Ascents in World as Onsight by Lee Cujes

Absolute skin of the teeth!

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Hard glassy crack through bulge. Felt 24.

100m of frictional, overbolted granite/gneiss. 5 pitches, climbed in 2.

Contrived

That's what you get when you have to pay $119 AUS for a 20 minute taxi ride.

p1 of Sea Monsters. Deceptively pumpy.

Very long, very pumpy. #2 camalot didn't fit in the crucial pocket. Argh!

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Quite good, watch the gear

Strained something in my chest on the start which made breathing painful for about 4 hours.

Contrived and terrible. James - how could you?

sustained. great rock on headwall.

Super nice technical face. Like sandstone.

Sam's first clean route at Rifle!

Quite okay, but the pro is iffy until half height

Sharp coral rock on this sector

I'm giving it mega for the top pitch which is a superb and unique patina crimp pitch. I've done harder 23's than this link-up. Sustained and tricky to read no-chalk onsight.

Nails dude, almost off

Was 14 M1 30 years ago. Nice.

some gear was on

The arete. True onsight. Way pumpy.

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gear on

Seriously scary protection! Not for the beginner.

The arete. True onsight. Way pumpy.

More like 45m and way scary to rope solo

gear on

gear on

Lip traverse thing, blowing chunks. Day 1 altitude sickness.

Surprisingly awesome easy route.

It will eat you alive!

Sneaks of course.

It's rare in Maple to get to climb a "line" and this is one for sure. Worth seeking out for a heelhooking good time.

Guiding Kym < 2hrs - pitches 7-11 of the day..

Nice sneaker romp with friends.

The first pitch is a great arete feature. Tons of trad and 2 carrots. Crux bulge is tricky and pumpy. For the second pitch, the direct certainly seemed the more sensible option and I'm glad we took it. I wonder if many people hit the ledge falling off the start of p2 (especially on second with rope stretch)? Take a panic draw if you have one. I reckon you'd want to be confident climbing 22 on trad to jump on this one. We walked off (staying roped up for the first 30m) which was fine to get back to the Cave Climb abseil, or back to the car if this is your last climb of the day.

Climb in one 45m pitch. Good, heady climbing. You need to crank moves above your gear and not fall.

Redpointed the second pitch later after being benighted first time

Some scary rock past the second FH (needs some more cleaning)

Dodgy guidebook meant I needed to have brackets dropped to me from the top on the onsight. Team onsight? Sam did awesome photos.

This was probably the second ascent. No idea why it's not logged on theCrag. Lucky I have good old reliable 8a.nu as a backup.

Classic! Just two cams (#1.5 and #2 friend).

Continually interesting and enjoyable from bottom to top.

Continuous

Super interesting, engaging climbing all the way. Great!

Start was a vomitorium. You're lucky if you get to climb this dry I think. Overall, a bit weird.

A Monty route, climbed with Monty. Some of the best rock around up high, pretty impressive. You have to jam a cam in a critical pod which is your handhold which I actually thought was cool. Don't be put off by the rusty U-bolts, they're fine. Needs some stainless mallions added to anchor.

Don't be so hard on yourself Monty - this route is as good as any of the others. Nor does it feel squeezed in to me. I notice people are avoiding the grade 23 finish by going right to the anchors on SS Minnow.

Thin crux 5 grades harder than the rest.

2nd p1, OS p2. Pitch 2 needs some chains on the slab, not the dicky 15m trad sketchfest above. p3+p4 not done.

You really get your money's worth for 18

A very good moderate route

Happy not to blow this punchy number. Intricate upper section on RPs almost had me stymied. Not a pure onsight as I'd rapped past it.

Felt like around 1.5 hours on the lead.

Did the giant leap on the start (gulp!)