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The past days we spent in area on the other side of Horsham. Instead of sitting in the rainy Grampians (the weather has not improved yet …) we enjoyed some sunny days in the Arapiles. There is a little bit of bouldering, but not to much and the sandstone is by far not as good …

Shortly after our last post we had to celebrate a double birthday party. Paula and Finja both turned 1 year old on friday, 11th July. It was a rainy day, so we spent quite some time in a nice cafe together with Manu and Marie. The two little ones got surprised by some boxed and …

The past week was full of rain. After one day in Buandik where I tried my steep project together with my brother Jochen I found a good solution for how to do the single moves. I’ve solved the puzzle of the rock and only need to link all the moves together another day. Then we …

Last week we rearrived in Australia. Our little holiday ended with an exhausing overnight flight back to Melbourne, where the immigration officers took a real close look at us. They pulled us out of the line and asked, why we would return to austalia after an such short absence of only nine days. We had …

When we first booked our flights we decided to stay in Australia for 5,5 months. To be allowed for so long we had two choices: Either apply for a 12 extended month tourist visa, or leave the country after 3 months. Since the extended visa would have cost us 100 Euro each, we decided to …

Every now and then I get asked, what is a V12? What is a „roof“ and what are Crashpads? To satisfy your thirst for knowledge I’ll explain some of the climbing vocabulary in this post. Bouldering: Bouldering is a type of rock climbing where you do not use a rope. The climbing will usually happen …

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 …

We’re just back to civilisation from the Grampians National Park. The closest town is Horsham which is about a hour drive away. 70km on a paved road plus 10km on a really bad dirtroad. On the campground where all the climbers stay there are restrooms, a rainwatertank and fireplaces, but that’s it. You can’t grab …

We finished our time in the Blue Mountains with some nice last climbs up to 27. I was able to Flash „Wrong Movement“, 27 while Jochen had big success on his longterm project „Alpa Leather“, 32. He had tried it a lot on his last trip to the Blue Mountains about seven years ago, and …

The trip to Sydney was awesome! We had a beautiful and cool climbing day in The Balkans, one of Sydney’s bigger and older Bouldering Areas. We met up with our friends Steve, Joe and their daugther Tara, which we had met a few weeks ago in the Blue Mountains. I had visited this area 5 …