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28-Feb-2011 6:21:44 PM
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STOKED! and excited!
Leaving for my 9 month climbing trip TOMORROW!!! :) :) :) 9 months of climbing AWESOMENESS!!!
Also stoked that I farewelled Australia with the Hanging Rock rope jump!! Epic doesnt cover it. Helmet cam footage coming soon to youtube.com
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28-Feb-2011 7:07:49 PM
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Hey Olbert, can I ask how much you budgeted for 9 months?
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28-Feb-2011 7:37:36 PM
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Budgeted? Im not very good at budgeting.
The first thing I did to pay for this trip was get an older brother who is a mining engineer who is about to go on a massive world trip who is in need of a partner to come along. I was a bit iffy about coming, espeically cos of the money. He offered to pay for campervan lease in both North America and Europe and give me an interest free loan in order to induce me to come.
Once that part was sorted, I got about 15g of my own money - 4g already gone on flights and insurance. My budget consists of me trying not to spend too much, so that I dont have to take up the offer of a loan.
To be truthful I havent really worried about it, the loan is there if I need it.
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28-Feb-2011 7:43:24 PM
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Stoked that I'm going on my first trip to Mount Arapiles!
Two weeks of awesomeness!
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28-Feb-2011 8:43:29 PM
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I'm stoked that they make waterproof boots.
And I'm stoked that I got em cheap as on Chockstone.
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1-Mar-2011 1:41:45 PM
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you're 11g cashed up? why aren't you taking us all with you? The only time I've seen 11g people had guns.
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4-Mar-2011 4:24:46 PM
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Click, click, click, new cams!!! click, click ,click...
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27-Mar-2011 11:12:15 AM
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WW&S and me are off to Nangar tomorrow. Stoked!
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27-Mar-2011 11:06:20 PM
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stoked i've had a major spurt in my grades
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27-Mar-2011 11:17:53 PM
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On 27/03/2011 pezz wrote:
>stoked i've had a major spurt in my gruds
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Well, good for you! Now, you'd probably better wash those gruds out before your mum picks them up...............and maybe try to meet a girl?
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27-Mar-2011 11:34:29 PM
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On 9/02/2011 davidn wrote:
>On 9/02/2011 Wendy wrote:
>>On 21/01/2011 bl@ke wrote:
>>>Needy as!! Any hard 2 move problems?
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>>And i was just joking to Sol the other day that the discrepancy between
>>your climbing and bouldering grades must be cause you can reach the finishing
>>holds from the ground ... There's a whole thread devoted to suggestions
>>for you to climb, get on the rock and pull more than 2 moves in sequence!
>> The fun lasts much longer.
No way. Real fun comes from falling off one move for days on end until you get injured and have to take a year off and then going back and sending. I have found one route I want to spend more time on. Cobwebs ! Fun as!
But also thirty schmerty if I want to do something long I'll just hit up the hollow mountain bat cave.
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>Lies! Lies and scurrilous mistruths and misrepresentations! Bouldering
>is great!... But anyhow, from my own experience I think part of the discrepancy
>is just that you're used to pulling a few ludicrously hard moves, so you
>often try to do the easy moves the same way - just gut through them with
>no technique ;) And get halfway up most routes and drop off in exhaustion.
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>The boulderer's motto: If you can't be good, get fuggin strong.
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>That said, Blatke is probably spending so much time on rock he'll be climbing
>30+ by next year. The bastard.
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9-Apr-2011 8:05:15 PM
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stoked on getting back into climbing regularly after a 6 month hiatus due to slipping motivation & stoked that (weather permitting) ill be doing my 200th skydive tomorrow morning with my beautiful girl.
and superdooper stoked on there being 38 days till i go to Moab for a couple weeks of other freefall related activities, yee fricken haa!
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10-Apr-2011 6:48:27 PM
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STOKED to be bouldering around Manali in Himachal Pradesh of North India for a few more weeks!
a few photos of the first 2 weeks here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryguywy/sets/72157626231424079/
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13-Apr-2011 2:55:42 AM
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Have been to Joshua Tree, Red Rocks, Indian Creek, the Gunks and am currently at Red River Gorge. It's currently raining and am sitting in the warm basement of Miguels. I have more than 8 months of this to go.
I feel this is the definition of stoked.
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13-Apr-2011 8:07:56 AM
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Sounds like a freakin awesome trip so far Olbert. Only 8 months left eh.... poor bloke;)
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10-May-2011 8:14:30 PM
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On 27/03/2011 wallwombat wrote:
>WW&S and me are off to Nangar tomorrow. Stoked!
... So, how did it go?
☺
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11-May-2011 9:10:06 AM
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I'm stoked to have climbed Ozymandias Direct with two fantastic friends over the weekend.
2 nights on the wall, my first ever hook moves, leader falls, headtorch leading, spectacular weather, loads of fun!!!
TR to come.
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11-May-2011 9:24:39 AM
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I'm stoked for you Organ Pipe!
I'm also stoked to be leaving Melbourne to move to Christchurch in a month. Indefinitely.
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11-May-2011 9:48:46 AM
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>On 27/03/2011 wallwombat wrote:
>>WW&S and me are off to Nangar tomorrow. Stoked!
>On 10/05/2011 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>... So, how did it go?
>☺
It sucked balls.
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12-May-2011 10:30:53 AM
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On 11/05/2011 wallwombat wrote:
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>>On 27/03/2011 wallwombat wrote:
>>>WW&S and me are off to Nangar tomorrow. Stoked!
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>>On 10/05/2011 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>>... So, how did it go?
>>☺
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>It sucked balls.
We both had maps and info that niether of us took.
We were at the mercy of being droped off in NANGAR as niether of us has a license and no vehicle.
We were like Charlton Heston walking along the beach in Planet of the Apes trying to figure out where we were.
We walked to a high point and saw the statue of Liberty in the distance.
The ground was hard, rocky and steep and covered in flesh stripping ants. Then we sat covered and circled by DEET on our packs. It eventually got dark and the noises started. We carved shallow flat graves in the hill side for somewhere to sleep, lit a fire, drank beer, goon, dropped a horse pill and were eventually rescued.
I forgot to mention the spiders.
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