Weekend Reports

These pages chronicle my various climbing trips over the last five or so years. Many are taken directly from e-mail conversations with friends so may be a little rough around the edges in literary style. I have rated each report from zero to three stars. If you are here briefly scroll down and check out the three star reports before anything else.

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Index by Date

Report Name Text Photos Rating
Urbenville Rain - Weekend of 13th November 1997 Text Photos  
Adrenaline Goes Down - Weekend of 14th March 1998 Text Photos  
Pommy on the Moon - Weekend of 6th June 1998 Text   *
Rain and Bolting - Weeeknd of 13th June 1998 Text Photos  
Summer's Day in Winter - Weekend of 4th July 1998 Text    
Exploration in the Gramps - Weekend of 8th August 1998 Text Photos *
Foreigners Invade Arapiles - Weekend of 22nd August 1998 Text Photos  
Black Ian - Weekend of 29th August 1998 Text Photos *
Arapiles Over 20's - Weekend of 19th September 1998 Text Photos **
No Climbing, No Gas? - Weekend of 26th September 1998 Text    
Rosea to Lunar Newies - Weekend of 3rd October 1998 Text    
Partys, Bikes and the You Yangs - Weekend of 10th October 1998 Text    
Arapiles Classics - Weekend of 17th October 1998 Text Photos *
Aiding and Falling on Taipan - Weekend of 24th of October 1998 Text Photos *
Sub Zero Big Walls - Weekend of 31st of October 1998 Text Photos ***
New Routes and Onsight Bonanza - Weekend of 7th November 1998 Text Photos  
The Difficult Centurion - Weekend of 14th November 1998 Text Photos **
Grounders and Running on Empty - Weekend of 21st November 1998 Text   *
Bouldering, Dance & Bikes - Weekend of 28th November 1998 Text    
Damage Done with Tom the Brit - Weekend of the 5th December 1998 Text Photos *
Three Day Bigwall - Weekend of the 12th December 1998 Text Photos ***
The Silver Screen - Weekend of the 19th December 1998 Text Photos  
Crashes and the Arapiles Life - Weekend of the 9th January 1999 Text Photos *
Lazy Days & Redpoints - Weekend of the 16th January 1999 Text Photos **
Victorian Limestone? - Weekend of the 23rd of January 1999 Text Photos  
Crystal Slander - Weekend of the 30th of January 1999 Text Photos *
A Picture Tells... - Weekend of the 6th of February 1999 Text Photos **
This Sporting Life - Weekend of the 13th February 1999 Text Photos **
Three Days in the Gramps - Weekend of the 27th February 1999 Text Photos  
Steep Thugging - Weekend of the 13th March 1999   Photos *
Winter Arrives in Grampains - Weekend of the 20th March 1999 Text    
Winds at Wilsons Prom - Weekend of the 27th March 1999 Text   *
Blue Mountain's Escalade 99 - Week of the 10th April 1999 Text Photos **
So Much Rock. Such Little Time. - Weekend of the 1st May 1999 Text Photos **
Solo Madness - Weekend of the 15th May 1999 Text   *
New Granite Aid - Weekend of the 22nd May 1999 Text Photos  
Passport to Insanity - Weekend of the 5th June 1999   Photos *
Victorian Alpine Adventure - Weekend of the 4th July 1999   Photos **
Mega USA Climbing Roadtrip - August 1999 Text Photos ***
Mega USA Climbing Roadtrip - September 1999 Text Photos ***
Mega USA Climbing Roadtrip - October 1999  Text Photos  **
Mega USA Climbing Roadtrip - November 1999  Text  Photos  **
New South Wales - Early 2000   Photos **
Hardest New Route - Easter 2000   Photos *
Rave Nation - Weekend of the 20th May 2000   Photos  
Lake Mountain Snow - Weekend of the 27th May 2000   Photos  
Compressor Route - Weekend of the 3rd June 2000 Text Photos *
Bogong - Weekend of the 10th June 2000   Photos **
Mt Buller - Weekend of the 22 July 2000 Text Photos **
Pollux Outcrop - Weekend of the 20th August 2000   Photos ***
The Plaza Strip - Weekend of the 2nd September 2000 Text Photos **
S11 Protest - 12th September 2000 Text Photos *
Granite Slabs at You Yangs - Weeeknd of the 16th September 2000   Photos  
Grampians New Routes - Weekend of the 23rd September 2000   Photos *
New Zealand Alps - Two Weeks from 1st October 2000 Text Photos ***
Asses Ear & Gilhams Crags - Weekend of the 28th October 2000   Photos *
Ozymandias in a Day - Weekend of the 17th November 2000 Text   **
The Pecking Order - Weekend of the 6th January 2001 Text Photos *
Sealers Cove Two Day Hike - Weekend of the 20th January 2001   Photos  
