Ascents in Australia by Gee Rad

In sneakers, would've appreciated some sticky rubber.

One of the best moderate trad pitches anywhere!!

Stainless Chain and maillons for the anchor.

Pitch two is excellent, a wee bit exciting and weird, and nigh impossible without at least 170?cm of reach

Lead a rambling pitch one variant in from the right.

Nice to look at, but very sharp, crimpy and nails where it matters. 25? The scramble around the back is nice

A rather odd first ascent. After a long bush bash uphill to see Danny's promised high quality splitters, Darren and I had our gravest doubts confirmed by the appearance of this short, solitary offwidth. Danny dealt with the offwidth but couldn't fit in the diagonal squeeze. Instead of bailing, he hand traversed off right and built an anchor, almost back on the ground a little higher up the gully. I seconded up to the cave and decided to take a look at the squeeze. With Darren egging me on I entered the gravelly mouth, retreated, tried a little closer to the edge, with Darren laughing "this is the best possible thing that could've happened!" and made it through. Danny seconded the squeeze on the outside.

All clean except the hard one. We trundled a huge surfboard of doom where the crux is now.

Probably my best first ascent and in my opinion, one of the best crack climbs I've done. 23 is CJ's sandbagged Tassie grade. I used doubles .4 to 4, two large nuts and an extra 1, more gear around 1s and 2s size would be ideal.

No way is this a 17

An impressive steep groove with lots of interesting bits and some especially tough vegetated V grooving on the 7th and 8th pitches. We started late and got caught in the dark, out of water, on the 8th pitch. I ended up aiding the move out of the belay cave, thinking I wasn't yet on the last pitch (the 8th pitch is 28m, not 48m). Then we couldn't find Geryon Camp and bivvyed in the forest on the valley floor.

Start at the Pool of Memories and follow the cairned track north and around onto Geryon. Make sure to abseil off the chockstone at the South end of Foresight. (We abseiled off a bollard anchor and had to do traverse pitches). A #3 is very useful for the crux pitch. Cairns and then orange tape lead past the South Spur, down past a camping cave, down scree to Geryon Camp and back up to the Pool of Memories.

Everyday I'm shuffling.

Lead pitch 1. We took triples .3 to #3 and a 4, and a set of nuts, which were surprisingly useful. The 4 and a .2/blue alien and smallish nuts would be handy for the anchor at the top of the first pitch. There is currently no rap anchor.

Sandstone-steep trad. How good is this!?

Stoked to get this one!

Not much independent climbing

Nice line! Almost benighted on the raps after spending so long working this out.

Pete lost the line in the middle of the third pitch

Not enough fingertip skin left to work out the deceptively difficult start. Retreat!

Great route. Perhaps a long permadraw/chain on the fourth(?) bolt would make this a safer prospect.

Pretty scary eh

Awesome feature, very tough on the tips though

Very cruxy at the start. Grigri-soloed it clean, but not keen to get wet with current temps!

Still hard

Awesome struggle! Perhaps a fraction easier than 23 if you're as thin I am; I could squeeze most of it.

Second go, having not climbed past the seventh bolt on the first attempt!

Draws by Mic and Jamie, beta by Jamie, belay by Mic. Thanks guys.

We got a bit confused here, consulting both thesarvo and out-of-focus photos of Climb Tasmania, and did the probable FA of the Disaster Master-North Pole-Pole Axed link-up

Incredible route, better rock and climbing than Pole Dancer, but not as sustained. We both lead the first pitch of Certified Wise, lowered off 3m of slings with a 60m rope, then top roped up a chimney to the 2nd pitch of Pole Dancer, climbed that and retrieved the slings.

Good, but no match for Certified Wise. Could do with a few less bolts when rebolted. Hard

A second set of hand size cams are nice for this pitch

The Deep Play+Free Route route. My first 25 onsight!!!!!

Sent it on top rope, placing gear. Whoops

Got savaged! Tried it with one #4, and one old #4.5, not the best idea

Let down by the 25m long dodgy-flake-filled groove start. The first pitch can be broken up at 35m by belaying at the ring bolt anchors of the sport climb on the left. This is just before the fist/offwidth crux.

Excellent little climb!

Flash attempt to the last bolt

Would be decent if the holds were actually attached to the cliff. Glue? Take a .75 or 1 camalot to make gaining the top bolt reasonable.

Hard, techy climbing. Too hot in the afternoon sun! I recommend pre-clipping the fixed hanger, ignoring the carrot. Much more of a 24 than a 22 I think!