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We made it back to the Yangshuo Kungfu TrainingCentre before the rain hit. Kungfu HQ felt more lively than it hadduring Friday nights opening ceremony. There wereperhaps a hundred morepeople in attendance, a Chinese band was swiss replica watches covering Green Day and dozens of climbers were scaling the brandnew bouldering wall behind the stage.(Crush it! the crowd roared. Yeah!) It was the qualifying round of the bouldering competition.BeforeI describe the comp, a clarification:Last years comp wasfor outdoor routeclimbing, not bouldering, as impliedby my first post.And AlexHonnold, the worldfamous climber from Sacramento,

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Spokespeople from twograssroots organizations, theYangshuo Access Initiative and the Yangshuo Climbing Association, tell me they are working with villagers to develop such ecotourism projectsas guiding services, climbing lodges and climberoriented food stalls.White Mountain was crawling with climbers from Shenzhen, alarge Chinese replica Gucci YA110509 WoMen's watch citynear Guangzhou andHong Kong. A few of them graciously allowed us to climb their top rope. The view fromroutes endshowed karst, farmland and trees stretching out toward thehorizon. And storm clouds.

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Yangshuo, as it turns out,is a great place to get lost. A twohour cyclejauntwhizzedus past livestock, farmland, smiling kids, orchards (those peaches, on reflection, tastemore like apricots) and majestic karst pillars.Thelandscape herelooks like a land version of Vietnamskarsttastic Ha Long Bay.Thanks to Toms replica Gucci YA110509 Ladie's watch Mandarin phrasebook and a friendly local villager, we foundWhite Mountain by mid afternoon. This is where festival organizers have funded construction of a permanent toilet for Yangshuoclimbers. Ryan Gellert, managing director for Black Diamond Equipment Asia, saysthisandotherprojectsare designed to ease landusetensions between climbers and the Yangshuo community.

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