Just after uploading our last blog update, we met up again with Manu and Marie. We had seperated in Canberra, as they wanted to drive the Great Ocean Road, while we were psyched for the Grampians bouldering and hurried down through the inland. We did buy a lot of groceries, since the climbing area is far away from civilisation, filled up our water and headed back to Buandik Campground where we spent the next five days.
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| Finja playing in the dirt, as usual. |
The weather had cooled down, but sun still was a scarce gift. We managed to put up a few more first ascents. Katinka called one line „I’m a Koala“, V5 and another scary one is now called the „Grave Yard“. I myselfe started working on two harder boulders. One is an already established line „The Rubiks Cube“, V12 – first climbed by Dave Graham – which feels possible to climb for me. The other line is a nameless, steep V7 roof. It ends on a big jug, where the big holds end and the rock blanks out. But I found a solution how to top it out. After climbing the existing boulder the real business starts with some really hard moves at the end of the roof.
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| Katinka climbs the nameless V7 roof |
Manu and Marie are more into easy climbing. They enjoy the warmup boulders and both did a few First Ascents as well. In the evenings we make big fires at the campground to stay warm and not to get bored. And at some time in the next days we might bake our first pizza in a while. 🙂
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| Marie and Manu sitting at the evenings fire |
Today it is a rainy day, and we decided to visit Hamilton. Its exactly the same distance as to Horsham, but driving south, not north. This town offers a few places with free showers and internet and we need to get rid of a major van problem … we found some mould below the matress, where we had spit the 3 liters of orange juice a couple weeks ago. Not the very best weather to dry our stuff, but having bought new wood and some strong anti-mould-mixture we are confident, we will succeed!