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3203
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| 27 |
FA
★★★ Darkest Congo
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| 100m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Super classique | Sam 13 Mai 2023 | |||
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3164
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| 28 |
FA
★★★ Life Without Meaning
![]() | 40m, 11 | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Super classique | Mer 17 Nov. 2021 | |||
Day 12, sent 2nd redpoint shot today. Finally, after struggling with conditions, weather, injuries, belayer mutinies (
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3145
points
| 27 |
FA
★★ Spit Your Pity (in My Soul)
![]() | 70m | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Mar 1 Nov. 2022 | |||
6 days of effort. The rock is Cosmic-esque quality, and the climbing is amazing, but as an "experience" its more "brutal" than fun IMO.
2 very different pitches. P1 climbs like a steeper, harder and more sustained version of Kizashi (and is mostly on bolts). P2 is all about the gritstone-esque insecurity, and is mostly on gear. P3 is just an exit pitch |
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3140
points
| 27 |
★★★ The Sorcerer
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| 65m, 9 | Fortescue Bay | ★★★ Classique | Dim 1 Mai 2022 | |||
Early birthday present! What a rad outing. Like the Free Route, but with proper physical, burly climbing. The crux pitch is very sustained in the bottom half. Gale force winds made this a griping, shivering, barn-dooring experience.
P1 - Self-belay shennanigans after the belay got dumped by waves. After self-belaying to the end-of-pitch anchor, I fixed the rope there, and back-tracked to undo my self-belay anchor so Jared could rap all the way to the P2 belay from the mainland. P2 - Hard fought, unchalked onsight. The top 5m is fierce arete slapping. I almost gave up at the last bolt as I struggled to clip mid-barndoor, but just squeaked it. P3 - 4th shot total (including onsight attempt and a TRS lap). On my 3rd shot I fell off on tbe last move of the last hard sequence. Stacked techo climbing, with no shutdown crux. |
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3098
points
| 26 Facile |
★★★ Gaze a Gazely Stare
![]() | 55m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Dim 16 Juin 2024 | |||
Clean repeat on Will Vidler 's gear. Felt good to get this clean at the end of a big weekend, and had to give it some power-screams to succeed. So much steep fun.
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3088
points
| 26 R |
FA
★★ MoonMoon Crack
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| 70m | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Sam 17 Juin 2023 | |||
Another lap to do it properly -placing all gear on lead.
I had a lot of (scared) fun with this one. Radical gr23ish start through a roof to a ledge. Then 4 hard boulder problems (with big runouts) between gear nests. Two are vertical runouts, 2 are horizontal runouts. Very gritstone-esque as it links features to forge a line. I almost fell off the final move to the anchor, and had to power-scream to get through it. Bloody great day out. Would be classic (in the style) if it were more accessible, but unfortunately the approach is nightmare-fuel, and the rock is only 3.5/5 on a Blueys rock-quality rating scale. |
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3056
points
| 26 Difficile |
FA
★★ Blank and Pitiless
![]() | 45m | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Sam 4 Mars 2023 | |||
First shot today, after having fallen off 44m up the 45m pitch a few weeks ago. Maybe 3 full days of effort in total?
Quite a lot harder than Gaze a Gazely Stare (the boulder is more full-on, the rests are less restful). It's also more committing, IMHO. Still super-wild steep climbing above gear, though |
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3041
points
| 26 Facile |
FA
★★★ Gaze a Gazely Stare
![]() | 55m | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Sam 14 Jan 2023 | |||
5 days of effort -though 4 of those were wasted with an utterly stupid way of climbing the crux.
Crazy crazy steep mixed climbing over the void. Sustained, and absent "ledges" or major breaks... but marred by "Duck-Wall-esque" rock quality (read: average Blueys Rock), so I'm only giving it 2 stars. |
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3031
points
| 24 |
★★ Everyman and his Dog
![]() | 60m | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Sam 27 Août 2022 | |||
Was pretty chuffed to punch this out as a warmup, with the route unchalked.
The money pitch is short, and the rock is variable (though mostly quite good) but it's very sustained and insecure, and an excellent technical crack-climbing test-piece. In a few moments of desperation, I began using face-holds that would be called bad footers any other day of the week... I'm sure there's better beta |
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3022
points
| 24 |
★★★ Nuclear Winter
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| 45m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Dim 31 Juil 2022 | |||
Pretty stoked with the onsight given the (obvious) lack of wear/traffic and dirty holds after the recent deluge.
