Ascents of Orestes

Woah, was a bit spooked at the start, then re-spooked on the traverse, but trusted the bomber gear. What a line!

Had a really good fight towards the end!

wow!

Mega classic! Was chill on this one and didn't wig out at all, nice

Had a foot slip, and then couldnt get some of Justin's bomber wires out. Amazing corner climb with glory locks up high. Did all the moves - maybe lead next trip. Nice lead Juzzy!

Bummed had a foot slip on the first moves abd weighted the first peace started again abd sent

Really didn't think I'd have the guts to try it again... So happy I did!

Wow! What a route! Seconded clean until the roof. Ridiculously pumped to hold on at that point

What a great climb. I've wanted to do this for a long time

Very hard.

How you do dis??? I mean, I know how you do this but why do you hate yourself like this. Amazing line.

Pink Point after Alex's excellent lead. Didn't have enough light for red point

Motivated by pure psych and the beauty of the line, I pulled on. What followed was a protracted and humbling experience. Copped some of the biggest falls of my trad career that remained non-serious due to the exquisite catches of angus smith. A lesson in biting off far more than you can chew. I didn't climb Orestes, it merely tolerated me.

Really good line but I was so pooped

Soooo hard!

Went along to give Alyssa a second, she had a red hot attempt remaining composed although clearly running out of gas with an ever increasing peanut gallery who had arrived just in time to make a distracting racket as she decided in her fatigue to go heels first into the jug traverse ... Very dramatic fall followed...she lowered.

More than happy to jump on the sharp end repeat this mega classic

After dogging this on lead a few days ago and doing 2 toppies jumped on this today and sent first go. Preplaced second piece of gear to feel a bit more comfortable with moves off the deck. One of my favourites in Arapiles and a bit hard for the grade. Would probably go at 24 on the onsight but certainly not that bad once you get the moves and gear dialled.

Very very happy with this! Definitely a couple points there where I thought I'd be too pumped to continue - resting my arms pumped my calves out, resting my calves pumped the arms out. Found a very handy way to commit to the moves though - plug your rest jug with gear so you have no option but to go up. Quite effective.

You're sending Orestes? I'm in my fkn Pj's

Insane insane climbing. One way or another I’ll surely be able to do the splits now. Felt good to try hard (the crux being able to hold your gas in…pretty difficult for a man who likes his food). Can see myself coming back for this one.

Twas a pleasure to follow ya Jake!

Had tried a few months back on top rope but sent it first lead today. Every move on this thing is unreal. Absolutely bomber gear in the traverse too. STOKED

The top bit is scary.

Incredible hyper classic. One of the very best I've been on. Strenno stemming that leaves your calves and forearms shattered.

Seconding Ewan after his sick send

Ive been looking at it for 5 weeks this year.. finally on a sleepy rain morning, stefan came introduced himself and said he was keen on orestes. While conversing with some hotshot tassie climbers, i felt compelled to volunteer myself for the cane, so we trooped up the wet slab. I found the low section worked well for me and as expected, got slapped by the traverse jugs where more than a few sits were needed. Great feeling to attack something hard here with abundant gear and favourable to my style. The most inclined ive felt to have a project. Might drag yim out here tuesday. He wont see this cos he ditched thecrag.