Category Archives: Climbing day trips

A sixteen hour round trip to catch up with friends down in Esperance was just a bit too much to think about for Ash this weekend.  This worked out well for me, as it meant I had someone to hold the rope and I didn’t have to go solo again.  As Sam found out lastContinue reading “Give a dog a bone”

Walking out this morning, and once we hit the coast to make our way northwards, ours were the only footprints to be seen.  There was however plenty of other life about.  The underside of one roof system we passed was moving, covered in hundreds of thousands of midges that once disturbed erupted into a cloudContinue reading “Too much of a good thing”

In the South West of Western Australia we would normally have access to the Bureau of Meteorology radar imagery from the Perth (Serpentine) radar.  But this has been out of action since late August, so it becomes a little trickier to check what’s happening in our neck of the woods.  Added to this, despite summerContinue reading “A cool find”

Recovering from his first taste of COVID Howsie was keen to get out, but seeing it had taken it out of him he was also to take things easy.  So we agreed to hit a few familiar lines so he could ease his body back into exercise, without fear of pushing it too far andContinue reading “The Cure”

What with visiting the same locations for a climb as many times as we do, you sometimes have to shake things up to make them interesting.  This weekend Rongy was first to jump on the bandwagon to say he was keen to get out, and I threw out the idea of aiming to achieve whatContinue reading “A good day out”

My usual radio station while driving is Triple M.  Probably, as my daughter would say, because it plays old stuff.  Mixing up tunes from the 60s through to the 90s.  Although they also throw in what they consider the better tracks from the more modern era of music, i.e. since the start of the secondContinue reading “A taste of things to come”

Driving out today, like yesterday, the electronics in my car notified me that it was only 4 degree Celsius, the rationale for the warning no doubt being that there could be ice about.  However, unlike yesterday there was no hiding in the fog with the morning arriving crisp, cold, and clear.  It is hard toContinue reading “Thar she blows”

I can’t recall when I last had a crack-of-dawn start.  While getting up in darkness isn’t all that fun, driving out and watching the hues of the sky change is very cool.  I had to pick Howsie up, which meant driving along back beach in Bunbury.  As the sky was waking up the distant lightsContinue reading “History repeating itself”