Slanghoek Amphitheatre Route Guide
Sep 8, 2021
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Check out the Slanghoek Amphitheatre wiki page and downloadable route guide!
Richard Halsey
I try to find the best in life: Great experiences, amazing people, beautiful places. Climbing brings them together.
The Great Southern Sausage Fest in the Koue Bokkeveld
Jun 14, 2017
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As an MCSA property in the Koue Bokkeveld, you don’t have hordes of holiday makers or biker gangs disturbing your stargazing.
One Life Stand
Oct 3, 2016
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I teamed up with a free spirited traveller, Anton Gietl, to explore the area near De Pakhuis. He had a great attitude to life, a positive exuberance and was up for any adventure.
The Other Fruit
Apr 1, 2016
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Avoiding stagnation is not necessarily about changing everything, but changing enough to feel the difference.
The Norwegian Midnight Sun
Sep 11, 2015
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He spoke very little English, and my Norwegian is as existent as political integrity. We gesticulated about the weather, and other topics of small talk, but without the talk.
Second Place
Aug 3, 2015
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This last weekend I was like a puffer fish: distended with enthusiasm to open a route I had cleaned months ago, before my body fell into disrepair. Hopefully my odor was less piscine, and my appearance less absurd.
Art and Tea
Apr 22, 2015
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So what is it to climb a rock? Nature provides the sculptured stage, ours is merely an act there on. Art on art, if you will.
The Exclusive Everything – A Private Universe
Feb 23, 2015
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Evolution came to the party and though millions of changing, breathing critters, left three humans named Hilton, David and Matthew to establish a route called A Private Universe (22 A1).
Kraking the Code at Krakadouw
Jan 15, 2015
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Groot Krakadouw is a wild, convoluted place. I have made two attempts to climb at this magical haven, but the purveyors of wet and icy meteorological phenomena scuppered these plans. Finally, in December 2014, I returned to blue skies and reclusive wind.
The eThekwini Invasion
Nov 5, 2014
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Now, a sensible man would have cleaned the gear and sipped tea for the afternoon. Fortunately, I can’t claim an abundance of sensibility, nor do I like tea.
Part I – The Backyard
Aug 6, 2014
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Some chapters spiral, others stall, blowout or tease, a few hibernate or get passed on. This book, however, is never complete.
Prometheus – The fire giver
Feb 23, 2014
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A Titan in Greek mythology, Prometheus returned fire to humans after Zeus had taken it away. This enabled our progression and re-ignited our lives. Don’t we all search for muses that flame our passions?