Some of you may know that I work part-time for a company called Active Escapes. My ‘boss’ is a zingy little firecracker of a woman called Sarah who has a knack for organizing things that are A. a success, B. fun and C. always in the most awesome places you can think of. Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Travel, Work
Tagged Active Escapes, Eastern Cape, Go Trail, Jikeleza Jog, Kathryn Fourie, Lunar Eclipse, Sarah Colvin, Sarah Drew, South Africa, trail running, Wavecrest, Wild Coast, Wild Trails
Today Roger Nattrass and I headed off to Umgeni with snow all over the peaks of the lower midlands. I must say it always feel pretty surreal to live in Africa and have snow just a wee drive away! It boggles my mind, but I like it. Surprisingly it wasn’t that cold at Umgeni, and we had a really good day.
All it took was this… Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Friends, Hilton
Tagged Climbing, KwaZulu-Natal, KZN, Midlands, Rock Climbing, Roger Nattrass, Snow, Sport Climbing, Umgeni
Shameless self-promotion never hurt anyone! 
My amazing friend Morwenna and I are teaming up to offer a ‘Soula Flow Yoga Morning’ on the 25th of June in Hilton at the Quarry Gym.
Posted in Friends, Hilton, Pietermaritzburg
Tagged Hilton, Kathryn Fourie, KATINK, Meditation, Morwenna Bosch, Quarry Gym, Soula Flow, Yoga
I went on a berg hike with my Active Escapes buddies Sarah, Matt and mountain guide Carlos Gonzalez. We met up with a bunch of other people, but this particularly extreme ‘fun’ activity took place before we found the others at Zulu cave later in the day. Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Friends, Travel
Tagged Active Escapes, Carlos Gonzalez, Drakensberg, Matthew Drew, Sarah Drew, Vaude, winter
I don’t want to harp on about Roger Nattrass, but since he’s the dude I climb with most regularly he is the dude who (unfortunately for him) will get splashed on my blog a lot. Roger is well known personality in South African climbing, and most of you will know him already. But for those who don’t here is a cool interview from www.climb.co.za written in 2009 by Justin Lawson. It’s a good read!
Last week my computer crashed just as I was beginning to upload this blog, so sorry it’s a wee bit late. On Thursdays I go climbing with Roger Nattrass, he’s scheduled his work and life so that he can climb every Thursday, and for people like me who work from home (and late at night) it’s a brilliant option for getting some quality time on the rock! Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Friends, Hilton
Tagged Rock Climbing, Roger Nattrass, Thursday, Umgeni Valley
This little girl was at the PMB gymnastics club while her Mom was coaching. She didn’t stop playing the entire time that my friend and I were climbing on the High Altitude wall. Continue reading
Posted in Children, Climbing, Friends, Pietermaritzburg, Travel
Tagged Gymnastics, High Altitude, Pietermaritzburg
This email was started up by my mate James Harvey who has an irrepressible lust for fun in dodgy places… Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Children, Disasters, Friends, Hilton, Music, Other misdemeanors, Travel
Tagged Awesome, Beer, Candy Floss, Cheap Chinese Shit, Funfair, Goodluck, Johnny Clegg, Live Music, Livestock, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, The Royal Show 2011
Harrismith is situated in the Freestate, just at the top of Van Reenens Pass. The landscape is comprised of mesas and buttes, looking very much like ginormous cakes rising out of the farmlands as supreme rocky cakes. A sponge of yellowey orange sandstone, streaked with black capped with a thick lashing of volcanic basalt. Climbing the sides of these cakes, one steep foot step at a time, affords views that will boggle your wee city-stained mind. Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Friends, Travel
Tagged Basalt, Freestate, Harrismith, Sandstone, South Africa
I went climbing at Harrismith over the weekend with a friend of mine. We’re both pretty weak at the moment so just climbed easy stuff, but man it was beautiful… Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Friends, Travel
Tagged Climbing, Eagle Mountain, Harrismith, Mount Everest
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