Ascensiones en World como Onsight o Onsight solo como deportiva por Richard Pattison

100 degree day, we waited for the late afternoon shade and thought we'd watch the sunset from the summit...

However, 6 other parties had the same idea, oh, it's Labour Day w/e! It was a bit like the line of climbers at the Hilary Step on Everest... how do we get all these people off the summit... especially when some of them have paid for the rope swing, and want to do it twice. Urgh.

Flew-in from Australia at 1pm, on the rock by 4pm - perfect remedy for jetlag! Great climb with 3 pitches of different character.

Good climb with steep jugs, shame it's so short

Shame it's so short, good slabbing

Fun easy climb, might be worth abseiling to protect the rope from wear

I'm sure I felt the side pull plate flex at the crux!

Good 1st pitch, 2nd pitch average and currently involves fighting a thorny bush. Crux is probably 2nd bolt? Eventually worked-out the awkward side pull/layback moves & pocket...

Climbed in 1 pitch, rope drag fine. Fairly thin section just above the intermediate belay looking like some key underclings have pulled already - need to climb ~1m right of the next 3 bolts

Cleaner and more direct finish than Maur I Rompa. You can use a BD cam 0.5 or 0.75 extended with a sling to protect the step-up. I wonder how long the key hollow plate will last at the step-up?

Good climb and well bolted, nice crack to start (shame so short), then nice long slab pitch with bolts placed well at small footholds.

3rd pitch looks pointless from below but actually has 2 or 3 nice moves and is worthwhile.

A bit sandy, but nice enough climb. Even though it's the "escape" route from the bottom cliff, I think it's worth a climb in its own right.

Good top-rope for beginners

Good top-rope for beginners

Good top-rope for beginners

Easier than it looks from below. The crux is up to 3rd bolt and traverse to unnerving loose large block/flake above. Being lowered from the top would involve plenty of rope grinding, so brought 2nd up and abseiled.

Good top-rope for beginners. Although no other decent options close-by so only useful for small group.

Good climb, not too much rope drag considering you do a corkscrew ;o)

Helmet essential for belayer, heaps of loose rocks on shale ledge. Climbed out with full pack, not grade 15, more like 10 or 11.

Fine to set a top-rope for beginners. Start on the poor tree ;o)

There is a grade 11 or 12 climb here, but not following the line of bolts. From the 2nd clip move left and climb the rest of the route 2m left of the bolt line. Not advised as a top-rope, any fall means a fair swing.

Morning shade, nice belay ledge. Milarepa is a better finish.

Testing side clings for first 2 bolts, then easy up. Awkward to clean again as it wanders so far across at the top.

Really enjoyed this. Had a couple of "stop & think" moments at the final test at the scoop before the anchors

Really good climbing. Made me forget all those beautiful mountains behind me, which is the reason we're here. When's the next weather window?

A couple of bizarre bolt placements at thigh height on ledges - although maybe this climb is for 5 year olds? Well... it was really windy and I had to cling to the cliff like a small child who didn't want to go to school...

Really awkward to clean, should've thought about that and had the second top-rope. We cleaned using a tension abseil, could've lowered the second but was concerned about the rope grating on several edges.

I used the big flake thing, but Mel said that was cheating, oops, just like the rules at St Leonards gym ;o) I liked this climb.

Rain was blowing-in from the north, moved quick to finish the climb so we could scamper the ~100m back to our hostel ;o)

Bizarre, 2 anchors at the top. Even more bizarre, I walked-off left so didn't use either!

Cold windy day, climbed in gore-tex and beanie. Had 2 builders at Koonek Hostel watching us.

Easy, nice 2m of side clings past 2nd bolt, but rest was forgettable. Pointless 1st bolt, should've been 1m lower to protect scramble, not at knee height on ledge.

Excellent. Balancey slab to start, then steep jugs high up. A proper onsight (well, at least a proper sport onsight?)... found the bolts while going for a walk during a bad weather day, straight back to the hostel to get our gear and up we went.

8 pitches of climbing, what's not to like? Although, given the hype and traffic, I was probably expecting a more direct line and higher quality climbing down low, quality upper half on the headwall.

Start is harder than it looks, well, at least I thought it looked easy, then found out otherwise

Gotta be harder than 10! Yes, lots of jugs, but getting from the 1st to 2nd bolt is more like a 14?

Well bolted, always protected from above.

Led P1 & 3. Mel led P2 & 4, P2 certainly the hardest.

Had to walk-in as the top is closed for bush fire regeneration, missed the cliff-line track & bush bashed for 1 hour, Mel not happy, & worse, she got bitten by a leech, oops!

Small landslide above P3 anchor which buried the bolts, but I managed to excavate & clear the worst of it.

Led P2, Mel P1. Nice climb, sure P2 is a little chossy but worth doing once.

Led P1, Mel P2. Supposed to be a warm-up, but lightening across the Megalong Valley swiftly moving towards us encouraged us to go eat pies in Blackheath instead.

I thought the pitches were more equal grading than 15 & 12?

Good area, once the abseil rope & 2 carrot belay are set, 4 quick routes with amazing exposure & waves crashing beneath.

Quirky & interesting slab, I enjoyed this more than Envirovandal. Maybe a grade 16 to E's 15? The angle of the boulder has the ironstone ledges just off vertical instead of horizontal.

Interesting & enjoyable route. The angle of the boulder has the ironstone ledges just off vertical instead of horizontal. Maybe a 15 or 16?

Jugs down low, didn't realise the route is overhung till being lowered-off and landing 1m out from the cliff.

Down-climbed! A couple of nice routes in this area for 1st time leaders.

Soft for 18, nice climb though, shame it's so short.

Didn't trust the very rusty bolts, so top-roped. Nice move into cave and balancy finish.

Used #5 cam in Frolic just to reach the 1st bolt! Pretty easy juggy climbing from then on.

Nice climb, jug hauling, go left at top to join SSIM.