Ascents as All free with rest as trad by Jack Seawright

As expected. Faceclimbing wizardry i am yet to gain. Thin hands above were fine. Tim decided hed do this on lead as his first ever climb at frog and first trad lead harder than 20! Did a great job attacking the crimps down low and facing his demons on the crack top out i didnt bring gear for. We got the rope stuck though so i scrambled the blocks left of erg to the anchor. Caught jarred colton and nicole for lunch and then tim onsighted rickety kate! Glad he didnt fall cos i chose to belay in the corner. Would have been squashed if any of those lil nubbins had greased him.

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.

Route 1 of our learn to fall on rps day. Warmed up on conquistador (no rps, yim just wanted to do it - but felt much better than last year). Strategically sat the rope at the base of this route (just in case). Did the start moves grabbing and testing gear, then moved unknowingly into the section that gives the route abit of rep. Some redefining of elvis leg thankfully ended in the previously unused no.1 ball nut saving my bacon (and yims after he faithfully half whipped on it - most nervous belaying moment in a while). From there the climbing eased off and the gear got better. Took some whips on a backed up rp further up which held bomber. Success! Not an onsight cos of the aforementioned sits and whips but pretty clean ascents and some good confidence building. A new style for us at froggy. Really enjoyed it. I do wonder if i must have missed a couple rps in the runout - kyles description seems to hint at this.

I needa take some fall practice so ill jump on a well protected climb and take whips! I told the guys: Took some sits but no falls. My sittings great though, the guys were amazed at my numerous clean 'sitters'. Lovely to be reaquainted with the apprentice cleaning for lachie while up on the ledge.. a day salvaged from the evil weather gods of SEQ - both climbs unexpectedly dry. 30 minutes was spent at the doogs comparing hand jam sizes, the last 28 of which lachie had to spend looking at an emptied pint glass while colton and I drank in a more civilized fashion.

Yep its pretty good alright!! Decent gr 19 climbing up to a complicated hardtoread but showstopping sequence on tufa-like flakes and steeply angled footers. Would be quite pumpy on the send burn with the last 3 draws being pretty hard to rest. Xav came within a hair on the 2nd shot. Another classic line in an unreal position

Geez its thin at the start. Apparently grinding your body and gear up chimneys doesnt help your face climbing !?!?! couldnt repeat the red point this year, instead opting to complain in person and online about how thin the start is... But yeah, red hot climbing the whole way, stoked to be back on this proud line.

This is a wicked little climb, a classic in my book. Start was a little scary, with probably the 2 harder/more committing moves on the climb, one of which relies on a micro cam stuck under a flake that moves (didnt realise till i was above the piece). The rest climbs pretty similar to AIW except with better feet and an absolute showstopper mantle move off a crimp to gain access to the top. This was one of the funnest moves ive stuck on lead

This was a real fight. Pumping out in a slightly-bigger-than-fists section ultimately ended the onsight campaign. I then got rained on in the off-width.. despite not all going to plan I felt proud to push through the body crack and not bail, and honestly quite enjoyed the change in style. Would like to start pushing more routes like this.