Helen Stubbs
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Helen Stubbs
@hkstubbs.bsky.social
Profile pic is 'pretending to trad climb'.

Writer, creative & climber on the Aussie Gold Coast.
She, her, they.

Staerstone, my fantasy adventure novel (with climbing), coming in 2026 from IFWG Publishing.

https://helenstubbs.wordpress.com
Oops making TikToks is too fun.
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I walk along the…things that stop cars from driving too close to the footpath. It’s a balance challenge on fast forward, then I go back. The last step is the longest. I make it! In my army green crocs with climbing gibbets.

#mildlyparkour
#floorislava
#urbanplay
November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This blue boulder was fun, too. A reachy move and then some careful body position and direction/pull transfer. Feet-trust essential! The volumes are really grippy at Cutloose.
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
This was a fun purple climb. I did it twice but needed to project the beta with friends to work it out. And that reachy left hand move made me fall a few times. A really nice 4 at Cutloose on the Gold Coast. I’m still sore after all the other overhang climbing, lol.
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Lovely night out in the rain in Brizzy. I’m glad it cooled down.

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A Sandia mocktail with watermelon and lemonade. Rain on the footpath. Illuminated trees, markets and city lights in the background. At the restaurant Olé in South Brisbane.
November 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Fun green boulder. Big moves to jugs! This feels super easy for the grade (4) but it does have slightly dynamic moves and weird feet newbies might find hard. (?)

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Climbing a green indoor climb then down climbing the orange which is a fun one too.
November 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Happy to (sort of) send this 6! Didn’t hold the top for long but I’m proud I used the volumes for my feet & matched feet on the higher one with no left hand hold.

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Climbing a red indoor slab boulder. Tricky start with a sort of knee bar.
Small holds and the feet are fairly steep volumes.
November 4, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Stranger Climbs! Core’s Halloween event. Pretty fun but I couldn’t stay long.

Core, Carrara

A black-lit climbing gym with glow in the dark art, full of dressed up people. The theme was Under the Sea so lots of beach babes (of all genders:) and sharks and scuba divers …
October 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The clear sparkling waters of Kangaroo Island. February 2019.
October 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Yesterday our power was off and on twice and it was pretty tiring. Glad I got the morning climbs in. Here’s some of the rope climb… I didn’t quite make the very top. The resting frog position was pretty comfy.
October 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
A nifty bit of top ropin’. Big moves to nice jugs and not a walk in the park but pretty easy.

On Belay, Burleigh.

Alt text: I’m climbing an indoor climb on yellow holds with blue & pink volumes. Some interesting footwork including high feet. Some big moves but very doable & flows pretty nice
October 27, 2025 at 6:54 AM
This climb was fun! I flashed it but it took three more tries before I got a fairly smooth beta I was happy with.

Alpine, Robina

Alt: Climbing an indoor cave climb. The holds are massive yellow jugs. I’m wearing a tie-dye shirt and my hair is out and rather flouncy. At one point I ‘cut feet’ …
October 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This was an interesting boulder because most of us found it reachy at some
point. The third last hold is super positive, so I skip
the shitty second last hold.
October 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This was a noice hard climb!
October 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Jacarandas don’t suck. Run around like an idiot, it’s fun.
October 13, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Commentary 🤣:
Woohoo!
Yewww!
Yeah.
Nicely done.
I’m so high up, fuck.
Nice!
Kyu.
Good stuff, well done.
I’m drunk now. 🤣

This was really hard, the top especially, throwing for holds and having to latch them.

Love the vibe in my boulder gym, climbers are so friendly and supportive.
🧡
October 9, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This climb took forever… It was slow and tricky, but I managed to flash it. It’s suddenly hot in Queensland so shirts off! The soundtrack is my friends talking about their short haircuts and what sort of face short haircuts suit. 🤣🥰
October 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM