Tuesday, September 28, 2010
New post coming soon!
ahh yeah.
I will get some new photos up here soon.
Until then get out and climb!
piz : )
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Canyoning Huchuy Qosco 320.m/1050.f


Descending Huchuy Qosco canyoning is an adventure that involves the descent of a huge deep ravine and watercourse with flowing and splashing water that may be really wet, steep cliffs inside canyon require a certain level of climb skills. climb on wet surfaces, also require specialized technical equipment such as a ropes, belay devise, wetsuit, dry bags, anchors, knotting, etc However, because of the humid environment inside the canyon, some rock surfaces can be very wet and some rocks can be very loose despite appearing solid.
Deal with such wet climbing conditions has a certain level of risk. the Huchuyqosco Canyoning can be extremely dangerous and the Escape out the sides of a canyon is often impossible, and completion of the descent is the only possibility. Due to the remoteness and inaccessibility of canyon, rescue can be impossible for several hours or several days. Every year a few number of tourists and inexperienced guides get injured or need rescue and hence explorers need to take great care and preferably be accompanied by experienced guides.
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Friday, September 17, 2010
new school pet
Thursday, September 16, 2010
More random stuff
Bring it on...

I pretended that I couldn't climb and I won some money by making all the way up the wall. All you climbers, you can get free entry by winning you entry on this challenge!

Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Camera's Broke
Just expect some awesome old photos.
piz : )
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
This is a blog on the origins of climbing in Australia. And being a blog, if you're interested in chronological order, the story actually starts at the bottom of this longish page. I've published it to share some of my own experiences, along with information I've gathered with the help of many people over the past 10 years or so. It tells a story of the emergence of the idea of climbing in Australia before World War II and continues the story of the development of what is now known as 'adventure' or 'traditional' climbing in postwar Queensland, through my own and other former and current climbers' voices. The time period covered by this contribution stretches from the very beginnings of human interaction with the Australian landscape, switching to mostly Queensland activity after the second world war. Primarily, these observations do not focus on the period beyond the late 1970s when climbing'began to fragment into several, distinctly different elements: sport climbing, in particular, gradually pushed what became known as 'trad' or 'adventure' climbing to the periphery. The detailed story of climbing in Australia from the 1980s onwards is for others to write.
Like all histories, this is a version of events. It does not pretend to be the definitive account (if there is such a thing) and comes from an obvious Queensland perspective. It offers an alternative to the predominant view of Australian climbing history that has tended to assume that climbing as a mass sport started in New South Wales and Victoria. The somewhat episodic examples here provide some insight into the extraordinary range of mostly young men and women who have felt compelled to move beyond the usual pathways to explore the more elusive aspects of the Australian landscape. Although 'modern' Australian climbing began less than 100 years ago, a small number of individuals has been exploring high places here since the European invasion. Indigenous people had already inscribed every aspect of the landscape into their cosmology for millennia. But this is a story about climbing as a European 'invention'. Each climbing community around Australia and beyond has its own stories, its own histories and I hope this encourages others to tell them. Please pass on this web address to anyone you think may be interested or who has information to add (or correct) what I've presented here.
This blog represents a small fraction of the material that I and others have accumulated during this ongoing project. It has relied on the goodwill and trust of many climbers, current and past, who agreed to be interviewed and who have offered access to their private photograph collections. Please respect the copyright on the photographs published here, asking permission from the original owners (through me, if you like) before reproducing any of the material. But share this with friends, by all means.
Picture: On Mount Barney. Michael Meadows collection.
Ouray Backpacking


Thursday, September 2, 2010
Ouray Backpacking with Jane!

Last of Tehipite Climbing




Wednesday, September 1, 2010
RaNDoM


