Ascents as Onsight or Onsight solo as trad by Jack Seawright

'The route sport climbers do to tell everyone they climb 12- trad' is the description on mountain project. And this is about the only thing i sent out here.. Im a filthy sport bro, revoke my trad card, give away my cams and toprope-equip my crack pitches so i can layback them.

Day 1 of ben long weekend with claire and guy. Everyone had a good climb on this bad boy. We were entertained at the start by darren rolling up like a tornado in purple flared pants and soloing the gr 18 offwidth first pitch of defender as a committed (very) layback. Rope around shoulder, climbing partner still putting his bags down. He even had a footslip. Id not like to be the one carrying him back to car villa. Returned to ramadan to confirm its still hard and we can confirm it. Not as fucked as it felt last year with better techas but still abit red hot for 19. Great to be back in splitter heaven

A day of victories and be-reals. In the frigid morning breeze, kobi procrastinated and almost convinced us that he actually couldnt place a retrieveable cam, then touched the wall and turned into a beast, shooting up eternity for his first 18 trad onsight. Inspired, georgia fought an empty harness 10m below the chains with singing and careful pseudo-soloing to set the line up for sydney on joseph. With yim guiding maddie up sparto, i dragged the gang to the kraken and stupidly lowered the gear off for the top rope laps but the overhang made this futile. We did however get a tr groundfall for georgia (butt was apparently due protection from any further injury), as well as what looked like a silk performance trying to use the top rope to get back on the wall post-fall. Tilly was getting thrown around on the belay ledge like a ragdoll. Eventually kobi belted the crux in full layaway style and we finished the day putting everyone else up the spartan. Kobi laughed at me for protecting p1 with 2 pieces then did the same himself, but i called him out so he quickly snuck a 3rd garbage piece in before the anchor. Everyone freaked it abit on p2 and most importantly, georgia was able to bank her bereal photo for the chimney top out. Social media has been graced! Fantastic to see some people making real gains in their trad game in ewbanks backyard this morning.

Squeeked in before an online job interview thanks to johnnys slick barnstorm up infinity. Alot of variety in it makes for a good adventure. Difficulty wise, 1 hard sequence; nice and airy. Bit hard not to touch infinity up high but yeah nah yeah, happy to have done it

100th route at frog! Crux must be about gr25 for shorties, but a nice committing highstep one-mover if your 6ft tall. Pretty happy with the decision to get up at 430 for this one. Jimbos following ascent of epic journey - 'aid journey' as he put it - was an absolute spooge exhibition: young families, fairy floss and seasonal flu; the works.

Feels about 19 and ill be honest like cal and the rest of the seq community and downgra... nah fuck it ill take it hahahaha yeah the boys

Martino lead us up a dodgy trad pitch which he ate up cos hes secretly a big sketchy trad fiend. I rambled the following 35m which was actually quite nice up to caritas which marty took. A screamer sequence at the top of that corner. Such a corker. I was so stoked with maponus that i lowered off without detaching the trolley and took marty for a victory swing. Lunch and arvo sesh at slider with ben and dan pretending again to be a 25 climber. Geoffman almost made it to the crag after a beach day. Bottom of lower slider. Good effort from him.

A morfydd repeat: up and down the start 3 times. The word 'sandbagged' may have come out of my mouth many times, then on the verge of giving up, found the sequence. Managed not to drop it post crux this time. Yim called for a haul through. I told him nah. He eventually got it using some beta i cant get my head around having watched him point at the holds back on ground but it was bound to involve some of that wacky high foot goof he pulls. After TC he quickly turned it back on, selecting missing link, the local balancy 17R with gale force winds, and wobbled to victory with some very improvised gear extension methods towards the top.

Warm up on infinity as decided by johnny.. cant get out of it now. Its teardrops day. Felt good the whole way. Bulge was pretty cruisy for me, it was one move to get hands on the mantle ledge that i had to buckle down for most. I yelled down to johnny that i was now infact awake. Probably easy for the grade and not sure i did anything super standout but finally remained attached on a 22 OS. Looking forward to going to the pub and getting up on the counter and yelling to everyone that i onsighted a 22. Should make some friends.

awwwww ill give it an OS log.. cant help myself. Thought id wuss out of this today like all the other days ive wussed out of it. Really smooth and flowey climbing (the roof wasnt as smooth and flowey but still pretty chill really). hardest part for me was committing to the smooth footers in the base of the cave. Caught my bodyweight on a handjam at one point and punched the hand crack above on no gear cos theres not enough no.2s on the planet to stitch this one up. Its a handjammers climb for sure and probs is thought of by too many as a gruntathon. Some serious faff up top trying to find a place to rap down. Ended up swinging in from thor anchor to get some gear. No booty left though, bootyers look elsewhere (yim).

