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	Grade	Route	Gear style	Crag	Quality	Date
	23	★★ The Great Unknown - with the troopers	Trad 15m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Fri 27th Jan 2023
Ice cream grade for an onsight. Technical, sustained and dirty. Nice little route.
	23 Hard	★★ Hufflepuff - with Martin Brown	Trad 20m	Mount Wellington	★★ Very Good	Mon 13th Feb 2023
Can't believe this hadn't been done yet. A bit of cleaning has revealed a hidden gem. Goey at the grade and a good test-piece. A good one to learn the necessary jamming skills before jumping on Albatross at Lowdina.
	23	★★★ Albatross - with Martin Brown	Trad 30m	Lowdina	★★★ Mega Classic	Wed 10th Aug 2022
My first hard trad red-point. This seemed impossible when I first tried it long ago, and it was still hard today. So awesome to finally lead it and get the tick. Martin and I both lead it back to back and both agreed it's harder than 23. So this may in fact be Australia's first grade 24 (controversial!). We did pre-place a single sling around the spike/block, as we both agreed that the wire you put in to protect a ground-fall here from 8m is likely to pull. Everything else (including the sling) was clipped/placed on lead though. This a true crack test-piece and a marvellous route worthy of anyone's time.
	23	★★★ Milk Blood — 3 attempts - with Alex Lawson	Trad 10m	Arapiles	★★★ Classic	Fri 5th Apr 2024
First attempt was a good aid ascent. Second go on the toppy to sort it out and then second lead attempt went down. Love these short hard things.
	23 Hard	★★★ Ultrasound - with Amps	Trad 35m	Mount Wellington	★★★ Classic	Sun 31st Dec 2023
Pretty hard for the grade. Gave it a toppy lap and sussed the cruxes and gear first, then fired it without too much trouble. What a route.
	23 Easy	★★ The Heights of Zaphon - with dan	Trad 16m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Sat 28th Oct 2023
Full value route. Techy bridging with small gear into interesting traverse into glorious finger crack. Nice.
	23 Hard	★★ Brand New Man — 2 attempts - with Troopers	Trad 15m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Sat 28th Jan 2023
Tough for the grade, but an excellent finger crack well worth your time. Hung a couple times on the flash attempt after cleaning the moss from it, then got the redpoint.
	23	★★ Rum on the Rocks	Trad 16m	Fortescue Bay	★★★ Classic	Mon 5th Dec 2022
FA
	23	Spazattack Direct - with hamish jackson	Trad 18m	Lowdina	★ Good	Sun 21st May 2023
Hard and bold.
	23 ~22	★★ Play Dirty - with Martin Brown	Trad	Mount Wellington	★★ Very Good	Sun 30th Apr 2023
Needs a downgrade. A really good route that needs more attention.
	23	★★ Hejira - with Cameron Semple	Trad 30m	Mount Wellington	★★ Very Good	Tue 20th Feb 2024
Sussing out moves and gear on toprope first for this one. Nice climbing. Technical and pumpy!
	22 ~22	★★★ Drury Line - with Martin Brown	Mixed trad 25m, 5	Lowdina	★★ Very Good	Sun 14th May 2023
Figured out the second crux. Just have to put it together now.

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