I should start this with a happy birthday to Andrew! He put out a post to say he was heading up to Welly Dam for a climb and BBQ on his birthday and he managed to bag a magical day. Being his birthday he suggested a 9am start time, which was pretty sensible as evenContinue reading “Feeling salty”
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The passenger
Today Alan had kindly offered to pick me up from home. Living in Peppy Beach that required braving the country roads, which at the agreed time of the day was likely to be crawling (or hopping) with roos. That didn’t put him off and so for a change my car stayed in the driveway. SeeingContinue reading “The passenger”
Something to come back for
A month or more back Howsie had been camping at Denmark on a family trip. During a walk with the family he stumbled across a rock face and after staring at it in wonder for ages, he finally found what he was looking for. There were bolts… and after he posted about them on ourContinue reading “Something to come back for”
Humble pie time
After a fun social day at home playing on the boulder wall in our shed, and watching Wiggins’ latest video, I organised with Rongy to head out on the Sunday afternoon for a quick dash up to Welly Dam. Saturday night the strong front had had been forecast for Saturday finally came through with CollieContinue reading “Humble pie time”
A tale of friendship and climbing
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”
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”
