Well thought it was worth a shot, you never know.
I have been in Tasmania about 5 months but would like to stay another 3, based around Launceston at the moment, the catch is I do need to earn a crust at the same time. So if you know of any labouring, hospitality or other casual work on the go, please drop me a line, otherwise I may have to head back to the mainland...

Thanks and have a great day!

Richard Halsey
rjhalsey AT gmail DOT com
04 88 088 670

There is an article in the Merc today:

A man broke several bones after jumping from a cliff at Coles Bay yesterday.

Tasmania Police said the 23-year old tried to jump from a cliff into the water at White Water Wall. The man jumped 18m, hit a rock and fell into the water.

The Police Westpac Rescue Helicopter was called about 4.20pm.

A paramedic and police rescue crew were lowered to the scene and treated the man before winching him into the helicopter.

Police said the after-dark rescue was only possible because of new night-vision goggles. The man is in the Royal Hobart Hospital in a serious condition.

Anyone got any details? Was it a climber?

Trip reports from adventures at Mt Anne and Totem Pole:

http://thealpinist.blogspot.com/2009/05/mt-anne.html

http://thealpinist.blogspot.com/2009/05/playing-with-pole.html

From Michael Easton at the Park Trust:

Hi,
as a person who has dealings with Wellington Park, I thought you might be interested in the development of a sustainable transport system for access to the Mountain.

As a first step, the Trust is calling for ideas from the community as to what transport options/modes might make up a broader system.

Please use the following link to obtain the Invitation for Ideas paper released today by the Trust: http://www.wellingtonpark.tas.gov.au/STS

The Trust will receive written or emailed submissions until 12 June 2009.

Hey Everyone!

Lee Cossey is coming to speak in Hobart on the 25th of May at Hadley's Hotel @ 7pm. ($20)

Not every day you get a world-class climber coming to SLOWBART!!!!!!

If you have no plans, it would be great to see you there, and show your support to Australian climbing!

He is also doing a climbing workshop on the 24th of May at the climbing edge. (see poster below)

Cheers

Jake

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

TELEMARK GEAR FOR SALE

Scarpa T2 double boots size 9 1/2

Morotto Skis 180 cm

• Riva cable bindings
• Voile release plates
• Televates
• skins

Emery adjustable poles

Boots and skis in excellent condition. Skis only used three or four times. Boots are an early iteration of the popular back-country tourer, but have been used perhaps 30 days. Skis have a few marks on the top due to incompetence of the owner (me) but bases are unscratched. Poles are serviceable.
This gear is old school now, but it works.

$400 dollars the lot. Will consider splitting but would prefer to sell as a package.
Contact me via my email if you're interested.

Found some gear on Fionn McCool this weekend (March 21), off route to the

left at the top of Pitch 3. We would be pleased to return it although the tape

stuff may be a bit passed it now. Let us know what it is and how we get it

back to you. Cheers.

Tony and Al.

Some nice photos of Talk is Cheap @ Mt Brown on Simon Carter's blog - pretty speccy rock down low: http://www.onsight.com.au/news-blog/articles/44/mount-brown-mega-route

(via Jake's blog: http://jakebresnehan.blogspot.com/2009/03/talk-is-cheap.html )

Hi-

We're moving to South Arm, and I was wondering about bouldering south of Lauderdale and beyond. Have heard rumors about some areas, but haven't seen anything in the guide. Sea level choss would be fine, with mountain bike access even better.

BTW, I found Lark's Edge a spectacular little crag. Unbelievably scenic. Thanks for the recommendations from folks on this site.

cheers
John Middendorf

The drill and 10mm rope has now gone

also for sale though are

Ice Screws $5 each

crampons, $80 Black diamond switch blades dual and mono point

la sportiva nepal tops $400 excellent condition mountaineering boots

Red chilli vcr velcro shoes size 7 uk $70 very good condition

Macpac Ascent pack 60 litre $40 old but ok (the cordura on the base is almost gone )

grivel rambo crampons $100 good condition

msr fuel bottles $20 each 1 litre size

mountain designs over pants
tel 0438087477

hi there
Im selling the following.

Bosch battery drill $350 with charger and battery packs, good condition.

Ideal for the serious trad climber to put in anchors on there master piece or a sport climber putting up a few routes here and there!!!!

Tent t2+ ultra light 2.5 kg approx v good condition $100 3 season

Gortex Jacket north face $150 size medium

Carabiners lots of different sorts $4 to $8 each some near new

Rope new 60m mammut 10mm $180

sleeping bag macpac neve $150 400 grams of down all on top with insert for thermarest reflex waterproofed v good condition. Ideal for alpine missions or light weight mission to frenchmans cap

rope 9mm mammut $40 good condition

2 belay plates $10 each

hb quad cams $60 each red size 2.5 ideal for thin hands so now you can go for nenadel on ben lomond!!!

climbing holds assorted 600 from $1 to $8 each

Finger board $50

there will be more things for sale very shortly

garry oh and my tel is 0438087477