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Location: Australia
Name: Jono
Location: Victoria, Australia
Hometown: Adelaide, Australia
Birthday (sign?): Virgo
Age: 27
Sex: Male
Occupation(s): Outdoor Educator/full time student
Favorite Food(s): Coffee (yes, it is a food)
Favorite Color(s): green
What is the wing speed of an unladen swallow? 43 beats a second, but it apparantly depends on whether your talking about a European or African swallow. Also, a 5 ounce bird has no hope of carrying a 1 pound coconut around.
Toys: as it relates to this site; Poi - LED and fire
Hobbies other than the obvious: Rockclimbing, Telemark skiing, Rockclimbing, Whitewater Kayaking and Captioning, Telemark Skiing, playing guitar and Rockclimbing. Oh yeah, paying out my housemate.
Education: currently doing Degrees in Outdoor Education, Secondary School Education and a Graduate Certificate in Outdoor and Environmental Education in White Water Environments.
Favorite Book(s): Dr Sues
Favorite Movie(s): Charlie and the chocolate factory
Godzilla vs. a Star Wars Star Destroyer. Who wins? Chuck Norris Why? Because he is so tough, when he falls out of a boat he doesnt get wet, the water gets chucked.
Favorite TV show(s): I dont really watch tv
Plans for life in general: I want to be remembered for my art.
Favorite Music Artists/Composers: Anything that is acoustic and easy enough for me to play.
Do you think these pants make my butt look too big? No, its the donuts that do that.
Favorie ice cream flavor(s): lemon sorbet
Marmite, Vegemite, or Nutella?* Vegemite all the way. They scrape it from the bottom of beer barrels, whats not to like about that?
sticks and stones my break my bones, but ski patrol will save me.
.:*distracted by shiny things*:.
3,777 posts
Location: brizvegas, Australia
elloooo!! 
welcome to the nuthouse! 
enjoy your stay!!!! 
do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!
if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!
smile! :grin: it confuses people!
Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
4,061 posts
Location: South Africa
Welcome!
Yay for more climbers.
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
pant crafting
97 posts
Location: Ireland
sup!
No air drumming - Bruford could change the timing up so fast you could snap your wrist!
Spinner: (means "freak" in German)
21 posts
Location: Traveling, Switzerland
Aloha
Gata Gata Para Sum Gata Bodhisvaha.
Go far, go further, go further than ever imagined.
Hunting robot foxes
1,046 posts
Location: Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England (UK)
Oy oy oy! What have we here!
Working hard to be a wandering hippie layabout. Ten years down, five to go!
addict
474 posts
Location: Australia
justa lil bit o' skullduggery innit offisah!
sticks and stones my break my bones, but ski patrol will save me.
Hunting robot foxes
1,046 posts
Location: Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England (UK)
Very well! Carry on
Working hard to be a wandering hippie layabout. Ten years down, five to go!
Fire Spinner Exarch
514 posts
Location: New Orleans, LA United States, USA
Climbers FTW! Are there tall mountains out where you live? And coffee is definetly food, a very important food!
"Are you sure it's safe to drink bleach?"
"Yes, bleach is 90% water, we are 90% water, therefore: we are bleach."
-Nathan Explosion, Metalocalypse
Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
4,061 posts
Location: South Africa
Nothing around here sadly.
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
addict
474 posts
Location: Australia
not tall, Australia is too old to have real mountains. If you dont count Tasmania (most of us dont) Mt Buffalo has like 500m cliffs. Arapiles and Moonarie are 100 - 150mtrs, stuff in the Grampians go to about 300m.
sticks and stones my break my bones, but ski patrol will save me.
Hunting robot foxes
1,046 posts
Location: Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England (UK)
We have stuff upto about 300m within a 200 mile area, and longer stuff if you want to go to Scotland. My local stuff rarely gets longer than 30m though, I'm not complaining, its the best rock in the world
Working hard to be a wandering hippie layabout. Ten years down, five to go!
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474 posts
Location: Australia
you only think its the best rock in the world, wait till you climb at Arapiles (my local crag) over 3000 routes from grades 2 up to 33 (33 is like roughly E10, 2 doesnt even show up! M's are like grade 7)
I cant think of anywhere else in the world that has a 3 star classic at grade 6, Arapiles has 4 of them!
The rock was designed to hold gear, you can literally throw your rack at the wall and clip whatever sticks the gear is that good.
when God created the world, He created Arapiles first. You my friends; climb on whatever He had left over!
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sticks and stones my break my bones, but ski patrol will save me.
Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
4,061 posts
Location: South Africa
Grade 6? But why?
Hmmm.... Climbing SA 23. Or was. 21 onsights comfortably.
Comes out as Aussie 24 and 22 I think.
Incidentally, that crag sounds awesome. Is nothing like that in SA.
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Hunting robot foxes
1,046 posts
Location: Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England (UK)
Yeah but on grit, you can stand on nothing due to the amazing friction, and half the time the gear is good, but so far below you that you'll probably hit the ground with rope stretch. Makes for truly superb gibber potential
I'm at about Aussie 22 on bolts, and 19/20 on grit when I really don't wanna fall off.
Working hard to be a wandering hippie layabout. Ten years down, five to go!
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