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June 12, 2008
amy and her mum
we miss you Lynn. we miss you very much.
Posted by yankinoz at 08:05 AM | Comments (4)
June 11, 2008
0801_Climbing-Mt-York
Copyright Damon Smith Damon was kind enough to allow me to post a few photos he took of me climbing a couple weekends ago. This is one of the grade 21 climbs I was working on in the Blue Mountains (actually this is both of the climbs as this one section is shared - there's two different starts but, well that's not the reason for this post.) I'm taking the next few weeks off climbing. I'm heading to America - I'll spend some time with Amy and her family before we head to my sister's wedding in Seattle. After that I'm brining Amy back to Australia. We settle on our new house and there's renovations and moving and well, a whole heck of a lot to do. I'll still send a 23 or better by my 40th.
Posted by yankinoz at 11:53 PM | Comments (0)
0812_Climbing-Mt-York
Copyright Damon Smith Damon was kind enough to allow me to post a few photos he took of me climbing a couple weekends ago. Here I'm at the anchors of 'Hold on to Yourself' (21) - um took a few rests on the way. I'll get this one clean one day.
Posted by yankinoz at 11:48 PM | Comments (1)
0743_Climbing-Mt-York
Copyright Damon Smith Damon was kind enough to allow me to post a few photos he took of me climbing a couple weekends ago. This is the crux of 'Lady Grinning Soul' (21)
Posted by yankinoz at 11:41 PM | Comments (0)
June 01, 2008
Paul silhouette on Korca 18
Posted by yankinoz at 09:54 PM | Comments (0)
Murdoch video
Getting closer to my climbing goals for 2008. The last two weekends I've been focused on climbs in the 20-22 range - building a solid 'pyramid' for my push to 24. Last Saturday in the Blue Mountains I red pointed (climbed clean on lead after rehearsing the moves) a 21 called 'Lady Grinning Soul' and followed that with a failed on sight of the 21 'Hang on to Yourself' (but i did manged a clean top rope of it - I'll red point it next time I'm there) Yesterday in Nowra I on sighted 'Beavis' (20) after warming up on 'Butt Head' just next to it - lol. Later I had a shot at on sighting the 22 'Murdoch the Horsef*r' - I fell trying to sort out the first moves off the top of the starting boulder... once i figured those out I did get to the top with one rest. The second attempt was captured on video above... have a watch if you're interested in my very vocal climbing style - someone once told me "if you're grunting you're breathing" and that's stuck with me...
Posted by yankinoz at 09:40 AM | Comments (0)
