Résumé: A Rockclimbing Roadtrip in Down Under

Our Trip is over. It wasn’t our first overseas trip, but traveling in a threesome this time made it different to previous ones. When we first booked the flights to Newzealand a year ago we were excited but also a little nervouse about the upcoming journey. We were confident about the feasibility, as Finja had …

Fontainebleau

The past week was warm. Really warm! Every single day was around 20-25ºC with no wind and a lot of sun and humidity, which made it impossible to climb really hard. Anyways .. it was a great week. We met many of our old friends and changed our focus from climbing hard to climbing a …

Enough of settling in

The last couple were really busy for us. We reactivated our mobilephone contracts, did many loads of laundry, intensivated our search for an affordable apartment and did a lot of paperwork. We enjoyed delicouse meals cooked by Katinkas grandma, german bread and other things we had missed for a while now. Back in Australia I …

The journey is over

We spent 5 nights in our BigW tent in the Blue Mountains. Our tent was set up on a free campground in Megalongvalley, only 5km away from Blackheath and many of the cliffs. After the increasing heat in Sydney it was great to be back at an elevation of 1000+ meters, providing fresher air. Our …

7 days to go

The past week went by really fast, as it was full of action, stress and finally success. After my parents had left we met up with a few people beeing interested in our van. We had 3 persons test driving the van on saturday and several more chatting with us and asking about an appointment …

Back in the big City

In the Blue Mountains we had mostly good weather. Katinka climbed a cool route she had tried on her very first day here in April, „Mt Paddington“ 25. Back then she was not able to do all the moves, but this time it looked quiet easy as she cruised up the wall. Other then that …

From Melbourne to Sydney

As we drove through Melbourne again our van failed … It would suddenly loose every bit of power and would only work in first and second gear (on the highway!). We tried to make some more kilometers by switching between LPG and Petrol mode, which helped a little bit but as we continued our journey …

Great Ocean Road

After my parents arrived at their hotel in Melbourne CBD we joined their dinner for a nice drink. They where less exhausted from the long flight as expected and so we walked through the nightly streets of Melbourne. Even though Finja was only 7 months of age when she last saw the other „Perschmann’s“, she …

Success

We had some phenomenal weather just after finishing our roadtrip. The Sky was blue, we had a little bit of wind and the temperatures in the shade where quiet chilly. „Simplicity“ had always been one of the very last boulders in the whole area to be dry, since the crux of it goes straight through …

Roadtrip

We tried to climb at the Campground Boulders on Thuesday, but the weather was not to pleasant. Katinka couldn’t warm up her body and lost her motivation to try hard and give her best. As she was finally ready to climb her project it started to hail…               We …