Fancy a Little Sport

I will happily admit to being a Trad' rat but sometimes a change can be nice. Maybe retreating from Coral Seas in a full on thunder storm a while back wasn't so great, although it was memorable but some recent trips to Horseshoe have been good.

The current highlight of the trip tends to be newt watching but the climbing is good too. Plenty on main wall to go at, some esoteric multi-pitch over by Barney Rubble (aptly named, you've been warned) and even a family friendly beginners area up in the top quarry.

Enterprise Wall is a good place to make the transition from climbing wall to rock sport. At 6m or so the climbs are probably going to feel hard for the grade, especially compared to the wall. But with 3 clips to a lower off on a slightly less than vertical wall, what a great place to learn the tricks of the trade.

Below is my daughter Cally doing a top roped practice lead on Uranus (3+ or maybe severe to a trad rat)

Hurray for Climbing Walls

Well, weather not too bad today but can't say it's been too good in March. Absolutely no outdoor instructing action and not much on the personal front either. I'd hoped for a few requests for navigation courses but it seems people are waiting for better waether for that too. Rather defeats the object of the exercise though!

Still, at least we have the climbing walls. I've been busy down at Rope Race with assorted guides and scouts. At my more regular haunt of Awesome Walls, I have been doing a few lead climbing intros. Great fun but pretty intense work. Looking forward to doing the CWLA in a couple of weeks. It will be nice to get away from the 'site specific training' and put this sort of work into my freelance portfolio.

Watch this space.