Linked both pitches into a giant 45m pitch from the ground. I don't necessarily recommend this unless you use 2 ropes, or pull up and drop the rope (for a clean run of rope) at the end of P1, as the rope drag was horrible. A very old school, wandery, cryptic, and intimidating line. P1 starts inauspiciously, but ends with some pretty hard slabbing a long way above a carrot. P2 features some heart-stopping climbing to gain the arete, turn it, and continue up the slab on the other side before finally getting another carrot. Both pitches were good fun if you like the style, but P2 proved gripping enough to be memorable, and I'll readily admit that I was a bit freaked. |
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3020
points
| 27 |
FA
★★★ Proleptic Decrepitude and Despair
![]() | 40m, 9 | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Dim 12 Sept 2021 | |||
3rd shot today (8th lap total over 3 days) placing gear on the send.
Almost botched it through the steep prow at the top when -pumped to blazes- I got the key cam stuck with only half the lobes in, and was unable to fix. In the end I just went for it anyway and committed to the runout, but I would not have wanted to fall! I used 9 bolts and 8 bits of trad over the 40m, but there are other trad options available as well. Super steep climbing in an outrageous position, with an awesome mix of powerful and technical moves. Marred by some coarse rock, and wandery sequences (though I see the latter as a positive Might be 26, but it usually doesn't take me 8 shots to climb a 26 these days, so who knows. |
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2985
points
| 26 Facile |
★★★ Gaze a Gazely Stare
![]() | 55m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Dim 5 Mai 2024 | |||
2 laps on TRS for training. Trying to build some steep fitness again! Despite being bell-quality-rock, I just find this super steep pupper so much fun!
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2985
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| 28 |
★★★ Pit Fighter
![]() | 30m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Dim 28 Fév 2021 | |||
Repeat attempt for training (not clean today). Clean to the main crux on Will's gear. Took a few falls, then came down
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2981
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| 23 |
★★★ Intransience
![]() | 25m | Arapiles | ★★★ Classique | Mar 19 Sept 2023 | |||
Very easy at the grade (and better protected than I expected) but super super fun! The start traverse is wild fun, and the finale is smoooooooothe face climbing pleasure.
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2974
points
| 25 |
FA
★★★ Harbinger
![]() | 50m, 4 | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Jeu 20 Juil 2023 | |||
Repeat to do placing gear. Definitely scarier placing, as the best gear to protect the finale is grades harder to place on lead... so I just didn't place it. Wild cranking a roof boulder, way above gear, miles out in space.
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2971
points
| 24 |
★★★ Textures of Consciousness
![]() | 70m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Mar 1 Nov. 2022 | |||
Facilitating Simmo's FA of this old-skool modern-day classic.
Beautiful rock, and radical climbing, with lots of rests between tricky moves. As a giant pitch, almost entirely on gear, this is kinda intense (could maybe use an extra bolt or 2?) Done with a Gentleman's Sit at a no-hands rest to avoid pinching the FA. Proper cool! |
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2955
points
| 25 |
FA
★★★ Rape of the Natural World
![]() | 45m, 5 | Bungonia Gorge | ★★★ Classique | Jeu 18 Mai 2023 | |||
Sent in fading light, at the end of a massive weekend. Super steep, traversey, traddy, a bit bold, and rather gymnastic. Classic for me but objectively only 2 stars, really.
A 3-hour approach (much easier now!), and originally attempted ground-up as a free climb (with points of aid through blank sections until the sporty moves to link features could be solved). Day 2 was properly cleaning the route, sorting the moves, adding the 5 bolts to gain the crack feature, and... sending. |
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2939
points
| 26 Facile |
★★★ Gaze a Gazely Stare
![]() | 55m | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Dim 8 Jan 2023 | |||
Clean repeat for training
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2926
points
| 27 |
★★★ Proleptic Decrepitude and Despair
![]() | 40m, 9 | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Ven 1 Oct. 2021 | |||
Repeat attempt -not clean today. I couldn't do the boulder-crux move at all today, despite many attempts at it -it was just too humid! Managed to test the gear with some big falls, though
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2900
points
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★★★ Disbelief
![]() | 15m | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Sam 24 Déc 2022 | |||
A great warmup if you like steep jamming. More involved climbing than you'd expect from the ground. Great rock, and kinda intimidating.
It felt about gr23 for the Onsight to me, sans jammies or tape -the crux was too wide for me to jam, and too tight to fist properly- so maybe 22 for the redpoint or with jammies? I used 0.5, 0.75, 2 x 2, 2 x 3. |
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2886
points
| 25 |
FA
★★★ Break Yourself (Against My Stones)
![]() | 75m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Sam 1 Oct. 2022 | |||
Probably hard at the grade.
