Not a traditional birthday!

On the weekend of the 8th of June a group of Queensland climbers used the long weekend to celebrate Kenny and Mons Birthday, both turning 60 ;) . That weekend lead to a great weekend of camping, delicious cheese and chocolate fondue, Kenny blowing up his birthday candles and even some climbing. 

Here I am in 2013 with a huge rack of cams sticky rubber strapped to my feet and gym honed climbing skills, thrutching my way up some of the most beautiful crack lines in Queensland. When most of these lines where sent as early as 1968. By hard men such as Rick White, Chris Meadows, Henry Barber, Kim Carrigan and Rob Straszewski. Just to name a few of the bad ass first assentionists of the area. A good portion of these routes where done before sticky rubber shoes and spring loading caming devices and still stand as test pieces today. 

Even still I can never wipe the stupid grin of my face after climbing these routes, and look forward to attacking the cracks more and more this season!

Going Head to Head

I've never considered myself a strong competition climber, although I have really been enjoying them this year. Its so good to see so many climbers all in one spot and feed off each others psych and energy. It makes me want to climb even more. Plus it's always good to see new faces, every week there seems to be more and more people getting into the sport which is awesome! For me Competitions have been more of a social event than a competition its fun to catch up and climb with climbers I don't usually climb with or have never climbed with and a bit of healthy competition between mates is always good fun.

This is why I'm supper psyched for round two of the ICP social series at The rock next Saturday the 15th of June. The whole team and I were there with the staff at The Rock setting the competition climbs. If you haven't yet get down there and practice the routes! they are heaps of fun and should be challenging to do in a speed assent style. The comp is a head to head event, similar to speed climbing you will be timed but also the routes are still quite technical, and will make for a fun exiting evening! I hope to see a strong turn out, it always blows my mind how many strong climbers we have in Brisbane and every comp there is more. Cant wait to climb with all you crushers!