Well, I've been having an amusing game of hide and seek with the weather recently. The storms that occur out on flat plains are a pretty exciting experience for me. Unlike Scottish weather that generally does the same thing over quite a wide area, the storms in Victoria are extremely localised, often only a kilometer wide, they float across the plains soaking one area and leaving others dry and sunny. Trying to climb in these conditions with several storms floating around every direction you look in is pretty entertaining and sometimes very wet! On the positive side, the temperature is chronically low for this time of year, which suits me just fine.
Almost everyone I was having fun hanging out with and climbing with has left in the last few days, the pines campsight overall is looking rather deserted infact. There are still sufficient partners to climb with though, which is a lucky coincidence as I have a few climbs I would rather like to tick before I leave. I have been back on Jet Lag, 29, on the sport wall and with the help of a little beta I can now do the route in about 2 links, stringing the whole thing together though will remain quite a trial.
I should be Arapiles for another couple of weeks and then off to Melbourne for a few weeks before heading out to Buffalo to do some climbs with a chap in the Victoria Climbing Club in the latter half of January.
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