Great rock, and continuous and sustained technical face climbing in an exposed location. Proper chuffed that this goes almost entirely on gear (only 4 bolts on the FA!) as all of the hard moves are above gear. It feels pretty "out there" to execute gnarly technical trickery over cams. |
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2883
points
| 25 ~28 |
★★★ Snakes & Ladders
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| 80m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Dim 20 Août 2023 | |||
I spent 4 days on this route over the last 4 years -including my first attempt "group up" with Emil in the snow (back when no one really knew anything about this route, except that it looked rad).
P1 and P3 are inconsequential, but P2 is absolutely stunning. Its basically a mega mega left-leaning seam-crack at 24/25, guarded by a V8+ crack boulder that I could "sort of" do the moves on, but never really had any chance to link. Over my visits, I replaced the anchors on this, so there's really no reason for you not (prospective ascent reader) to get on it. |
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2877
points
| 26 Facile |
★★★ Gaze a Gazely Stare
![]() | 55m | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Dim 14 Mai 2023 | |||
TRS lap to retrieve my trad gear from this route. Good casual pumping. I'm back up to having 3 racks of gear now! (its been a few months of sparsity with only 1 rack of gear in my posession).
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2875
points
| 25 |
FA
★★★ Raid
![]() | 55m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Sam 27 Août 2022 | |||
FFA. Mega mega mega!
Originally attempted ground-up (after climbing Everyman and his Dog) resulting in a few big falls, and much fear, I later sent this third shot on pre-placed gear, and 4th shot placing all gear on lead. On the FFA, I linked P1 into P2. This is the sort of modern-style trad climbing that I've really come to enjoy, where the incipient crack takes gear, but much of the climbing is done gymnastically on face holds, resulting in some exciting exposure as you move away from the gear. The upper crux is very sporty. |
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2865
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| 25 |
★★ Go Go Velcro
![]() | 35m, 6 | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Dim 19 Mai 2024 | |||
Seconding Monty on the FA. Not clean -I got too scared on second on the traverse crux at the start (given there was 35m of rope in the system) and aided off a bolt out to the arete. It then also took me a bit to figure out the mid-height crux.
A very cool mixed route, IMO. The start is a funky bit of traversing (who doesn't love a traverse crux, right?) and the face section is more varied face climbing. |
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2858
points
| 23 |
★★ Shoot Your Shot
![]() | 25m, 5 | Blue Mountains | Dans la moyenne | Sam 6 Août 2022 | |||
A few okay moves up a thin orange face, but consistently snappy rock, and pretty sketchy equipping. Not recommended.
I used a 2 and 0.4 cam in the initial corner, and a 3 to back up a crappy bolt higher up. |
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2858
points
| 23 |
★★ Hot and Hunky
![]() | 20m, 5 | Blue Mountains | ★ Bon | Sam 6 Août 2022 | |||
Very unlikely novelty traversing, but the carrots are garbage (at stupid angles to the rock, and unfiled heads makes getting plates on a nightmare) and getting to the first bolt is death.
I was on this for a loooong time on the onsight, struggling to find the holds/line on an untrafficked and weird route. Bring a 0.5 and 0.4 cam for the first half. |
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2858
points
| 23 |
★★★ Big, Meaty Pork Chops
![]() | 45m, 5 | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Sam 6 Août 2022 | |||
Im giving this classic even with some shitty bolting, and dusty holds. Very Arapilean, asit wanders around between gear, holds, and brackets (only the first bolt off the ground is a carrot) on classy bum rock. This is probably the only route I genuinely enjoyed here.
I used a 0.5 and 2 cam. With a few long runners, rope drag was not a problem on a single rope. |
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2854
points
| 26 ~24 |
★★ Seamstress
![]() | 30m | Point Perpendicular | ★★ Excellent | Dim 26 Fév 2023 | |||
Really cool climbing on some of the best rock on this wall, with better gear and easier moves than I expected (not much harder than Dirty Dancing's finale placing, IMHO). A shame its not an independent line, or it would surely earn "classic" from me. Should see more ascents, though
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2854
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| 23 |
★★ Pitch Blank
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| 55m | Blue Mountains | ★ Bon | Dim 24 Juil 2022 | |||
Pitch 1 only -though I kinda climbed some of the Project as well (it's a confusing bit of wall, here). Probably about gr23 the way I climbed it, though I would describe it as the most logical line. Old school, boulder-problems between mantles and ledges, with some huuuge runouts. Completely dry despite all the crazy rain.
