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CLIMBING areas, even far from my location, NOT convenient for me to meet climbers, but that I can give informations about

I am pretty knowledgeable about climbing in Korea, Thailand and the USA, some about Vietnam, Europe.

My preferred climbing areas

have climbed all over the world. . . love to explore new places and return to old favorites!

My climbing experience

With some breaks (for breaks-- I tend to break bones on a regular basis!), I have climbed, on and off, from a few days a year to obsessively-compulsively, for 23 years?

Climbed all over the USA, in particular in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, S. Dakota, but also in Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Washington, Idaho. . .

In Europe I've climbed in the Gorges de Verdon, Meteora, Arco, and on artificial walls in Austria and Slovenia. . .

I've also climbed in Morocco, Jordan, Vietnam and (mostly Mountaineering) in India and Nepal. Oh, and of course Thailand and extensively in KOREA!

My preferred climbing site (LINK)

http://www.koreaontherocks.com skinsk (please not Skinsk. . . it�...

Climbing INTERESTS and PREFERENCES (ADVANCED MEMBER SEARCH PARAMETERS)

sport singlepitches, bouldering, dws, sport multipitches, trad singlepitches, trad multipitches

Sport climbing "on sight" range and limit level

6A+

Sport climbing "after work" range and limit level

6B+

Bouldering range/limit level

V1-2?

Deep water soloing range/limit level

3-4m!! (I'd like to work on this!!)

WHEN I'm available to climb around my location and travel to climb far from my location (ADVANCED MEMBER SEARCH PARAMETERS)

always just advise me a right time before

Mother LANGUAGE (ADVANCED MEMBER SEARCH PARAMETERS)

English. . . OK, my mother's language(s) = Slovene(German) but mom didn't teach me

About ME (ADVANCED MEMBER SEARCH PARAMETERS)

CLIMBER, climbing guidebook EDITOR, climbing guidebook AUTHOR

Interested in climbing and exchange languages with FOREIGNER climbers, also travelling FAR from my location

yes

LANGUAGES I know a little I would like to improve OFFline climbing with foreign climbers and/or with ONline language exchanges (ADVANCED MEMBER SEARCH PARAMETERS)

Korean, French, want to learn German

VOIP (instant messages and voice) networks (Skype, Gtalk, ...) + related nick-name

soniaknapp (skype) soniaknapprocks (AIM)

Online language exchanges with voip (skype, ...): of course, speaking about climbing ;-)

yes

Origin Country

USA (with Austrian citizenship/passport)

My location now (city and/or town and/or region)

traveling KOREA at the moment! June: US Summer: Korea; Fall: Europe

ACCOMODATION (and kind of) close to climbing areas to rent / exchange / share / offer (ADVANCED MEMBER SEARCH PARAMETERS)

I can give my help and advices

Gender / relationship STATUS (ADVANCED MEMBER SEARCH PARAMETERS)

single and looking for my opposite sex climbing friend ;-)

Status/occupation (student, worker, ... if You want specify)

retired Prodfessor/ writing a climbing guide/ looking for work in Europe (help?!)

canubelay at hotmail.com

Mobile/cellular phone (country code included)

82-1058392950

My personal blog and/or site (LINK)

http://www.vegetariankorea.org

My personal SOCIAL NETWORK ( Facebook, Myspace, ... ) LINK

http://facebook. . . my name
I am resigtered at other climbing site...

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I suck!

as a blogger, I SUCK!! OK, I even admit that in the past I posted under dates different than when I wrote the posts, but I am coming clean. . . I haven't blogged in weeks!

Well, on the plus side. . . I healed myself in 3 weeks. . . I swear! my docs are in denial!

So after the break, I spent 3 days with my friends (they let me boulder at their gym with my splint) and then I headed off. I drove, true, and maybe I scrambled and rappelled to check bolts, etc. . . but I didn't climb. . . I checked… Continue

Posted on April 30, 2008 at 4:38pm —

going going argh pftt

so I haven't posted in a bit (probably no one really reading this anyway!) but things were starting to come together-- climbing a bit and getting some work done! From Munsusan in Ulsan, I went to Miryang Saturday to get Ian and Marissa and climb at Bueongsae Bawi. . . can't say the weather was great-- very overcast and quite a wind! but it was good to get on such a beautiful rock, and great to have Ian rope-gunning! Unfortunately, after topping out on one of the climbs, I was lowering and I hit… Continue

Posted on April 9, 2008 at 5:00am —

Has it been a WEEK?

