Category Archives: Climbing day trips

While you may laugh, in recent times it feels like I have lost the confidence I used to have on lead.  The likelihood of being able to get out with anyone, to be able to build that confidence back up by leading climbs, is very slim to non-existence for months to come.  With that inContinue reading “The terminator”

With the way the world is going I felt that the great trip down to Mount Frankland last week may have been the last climbing trip for some time to come.  I did touch base with Howsie before this weekend to check if he was still keen, it was a silly question really.  But despiteContinue reading “Risky business”

With the changing season we come to expect glorious weather during the week, while many of us are couped up at work, with weekends threatening rain to dampen any idea of outdoor fun.  This weekend was looking, what the 28 day rain forecast predicts, to be the start of this new normal.  During the weekContinue reading “A Reason for Cake”

Rongy has been dropping hints about getting back to Smiths Beach for a long time now, the last time I had been here with him is close to three year now.  So today we finally got there, and it had been a long time since I have climbed here.  A top rope solo mission inContinue reading “Poor casting”

It has been a month since I was last climbing, each weekend since then has been taken up with domestic duties and then a very quick trip back to the UK to see the folks.  This climbing session, to the place where the crate comes out, would not have happened if I hadn’t cut myContinue reading “Taking a rest”

After an abstinence of climbing during the long weekend there was need to get back out there, and that opportunity arose on Sunday when Rongy, Steve, Alan and I headed down to the main area of Wilyabrup.  The choice of location was based on my one request for some longer routes.  Normally Rongy or IContinue reading “The Missing Man”

After way too many messages by Glen to try and delay the start of Saturday’s events we eventually landed with what Lou and I had agreed at the very start.  A 7:30 meet at the crag for a bit of very relaxed “get back into it” morning of climbing.  Today was about being a bitContinue reading “There’s gold in them there hills”

From outset it was agreed that both Craig and Howsie would need to be home by midday to ensure they were balancing their time and got some quality family time in, as well as quality rock time.  This meant we had to be walking out by 10:30, which in turn warranted an early start.  HowsieContinue reading “Speed Climbing”

Steve has been away for about a month visiting family and friends in the UK, and has a couple of weeks before the last rounds of chemo kicks in.  So rather than catch up in town we decided on a trip to Welly Dam.  It was a lazy start and we were in no rushContinue reading “Staying in Control”

Chatting to Rongy as we drove back from Moses Rocks just two days back he mentioned that he had yet to get to Cosy Corner, and seeing that both of us were on holiday we teed up a session for New Year’s Eve.  Neither of us are afraid of early starts and so despite itContinue reading “Not an Action Replay”