Crowds Savage Grampians - Weekend of the 26th January 2001 Text Photos *
Mt Cook New Zealand - Two Weeks from 17th Febuary 2001 Text Photos ***
Grampians Weekend - Weekend of the 7th April 2001   Photos *
Mt Feathertop Easter Hike - Weekend of the 12th April 2001   Photos  
Mt Bogong Cache Mission - Weekend of the 20th April 2001   Photos *
Camels Hump - Day of the 25th April 2001   Photos  
Asses Ear New Routing - Weekend of the 28th April 2001   Photos  
Centurian - Weekend of the 5th May 2001   Photos ***
Schroeders Cliff New Routes - Weekend of the 26th May 2001   Photos *
Mt Warning - New Big Route - Weekend of the 9th June 2001 Text Photos ***
Lord Gumtree Winter Solstice - Weekend of the 22nd June 2001 Text Photos **
Schroeders Cliff New Routes2 - Weekend of the 30th June 2001   Photos *
Bogong First Ice of the Season - Weekend of the 21st July 2001   Photos **
Final Routes at Schroeders - Weekend of the 28th July 2001   Photos  
Bogong Snow Camping - Weekend of the 11th August 2001   Photos *
Mt Bulla Snowboarding - Weekend of the 18th August 2001   Photos  
Lake Mountain XC - Weekend of the 25th August 2001   Photos  
Muline and the Anti-Christ - Weekend of the 1st September 2001 Text Photos *
Millenium and Windjammer - Weekend of the 8th September 2001   Photos *
Adeliade Return - Five Days from 15th September 2001   Photos  
Cut Lunch New Routes - Weekend of the 22nd September 2001 Text Photos *
Sissy Crag Bouldering - Sydney 27th September 2001   Photos  
Cut Lunch Photofest - Weekend of the 6th October 2001   Photos **
Picnic at Hanging Rock - Weekend of the 27th October 2001   Photos  
Buchan Limestone - Weekend of the 3rd November 2001   Photos **
Cut Lunch & Mt Difficult - Weekend of the 10th November 2001   Photos *
Wilsons Prom Bouldering - Weekend of the 17th November 2001   Photos *
Eureka its a Tortoise - Weekend of the 24th November 2001   Photos *
Vic Range with Geoff - Weekend of the 8th December 2001   Photos  
Fortress Summit Hike - Weekend of the 22nd December 2001   Photos *
New Zealand North Island - Week of the 24th December 2001   Photos  
Stapylton with Lee and Mark - Weekend of the 3rd January 2002 Text Photos **
Gondwanaland New Routes - Weekend of the 12th January 2002 Text Photos **
Red Rock Newies - Weekend of the 26th January 2002   Photos *
Mt Erica - Weekend of the 3rd February 2002 Text Photos *
Melbourne Granite Bouldering - Weekend of the 9th February 2002   Photos  
Buffalo Free Climbs - Weeknd of the 16th February 2002   Photos **
Urban Bouldering Melbourne - 20th February 2002   Photos *
Red Rocks and Mt Abrubt - 2nd March 2002   Photos  
Defender of the Faith Mt Buffalo - 11th March 2002   Photos **
Mitchell River - 23rd March 2002   Photos  
Point Perp Easter - 29th March 2002   Photos **
Mt Cole Redmans Bluff Aiding - 6th April 2002 Text Photos  
Mt Cole New Routes - 14th April 2002 Text Photos *
Briggs Bluff, Centurian and Mt Cole - 20th April 2002   Photos *
Yarra Valley Pictorial - 25th April 2002   Photos *
California Granite - 3rd May 2002 Text Photos **
Baffin Island, Canada - 4th June 2002 Text Photos ***
Mt Bogong to Falls Creek Alpine Crossing - 25th August 2002 Photos **
Red Rocks Discovery - 14th September 2002 Text
Red Rocks New Routes - 13th October 2002 Photos **
Centurian, Grampians VCC Trip - 13th October 2002 Text Photos *
Sentinel Cave, Grampians - 5th November 2002 Text Photos *
Sentinel Cave/Red Rocks, Grampians - 16th November 2002 Photos **
Cathedral Ranges Bouldering - 24th November 2002 Photos *
Bundaleer and Stapylton - 30th November 2002 Photos **
Werribee Gorge Sport Climbing - 9th December 2002 Photos *
Watchtower and Elephants Hide Grampians - 21st December 2002 Photos **
Noosa Bouldering, QLD - 26th December 2002 Photos *
E-Park Bouldering, QLD - 28th December 2002 Photos
Lamington National Park Hike - 29th December 2002 Photos
New Years in the Grampians - 1st January 2003 Photos ***
Ben Nevis - Red Rock Slabs - 11th January 2003 Photos
The Bluff Alpine National Park - 18th January 2003 Photos *
Peking Face, Gondwanaland, Emu Rock, Grampians - 25th January 2003 Photos *
Mt Aspiring, New Zealand - 1st February 2003 Photos ***
Reece Dart Tramp, New Zealand - 6th February 2003 Photos *
Scoop Rocks & Sentinel Cave, Grampians - 1st March 2003 Text Photos **

