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It is starting to feel like winter has arrived, at least for our slice of Australia in the far south west.  As per usual I checked the forecast regularly all week and it didn’t look to be changing from rain, rain, rain.  Then as we got closer it looked like there may have been aContinue reading “Fair-weather climbers”

The sun was breaking through the horizon while the land was shrouded in mist on this Sunday morning.  It is easy to tell that winter is coming due to the mornings starting later and later, I took this image at about 7am and is very typical of the country round here at this time ofContinue reading “Cranking!”

With school holiday upon us, Elseya had a sleep over and so on Good Friday Lisa and I headed out back to the coast for a climb.  We had arranged to meet a few people there and Rongy was the first there, and we found him under the shady bush looking out to see throughContinue reading “Animal Magic”

After such a fun day out at Castle Rock the relatively newbie and returning cripple crew of the SW decided it was time for another trip out.  So we headed down to Moses Rocks, and Lisa and I were the second crew to arrive finding Wiggins at the top of the excellent Gothic Streak withContinue reading “Rock armchair (grade 20)”

After my failed attempt to get Lisa and Elseya to join us at the Book Shelf a few weeks back it was attempt number two. We had planned on a cruisey time down at the Playground for some bouldering and easy trad lines, but a howling westerly promising 60km/hr on-shore winds combined with a mid-morningContinue reading “Rock fishing”

Finally Sunday 12th March had arrived, and it was time to head to the Book Shelf for some fun on rock. A week and two days prior Lou was finally given the all clear to take her back and neck brace off, but more importantly was allowed to do some non-impact sport. This also happenedContinue reading “She’s back…”

After just over 3 weeks overseas in both England and France, during which I never touched rock, we got back to good old WA. I had a week and a bit up my sleeve before I was back to work, which happens to be tomorrow. So with a bit of spare time to get overContinue reading “Rockin’ into 2017”

A couple of weeks back Geoff and Nana witness a ground fall by Lou, who had taken them out to show them the ropes of trad leading. It was a nerve wracking experience for all three of them, with Lou being helicoptered out and luckily only having hairline fracture damage in some of her upperContinue reading “Getting back on the horse…”

We are lucky to have a mob of varied crags in the SW of Western Australia but there is only one crag that is fully trad with not one bolt in sight. Smiths Beach is a place I stumbled on in late 2010, at about the same time as Kym did, and promptly sieged theContinue reading “Smiths Beach Rocks”