Category Archives: Climbing day trips

On Thursday we had a delivery of firewood.  Many people have used their fires a for a bit now but we seem to either have a bit more resilience or a better insulated house.  But even for Lisa and I Friday felt bitterly cold, and that evening we finally lit the fire.  It didn’t takeContinue reading “The new car park”

Similar to Saturday morning, as I drive out of Peppy Beach the sky was thick and soupy.  At times visibility on the road was down to mere meters.  This soon cleared, as continued my journey inland, and above the mist first light was creeping into the sky.  This morning I felt like I could haveContinue reading “The house-elves”

During the week Tomski hinted that after this weekend he may be leaving the south west and heading up to Perth, soon after intending to fly home to Israel.  For that reason, and seeing it was a long weekend, I suggested that we could head out this morning despite also heading out on Monday forContinue reading “The tyranny of numbers”

After missing out on our recent trip to Bobs Hollow, Howsie was keen to get out this weekend to get back into it with thoughts on maybe hitting one or two grade 21s.  With that in mind we headed to the Northern Blocks of Wilyabrup, which has four grade 21s.  Two I’ve led, one IContinue reading “Taking the lead”

Keen to get out after a two week break from climbing, Tomski was the only person to bite when I put the word out.  The original plan was to go on Sunday but cyclone Seroja was nearing the northern coast of Western Australia, and despite being close to 800km south of where it will hitContinue reading “In orderly fashion”

Dan finally made it over from Melbourne to visit his family, and as is the usual custom we took the opportunity to organise a day out on rock.  This time Jo stayed in Melbourne busy with work.  His trip to the west has been an on again, off again situation for the obvious reasons andContinue reading “The cavemen”

It felt like it had been forever since I had climbed at Wilyabrup, but looking back it has only been a mere two months.  On that trip we climbed with three.  Ash, having his first bash at trad leading, and Jaime happy to second up nearly anything.  Today I headed back with Tomski and Jaime,Continue reading “One too many”

The mural on Wellington Dam was officially unveiled a week back, and today being the start of a long weekend there would no doubt be an onslaught of tourist driving by to take a look.  Being still early as I rolled past, I had the place to myself so I took a couple of quickContinue reading “Watching the clock”

After a few weeks of hitting the bolted walls at Welly Dam it was time to get back onto the coastal crags for a bit of trad.  There was a bit of committing and bailing to heading out by a certain party, and in the end Craig did join Jamie and I on a tripContinue reading “The power of positive thinking”