Other Extreme Geologists?

To all the extreme geologists out there doing extreme things - if you think you have a pic which warrants a spot on this blog, email it in! Email it to any one of the bloggers - my email is jackiegauntlett@gmail.com

Once again, us extremists can be found on the very unstable (read extreme) slopes of good ol' Table Mountain. This time one of us wasn't very lucky...mass wasting can be a real pain. But alas, after doing some hardcore boulder hopping and scrambling the obstacles were behind us and we could continue or escapades!

hey there all you aspiring extreme geologists, just a quick update on the freestyle sky diving course... our preparations are almost complete and registration details will be available soon. recently we sent scott maclennan and mpumelelo from our gauteng branch to the namibian waste lands to perform their maiden jumps, and im happy to say that all went well... see for yourselves!

Hello world (or should i say the one or two people at the most who are reading this)

Taufeeq and i are planning a trip this uncoming sunday to do some more extreming and maybe find something intelligent to talk about. Till then heres an old picture Taufeeq took from signal hill, i think.

For those of you who dont know, this is Table Mountain

a few more pics

here are few more pics. These featuring Taufeeq this time, an up and comer in the extreme geology scene

Here are some freestyle climbing pics. Freestyle climbing is a different style of extreme geology where the athlete can get a really good look at the rock. Pictures courtesy of Taufeeq Dhansay



any just for a sense of scale...
Look at the middle of the picture... he's pretty small from this far away :)
These guys are pretty crazy

keep strong

Hello world

You are witness to a momentous event today!

This is the first extreme geology blog.

My name is Scott Rock for brains MacLennan. This week ill discuss a field trip around the Cape Peninsula where some very radical geology was discovered.

Firstly i would like to introduce my partner in crime, Taufeeq Dhansay. He is the co creator of this new revolutionary extreme sport. He too is studying geology at the University of Cape Town. We are currently third year students and when we aren't looking at rocks we're running around campus late in the afternoon (so that no one can actually see us) jumping around looking pretty simple.

The field trip around the cape peninsula started at the Atlantis dune field north of Cape Town. Taufeeq had a sore neck so i had to do all the extreming which included rolling down huge dunes!

We then drove south along the peninsula where we measured the wave period and looked at the pebbles that are on the beach, that as it turns out are made up of the same rock you find in Cape Town proper. i then jumped around the parking lot and succeeding in tearing my pants when i landed in the road.

to be continued.......
ps. photographic evidence of our extremeness to follow

Scott