Any Rock Climbers out there??

Gday all!!

Im from australia and i love a bit of climbing. anyone else climb??

if so, where abouts? indoor/outdoor? toprope/lead/boulder? Grades? Fav climbs??

Gotta love a good chat about it
Me... i love a good boulder, in or out. Havent done much outdoor toprope or lead but would love to do more.

Hehe found it..
QLD, recreation climber, outdoor if ever, have made it up Lesbian Printshop Workers (22-23) at Kangaroo Point Cliffs, Brisbane, and dogged it up Wages of Fear (24) which if anything, put me in my place- over with the 16's and 17's hehe.

A favourite climb done is Looking for the Sun (19) at Brooyar, QLD (did it at sunset too! amazing) and if I climbed enough, I'll one day complete The Great Devoid (22), I slipped off stupidly when I was down there and didn't get a chance to go again. The next guy did it faster than a demon. I was suitably humbled.

Hey there I used to climb quite alot, was the president of Cardiff Uni climbing Club . . never got that good but really enjoyed it been to alot of places round the uk and some places in france . . . Not sure how british grades compare to the australian ones . . . ah here you go

http://www.magwag.plus.com/jim/climbing-grades.html

The bouldering in Fontainbleau is awesome - the cardiff lot go there every easter , now in its 11th year.


Have climbed british HVS, seconded E3 but indoors we use french grades and lead about 6c on a good day .... but haven't done it for the last year

I've done most of my climbing around the French Alps, usually somewhere between 6b and 7a French grade (according to the table that's Ausy 20 - 24)

I like to do a wide variety of climbs, so I don't get stuck in a rut.
In France, everything and it's mother is bolted, so I end up doing lots of sport climbing, and sometimes top-roping.
I've solo'd a 5+ out there, and the area also lends itself very well to bouldering.

In Britain, I've done a bit of climbing around Snowdonia, where I did my SPA award.
I also had a very cool day climbing Pembrokeshire sea cliffs (but I had to change my underwear afterwards!).

I've climbed in and around Tennessee and Washington, both indoors and outdoors climbing. I think the toughest I've tried was a 5.9 climb out in Washington State, in basalt along the Columbia River Gorge. I struggled with that one. Most of the stuff I've done was between 5.6 and 5.8.

I'm not a great climber, but I have fun.

i know burning brain did when he lived in TN

Not rockclimbing specifically, but I've been canyoning a few times in the last couple of months. Bouldering, rockclimbing, abseiling, hand-over-hands etc.

Actually, as I type this, I have a large bruise running down my right forearm from a waterjump I did in a canyon on the weekend. Was about 5 metres into a small but deep pool, and silly me left my arm sticking out, SLAP! hehehe.

I'm fairly crap at rockclimbing, but am getting better. As my buddies keep saying, I gotta trust my toes!

I live about 20 miles from Smith Rocks, and I used to climb there when I was in high school. It's been a while, but I've been thinking of getting back into it by going to a local climbing gym.

Anybody have any idea how long it takes an out of shape girl to develop halfway decent upper body strength? ....Wait don't tell me I'll just get depressed, heheh.

this is mostly where i go. not the hardest climbs but they're fun and close.

http://www.rockclimbing.com/routes/listArea.php?AreaID=6992

http://www.rockclimbing.com/routes/listArea.php?AreaID=3664

Random bump

Hooray for Mr Search

Been climbing for a while, just starting to venture into bouldering too.

Not up into any particular impressive grades yet - but my it's fun
No Trad for me, only Sport climbing, can climb 6b on a very good day, lead 5+ most days.

Sadly I live in the worst area of the UK for climbing (except possibly Norfolk) so have a 2.5 hour drive to get to the nearest rock-rock (Have soft sandstone 45 mins away, but that's just weird)

Mainly boulders for me but a bit of trad when i can get a belay.
Did some sport climbing in Thailand a few years ago too.
Dont get out as much as i would like though as i have the same problem as Durbs As i live in Lincolnshire wich is actualy probably worse than Norfolk.

i do tree climbing, not tryed propper rock climbing but i would quite like to

I climb.

Mostly indoors sadly due to lack of time. My highest grade is 21 South African, which is about 20 Aussie I think. I am climbing considerably better than that at the moment though, probably closer to 24. Whether I can do that on rock is another story....

Not done much bouldering, although the gym is mostly that....

Yup, I've done a fair bit of climbing. Used to be comfortable on 6C boulder problems indoors, 6a outside. Not done a huge amount of outdoor roped climbs, a few weekends doing trad in the lakes is about it.

Save the trips out for special occasions now though as it destroys my fingers for days :s

I find indoor trashes my fingers much more than outdoor - though only have limestone and sandstone here which is quite forgiving.

Got my first flapper this week and everything

Need to get you out on some grit at some point Mr Durbs, that'll show you skin-trashing

I mainly boulder myself, and send stuff somewhere V3-V5 depending on the style. I also climb trees at work, which is too much fun for me to call it work with a straight face really.

Oh gods.... Gritstone. Never. Again. Ever.

Although, the way that you can stick really manky slopers is cool.

I climb on dolerite a fair amount. Also tends to shred your fingers a bit. Especially when jamming.

Apparently there are some pegmatites in the Katberg (I think?) that are awesome for bouldering, setting elimination problems with single crystals as holds for example....

I seem to avoid flappers, luckily.

Mr Joe: Are you a lumberjack? Because then it is ok. (Sorry, could not resist....)

I used to climb very week (indoor) and I've been outdoor twice, once in some random Perth Quarry and again in Thailand.

I loved it. I was super small and flexible and wasn't afraid to just jump to the next holds. I found though after a while I got to the 18-21 and the limiting factor was my arms bredth (?). Sometimes I could stand on tip toes on the last hold and still couldn't reach the next one.

My favourite ones were the chimney. I can get up chimneys without holds. SO MUCH FUN!

Hopefully I'll get back into it when I move to the 'big smoke'.

*Goes to check out grade comparisons*

Cool
It's mildly frustrating I only really got into climbing after the round the world trip... So much rock!

Off to the soft-sandstone this week for me.

Apparenly Dave Graham went out on the Grit yesterday and loved it... I think he's my main current inspiration over Sharma (9b?!!) - skinny dudes give me hope

Maybe a Portland spin-meet should be planned

Used to love indoor climbing. Would have been on my school team, but the inter-school comp was on the day of my debutante ball

Stopped going because it's too expensive