Bouldering in Phuket - Granite boulders ready to be cleaned up!

As everybody can easily realize, Phuket has a great abundance of hills mostly located around the area of Kathu and all across the west cost of the island.

In some of them many tourist companies are organizing elephant camps, others have been equipped with zip lines or other adventurous activities, however the majority of them are still partially unexplored both because of their steep profiles but also because of their inaccessible and lavish vegetation.

 A few weeks ago I had the occasion to join a famous zip line program, the experience was really amazing, but even more amazing was the fact that the entire area is immersed in the deep jungle and populated by a number of big granite boulders.

Inspired by my discovery I proposed to my friend Pok to have a little inspection of the area and immediately we agreed to go out for a jungle trek.

While hiking on the jungle I must admit I was freaking scared to encounter any cobra or any other sort of big snake, however the will to find some rock was stronger than my fear and we endured in our expeditions.

The first boulder we found was just great. 

Obviously it is covered by vegetation, however its shape clearly features potential climbable lines.

While walking around the area an old man who turned to be the owner of the whole 20 rai piece of forest gave us some indication to find more boulders, we kept walking and without even going too deep inside the forest we discovered 3 full scale big boulders featuring slabs, vertical sessions and over hangs. Awesome.

Next step is to clean them up!

I really hope that all the climbers out there will respond to our call when we would decide to bring their souls to light. Very soon....

Stay tuned!