Mt Pox & Scoop Rocks, Grampians - 8th March 2003

Text Photos *
Glenelg Limestone River Canoe - 16th March 2003 Photos
Scoop Rocks Development - Grampians - 22nd March 2003 Photos
Camels Hump - Melbourne - 29th March 2003 Photos *
Gallery Scoop Rocks - Grampians - 5th April 2003 Text Photos **
Warragul Rocks Re-bolting - 13th April 2003 Photos
Tasmanian Easter - 18th April 2003 Photos *
Guardhouse Watchtower - Grampians - 25th April 2003 Photos *
Warragul Rocks- Grampians - 4th May 2003 Photos
Scoop Rocks The Tower- Grampians - 11th May 2003 Photos *
Mt Buller Ice Climbing - 2nd August 2003 Photos **
Mt Kosciuszko Winter Solo Ascent - 9th August 2003 Photos *
Victoria Ranges Wet Weather Hike- 23rd August 2003 Photos
Cut Lunch Wall & Centurion with HB - 6th Septemeber 2003 Photos **

Red Rocks & Jaqs Cave - Grampians - 21st Septemeber 2003

Text Photos **

Lost World and VD land - Grampians - 27st Septemeber 2003

Photos **

Curiosity Crag Red Rocks - Grampians - 25th Septemeber 2003

Photos

Blue Mountains Sport Climbing - 1st November 2003

Photos **

Weathered Wall & The Tower - Grampians - 30th November 2003

Text Photos *

Loddon River Supercrag - Victoria - 7th December 2003

Photos

Tasmanian Three Week Roadtrip - 26th December 2003

Photos ***

Gallery and The Tower - Grampians - 17th January 2004

Photos **

Richmond Bridge Bouldering - 22nd January 2004

Photos

The Tower & Gondwannaland - Grampians - 24nd January 2004

Text Photos **

Mt Buffalo Summer - 7th Febuary 2004

Photos **

Millenium Caves and The Tower - Grampians - 21st Febuary 2004

Photos ***

Gondwannaland and Millenium Caves - Grampians - 28th Febuary 2004

Photos **

Mt Buffalo with HB - 13th March 2004

Photos **

VD Land and Taipan Wall - Grampians - 27th March 2004

Photos **

Cape Woolamai - Victoria - 3rd April 2004

Photos

Moonarie Easter - South Australia - 9th April 2004

Photos ***

Tapain Wall and VD Land - Grampians - 17th April 2004

Photos ***

Tapain Wall and VD Land with Cosseys - Grampians - 24th April 2004

Photos ***

You Yangs Northern Outcrop - 2nd May 2004

Photos **

Sentinel, Taipan and Hollow Mtn - Grampians - 7th May 2004

Photos ***

Taipan Wall and Lava Caves - Grampians - 15th May 2004

Photos *

Possum Rocks Bouldering - Grampians - 22nd May 2004

Photos *


Index by Area

Area Trip Report

Arapiles

Foreigners Invade Arapiles - Weekend of 22nd August

Arapiles Over 20's - Weekend of 19th September

Arapiles Classics - Weekend of 17th October

New Routes and Onsight Bonanza - Weekend of 7th November 1998

Grounders and Running on Empty - Weekend of 21st November 1998

Crashes and the Arapiles Life - Weekend of the 9th January 1999

Steep Thugging - Weekend of the 13th March 1999

Solo Madness - Weekend of the 15th May 1999

Grampians

Pommy on the Moon - Weekend of 6th June 1998

Rain and Bolting - Weeeknd of 13th June 1998

Summer's Day in Winter - Weekend of 4th July

Exploration in the Gramps - Weekend of 8th August

Black Ian - Weekend of 29th August 1998

Rosea to Lunar Newies - Weekend of 3rd October

