon....