MC Overland

Nam Pha Pa Yai, Bankok, Thailand

I had a work trip, so I extended it to the weekend to check out this climbing camp spot two hours north of Bangkok called Nam Pha Pa Yai. NPPY is quite nice and simple. The best thing about it is to access the main wall, you need to zipline across the river. The climber […]

---ASIA, Taiwan, TRAVELS

Taipei & Long Dong, Taiwan

Last November I attempted to go to Taiwan but didn’t make it there. And by not being able to make it, I mean I literally landed at the airport but immigration would not let me in because I had bought the wrong passport. But that’s a story for another day. But anyhow, I was keen […]

---NORTH AMERICA, TRAVELS, USA

Joshua Tree, California, US

On our last climbing day, we drove to Joshua Tree to check out the bouldering for 1 day. The landscape is also very surreal and beautiful. Joshua Tree is very well known with trad and bouldering. It is also know that the grades are very stiff. In fact, it was a struggle to get up […]

---NORTH AMERICA, Rock Climbing, TRAVELS, USA

Red Rocks, Las Vegas, USA (part 2)

After climbing Epinephrine which also involved us hitching a ride with the police and Search and Rescue (the cause didn’t really have anything to do with us per say but I am not going to blog about it); we went home around midnight and crashed. Of course, the next day happened to be M birthday […]

---NORTH AMERICA, Rock Climbing, TRAVELS, USA

Climbing Epinephrine. Red Rocks, Las Vegas, USA

Note: Route Beta at the Bottom After Bishop we drove to Las Vegas to check out Red Rocks Canyon. I really enjoy visiting Red Rocks because of it’s close proximity to Las Vegas (civilization) yet it is still so majestic and grand and so full of solitude. Red Rocks has a special place in my […]

---NORTH AMERICA, TRAVELS, USA

Bishop, California, USA

Climbing road trips are starting to becoming a yearly tradition. This year, 9 of us got together to go to USA for a one week mad adventure around Bishop, Red Rocks and Joshua Tree. I am not sure if Bishop has jinxed me, but one week before the trip I managed to have my first […]

---OCEANIA, Australia, TRAVELS

Arapiles, Australia

For the last 2 days of our trip we stayed at Arapiles which is a mainly traditional climbing area. Unlike the Grampians, Arapiles is not spread out and the layout in my opinion is very similar to Smith Rocks. The crags are very convenient to get to and we didn’t have to drive 1+ hour […]