Another weekend, another climbing trip. There will be plenty more of these, non-climbers are invited to stop reading now if they're not interested :)
Went to Blue Mountains, about 2 hours out of Sydney. They're not real "mountains" in the traditional definitition of the word, but rather a range of hills and plateaus interesected by many cliff-sided valleys. All together, this makes for beautiful climbing on orange sandstone, and with great views too. As for climbing, every climb seemed to have a hard move right off the ground, with much more reasonable climbing later. I'll need to get the hang of those :)
The place is called Shipley Upper. Very social crag, with very closely spaced routes. But, everyone was friendly and was enjoying the climbing.
3 climbers on about 30 ft width of wall
Matt cleaning the top anchor on Aus grade 21 (11b). Awesome, if a messy, lead, I had more than enough trouble toproping this one.
Full set of photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/olegace/ShipleyUpperClimbing
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