Ascents by Jack Seawright having Distinct route

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

Not what we set out to climb.. we had planned an assault on drifting. Antoines mate had told him it doesnt get done much so its probably sandbagged. We held our hope.. and.. made it to the 3rd bolt.. of the entire route. Antoine and i got sandbagged hard by this absolute mincer of a slab move that reeks of 5.12. Being north facing, there was still alot of snow and our fingers were freezing on the wall, but still. Fook. We took advantage of the approach by punching out a very alpine style ascent of olive oil with some questionable on-the-fly clove hitch simul cache adjustments. Copped a swim in the creek on the way down and a dirty bin feed disposed of by an angry mexican at a bbq house back in vegas. Ytbins.

12.5hrs car to car. Pretty glad we planned it this time and started at 530 instead of 9! 3 person party with audrey and ariel. Solid nav efforts from audrey kept me from running after the wrong approach trail cairns like a puppy. Ariel contributed with the surprise mini fireball bottle at the top right as the clouds consumed us. Nicer climbing than i expected and good spirits only started to diminish on the hell of a hike back afterwards. Mandatory snow but slides on the east side of the dome were checked off. I booked the last 5k of the hike so i could make dinner for 25min before the girls arrived. Little did i know they were only 3min behind me! Bit of a dog act making them wait for my pasta to boil

Will calling yim out on the uq mountain chat for filming a vlog at the top of p4 instead of putting me on belay and holding the train up was a highlight (or a frustrating light at the time). Another highlight (stupid light) was borrowing yims sunscreen at the top of the route while lying down, then applying and then trying to throw it back and throwing it off the cliff! Landed on a ledge 7m down so yim downclimbed on hip belay to get it. Greg placed 2 boat anchors apparently (tri cams the size of my head attached to the beaner by a yellow seat belt). Would have been a mish to lug them to the crag but the harness aesthetic was beyond incredible.

We waited for the hottest day in yonks so the cement really absorbed every ray to have a go at the interesting (read: crumbly as a kitkat) looking climbing the indro bridge has to offer. I run past these climbs every few days so funny to get the gear out and actually have a go after many unfulfilled plans to do it in past years. As is often the case, the other side of the equation today was a particular trad dad of the telstud variety, although for reasons relating to his visa, ive been asked not to unmask the criminal. We started up Ummaguma when dad rode his bike past and stopped to get a shot of ---redacted--- halfway up the layback. Gear was plentiful. We had a stab at parsley as well (the famous line of the crag with 1 whole review left for it). Some secret fingerlock/chickenhead technique proved extremely unique, reinforcing the benefits buildering has to offer. Pouring with sweat and mud from the under-rail top outs, we hiked 15m back to the car and drove off after the police were a disappointing no-show.. wtf?

New araps favourite and one of the best adventures ive been on. Unlikely as hell at 14. Important details: will forgot how to tie a figure 8 then put me the wrong way on the grigri. All good hes having a rest day tomorrow. Warmed down on agent orange and the shroud which both provided stellar movement. Pharoahs providing the goods

Great fun!! Slab at the start gets a bit run out. Would have been pretty insane without the v small micro cam (green dmm). Really nice 2nd pyramid style smearing small footers and hauling on the big flake through the first pitch. Good small gear in thin crack. Engaging climbing but not necessarily a pant-filler. Max led 2nd pitch up more stellar flakes. Better gear on this one. We both belayed at trees (youll know if you do the route) and we found this is probably the way to go. I think best 14 in QLD is probably accurate, this was an absolute stellar climb, and no harder than 14. In saying that I would recommend being solid on slab at higher grades in order to lead the first pitch.

Did a really cool little variant finish to this climb on second (Geordie FAd). Traverse left about 3m at the ledge and lever up into beautiful finger crack that opens up to hands at the top, perfect tree at the top to anchor and rap off too. Such a nice finish to this line, also probably at about a 14 grade id say!

World record! Most bails in a single day. Let me explain my rationale. The night before, tony and i had poured through the guide to decide on the ultimate 'big day'. We had decided to wake up at 530. Unbeknownst to us, this would serve perfectly to maximize bail opportunities. Tony even was ready on time in the morning. We started up royal and after i lost the route and accidentally simul climbed off route into a 10+ roof traverse, we got back on track only to see the rest of the actual route covered by a turbulent waterfall. To be fair, we had actually been told about this, but we thought it would be a 'japanese trad waterfall'. We retreated, and also let the opportunity to link into crest jewel via the hiking summit go to the wayside. 2 bails and its not even 10am. Luckily astroman goes into shade at 1030! Unluckily we forgot to borrow dylans rps. 3 bails. Drove to el cap for south by south west. Left the car, realised it faces south or south west or some combination there of and would be copping intense sun. East buttress was consulted but yosar was doing rescue training. 5 bails down, we spied the moratorium. Known for seasonal wetness on the last pitch, we were ready to climb wet 11b just to get something done. After 1 (albeit incredible and varied corner) pitch, i brought tony up. He gingerly clipped in and told me that he had shat his pants and needed to go down. We sat on this el cap standard belay ledge admiring the beautiful day that had somehow forced 6 multi pitch bails on us in the space of 9 hours. We went back to the camp 4 toilets so i could bash the mirror with my head and tony could bash the toilet with his insides.