Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Krabi climbing pictures

So, time for some pictures from the weekend!
Stayed in one of those new and fancy bungalows at Tonsai beach. Little bit on the expensive side, but well worth it on saturday after the food poisoning. Tristan and Anita came over with their Zen and i watched movies and chilled in the aircon =)This was the first morning and the "shady morning crag". We had to walk about 50m from the breakfast place. Very hard walk-in... Not impressive climbs, but really ok. Quite short and the routes sees lots of traffick, little polished at some places (mmm KP memories). Tristan climbing, Anita belaying.
Same climb, tris up high. Seeing it from the water is a bit silly, there are climbers (and chalk) up to 25m of the overhung part, and the rock continues some 100-150m above that...Looking the other way towards restaurants and amenities. We climbed the wall in the background later (see bloody pic)This is what happens if you keep bashing up your knee on the same spot against sharp limestone. This looks worse than it is, nita scraped the wound a couple of metres up but finished the climb while bleeding. It was all dried up and in nice patterns when back on ground...Wathed a fire twirling contest on friday and saturday night. Some of them were really, really good, others not as impressive. A 7 year old boy showed off pretty good too.

Made a deep water soloing trip on Sunday. This boulder was really sharp but pretty cool climbing on. It was actually just the start for much higher stuff (25+m) but only one guy went that high.
Another route boarded with kayak to reach the first holds. Goes up right towards a big stalactite. Check the colour of the water...
Lunch break. A cave up on the right had some really cool stalactites, stalagmites and pillars that made awesome bell-sounds when knocked on.
This guy was showing off his most impressive positions on a very overhung yet juggy place. I didnt try it, was tired and avoided getting seasick on the petrol stinking boat by shooting lots of photos.

This is actually same spot as previous shot, but 180 degrees.
I'm not complaining... Last day. Those "curtains" or stalactites were really cool, foot holds anywhere, same funny "clong-sound" and easy, entertaining climbs. To get around them your body needs to be in all kinds of weird positions and angles. No need falling, just wedge the torso in somewhere against another feature and have a rest =)
More to come!

1 comments:

Damien said...

Looks gorgeous!!

*turns green*