The last trip I had before the regional boarders closed in Western Australia due to COVID was a big day mission, when I climbed with Rongy and Wiggins at Mount Frankland. This was recounted in There and back again a climber’s tale. It was an epic day with four seasons in one day, offering greatContinue reading “A tale of friendship and climbing”
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The drummer
Howsie has, with the help of Nadia, ticked off a few more grade 20s in pursuit of his 2020 challenge. In truth I’m pretty impressed that Nadia would have belayed him on some of the climbs he has jumped on. Especially the short powerful bouldery climbs at Moses where you really need to be onContinue reading “The drummer”
Bringing up the rear
Alan, Steve, Rongy and then Leanne all hinted at wanting to get out for a session, so we headed down to Wilyabrup on Sunday morning. It was hard to read the forecast but we thought it would be OK. I did second guess the decision when five minutes before I was meant to meet theContinue reading “Bringing up the rear”
The Artist
When the opportunity arises you have to take it, and seeing Kym had a break in his studies and there was a settled period I drove down on Thursday afternoon to stay with the Hartley family. As I drove into Albany I watched the sun go down and on arrival at their house I wasContinue reading “The Artist”
A slow crawl
Being a long weekend we decided it was worth getting out for a second climb. What was intended as a bit of a social gathering, keeping within the current restriction of course, was progressively whittled down to just Rongy and myself. In view of the intention of being a social and just for a coupleContinue reading “A slow crawl”
A couple of old men
Yesterday it had seriously dumped on us with squally showers and some places getting a couple of inches of rain, which for here is pretty big. So with that in mind and multiple forecast checks during the week the obvious sensible option was to head inland away from the more exposed coastal locations. This ofContinue reading “A couple of old men”
Time to get back into shape
Today was the calm before the storm. The remnants of cyclone Mangga will be bearing down on us tomorrow and so Andrew, Steve and I made the best of the good weather and headed to Wilyabrup. While they had both joined in with the recent climb at Welly Dam, neither have climbed much and soContinue reading “Time to get back into shape”
Flying High
Next week it looks like this fine autumn weather we have been getting is likely to break. So I decided on another midweek climb, and Rongy was also keen. I left it to him as to where he would like to climb and the first thing that popped into his mind was Wallcliffe. Unfortunately forContinue reading “Flying High”
A Crate Day
It wasn’t me that said yes to heading out for a second day on the trot, it was Lisa. Although I might have hinted to Lisa that I was a little tempted, when she told me that Rongy had posted on out local WhatsApp group to see if anyone was keen. No complaints from me. Continue reading “A Crate Day”
Being watched
With semester one at the University of Western Australia done and dusted, there was a two week window of opportunity to get Lou back on rock before she would once again be immersed between the pages of some book or glued to her laptop. She had come along for a boulder session at our placeContinue reading “Being watched”
Sandbagged 