Beginners Wall

Today we decided to try a spot we hadn’t been to before so we left the taller cliffs of the main crags of Willyabrup and headed north:

Not too far north and then a quick abseil into Beginners Wall, a short wall with lower grade climbs and a sea washed platform. This morning was high tide but a low high tide with only a 1m swell so it was perfect:

This place had some interesting anchors, here the old has rusted to pieces and been replaced by huge U bolt anchors:

It was the first time I used my new gear a spanking set of Metolius Curve Hexes, my birthday present from Lisa (you may remember an earlier email of the bloke who sold me his and then wanted them back, well now I have my own):

We didn’t use the guide book, instead spying lines we liked the look of and going for it. Some of them we later found out were not in the guide but they have no doubt been climbed by others including this great cheeky line up the side of a blank face with gear that makes you want to not fall off:

Steve jumped onto this fun looking line which proved to be quite spicy, again not listed in the guide. The rock was a bit damp which gave all the climbs that extra feel of excitement:

Then I jumped on the line immediately to the right which was slightly steeper, another one not in the guide, and by now we were starting to get tired. The rounded holds looked great but did require some faith and also made placing gear at times tricky:

We soldiered on making use of the shade and enjoying picking easy lines in-between the more challenging one, it was a great feeling to be placing trad again after all the recent trips to the quarry and sport climbing:

We saved the first line we liked the look of till last as it really did look that good, a wide open book corner with a beautiful small flake system. It was as good as it looked – completely brilliant:

So good in fact that I had to put an extra image of it in, with Steve coming up doing his best impression of Batman doing Spiderman moves: