Rock Climbing at Mt. Arapiles

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Back to Melbourne for a day and then off to the Arapiles Ranges camping with Bec’s brother, Owen. It was great to get away from cities again and out in the wide open spaces. An outdoors nut, Owen wanted to show us how to rock climb and abseil. Two days we learned the ropes (no pun intended) and challenged ourselves to break through the fear. We were due to stay 4 nights, but the forecast of rain is not a good thing for rock climbers. So back to Melbourne we went.

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Photos

Climb 1
My first ever attempt at climbing a real rock face.

Owen lead climbing
Bec's brother decided to lead climb to set up the ropes for us. Lead climbing means he climbs up some of the way without support until he can put in some for us to use behind him.

Becca Climb 2
This was a tad more tricky than my first climb. That's be belaying her.

The professional
The rope pack was almost bigger than Bec.

The tricky section
Both Bec and I were flapping a bit when we got to this spot. It took us ages to problem solve our way out of it.

Over the last hurdle
After a testing few minutes, Bec finally made it to the top of our third climb.

Abseiling
Now this I had done before in my glory days as a scout.