Well.. i was preparing some depricating dialogue for my next frog aid-venture on a climb too hard for me. Blindsided myself completely with this result. All over in ~20 minutes of climbing. Infamous move off the ledge is the crux for me but its protectable with the good ol' red halfy, starting to really scratch that thing up. In general, i dont like to log onsights as i feel like it should be more about the experiFIRST 21 ONSIGHT YEWWWWW!!

With Yim's motivation reading about this route in the living rock, i took the excuse to throw myself at the madness that is the corner of eden. A great climb of frog, like every classic gets harder with every move, until you end up with a perfect bum size ledge on the right to bask in the post crux glory (not every classic has the last part but this one sure did). Yim did an incredible job with only one slip on follow. A pretty rough frog initiation if you ask anyone. Advice to would-be ascentionists: Dont take big gear.. you dont need it and it gets up in your grill come the flaring crux. Over and out

Quite proud to fire this crux move off. Would have been easier if i could get the knee in straight off the sloping ledge but was made to bump the stack with a shit footnub which made things a little bit spicy. Mikky stepped up took the second off steve for this one and pledged not to bother with wide techaz.. seemed improbable but she punched through the crux in fairly short order! Impressive effort from her

A pearler! Harder than rickety kate i reckon. Gives you faith in corner-smearing feet.. feel sorry for fat fingered people but my chipolata sausage fingers were perfect for the locks! Joked with Dave and Brian that a pencil sharpener might have been an alternative. A really cool committing face move to call it curtains aswell. Clip face anchor at frog and turn to jarred: "feel like i just sent a sport climb"

Quite a nice climb! Stupidly used my big cams in the first half of the climb which resulted in clipping the pin and firing the 8m crux section without pro. Defo read the description and have ideally a 6 or at least a 5 for the final off-width. This section of the climb is quite fantastic though.. Creativity inspiring!

What a wild route! Nice wide hands into some face moves either side of the crack with some wicked body-hauling onto ledges creates the scene for a cool adventure route, but the real show-stopper is where the wide crack seams out and forces you onto the airy sharp arete on the right. One precarious move in particular involving a sloping ledge just before the top of the pillar provides a bag-full of fun. An absolute gem of a route. Linked up with max who was finishing up on infinity at the same time and donated him a couple hexes for the last 10m lol

A stunner, the bridging begins as soon as you meet the twin crack system and you just rocket up on edges and the odd finger lock. Plenty of bomb gear.. one fairly blank little section (crux) that requires some prayers but still pretty solid. Then dessert is served: The roof. Up to the shelter with minimal gear and then you realise it is the most improbable jug and footer fest imaginable that would make anyone feel snug on a run out. Deserves the big 3

What a sick pitch!! Theres really something about corner climbing, so much fun. Jams rarely work as well as you want in the crack, which is good cos it forces you into frictiony bridging moves most of the way up. Foot nubs are right where you need them each time.. quite incredible really. Will forever remember this climb as the one on which dad learnt (didnt learn) how to use a grigri and got shortroped for 10 seconds on every placement all goods though!

Really liked this one.. not technically an onsight, i stept onto it to test the finger crack and exploded off my foot-nub. I am still logging the OS cos the serious part of the climb was onsighted and i like lying to myself for validation. There was one move around the middle to get established on the solid ledge at 2/3 height that was actually quite committing even for 20, but otherwise this was quite chill. Good positive holds and very solid feet most of the way. Trad anchor in the back wall to rap off then walked up and down the side to clean it

Almost internal monologued my hungover arse out of doing this climb. Glad I copped it Face stuff at the start is thin but solid, couple of mildly committing moves into jams that could have gone astray in the spooge of the morning. Beautiful moves in the overhung handcrack (with a double handjam cutloose featuring on what i reckon could be the technical crux, but hard to know cos this entire climb feels pretty close to the grade). Last 5 metre section off the ledge isnt insanely tricky but makes for a pretty wild finale!! Not to overstate but probs best route ive done at this point!