Aiding and Falling on Taipan - Weekend of 24th of October

New Routes and Onsight Bonanza - Weekend of 7th November 1998

The Difficult Centurion - Weekend of 14th November 1998

Grounders and Running on Empty - Weekend of 21st November 1998

Damage Done with Tom the Brit - Weekend of the 5th December 1998

The Silver Screen - Weekend of the 19th December 1998

Lazy Days & Redpoints - Weekend of the 16th January 1999

Crystal Slander - Weekend of the 30th of January 1999

A Picture Tells... - Weekend of the 6th of February 1999

This Sporting Life - Weekend of the 13th February 1999

Three Days in the Gramps - Weekend of the 27th February 1999

Winter Arrives in Grampains - Weekend of the 20th March 1999

So Much Rock. Such Little Time. - Weekend of the 1st May 1999

Passport to Insanity - Weekend of the 5th June 1999

Hardest New Route - Easter 2000

Compressor Route - Weekend of the 3rd June 2000

The Plaza Strip - Weekend of the 2nd September 2000

Grampians New Routes - Weekend of the 23rd September 2000

Asses Ear & Gilhams Crags - Weekend of the 28th October 2000

The Pecking Order - Weekend of the 6th January 2001

Crowds Savage Grampians - Weekend of the 26th January 2001

Grampians Weekend - Weekend of the 7th April 2001

Asses Ear New Routing - Weekend of the 28th April 2001

Centurian Photo Fest - Weekend of the 5th May 2001

Schroeders Cliff New Routes - Weekend of the 26th May 2001

Schroeders Cliff New Routes2 - Weekend of the 30th June 2001

Final Routes at Schroeders - Weekend of the 28th July 2001

Muline and the Anti-Christ - Weekend of the 1st September 2001

Millenium and Windjammer - Weekend of the 8th September 2001

Cut Lunch New Routes - Weekend of the 22nd September 2001

Cut Lunch Photofest - Weekend of the 6th October 2001

Cut Lunch & Mt Difficult - Weekend of the 10th November 2001

Eureka its a Tortoise - Weekend of the 24th November 2001

Vic Range with Geoff - Weekend of the 8th December 2001

Fortress Summit Hike - Weekend of the 22nd December 2001

Stapylton with Lee and Mark - Weekend of the 3rd January 2002

Gondwanaland New Routes - Weekend of the 12th January 2002

Red Rock Newies - Weekend of the 26th January 2002

Red Rocks and Mt Abrubt - 2nd March 2002

Mt Cole Redmans Bluff Aiding - 6th April 2002

Briggs Bluff, Centurian and Mt Cole - 20th April 2002

Red Rocks Discovery - 14th September 2002

Red Rocks New Routes - 13th October 2002

Centurian, Grampians VCC Trip - 13th October 2002

Sentinel Cave, Grampians - 5th November 2002

Sentinel Cave/Red Rocks, Grampians - 16th November 2002

Bundaleer and Stapylton - 30th November 2002

Watchtower and Elephants Hide Grampians - 21st December 2002

New Years in the Grampians - 1st January 2003

Peking Face, Gondwanaland, Emu Rock, Grampians - 25th January 2003

Scoop Rocks & Sentinel Cave, Grampians - 1st March 2003

Mt Pox & Scoop Rocks, Grampians - 8th March 2003

Scoop Rocks Development - Grampians - 22nd March 2003

Gallery Scoop Rocks - Grampians - 5th April 2003

Guardhouse Watchtower - Grampians - 25th April 2003

