Climbing over the Christmas break

Brenton and I will be heading down to Bremer Bay for NYE. We're leaving Perth on the 27th Dec, stopping at West Cape Howe for a night or two (climbing with Shannon I think), heading to Bremer for festivities, and hoping to come back, on the 2nd Jan via the Ponrongarups or Stirling Range (Brenton?), to do a multi-pitch route (14 I think - ok for me!).
If you're keen to join us for any section (or the whole thing) let us know. We're either camping (swag) or staying in (near) a house in Bremer (swag).
Image credit.

Gear for Sale

I'm moving overseas so I need to get rid of a heap of stuff, including my climbing gear......

1 x Mammut Dynamic Rope – 60m (10mm thick) with rope bag $140

6 x Wild Country Oxygen Quickdraws (Blue, 10cm) $15ea

5 x Wild Country Oxygen Quickdraws (Red, 10cm) $15ea

1 x Set Black Diamond Nut Set (sizes 4-13, 10 pieces) with racking carabiner $90

10 x Bolt plates (various makes and shapes) $2ea

2 x Black Diamond Slings – 60cm $5ea

2 x Black Diamond Slings – 120cm $5ea

2 x Static Ropes – 20m (11mm Eldrid from memory) $40ea

All this gear is in very good condition. The rope has heaps of life left in it and hasn’t seen any big falls (it's been used for indoor and outdoor leads). The nuts and blue quickdraws have barely been used (I’m pretty sure they’ve never been fallen on).

Feel free to make an offer on any of this stuff or take the whole lot for $400. (I’ll even chuck in the “West Australian Rock” guide book). This is a great set-up for anyone looking to start climbing outdoors/sports climbing.

I can be contacted on 0417 984 559 or emailed at mattyfitz@gmail.com

Albany Trip

Shannon is arranging a few crew to go climbing in the Albany region from the 27th Dec to about the 2nd Jan. All the major areas will be covered (West Cape Howe, Peak Head etc) so if anyone is keen it will be good to see you there!!!

Climbing Movie Night Saturday, 14th November

Hey all. Elaine (another local climber) sent out the following invitation...
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On Saturday 14 November at 7pm, we're going to Dwellingup for a climbing movie night at the Dwellingup Community Hall (right in the middle of town).
Movies will be shown on a full size movie screen. There will be two movies – one will be Touching the Void for the general public, then a mashup of some of the best (real) climbing movies of all time for the rest of us. The cost of entry is $10.
We are also planning to have a BYO BBQ at Phil’s parents place beforehand - around 5pm, please let us know if you are interested and we’ll send you the address (it’s also in Dwellingup).
Finally, Phil’s parents backyard is big enough to hold a large number of tents and they’ve kindly offered that anyone can pitch there for the night – we will be and everyone else is welcome as well.
On the day after (Sunday), we also plan to head out climbing around Pinjarra or some of the other southerly climbing areas.
Let us know if you want to join us?

Sat 10-10-09

We will be climbing in Stathams this Saturday, hope to see you all there.
If you need gate code/directions give me a call 0419 044 946

Anyone for a climb?

Going to Rockface this Wednesday night, 8ish if anyone is keen for a climb.

Indoor climb this week?

Anyone keen for a climb this week? Any day bar tonight and Friday is cool for me. Want to try somewhere different? Are there still half price climbs @ Urban on Wednesday (was meant to be a 'winter' thing)...

Lizzy’s Birthday

Monday 28 September is a public holiday and Shannon is rounding up a crew to head down to Willyabrup (Margaret River).

The picture is the stainless steel wall.

@ Urban Ascent, Wednesday 16th September

If anyone else is keen, we'll be heading to UA for an evening of indoor clambering. Thinking around 8pm, post-junior hockey coaching (final session of the season - wish us well for the GF!!). BA may be back from the deserts of South Australia by then too. Give us a bell if you need a lift.
Pic was taken in Kalbarri, around July. 

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Welcome!

So, instead of emailing back and forth here's a blog - post when you're heading to Urban for a climb, or if you have dates you want to put aside for a trip down south etc. I'll post some pics too.
Remember to subscribe to the RSS feed so you're notified of new posts. If you don't use Google Reader, iGoogle or something similar, maybe you should try it. That way, if one of us is keen for a climb, say next Wednesday night we could post it, everyone would read it and could RSVP via comments.
Feel free to add new links, pics, articles, good buys, sales of climbing kit, whatever.
Here's a pic of Brenton leading, Shannon belaying, out at Mountain Quarry. Not sure of name of route (some Star Wars reference maybe?).