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2850
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| 24 |
★★ Paladin
![]() | 16m | Arapiles | ★★ Excellent | Mar 26 Sept 2023 | |||
2nd shot. Brutally hard through the short crux, but otherwise unremarkable. A good challenge to solve, but on balance I wouldn't say I enjoyed it.
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2827
points
| 23 |
★★★ Primavera
![]() | 28m, 12 | Bruny Island | ★★★ Classique | Mar 26 Avr 2022 | |||
Mega! The slightly annoying trad start is long forgotten after you tackle the sustained overhanging stemming grooves. Even in todays wetness, this was just too much fun!
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2825
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| 26 |
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★★ Truth Lies Somewhere Inbetween
![]() | 23m | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Mar 26 Jan 2021 | |||
FFA. Gave me more trouble than I expected, taking 3 days of effort for the send (the most time I've spent on a 26 in years). Could be the hideous conditions of late, perhaps? Might even be 25 in good conditions, when the face crux isn't all spooge. A very sporty/gymnastic route. Climbed using 2 bolts, but its still quite risky.
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2819
points
| 22 |
★★★ Los Endos
![]() | 40m | Arapiles | ★★★ Super classique | Dim 24 Sept 2023 | |||
Best route on this wall. Long, and continually interesting, spicey but not death. Great position punching up the arete =)
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2818
points
| 22 |
★★ The Second Coming
![]() | 57m | Arapiles | ★★★ Classique | Jeu 21 Sept 2023 | |||
Craaaazy slippery, and quite stop-start, but the rock is impeccable, and the moves are gnarly. The mantle gave me a bit of grief, and the start of P2 was bouldery... but the runout finale on small gear up the face was eye-opening!
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2805
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| 23 |
★★ Jezreel
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| 50m, 2 | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Dim 13 Fév 2022 | |||
A worthy adventure, where the crux pitch wasn't all that gnarly, but the exit was. Still a good day out, even though I dropped my 0.75 Friend into Katoomba falls
We chose to rap in from above the route for a number of reasons (one of which is how much water there currently is in the creek above Katoomba Falls!) though that proved rather tricky, and necessitated some reverse roof-aiding shenanigans. As such, we didn't do the P1 traverse. P2 is mostly sub gr20 climbing on good but spaced gear, with a briefly hard crux past a carrot. Save a 0.4/0.5 cam for AFTER this section! (I didn't, and it made the top rather terrifying). P3 was a type-2 adventure. Route finding was hard (its not obvious where it goes). The gear was spaced and kinda dubious, and the rock was somewhat crap. But my biggest problem is that in 2 attempts I simply could not do the topout roof mantle on link, as it was a waterfall, and the rock was frictionless, slimey ironstone. Took a couple of exciting whips onto a cam I really didn't trust. So, not a real send. I also tried to pioneer a new top pitch out right with gnarly roof moves that avoided all the water. Came really close despite it being a steep questing adventure, until I whipped onto a black totem with only half its lobes in the rock. After that I got scared and downclimbed back to the belay |
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2749
points
| 23 |
FA
★★ Gabara
![]() | 55m, 5 | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Mer 1 Mai 2024 | |||
An enjoyable couple of days to get this sorted. Climbed as 2 pitches (linking the top two). Good crack and face climbing, with all the hard moves being bolt protected roofs. Marred solely by some sections of average rock.
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2737
points
| 22 |
★★ Dreadnought Variant
![]() | 12m | Arapiles | ★★★ Classique | Sam 16 Sept 2023 | |||
Wow! What a line. For such a short route, this one packs it in with wiiiiild climbing on great rock. Linking this into P2 of Dreadnought makes this line a proper classic!
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2730
points
| 25 |
★★★ Mr Logistics
![]() | 15m, 4 | Point Perpendicular | ★★ Excellent | Dim 26 Fév 2023 | |||
Now this was the surprise of the day!
Looks kinda ordinary, feels a bit contrived, is short for a Point P route, and has rather gritty/grainy rock... But damn is it action packed from start to finish. I'll come back to do a proper tick on lead for this one! Super strenuous and technical arete climbing, with some very demanding moves (I used 2 very improbable back-heels, and a drive-by cutloose as the secret to my success). |
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2729
points
| 25 |
★★★ Echo Crack
![]() | 190m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Sam 26 Mars 2022 | |||
Clean Repeat (mostly -the tippy top move was a muddy waterfall, so I stood on a carrot bolt to mantle out) in proper torrential conditions to escape the bottom of this wall at the end of a long day of adventuring. Top tip: Echo Crack is climbable after (and during) record-breaking rain, but it's quite a bit more exciting.
