Category Archives: Climbing day trips

With the thought of a hot day an early start was on the cards for this morning.  I had in mind where I wanted to go, but it did depended on who was keen to get out.  As it was no one was available so for the first time in a long time I wentContinue reading “Mad fools”

Yesterday Rongy and I plumped for the Northern Blocks at Willyabrup.  The option of routes here are less with more being that bit steeper and harder than at the main cliffs of Willyabrup so they don’t see as much traffic, by others or us.  We’d decided on dropping into The Terrace, which mean abseiling inContinue reading “A reason to come back”

With the promise of a cool dry day just one month into Summer what better place to visit than Smiths Beach.  With the sun hitting the walls of the zawn early in the morning it is not a place to go to on a hot day, that plus the fact that it has been aContinue reading “Stomping Ground”

T’was the morning before the night before the night before Christmas and while many of you were tucked up in bed a few of us were up at the crack of dawn.  The almost full moon was out and lit up the driveway as I walked to the car.  By the time I was justContinue reading “Full house”

Just over a year ago Kym and his family moved to Albany and I’ve said several times that I’ll pop down to visit, with the intention to get out for a climb (of course).  Each time our plans have been thwarted, whether due to work, injuries and this time the weather.  I was supposed toContinue reading “Running low on fuel”

Dean has been absent from climbing for some time, two years in fact, so it was not certain how much or what we might do on our Sunday trip to Willies.  One thing was for certain there would be no cams used, I’d brought the usual passive gear with the hope of making use ofContinue reading “The Guns of Navarone”

I wasn’t intending to head out yesterday morning, as we are coming up to silly season on more than one front at home so weekends become hectic and some things usually have to slide.  So when Wiggins put the call out for people interested to play I initially said ‘no can do’.  However, I’m veryContinue reading “Hold still for the camera…”

The idea of climbing during the last few week have been canned due to uncertainty of whether we would get blown off the cliffs or drenched while trying to scale them.  However, this week the weather forecast had remained relatively settled, something we have not had for a what seems a very long time.  SoContinue reading “Someone is getting forgetful…”

Six in the morning seemed a reasonable time to meet in the Capel pub carpark, and Andrew was amenable to that idea.  What I kinda guessed but didn’t think, or more likely hoped, would not happen was that the mercury was low.  On the drive down it dipped to a mere finger numbing 1 degreeContinue reading “Grotesque”

This weekend the weather was not working in our favour.  Wiggins and I had set our sights on Driftwood Bay at Willyabrup, but being on the west coast we decided to abort those plans when the forecast predicted 40km/hr westerlies combined with a rough sea.  Instead we headed for the more sheltered Castle Rock, onContinue reading “Going soft?”