Wow. . . so back to Munsusan during the week-- Dave sent his 11d project 4th try! I belayed his last two tries. . .a bit dramatic on the send-- pulling up rope, dropping it, yelling for me to "take" but just the slack (he was above the bolt!!) but an awesome send, and he deserved the rest-day Thursday. I spent a few work-days at the crags, and visited the gyms in town. Oh Haeng-sun, whom we met last weekend, met me one evening for a chat/workout. I'll have to talk to her when I return to Ulsan.… Continue

Posted on March 30, 2008 at 9:03am —

climb write belay

well, busy busy busy. . . Sat a bunch of folks met up for some climbing at Daeryokbong on Geumjeongsan. Dave from Gunsan tured 21 on Sunday, and along with Mike from Osan, was starting a week-long trip thru Korea. Rick, Dalton and Colby (with a friend, Tom) came out, as did locals Dave and Natalie (whom I met at the Meet and Greet) and Heather from Ulsan. The local Busan Climbers and PNU Alpine Club were out as well, and were able to help me match all the climbs up. Sunday it rained-- so I did m… Continue

Posted on March 26, 2008 at 10:00am —

Productivity!! warning: post contains reflections and tangents

Well, things finally got ultra productive!! I managed to find the areas north of Tongyeong pretty easily. The young woman at the information center (where I added to my hefty map collection) in Tongyeong had given me a general area yesterday. She helped me find the myeon-- a rural administrative district in Korea-- on the map. Now I was on the main road, and as soon as I entered Gwnagdo-myeon, I saw the Myeon office. I have had pretty good luck stopping at administrative offices for informtion i… Continue

Posted on March 23, 2008 at 9:55am —

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At 11:08pm on May 13, 2008, Luis Suasnávar Gómez said…: Hi Sonia, the place where you saw the man living in a cave is called "Jalcomulco" and it is located in "Veracruz" Mèxico.
This man is named "Sodda" and he has a hoztal where the climbers can stay.

At 3:36pm on February 18, 2008, Anders Fougner said…: i don't find you at 8a.nu...

At 2:23pm on February 11, 2008, Pia said…: Ich bin ja leider schon wieder in Österreich... Ricky hab ich keinen getroffen, da haben wir uns wahrscheinlich verpasst!

Was meinst du mit 'humanality'?

Hast du schon einen Plan, wann du wieder nach Österreich kommst?

At 5:42pm on February 5, 2008, Pia said…: hey sonia!
you're absoloutley right with the tyrolian slang - for me it's also pretty hard sometimes... ;) my roots are in upperaustria, but I'm living in Tirol for 2 and a half year now.

Wenn du deutsch üben willst, ist's wohl am besten, du kommst nach Österreich. ;)) Wäre nett, wenn wir uns dann mal treffen könnten!
lg, Pia

At 2:13pm on January 31, 2008, Duerrhax said…: Hi, sure I like ice ;)
But at the moment I don´t have time to do any climbings :( damn exames. Hope there will be some Ice left next week when I´m finished.

At 6:58pm on January 10, 2008, 9b editor said…: Here the link (http://novebi.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1389802%3ATopic%3A6126) for the forum dedicated to Madagascar: please, SHARE YOUR INFOS !

At 6:54pm on January 10, 2008, 9b editor said…: Ei Cocun ! You have been in Madagascar too ! So now You have to give "names and contacts" not only to Sonia, I hope, but to all the (not so big) 9b comunity !!
What do you think about it ?
I run to open a discussion forum dedicated to Madagascar ... please, write in that forum Your informations!

At 6:47pm on January 10, 2008, Cocun said…: Sonja, if you like vergin places, go to Madagascar!!! I have been in Tonsai in 2001 and in 2005 in Mada... it is fantastic! If needed, I can give you some names and good contacts to spend very little and stay well