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Rocklands

Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by B3.

After our glorious rest day we only had a few more climbing days. I was starting to lose motivation, though. The weather got warm and after a month in a foreign country, with many “real life” responsibilities looming upon my return, I was ready to be done. I did finish up Nutsa V12, [...]

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Rocklands Day 16

Posted on 11. Aug, 2009 by B3.

I was super psyched on the last two days, but the forecast was for rain, which I was ok with. It would have been the first forced rest day of the trip, which is a pretty amazing streak of good weather. When we woke up the clouds were somewhat threatening, but everything was [...]

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Rocklands, The Sassies, and Shosholoza

Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by B3.

We had been in Africa for two weeks and some how our trip was more than half over. Today was the first cloudy day of the trip. It was time to head back to the Sassies. If I had to pick one problem in South Africa that stood out in my mind, over [...]

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Rocklands Day 14

Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by B3.

After two solid rest days I was very psyched, to say the least. We decided to go to a small area near The Campground. The burden of flying with so much extra equipment to camp is not worth it, but the campground seemed filled with all kinds of enthusiastic international characters. We [...]

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New 8C in Rocklands

Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by B3.

While I was in Rocklands Kevin and Nalle found a monsterous arete. The is one of the single most impressive lines i have ever seen. It was dubbed Project Real Big. It is a stand start on perfect rock and it climbs a stunning arete that I would estimate to be around 24ft. It [...]

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Rocklands Rest Day

Posted on 05. Aug, 2009 by B3.

The Atlantic Ocean is only about 50 miles or so from Clanwilliam, and it seemed like a nice destination for a rest day. Lambert’s Bay is the town and it amounts to not much more than a collection of run-down buildings. There wasn’t much of anything going on.
Atlantic Ocean
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Rocklands Day 11, 12

Posted on 05. Aug, 2009 by B3.

The 11th day we went to Roadside, I explored in the morning, this time hiking about 30 min from the boulders, which put me at an hour from the car. I then bushwacked up a steep drainage, accessed the top of the ridge, followed the ridge back to Roadside, and bushwacked my way down [...]

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Rocklands and Kevin’s Cut

Posted on 04. Aug, 2009 by B3.

It was about this time that Kevin Jorgeson got one of the most unique tears I have ever seen trying the Air Star Project at Roadside. Here is the damage, once the blood was wiped away.
Kevin makes a huge leap to a very sharp hold on the Air Star Project

No additional cutting or shaping [...]

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Rocklands Day 8, 9, 10

Posted on 04. Aug, 2009 by B3.

I was hoping to do a post about every day we climbed, however the next tree days work better as one post. The 8th day was a much needed rest day. I had climbed 6 of 7 days and I was starting to feel things catching up with me. I laid on my [...]

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Rocklands Day 7

Posted on 03. Aug, 2009 by B3.

We were seven days in and I had yet to do some exploring. The crew went back to Roadside and I hiked down the hill. For a while there was nothing and then the land dropped into a huge “canyon” There were tons of huge boulders but the rock wasn’t as good [...]

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