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Cup Weekend?

costa

28-Oct-2010
6:32:37 PM

whats the weather been like this week? I'm going to head down tomorrow


salty crag

28-Oct-2010
9:43:31 PM

Climed at Araps this week in perfect weather however Horsham is meant to get 40mm of rain on Sat. so bring the water wings. On a side note we noticed the fire dam is full and the rope swing is back up in the tree...yippee...


ajfclark

28-Oct-2010
10:18:32 PM

I don't think the rope swing ever got taken down. When I last looked at the fire dam, the swing was there... a good 3m above the surface of the water...

Wendy

29-Oct-2010
7:33:16 AM

I think it was a good few m above the sand by the end there. I'm not sure there was any water at all, but I'd stopped checking years ago when it first became rank.

incidently, the weather looks bloody awful this weekend. 90% chance of lots of rain for 3 days, than 60% maybe tuesday could be ok, it's down to 30% chance of 1-5mm.

lacto

29-Oct-2010
11:10:50 AM

bom forecast chance of rain (computer generated) sat very wet ,sun wet, mon only a chance of showers .tue ok

costa

29-Oct-2010
2:46:41 PM

Dammit well we've got till next weekend atleast


Gavo

30-Oct-2010
11:40:00 AM

Just got back from Araps... I love living an hour away, though it took me 2 hours to get home... injured wildlife

Anyyyyyyyyway so got good weather Friday for the first part of the day, got windy and increasingly grey through the afternoon before the rain started...

Left today (Sat) because just miserable rain with no real end in sight... pretty bummed out but cant say the weather didnt predict it.

Sunday (if you believe the BOM) says heavy rain easing to scattered showers through the day... but with 2 days straight of rain and no sun, would it dry off at all?

Anyway long story short, it was wet

kieranl

30-Oct-2010
11:54:32 AM

Still grey in Natimuk but hasn't rained for some time. Footpaths have dried off. May go out for a boulder if it stays dry.


Gavo

30-Oct-2010
12:52:28 PM

On 30/10/2010 kieranl wrote:
>Still grey in Natimuk but hasn't rained for some time. Footpaths have dried
>off. May go out for a boulder if it stays dry.

Damn

Wendy

30-Oct-2010
1:05:37 PM

don't be too disappointed - it's still freezing with a howling gale. i'm not planning on leaving the house in a hurry


Gavo

30-Oct-2010
1:16:42 PM

On 30/10/2010 Wendy wrote:
>don't be too disappointed - it's still freezing with a howling gale. i'm
>not planning on leaving the house in a hurry

Now I do feel better! Sitting next to a nice heater is better than freezing off the proverbials, especially when there isnt much chance of a climb :D


IdratherbeclimbingM9

30-Oct-2010
9:09:05 PM

100 mm of rain fell at Mt Buffalo today, and it is getting heavier as the night goes on...

The road up the hill has been reduced to single lane in a number of places as creek washaway/landslips occurred during the last rain event...
~> This present event could take out the remaining portion of road in a couple of those spots...
:-(

dalai

30-Oct-2010
9:29:46 PM

Now if there was a cable car up Mt Buffalo, then if the road was washed out you could still get up there to climb. ;-)


Gavo

30-Oct-2010
9:43:14 PM

not sure if it applies to the north and east, but central and western vic all had heavier rain predicted for Sunday.. the heaviest apparently...

Should be interesting... hope everyone drives safely back from Arapiles... roads were semi-flooded today already... oh and people should watch the turtles, I rescued 2 today... guess the road was like a river for them

Hugh

30-Oct-2010
11:06:59 PM

''the road is washed away so i can't climb''...

Sounds like you fellas should have some cement. Walking helps... ;-)


Sarah Gara

31-Oct-2010
4:19:07 PM

Well not heavy rain but certainly rain. I went in the cafe before and Simey was whining at me for not climbing as the wind would have dried the rock -I went kangaroo and emu spotting and ate sausages instead yum. I think it's too wet and cold to climb.

Friday was lovely though -well worth swapping friday with monday off. x


Gavo

31-Oct-2010
5:02:15 PM

mmmm Im thinking about going back up tomorrow... not sure its worth the fuel though


IdratherbeclimbingM9

31-Oct-2010
9:37:55 PM

On 30/10/2010 dalai wrote:
>Now if there was a cable car up Mt Buffalo, then if the road was washed
>out you could still get up there to climb. ;-)

... but that kind of thinking, ie one way tickets, would bugger up the $ calculations that allegedly make it a viable financial proposition!
Heh, heh, heh.
~> The alpine classic would be short changed too, would it not?
☺

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