A few weeks back we headed up to Mt Coree for the day. Penny had nicked off to Arapiles for the weekend, so poor lonely Andrew came with us 😉

The drive in was a bit rough, but we kept going slowly but surely. I’d heard to rode was bad so I was expecting to have to walk a fair way. In the end we got the car up to basically the 2nd last bend before the summit, though we probably could have stopped a bit lower. Still it made for a short downhill walk to the first climbs.

To start with we headed to the pretty backside area, not finding an easy route down the gully we walked around which made for a bit of a scramble. For a warm up we all climbed School Girl Fantasies (14) and King Cup No.1 (13), the latter was a nicer climb I thought. After a bit to eat we did Brillo Pad (15), though I would have said it was harder than that.

While climbing we’d spotted a fixed rope on the descent gully, so climbed back up that way. With a full pack and my brand new hiking boots it was a bit of a struggle, they are not very flexible yet!

Next stop was Wind Wall, to climb Jerusalem (19). We didn’t have the topo, so we just counted routes across from the left, and it should have been 3rd. Andrew started leading, only to find that he was on something different, probably harder, and bolted sporadically. Still he bottled it and made it up, clipping the Jerusalem bolts. I climbed it on top rope, and although it wasn’t terrible I was glad I wasn’t leading!

We spent the rest of the arvo on Jerusalem, Meg climbed it twice, Andrew lead it and so did I, but I’m not quite sure in what order 🙂  Still it was an awesome climb, definitely worth the attention.

There are definitely some more Mt Coree trips in my future.

ps. Most of the good photos (the first 10) we took on Andrews camera, and I nicked them off his picasa page 🙂