Just spoke with friends in Yangshuo and there are still quite a few climbers in town even though the sun hasn’t been shining as much in the past few days. Shanghai was minus 3 C this morning and overcast, I wish I were somewhere else climbing.
Spoke with Daliu who is in Dali with a few Americans putting up new lines on the limestone cliff on the lake there. The weather is fine, no cold fingers, and he plans to put up lots of new routes this season; could be the place to spend winters and it is smaller and easier to get around in than Kunming.
The climbing lifestyle is not easy to pursue from Shanghai. I usually get on a plane to Yangshuo, or if I can find partners to the mountains of Sichuan. Stephen and I have been to the crags outside of Hangzhou, about 2 hours by train and taxi, but the climbing there is still very limited and I haven’t seen anything that begs to be climbed.
Loads of stuff outside of Beijing, Huangshan (sister park to Yosemite), Qingyuan, Hong Kong, granite outside of Qingdao, sandstones in Henan, monoliths in Xinjiang, boulders outside of Xiamen and probably dozens of other awesome places waiting to be discovered. Just thinking about it makes life in Shanghai more bearable.
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