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Megan
Hi there. I’m moving to WA in the next few weeks with work and want to keep climbing. I climb mostly indoors here in the UK (high 5’s/low 6’s on the UK system, not sure how it translates) due to the crumby weather, but would like to do more outdoors. I’ll hopefully be in Perth by next month, looking for friendly people to climb with! Is the best way just to come along to a gym crash?
Cheers,
Megan
shane shaw
hi there we have a small group that climb at Urban Ascent or The hang oput every Tuesday. We start around 4 – 4.30. There are normall 2-3 ladys and 2-3 guys sometimes and we also do a lot of outdoor climbing when the weather is ok.
If interested
t/p 0412-918-596
Ross
Hi Megan,
There is an active climbing community here. See my blog at rossclimbing.typepad.com : it has some pics of WA climbing spots, links to the 3 local gyms, and in the quicklinks on left side there is a link to a grades translation table. You can contact me by email in the top left corner. Have a good move and see you here.
Good Advice
Run while you can or better yet pull a tendon so you do not have to expose yourself to the horror of WA rock……………….
Megan
Heh! I don’t know, I climbed some pretty horrible limestone last weekend, still got the holes in my hand to prove it!
Seriously, thanks for the replies. I will head down to the gym ones I’ve arrived and got my stuff sorted out. What’s public transport like round the city?
Phillip
Public transport? In Perth?
There are buses and trains, but usually they are late or early and don’t go anywhere useful. You’ll wait for an hour and no buses come along and so you start walking and then four will go past. Or you catch a train and arrive at the station just in time to see your connecting bus disappear.
Actually it’s not quite that bad, but it can be hard to get around sometimes. Perth is a very car-oriented city. You either need a car or a friend with a car, particularly if you want to go climbing or something like that.
Apart from that, there is good climbing near Perth and even better ‘down south’ and elsewhere.
Based in Perth is CAWA and we organise regular trips away to various places – the next trip is 30 May – 02 June to Kalbarri, about 600 km north of Perth. The last trip was a few weeks ago to the Stirling Ranges, about 400 km south.
There are several loose ‘groups’, I suppose you could say, that go climbing around Perth on the weekends – there’s the young hunks, old farts, hardmen etc etc, so when you get here best to find a group that you like and get involved and go climbing. Usually the trips away end up with a very diverse range of people going climbing!
Reto
As I am a keen climber, I always try to climb outdoor. I live at the moment in Wandering which is 1.5 h south of perth, so Mount randall or churchmans brook are the go for me.
give me your email ardress or mobilephone number so we can catch up.
[email protected] or 0400 005 435
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