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Easter Climbing

If climbers kept diaries, Easter would be circled in red as The Event of the Year. This year, Me, You and everyone we know could be found from Friday through Monday camping either at Mt. Stapylton or Mt. Arapiles. Friday was hot, windy and rubbish so we drove up later in the day. Saturday and …

Boulders on Squeaky Beach

Squeaky Beach Bouldering

I was at Wilson’s Prom last weekend on a relaxed trip with my parents who are visiting from the UK. We stayed in a cabin, rather than camping, and had fun on the beaches and surveying the extent of the recent bush fires. I had heard from friends that there was some bouldering at the …

Grampians

A weekend climbing trip to the Grampians. But only two of us so no climbing photos. The spring flowers are coming through, though and Saturday’s weather was beautiful. Perfect for a post-climbing evening walk to see sunset colour the inspiring Taipan Wall to a bright, burned orange.

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Joffre Lakes (Revisited)

The picture above was taken April 2004, the picture below was taken August 2005… see the effects of climate change? … heh, not really… I first did this hike with Ross Easter w/e last year. We arrived and the trailhead and carpark was under at least a metre of snow. We had a somewhat epic …