Welcome to my classroom at Mt Arapiles. This semester, Rock Environments is one of the units I am doing. What is it all about? Simple....its all about climbing! During this trip, we were getting used to doing traditional climbing where we place our own protection as we climb...gets a bit more technical compared to sports climbing back home.
"The Organ Pipes" is a popular spot for all climbers who visit the area. Mostly single and double pitches from grade seven to 21 which is a 6b+ under french grading.
After a couple of days of intro climbs, we were told to pair up and and go climb on our own. Rachel and me chose this climb called Arachnus which goes up four pitches.
We took turns to lead and second. Here is the start of her turn to lead on the third pitch.
The view from 110 meters up and after three hours. Look down carefully, you can see my classmates having lunch after their first pitch...slackers!
Here I am after another successful accent. The wind chill makes it cold even though it looks hot. Can't say the same for the climber...ha!
We will have to do more climbing on our own after this trip to clock in more experience and that will be part of our assessment for this unit. That means the more I climb, the better grades I get! Shiok man!
2 comments:
Wow.. the pIctures look great=) Hope i can climb real rocks too at some point in my life! =) Learnt some new stuff from Jacob at climb session today=) It was fun as usual=) Thanks for introing me to the climb grp=) It is definitely great fun climbing with nice ppl=) Also, Magdelen stays opposite me at katong.. not sure if i mentioned that.. she jio me go run.. not bad.. got extra incentive to run and khaki to run with=) oh, met ANOTHER OBS instructor today at climb asia.. forgot his name though=( dark,longish hair=)It feels great that i am making time to do so much more stuff this sem despite having the heaviest wkload this sem...Meaningful! You have fun climbing in Australia! looks like you are gonna score A for this module tt u are doing! Climb higher! PS:ya comment abt u being "hot" was funny!
Amazing man! Howe was just commenting that we can sell our climbing shoes away...haha...
So shiok...the more you climb the better your grades are...if only singapore edu system is like that =)
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