OZ and NZ trip summary

• Trip length: 3 months (Mar 3 - May 31, 2006. 90 days)
  
• Longest time spent in one place: Arapiles, 30 days
  
• Total spending: USD$3,500 (not including roundtrip airfare to Australia)
  
• Biggest single expense: roundtrip airfare to New Zealand (USD$444), and 3-day live-on-board diving trip on the Great Barrier Reef (USD$444)
  
  
• Total pack weight: around 28 kg / 60 lbs?
  
• Clothes: a pair of long pants (convertible), one pair of shorts, one pair of swim trunks, three t-shirts, six pair of boxers, three pairs of socks, three long sleeve shirts, one pair of long john, one softshell jacket, one insulated jacket, one rainjacket, two fleece beanies
  
• Other things: small digital camera, underwater housing, mask, snorkel, two pairs of climbing shoes, approach shoes, sandals, helmet, harness, chalk bag, all my cams, sleeping bag, sleeping pad, and a bunch of other small stuff
  
• Things I brought but never used: gloves (two pairs), chemical hand warmers
  
• Things I didn't bring but wish I did: tent, stove, cooking gear, my rope, most of my rack, a second pair of long pants
  
  
• Nights in a hotel: 0
  
• Nights in a hostel: 9
  
• Nights on a boat: 3
  
• Nights in a vehicle: 7
  
• Nights in a tent: 22
  
• Nights under a tarp: 14
  
• Nights under the sky: 4
  
• Nights staying with friends: 28
  
• Nights in an airport: 2
  
  
• Countries visited: 2
  
• New climbing areas visited: 13
  
• Total days climbing: 49 days
  
• Nationalities of the climbers I met: Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Austria, France, Norway
  
  
• Hardest bouldering problem: The Unrepeatable, V6, Castle Hill. But in terms of real difficulty it was Crankshaft, V4/V5, Arapiles.
  
  
• Hardest sport redpoint/pinkpoint: Meaty Mesmo, 22 / 5.11a; Engorged, 22 / 5.11a, Nowra.
  
  
• Hardest sport onsight/flash: A Day At The Beach, 21 / 5.10d; V Lix The Cat, 21 / 5.10d, Nowra.
  
  
• Hardest trad onsight: Equilibrium, 17 / 5.9, Booroomba. (Deserve a "R" rating. The second pitch is 50 meters long with only two bolts)
  

Where to next? China!