Category Archives: Climbing day trips

It was time to head back to an old favourite, and Rongy was keen to join in the fun when Alan and I started to lay the plans for a morning foray at Moses Rocks.  The times got mucked about with, and there was a bit of banter as the plans were rearranged via WhatsApp. Continue reading “Learning new skills”

I rolled into Howsie’s driveway at the agreed time, and he came out through the gate staring at me and the wet windscreen with an expectant look.  It had been dry for most of the morning, until an hour before I was due to head out.  Driving into Bunbury to pick him up it hadContinue reading “ELO”

I should start this with a happy birthday to Andrew!  He put out a post to say he was heading up to Welly Dam for a climb and BBQ on his birthday and he managed to bag a magical day.  Being his birthday he suggested a 9am start time, which was pretty sensible as evenContinue reading “Feeling salty”

Today Alan had kindly offered to pick me up from home.  Living in Peppy Beach that required braving the country roads, which at the agreed time of the day was likely to be crawling (or hopping) with roos.  That didn’t put him off and so for a change my car stayed in the driveway.  SeeingContinue reading “The passenger”

After a fun social day at home playing on the boulder wall in our shed, and watching Wiggins’ latest video, I organised with Rongy to head out on the Sunday afternoon for a quick dash up to Welly Dam.  Saturday night the strong front had had been forecast for Saturday finally came through with CollieContinue reading “Humble pie time”

Howsie has, with the help of Nadia, ticked off a few more grade 20s in pursuit of his 2020 challenge.  In truth I’m pretty impressed that Nadia would have belayed him on some of the climbs he has jumped on.  Especially the short powerful bouldery climbs at Moses where you really need to be onContinue reading “The drummer”

Alan, Steve, Rongy and then Leanne all hinted at wanting to get out for a session, so we headed down to Wilyabrup on Sunday morning.  It was hard to read the forecast but we thought it would be OK.  I did second guess the decision when five minutes before I was meant to meet theContinue reading “Bringing up the rear”

Being a long weekend we decided it was worth getting out for a second climb.  What was intended as a bit of a social gathering, keeping within the current restriction of course, was progressively whittled down to just Rongy and myself.  In view of the intention of being a social and just for a coupleContinue reading “A slow crawl”

Yesterday it had seriously dumped on us with squally showers and some places getting a couple of inches of rain, which for here is pretty big.  So with that in mind and multiple forecast checks during the week the obvious sensible option was to head inland away from the more exposed coastal locations.  This ofContinue reading “A couple of old men”

Today was the calm before the storm.  The remnants of cyclone Mangga will be bearing down on us tomorrow and so Andrew, Steve and I made the best of the good weather and headed to Wilyabrup.  While they had both joined in with the recent climb at Welly Dam, neither have climbed much and soContinue reading “Time to get back into shape”