Category Archives: Climbing day trips

It is a rare thing to have to scrape the ice of the windscreen where we live, but today it happened.  First light was trickling in from the horizon but not enough to be able to clearly see the amazing patterns nature creates using ice, and the waning crescent moon didn’t help the cause.  NotContinue reading “Crystal healing”

Not put off by the forecast, Rongy and I headed out hoping to catch a weather window.  Reckoning the better chance would be on the coast of our little corner of the South West of Western Australia, as opposed to our other consideration of heading to an inland crag towards Perth.  Based on this weContinue reading “Window of opportunity”

Josh foolishly said he was up for an early start when we made plans to head out to Moses Rocks.  He was however in luck, and being a Saturday morning I already had in mind to offer Lisa a lift to the beach, for her first light ocean dip, before heading out.  I left herContinue reading “Making tracks”

There was a fair bit of procrastinating this week.  The total rainfall for June was inching its way upwards in the statistics table, as I had predicted in my last post.  Due to the uncertain conditions, I lost count of how many times I checked the regular weather app alongside the BoM isobar maps.  Looking,Continue reading “Seeing the wood, not the trees”

Winter seems to have set in and along with the increasing rain and decreasing temperatures comes the season of illnesses.  There is currently talk of the big three hitting Western Australia being COVID, respiratory syncytial virus, and influenza A; and it seems that possibly during my trip to Perth I caught the latter.  Starting toContinue reading “Good karma”

Yesterday we caught up with some friends who we hadn’t seen for too long, as we made some time for a kinda farewell catch-up for Tom who would soon be heading overseas.  It was great to see everyone, and with luck I might get to have a climb with Tom in a few weeks asContinue reading “Making the time”

Today was back to getting up and heading out the door in darkness.  While I could complain that I needed to stay that little bit more alert driving out at this time, to avoid the kangaroos.  On the plus side it is the time of day that I am most likely to see a Brush-tailedContinue reading “No complaints”

I was torn today, whether to use my window of opportunity to go orchid hunting or play on a cliff.  I had two plus hours up my sleeve in-between dropping off and then needing to pick up Lisa and Elseya, who were going for a wine and dine experience.  It really is not something IContinue reading “A good vintage”

For me establishing ground-up first ascents is the best way to climb, having absolutely no knowledge of what lies above other than the assumptions you make from what you can see from below.  Tying in, racking up and then setting off with all the uncertainty of whether it can be protected, what the rock qualityContinue reading “Just can’t help ourselves”

I should have known that I wouldn’t survive the whole weekend with a desire and need to get outdoors.  Maybe I could have, but today I really needed to empty my head of all the thoughts rattling round inside and bumbling about at home just was not going to help me achieve that.  Lisa’s headContinue reading “Blowing the cobwebs away”