A new experience!! First ever off-width. Long time coming, and i quite liked it! Very trial-and-errory with the thrutching, sometimes methodical movement gets you nowhere and aimless thrashing actually helps. Bizarre. Did it in a froq too! Ripped the shoulder of the dress in the off-width, owner would have been proud. Any photos taken will hopefully cover minimal ground on the internet, or at least be appropriately pixelated Cool route

Not a bad time filler during the middle of the day. Felt quite good rounding the rooflet with the committing rock-over move. Pretty fluid for most of the pitch and gear was fine. Anchor is an experience..

Meant to do Devils wart and forgot which one it was . This was quite a cool route though, weird little slab traverse move that the bottom provokes some thought. Followed by beautiful hand crack and a couple cheeky chimney moves up top to rap tree. Worth the outing for sure!

Did not take the right gear on this climb. Got stuck underprotected at the top and had to risk decking on the finishing mantle. Really dumb on my part.

Spent alot of time tip toeing around nubs trying to figure out where the route was going. An exciting outing but in terms of movement quality there are better 20s at frog for sure. Pretty airy up in the crux which is nice. The Route is also pretty conducive to high rope drag.. but then again Piranha would argue i should have put more thought into placing gear and bringing more slings

Really cool climbing on both pitches. Hand crack at the start swims. V groove is pretty desperate.. Wouldnt want to lead it as your first 17. 2nd pitch has some unbelievable moves off the ledge up the dual cracks. Quality stays high throughout this beautiful adventure route. Done as 1 50m pitch

Short but bloody sick. First move is fkn toiighhhttttt. Rest of the climb is quality too. Hip flexibility definitely would have helped and 2nd half of the climb was abit scary in the rain but the top out was easier than appearances. Felt like i had to work quite hard all in all so happy with the arvo OS. Definitely keen to get back on this one!

Kinda cool, some nice high feet and chimneying early on. 19 again seems like a high grade for this climb. Gear much better than the first 3 meters of climbing would have you believe.

Did I climb this, or the one to the right, or five to the left? all the above. I dont remember doing any moves that felt harder than about a 16 grade but im going to log a 19 onsight cos im a scumbag that deserves to have their thecrag account suspended. Quite a nice section where it goes a little overhung: Bomber gear and holds all around. Really quite an enjoyable adventure!

Stunner. Didnt have too much trouble finding it. Just look for the most chalked up climb at frog by far!! Some fairly strong layback moves at the bottom were really fun. Bit of a victory romp to the anchors last 5m. Great gear. Got a hex in! Stoked

Yeah the starts pretty nails (for someone whos use to bumming up 14s at frog). Super nice locking and a sure sigh of relief when the ledge is gained at the top of the direct start. I think you do this route though for the rest of the climb.. very adventury, similar style to clockwork orange. The overhung chokstone bit makes you feel like your in a movie! love it. Alot of promising looking big hex placements that actually just slippery slide out the back . But ah well, good times. - Contender for best top belay vantage point at frog.

Some really nice positions on this one, sick jamming.. crack starts making you get smart with beta at about half height, rejecting any jams in the wrong place, making for some slightly reachier than expected moves (for me anyway).. kinda similar to iron mandible in that the crack turns to awkward fists at the top making for an exciting finish if this is at the grade for you! (it was for me). Almost lost the onsight with a super sloppy mantle onto the ledge! Lucky theres jugs up there.. The pump was definitely present at the end. Possibly worth the third star imo lotta fun

Do this one if your happy to climb a fair way above your gear! Sick climb though felt very adventurey

Didnt know what this was, just did it cos it looked cool from the top of theory.. and it was. some reachy moves and nice layback moves in the finger crack pretty well off the deck. Worth it for sure, great gear actually.

Yep.. the masses aren't wrong.. this is one of the most ideal lines imagineable. Moves coming out of the rooflet were pretty nice and the sustained nature of the climb wasn't debilitating at all due to the perfect hands nearly the whole way. Diagonal section of the crack and section above it is so swimable! Pretty dodgy getting up the first 8m with minimal placements followed by a kinda bold move getting onto the slopey ledge, but was all good in the end.. definitely easier than most of the frog 18s imo.. Anyone that doesnt have quadruples in mid-size cams should look for opportunities to place hexes of the same size to avoid running out of gear. If the line doesnt have rope on it, get on it. What a climb!

Cool climb, tricky little movement at half height to gain access to a ledge after moving left to get through blank section of the crack, but apart from that it went relatively easily. Not bringing up medium size gear was a major oversight from myself and steve and probably could have eliminated much faf lol. Good fun