Ascents as Tick, Lead, First free ascent, First ascent or Solo as trad by Patrick Munnings

Some exploratory digging through pickles and dirt waterfalls. FA and installed an anchor. Will be a worthwhile route now that it's clean. A full value long pitch added to an already very popular crag.

Some fittness laps and a lead to set up a toprope for the day. x4

Went up thinking this was a new line. It was dirty and had some loose rock.

A second lap to exit

Big whip on a bomber hex from Carl, and some added aid climbing and bailing skills taught.

Checking Irene's gear, some bomber hexes and nuts

Cleaning Irene's gear after her first trad lead!

Best 23 in tas?? Also not 23, definitely a couple of grades harder. Beautiful hard jamming, too good for me today!

Got the moves sorted. Some of the best moves in the gorge especially down low. Once the bolts are replaced I'll get on the sharp end.

Found this far more enjoyable than my first time on it. Very pleasant with some wide gear.

Could not for the life of me reach the extra couple of inches to pull through the crux. Considered a dyno to a flared hand jam but couldn't commit to the whip into a ledge if I missed. Downclimbed and bailed after the first pitch

Could not for the life of me reach the extra couple of inches to pull through the crux. Considered a dyno to a flared hand jam but couldn't commit to the whip into a ledge if I missed. Downclimbed and bailed after the first pitch

Repeat, felt like it flowed really nicely today. Great day out building top ropes for uni climbing.

Lots of dust that turned to mud under sweaty hands. Mustn't receive much traffic.

Absolute quality. Unfortunately came off a couple of times but a mega route with fantastically varied climbing.

Awesome route however we had many stops along the way. Japholin was beautiful and we decided to leave packs at the bottom to speed up the day (terrible mistake). We then took the skyline traverse to the Starfactory and abseiled down to the slab below. From here we began what is likely a virgin ascent of a mid-level traverse beginning at 5pm below the Starfactory and ending at 3am at the top of the first pitch of Japholin. This route had some beautiful splitter crack climbs up to about grade 19 and some well protected slab traverses using slung trees. The large waxing gibbous moon provided just enough light to feel our way through the scrubby and slabby sections and find protection along the way. This traverse was a slow process with three people on 1 rope and meant that it took around 18 pitches to reach the end. At 3am the moon set below the Hazards. With no light at all we elected to spend the remainder of the night on a ledge in the cold and wind with 2 jumpers between the three of us. In the morning we woke and discovered our packs with sleeping bags, mats, food and water were only a 30m rappel below us. Many lessons were learned and all of us were stoked to be heading home for a quality nights sleep.

Em killed this and then fed beta to me until I eventually made it.

variant start on left of block at the beginning. Viola's hardest trad lead!

Viola's first trad lead!

Fun short and pumpy