Ascents of Flight of the Phoenix as various tick types

Next on the observation trip, will be back

Tried on saturday and turned aroubd at 4pm from the bottom of the 3rd abseil..

Thought a 5am wake up without brekky pre-prepared was a good idea, lost the track a few times as it's all overgrown so the approach took slightly longer than normal. Started climbing at 930am and wasted time finding the 4th pitch belay, by 4pm we had a belay and had to make a call to push or retreat. We rapped down to a rogue old white sling which got us to the ground, left our gear and walked back to camp

Led the first two pitches, but not quick enough. At 1pm in winter we decided to bail instead of pushing on. Route finding was hard and many friction moves were both intimidating and interesting, far less crack climbing than expected, but highly enjoyable, I'll be back to finish it. Finding the start was slightly tricky, the anchor 40m up has faded a little and took some spotting. Route started in a v groove by a seat boulder. The crack system is discontinuous and vegetated, not what we expected to see from the bottom. But these things do not take away from the quality of the route once you're on it. Both the ogma gap and danu camp tracks are currently vegetated and could do with a bit of discrete pruning if you have the tools.

6 year to the day I try this and it was almost an An exact repeat but we nailed the approach! Next time.

Alas, will have to come back for this. Climbing is knowing when to go down as much as when to go up.

P1+2 only. Excellent climbing so far.

Started this perhaps a little too late, even considering Drew's previous experience on the route. The first two pitches we climbed (not sure if we were on the exact route after getting down) were technical and delicate, very good climbing. After using up most of the psych tank navigating pitches 1 and 2, decided to retreat before committing to the traverse. I will be back to send this incredible line.

Climbed the first two pitches and then bailed due to slow climbing (routefinding) and heat. Second pitch felt quite hard, but we may have been off-route.

The easiest way to find the start of the climb is to walk back on the scree until you see the tat on the bolts. This tells you where the first pitch should go. Also, I accidentally pulled off a large block at chest height right next to the start, so it should be pretty obvious.

pitch 1+2 only. finding the start of this climb took ages. loads of bush bashing. even now, I'm not convinced we were on the right route for pitch 1. pitch 2 was super hard.

decided to bail at the anchor on pitch 2 as we were just climbing too slowly and finishing in the dark was unappealing.

A particularly awesome second pitch in a brilliant location. A really lovely line, too- it was disappointing not to get to do the famed traverse pitch but with only one confident leader it was not feasible (well, safe) to finish. Would absolutely be worth coming back for, it has a real adventure feel... There was an pre-made anchor! left at the top of the second pitch, and two double rappels got us back to the ground.

Bailed off after the traverse 2nd pitch due to not being comfortable with the anchor situation in the corner. Had 2 nuts and a small cam in place (didn't want to use a number 3 on the loos-ish block) which I was happy with but we were a party of 3 and couldn't get it equalised well enough for my liking. Had imagies of it failing on the next pitch and the 3 of us getting into real trouble. With 2x50m ropes were able to rappel off at this point, just. Traverse pitch to this point is quite fun and safe. Dissapointed not to continue but definitely not ashamed. Will be back for the send!

Stormed off.

I lead first pitch nice onsight mark lead second pitch by time we got to pitch 2 it was 2pm and we started climbing at 12 so with the crux done we still didn't have time to finish bit of a shame but next I'll be ready to finish her

bailed, too slow. Next year...