Blog from April, 2009

This might be of some interest ....

http://www.chockstone.org/Forum/Forum.asp?Action=DisplayTopic&ForumID=1&MessageID=70456&Replies=17#newpost

hopefully he will update him blog soon.!!!!!

http://cjclimbs.blogspot.com

i wonder how many mushrooms this guy had in his pasta.....

From Tony:

Hi All,

Gather there is a program about the rescue of Paul Pritchard on WIN TV tonight at 7.30pm, if you are interested.

Cheers

Tony

pretty funny from the tas boys in vic, doug and crazy john climb serpentine:

http://cjclimbs.blogspot.com/2009/04/serpentine-has-been-slain.html

Was wondering if people had any ideas or requests for new features or content on this site.

The climbing guides are reasonably complete these days. Probably the biggest missing areas would be Hillwood and Flinders which are comprehensively covered in Gerry's guides. I do have some topo photos for hillwood somewhere, but never finished them because I wasn't sure about access and the attitudes of the landowner etc

I was wondering if people have any ideas for making the guides better and easier to use. I recently got the new Blue Mountains and Araps guides, which are currently the best two Australian guide books, and have been using them for ideas - the grade graphs in the guides are a borrowed idea from the Bluies guide. Both make extensive use of full colour - which make the guides pretty expensive and only viable on big production runs with advertising.

A couple of things I would like to do when I have time:

• A grade index across all the site, which you can filter by grade, stars, location
• An iphone optimised version of guides - iphones are good enough to replace paper books, and there will only be more of them about
• Comments on climbs - so that people can comment on grades and stars etc, or even upload photos and attach it to the climb
• An ethics section in the Intro
• A map of areas that people have explored for climbing - that allows people to tag and comment on areas