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Hey,
I would like to know if there is any climbing in Karijini ? If yes, where could I find information about it ?
Also, i will be travelling in North WA, i have the WA rockclimbing guide book. The guide book is only talking about 3 sites : kalbarri, Exmouth and newman. The information on these 3 sites are still up to date ? Is there more updated guide book ?
I also wanted to know if there was other good rockclimbing areas ?
Thanks for all.I have not heard about climbing but there is canyoning….have done it 3 years ago. You will need 50m rope, harness, helmet and wetsuit and say 8 quickdraws. This is because some of the canyons have bolted sections in them, for both climbing (grade 10 or so) and abseiling. No trad gear needed. You should also take inflatable air mattress to float along some of the streams as water is very cold. Commercial operators do these things but you can do them yourself also…..You will need to register with ranger office at the main campground which has maps of the routes. It is not really promoted but is tolerated. Although not climbing, it is great fun.
Don’t think Karijini would be worth trying to climb in. Not many natural lines that could be protected without bolts, and the ones you could climb on gear look pretty chossy. Lots of fun though to canyon in like Ross said.
The climbing I’ve done in Karratha has been fun, but i wouldn’t travel up here specifically to do it.
Hey,
Thanks a lot for the info.
That would be awesome to do canyoning (we both my girlfriend and me have done a lot of canyoning before).
We have a 70m rope, harnesses, helmets, wetsuit (3 mm)… But for the inflatable air matress hum hum…
We will take a bag with empty bottles as a flotation device… You reckoned it will do the trick ?
Thanks fror the info anyway.By the way if you have a copy of the routes already that you can send by email I will be interested.
ThanksThis is the most comprehensive guide I know of, its not exactly logically though, and works better if you have another map showing the gorge names so you get orientation right.
http://www.outdoorswa.org/files/KarijiniClassSixCanyoning%20Guide.pdf
Just a word of warning, its the dry season up here now. It will be absolutely freezing in the water in the gorges right now (its pretty cold even in the middle of January) and the night time lows camping will make a perth winter feel quite balmy.
Cheers,
Jack.
Hi Adrien,
Karijini rock is often fragile indeed and that’s a problem. It’s also a country that is looked after the indigenous people of the area and you might want to ask for permission. I’ve just published the routes we did if that’s of any help:
h t t p : / / w w w.climberswa.asn.au/topic/karijini-hancock-gorge-kalamina-gorge/Spiders Up (18**) was awesome but make sure the tourist are not at the bottom in case of rock fall. The other 2 lines were quite frail unfortunately ;-)))
Enjoy.
RemiHey Remi,
Thanks for the info.
AdrienHello,
Thanks a lot for the info about the canyoning, we had a really great fun over there. We did the knox gorge on the first day and go down in weano and coming back in hancock the second day. That was really beautiful.
Here are a few information if someone wants to go there.
Needless to say that the water is freezing overthere in July and it is sometime going under 0°C during the night.
The only difference from the guide book you sent me is that in knox gorge you have a little abseil (5m) before reaching the slide.
Even if the weano waterfall is supposed to do 40m it is ok with a 70m rope. As it is said in the guide book you have a lot of friction in the abseil (it should have been bolted on the other side a of the waterfall).
We finally bought air matresses in TomPrice just before reaching Karijini and that was a must in knox gorge (almost 2km swimming in very cold water) but we didn’t use them the second day (you just need to swim a few meters).
The only difficult part is to register to the ranger. If you don’t have a certificate to abseil and rock climb outdoor (I have never heard of such a certificate before, do you ?) it’s going to be very difficult (we did it but it took 30 minutes of talking, showing pictures in canyon, checking all our equipment). According to the ranger if you don’t register and you are caught in the class 6 area you risk 3000$ fine.
Otherwise we had a great fun and the canyon are not technical at all. Have fun !!
