I was scribbling some history notes for one of Melbourne's local bouldering areas recently. That got me started thinking about the history and progression of bouldering in Australia and it's lack of documentation.

For Victorian bouldering history, other than a few more detailed snippets about Arapiles, and a little about the development of Stapylton bouldering my knowledge is limited. For other States I know even less!

There appears to be a lack of documented history for a facet of climbing which I personally get alot of pleasure.

Stone Crusade by John Sherman is a great example of a book about the history of bouldering (USA) with photographs, stories and anecdotes filling it's many pages.

Many will think that bouldering is a new game, and won't be aware of the long and proud history of bouldering in this country.

So if people would like to add historic information for bouldering Australia wide (not just Tasmania) I would be very interested to know about it.

Pictures, stories, contacts and anecdotes all welcome.

Thanks Martin