Climb on rock. Do all the 12s, do all the 13s, do all the 14s, do all … When you run out of 29s move to Spain.

Numbat by name and by nature it would appear.

DO NOT just go buy gear and head out to the quarries. Look up one of the several companies who teach you what to do with your gear safely and put well learnt skills to good use.

Numbat – Really!

Thanks for the replies but you guys are right. I said im new to climbing so I don’t think i will be heading out to the rock considering I have 0 experience in proper belaying technique and lead climbing experience. Think a course is the best way to go at this stage. Thanks again

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

OK, I skipped a bit.

Go and do a course with an accredited instructor or organisation, or go climbing lots of times with some experienced climbers first.

But no harm in keeping a look-out for for good gear on special. Gear price varies by maybe +/- 30% if not more, so I think it’s worthwhile buying gear when it’s cheap, even if you’re not going to use it straight away – as long as you will be using it sometime!

As has already been mentioned the CAWA trips are a good plece, although it can be hard for a newby to find a climbing partner on them.

For another option UWA-Outdoors Club is a good place (shameless plug) there are usually people from the club climbing twice a week indoors, and most weekends outdoors. There are quite a few people in the club with outdoor experience, and the club has some gear so you don’t need everything yourself.

Note everyone before I attract flame, I’m not trying to detract anything from CAWA here, I am a CAWA member myself, and I encourage other ODC people to come on CAWA trips and join, I just think that both clubs have something to offer.

Look us up http://www.outdoorclub.com.au you don’t have to be a UWA student, probably 50% of our membership base aren’t students.

David Wyndham

UWA-ODC Climbing Officer 2008-2009

UWA-ODC Secretary 2009-2010

@Rockstar,

Due to people from the club leaving, giving up climbing, etc. There was a lack of people in the club able to take beginners outdoors. This all happened around three years ago.

However over the last 18 months there have been a few people with outdoor experience move to Perth and into the club, and some changes to club regulations, and so we are now able to run beginner outdoor trips. Just waiting on the weather improving.

In the meantime (the last 12 months or so) there have been many club members climbing outdoors almost every weekend. It’s just that the trips haven’t been advertised to the general club community as they weren’t beginner oriented. At the pub after indoor sessions these have been discussed, and a few keen beginners have been coming, people that want to learn for their own and the club’s benefit.

I came to Perth last year with there being almost zero outdoor experience in the club. It has been mostly with the effort of myself and a few others that we have resurrected climbing. So yeah, we do climb outdoors.

Do you have some experience with the ODC in the past?

you will Not be a a ‘dependent participant’. you will be completely independant of any activity provider.

This a bit off on a tangent, but I haven’t looked at the CAWA website for about 18 months, and was happy to see that some people are aware that Spain – my adopted land – is great for climbing! Just ask Chris Sharma, who lives about 2 hours from me for most of the year, and beavers away putting up ridiculously hard routes. Two or three of the 5 best climbers in the world are Spanish at the moment. It’s not surprising considering the classy rock that’s around. AND there’s plenty of trad for the purists!! Anyway, that’s enough of my plug…back to work…

Good to hear from Spain. We’re all jelous of your amazing rock and aspire to climb there .