Category Archives: Climbing day trips

After last weekend’s feeling of spring we got hit by another strong front bringing gales and heavy downpours, this put paid to the before work early morning session at Welly Dam.  Of course being a public holiday on Monday it also threatened to stay with us over the whole long weekend.  So I resided toContinue reading “Time for tea…”

Last Sunday with a clear blue sky and the mercury hitting the mid-twenty it felt like spring was in the air, so Steve and I headed up to Welly Dam to have a stretch.  Why here, well Steve is lacking wheels (again) so it was in the right direction to avoid extra travel time forContinue reading “The ole faithful”

We’ve had a clear run of sunny weather and Saturday (today!) was going to stay dry so Kym and I headed out.  Unlike others Kym doesn’t mind getting out a bit earlier so I left home soon after six.  Every day at this time during the week I have been greeted with a clear blueContinue reading “Nothing too hard”

It’s been seven weeks since I have been climbing outdoors, and for this one the sun was forecast.  It was the first good weekend forecast time in a few months so Lou, Steve and I took the chance to reacquaint ourselves to placing some gear.  Neither of them claimed to be climbing fit so weContinue reading “Crag booty – up for grabs”

Despite my prediction that we would struggle with the weather in my last email, this weekend has been a flurry of options to get out.  There were offers to visit a Perth crag (it was very tempting!), a trip to Welly Dam this morning and yesterday a day of local trad, which is the oneContinue reading “Wave for the camera”

It is starting to feel like winter has arrived, at least for our slice of Australia in the far south west.  As per usual I checked the forecast regularly all week and it didn’t look to be changing from rain, rain, rain.  Then as we got closer it looked like there may have been aContinue reading “Fair-weather climbers”

The sun was breaking through the horizon while the land was shrouded in mist on this Sunday morning.  It is easy to tell that winter is coming due to the mornings starting later and later, I took this image at about 7am and is very typical of the country round here at this time ofContinue reading “Cranking!”

With school holiday upon us, Elseya had a sleep over and so on Good Friday Lisa and I headed out back to the coast for a climb.  We had arranged to meet a few people there and Rongy was the first there, and we found him under the shady bush looking out to see throughContinue reading “Animal Magic”

After such a fun day out at Castle Rock the relatively newbie and returning cripple crew of the SW decided it was time for another trip out.  So we headed down to Moses Rocks, and Lisa and I were the second crew to arrive finding Wiggins at the top of the excellent Gothic Streak withContinue reading “Rock armchair (grade 20)”

After my failed attempt to get Lisa and Elseya to join us at the Book Shelf a few weeks back it was attempt number two. We had planned on a cruisey time down at the Playground for some bouldering and easy trad lines, but a howling westerly promising 60km/hr on-shore winds combined with a mid-morningContinue reading “Rock fishing”