Scoop Rocks The Tower- Grampians - 11th May 2003

Red Rocks & Jaqs Cave - Grampians - 21stSeptemeber 2003

Lost World and VD land - Grampians - 27st Septemeber 2003

Curiosity Crag Red Rocks - Grampians - 25th Septemeber 2003

Mt Buffalo

Sub Zero Big Walls - Weekend of 31st of October

Three Day Bigwall - Weekend of the 12th December 1998

Ozymandias in a Day - Weekend of the 17th November 2000

Lord Gumtree Winter Solstice - Weekend of the 22nd June 2001

Buffalo Free Climbs - Weeeknd of the 16th February 2002

Defender of the Faith Mt Buffalo - 11th March 2002

You Yangs

Partys, Bikes and the You Yangs - Weekend of 10th October 1998

Granite Slabs at You Yangs - Weeeknd of the 16th September 2000

 

The Great Ocean Road

Victorian Limestone? - Weekend Report of the 23rd of January 1999

Adeliade Return - Five Days from 15th September 2001

Melbourne

No Climbing, No Gas? - Weekend of 26th September 1998

Bouldering, Dance & Bikes - Weekend of 28th November 1998

New Granite Aid - Weekend of the 22nd May 1999

Lake Mountain Snow - Weekend of the 27th May 2000

Camels Hump - Day of the 25th April 2001

Picnic at Hanging Rock - Weekend of the 27th October 2001

Mt Erica - Weekend of the 3rd February 2002

Melbourne Granite Bouldering - Weekend of the 9th February 2002

Urban Bouldering Melbourne - 20th February 2002

Mt Cole Redmans Bluff Aiding - 6th April 2002

Mt Cole New Routes - 14th April 2002

Yarra Valley Pictoral - 24th April 2002

Cathedral Ranges Bouldering - 24th November 2002

Werribee Gorge Sport Climbing - 9th December 2002

Ben Nevis - Red Rock Slabs - 11th January 2003

Warragul Rocks- Grampians - 4th May 2003

Wilsons Prom

Winds at Wilsons Prom - Weekend of the 27th March 1999

Sealers Cove Two Day Hike - Weekend of the 20th January 2001

Wilsons Prom Bouldering - Weekend of the 17th November 2001

 

New South Wales

Blue Mountain's Escalade 99 - Week of the 10th April 1999

New South Wales - Early 2000

Point Perp Easter - 29th March 2002

USA

Mega USA Climbing Roadtrip - 6 Months 1999

California Granite - 3rd May 2002

Alpine / Mountaineering

Victorian Alpine Adventure - Weekend of the 4th July 1999

Bogong - Weekend of the 10th June 2000

Mt Buller - Weekend of the 22 July 2000

Pollux Outcrop - Weekend of the 20th August 2000

New Zealand Alps - Two Weeks from 1st October 2000

Mt Cook New Zealand - Two Weeks from 17th Febuary 2001

Mt Feathertop Easter Hike - Weekend of the 12th April 2001

Mt Bogong Cache Mission - Weekend of the 20th April 2001

Mt Warning - New Big Route - Weekend of the 9th June 2001

Bogong First Ice of the Season - Weekend of the 21st July 2001

Bogong Snow Camping - Weekend of the 11th August 2001

Mt Bulla Snowboarding - Weekend of the 18th August 2001

Lake Mountain XC - Weekend of the 25th August 2001

Baffin Island, Canada - 4th June 2002

Mt Bogong to Falls Creek Alpine Crossing - 25th August 2002

Mt Aspiring, New Zealand - 1st February 2003

Mt Buller Ice Climbing - 2nd August 2003

Mt Kosciuszko Winter Solo Ascent - 9th August 2003

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