Post by jetjackson on Mar 25, 2018 22:26:07 GMT -7
I heard that Mike was up in my home town this morning at KP and onsighted Be A Robot For Jesus.
Pretty stoked to hear that
Here is a post I made where I mentioned that climb back in 2016. I'm still to get on it. Maybe in a few months when I get back up there.
I'm from Brisbane, great place to climb, but I didn't really get fully absorbed into climbing until I moved to Texas in October last year and didn't have much else to do in my spare time. I got transferred to Houston, as I work in the chemical industry, and that's Houston - Oil and Gas, Chemicals and Medicine. Luckily it's only a couple of hours from Austin, and has good flights to get out and go to other crags.
The crag I grew up near in Brisbane is called Kangaroo Point (KP as we call it) - it's lit up at night, so you can climb any time of the day. See the photo below - that's KP. When I was younger I used to traverse the cliffs when we went there for family BBQ's. There is a climb called 'Be a robot for jesus', it's got BARFJ painted at the bottom of the climb to sign the route, and when I was younger I used to look at it and think that it must be impossible to climb. It's pretty blank, with mostly small crimps, and very balanced moves. It was 26 (5.12b) until it got chipped a few years ago, and now it's a 25 (5.12a) - one of the hardest routes at the crag. I'm dead keen to jump on it when I get back home for a visit, and see if I can send it with my newly developed climbing skills.
Pretty stoked to hear that
Here is a post I made where I mentioned that climb back in 2016. I'm still to get on it. Maybe in a few months when I get back up there.
Where are you from in Australia? And, if you're just visiting us here, why in god's name do you live in Texas?
The crag I grew up near in Brisbane is called Kangaroo Point (KP as we call it) - it's lit up at night, so you can climb any time of the day. See the photo below - that's KP. When I was younger I used to traverse the cliffs when we went there for family BBQ's. There is a climb called 'Be a robot for jesus', it's got BARFJ painted at the bottom of the climb to sign the route, and when I was younger I used to look at it and think that it must be impossible to climb. It's pretty blank, with mostly small crimps, and very balanced moves. It was 26 (5.12b) until it got chipped a few years ago, and now it's a 25 (5.12a) - one of the hardest routes at the crag. I'm dead keen to jump on it when I get back home for a visit, and see if I can send it with my newly developed climbing skills.