Before I came to Adelaide, I dismantled my beautiful aluminium bicycle and along with half of my hiking gear, put...
A late-morning ballet class, a lot of cycling, and a mid-afternoon boulder down at Burnley. I was feeling like chocolate...
Under many different names but mostly known to us as Kowloon as in what Mongkok is a part of in...
A trip to Lerderderg Gorge yesterday for a leisurely afternoon of hiking along the Tunnel trail, a hacked laceration through...
A truly disgusting start to yesterday was reading about climbers in Tibet on Cho Oyu watching the Chinese Army massacre...
For a long time, my favourite place to train was the East St Kilda railway bridges, four walls of crimpy...
Some photos of five days I spent wandering through Tiger Leaping Gorge, some from the high trail, others from when...
I'm going on holiday. For more than a week, maybe even two weeks... One place I've always wanted to visit...
Last year I was less than flattering about the dance I saw at the 第二届广东现代舞周 2nd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival...
So I came back early. It was getting wet, which was slightly funny considering it hadn't really dried, and trying...
I was going to write a whole bunch of stuff about a whole pile of stuff, lots of exciting Guangzhou...
Cosmin, who was one of the mob of Guangzhou climbers that descended on Jiulong every weekend while I was in...
There's been a complete lack of indoor climbing in Melbourne since the place in Collingwood closed a couple of years...
Park 19 in Guangzhou has been off the internet for a few weeks now, and when I visited the studios...
One of the last times I went climbing at Jiulong, was the monster Hong Kong/Southern China climbers visit to Bamboo...
It's possible that on the one day off from dancing in the week I would be best served by lying...
Rain didn't stop bolting in Jiulong, and two new routes went up, overhanging and around 10d/11a. No pictures yet... but...
I guess Guangzhou mustn't be that skanky wet furnace of mugginess and hysteria inducing heat anymore, though it's hard to...
The best way to climb hills in Switzerland is by drinking coffee and eating pain au chocolate until late morning...
I'm an avid map-reader. I'll spend hours pouring over all kinds of maps looking for something, nothing. Lately it's been...
I know everyone wants to dirt on the show last night, but bugger that. I'm going climbing. So, after a...
It was the last trip before the humidity rotted even out bones, and the vampire mosquitos were swarming, lecherous and...
The gravity was especially strong in Jiulong on Saturday. In addition to the kind of humidity that can rot the...
I'm off climbing again in sunny Jiulong again tomorrow for the weekend. Expect lots of dirty photos of drills going...
Jiulong turned into a bit of a tourist town this weekend. Three carloads of climbers plus a few others ate...
I'm off tomorrow morning for a couple of days up at Jiulong again. It's the big trip. Nine days of...
Reading the Green Guide at Orange yesterday, the last name I expected to see getting airtime on SBS this week...
In an effort to make everyone see what an awesome place Guangdong province is to go climbing in, it looks...
The long weekend meant a trip to the Grampians with the Vic Climbing Club for three days of long, multi-pitch...
We set off for Jiulong with the same driver and his white car with the dropped shocks around seven along...
A while ago, I saw some photos of a place just north of Guangzhou that looked so like Yangshou, the...
So I didn't make it to Yu Shan, but found some granite to pull on at some other peaks in...
I'm off to Hehuan Shan for the next few days. My plan to climb Yu Shan alone was thwarted, so...
When I first knew I was going to China, my first thought was, "Damn I need to find where to...
Today I went to 陽明山國家公園 Yangming Shan National Park, a 1/2 hour scooter ride up into the hills north of...
Anyone who knows a climber in Australia has heard of Mt Arapiles, and pretty much every climber in the world...
The results are in for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards. Go over and check it out, and see some new...
There are a whole pageload of new blogs over at sinosplice china blog list, but only in only one is...
After a couple of months of silence and a website announcing the days of 第三现场 Live Home 3 were over...
The Three Gorges dam is nothing much more than a giant toilet, slowing to a grinding halt the flow of...
With the recent issues in Australia of arts funding being sent on a round trip through the local abbatoir, and...
After 18 months and four resoles in a pair of Boreal Stingers I purchased in Toronto, the last resole did...
城市當代舞蹈團CCDC in Hong Kong is currently celebrating its 25th anniversary, and tonight is performing Silver Rain at the Hong Kong...
zhwj 中国幻想文学基地 is the one-stop shop for anything to do with Science-Fiction (科幻 kehuan) and Fantasy (奇幻 qihuan) coming out...
The magazine that got me out of my apartment and finding Guangzhou has a cover story on the one thing...
Yesterday I went for a quick dusk bouldering session down at East St Kilda railway bridges, cold and half-lit and...
The climbing season on K2 has kicked off, with 54 expeditions attempting to summit the mountain made famous by prominent...
I have big issues with crack climbing. Mainly because I don't really know how to do it, so there's lots...
It was such a beautiful afternoon, a slight breeze, blue sky like you only get in Australia, the sun was...