Category Archives: Climbing away from home

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”

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”

For a few months now Howsie and I had a plan to head to Mount Frankland, and the timing coincided nicely with a south coast trip that Rongy and Wiggins had concocted.  Howsie’s got a plan to hit grade 20s and Hannibal was in his sights.  However, in the week before the trip Howsie wasContinue reading “There and back again a climber’s tale”

The last time I caught up with Kym was just under a year ago, it was not for lack of trying but each successive attempt to get down was thwarted one way or another.  So after a long stint of mid to high thirty degree days I found myself driving down to Albany on FridayContinue reading “Pièce de résistance”

This is a long one and I make no excuses, in fact I took a bunch of images out as I typed away so it could have been longer!  So best make yourself a brew if you intend to read the whole thing…  For the climbers amongst you if you are keen to check outContinue reading “Take rope!”

Craig recently had a big birthday, and as is tradition our presents to each other comprises getting out climbing.  The weekend before his actual birthday we opened up our house for a daytime BBQ and bit of a boulder.  Once he had celebrated this milestone with a quiet gathering of his family and close friends,Continue reading “Aging”

Howsie and I made a hit list of crags to visit some two or was it three years back, the optimistic intention back then being to knock them off over the course of a year.  Yesterday we had a big day out to tick one more of the list and at the rate we areContinue reading “From dawn till dusk”

My last email to most of you was a month back, since then I managed another solo top-rope mission and had a few weeks off. Then came Easter and the intention was to get out for a morning or two at the local crags, but that fell through so there was a last minute decisionContinue reading “Crowded House”

I finally, after just over twelve months of trying, managed to get down to Albany to visit Kym, Meg, Tessa and Claire.  While it was wonderful to see them all the bulk of the time was of course spent heading out with Kym to sample some of the magnificent South Coast rock, which is mostlyContinue reading “Patrick and Watkin”

Howsie and I drove off for an adventure a few days back that took us some 600km east to the remote crag of Peak Charles.  Despite this place being a bit of a mission to get too it happened to be my third visit, the first being in October 2007 with Craig and then againContinue reading “Not quite to plan”