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climbing in chiangmai is a different experience from krabi! haha.
first time out of krabi and im missing the sandy beaches and blue green scenery.
here, its all green and cloudy, but the weather is definitely more awesome and less rendering of palms sweaty. haha.

to top it off, being sick the middle of the trip din prove well for the tummy and carbo loading.
think im quite a stick right now. :p slowly eating back my bowls of rice.
while my stomach churns in the morning and on the way to the crags, all i can think of is the BCM at 85 and the prata im missing at simpang. lol.
somehow the food here is just too oily for me and too salty.
lucky i had some fruity gummies to last me my climbs. haha.

did some pretty amazing stuff here anyways.
managed to finally send Free Blast, 7b after afew tries.
annoyed at the fact that the second try onwards are always to the last 2 moves and 'plop' off the rocks.
glad im able to make those moves.. can almost begin to close my eyes to do that route man. sheesh!
another awesomeness was Blood, Love and Steel, 6c.
like a krabi Lars & Lars! haha. super love it.
and lastly Alls Quiet on the Eastern Front, 7a, up at The Gatekeeper Buttress.
similar kinda small crimp dicey foothold kinda move. haha.
managed to do this with the help of fel and randall.
surely this trip made me know whats it like climbing with people who are just as driven as you are. ;)
never would be able to send these routes without the help of the guys being so psyched in what they do. haha.
of course, i managed to do other stuff as well. haha. some long, some short, overhanging, etc.
yeps. it was good! (y)

meanwhile, ive got pictures from chris..
this is probably my first few attemps at Free Blast.
almost gave up trying to send it anyways, coz i did it so many times. its just the last move that i cant stick. hhaha. this rest part is what makes this 7b a 7a. haha. how could i not rest here!! so tempting. lol.



this was on Incinerator, 7a. A route which i think get to go back to try again. :p opps. haha. but the first part was overhanging, not my kinda thing. haha. plus span. :p the second pitch was sharper and longer but a 6a.


did i mention that i brought my rockpillars. the first pair of shoes that ive ever owned in my climbing career of 2.5 years. LOL. its still surviving after 2 krabi trips. so ive climbed in that pair for this trip as well, but the rubber in the fronts already sliced off. :p i saved my precious miuras only for routes like require stepping on polished rocks. like free blast, or dicey non-existent footholds like Alls Quiet and Bloodlovesteel. hahaha. yea. my flower power must be reserved for the boulder season next year. :p its now more offwhite than it was when it first arrived. awww...

but the one thing i learned on this trip is that having lousy chui shoes on dicey routes are really ball shrinking! theres only so much ur shoe rubber can cling on to, the rest is up there mentally, whether you want to push urself to trust the step.. aahhhh.. scaryshites.



so as my natural climbs come to a close for this year until next summer..
im gonna think about working on onsighting some stuff.
realised that projecting comes easy with beta and rest.. but onsight is the what gets the real adrenaline pumping.
lol. evidence from shaky legs when putting up clips.
yix does it quite naturally... so i guess one day its my turn to be clip-putting-bitch. haha.