Climbed in via a left hand variant (around the other side of the left arete where we were sussing a new gear line "ground up") to arrive in the final moves of the ordinary gr25 crux. This version was probably harder than the original, and certainly scarier. We were rather undergunned in the #3 cam department, and I climbed the top (gr22 pitch) using 4 x #3s, 2 x #4's and a #5 in 40m... I'll readily admit that I was rather gripped. If you could scrounge like 7 x #3's for the top pitch, it would be a pleasant cruise. |
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2717
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| 24 |
★★ Dreadnought
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| 54m | Arapiles | ★★ Excellent | Dim 17 Sept 2023 | |||
Thought the first pitch was kinda average (short, bouldery, uninspiring and on average rock for Arapiles), but P2 was mega (great rock, gnarly oozy moves, cool position). Linked both pitches for a more interesting outing.
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2704
points
| 24 M1 |
★★★ Iron Curtain
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| 58m, 10 | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Dim 6 Août 2023 | |||
A genuinely mega trad route, that should be on everyone's "classic cracks" list. The roof of the first pitch is all-time mega steep crack climbing, with great gear, and stacked moves all the way to the anchor. And yes, Anton Korsun they're actual crack moves
The 2nd pitch has a scary start, but otherwise is great crack climbing. I linked the pitch into the top pitch (which was rather gnarly, having only brought 3 bolt plates). Pitch 3 has a very hard start through a rooflet, followed by pleasant facey rambling. IMHO, I'd suggest continuing up the grey slab to the top, rather than traversing out left to carrots. (I did the traverse, and just found it contrived.) Regarding my 24M1 grading on P1: I never managed to do 1 move off the ground (between the slippery righthand crimp, and the first tight fingerlock -which I can only just fit back-3 1-pad in with careful placement- with no feet) so climbed with the left hand pre-set-up, then up to the top (hence a point of aid off the ground). I'm not sure whether the collapse of the foot pedestal at the base of the route may be a factor, or whether I just have to concede that the start is too thin/hard for me. Regardless, doing it with a point of aid off the ground was still great climbing I had some bad luck on the rest of the First pitch; breaking off a key hold, pinching a nerve in my hand so bad I had to drop off to recover, and taking a gear-ripping fall at one point. As such, my ascent was far from perfect style. Still, the fact I totally rate this crack despite these setbacks, is a testament to how good it is |
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2688
points
| 26 |
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★★ Koyaanisqatsi
![]() | 70m, 17 | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Mar 29 Oct. 2019 | |||
Led all pitches, done as a 15m pitch (P1) and a 55m pitch (P2-P4) belayed from the ground. Old school equipping and commitment, and as psychologically demanding as it is physically demanding on the crux pitch. Rope management is crucial to keeping this safe. P2-P4 (as a giant pitch) probably warrant "classic" status for the unrelenting arête-y nature of the climbing. P2 is crazy overhanging in the first half!
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2683
points
| 24 |
★★★ The Thin Line of Reprieve
![]() | 75m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Super classique | Sam 18 Fév 2023 | |||
Clean repeat. So much fun! A great warmup, and just what the doc ordered after a rather trying week.
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2669
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| 24 |
★★★ Thrustblock
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Seconded Mitch Clean. A proper classic pitch in its own right. The steepness is outrageous at the grade! With a bit more love, a bit more cleaning, and by starting up the layback flake to the right, this pitch on its own deserves a full 3 stars.
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Second clean. Some classic moments, but a lot of choss, wet rock, and moss. Once you get to the roof, everything up is great fun.
3
Hardly inspiring to look at (in fact, rather ugly) but the desperate bottomless chimney armbar-thrutching-madness was a unique experience to me. I climbed it with gear in (from my failed onsight attempt) and the first gear up to the crux pre-clipped from lowering off previously. | 70m | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Lun 2 Jan 2023 | |||
I always thought Pitch 1 looked mega, and it totally is.
Climbing Pitch 1 via the layback flake to the start, then traversing off (past old carrots) onto The Mind Boggles to rap would be a totally worthwhile undertaking for any trad enthusiast. |
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2663
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| 24 |
★★★ Hypertension
![]() | 45m, 3 | Moonarie | ★★★ Classique | Ven 26 Avr 2019 | |||
A great way to finish of the Moonarie trip. Awesome technical face climbing with 3 bolts amidst the trad to keep it sane, on generally beautiful rock. Marred only by dubious rock until the first bolt, and very dubious gear (read: RPs in cracked, hollow, moving rock) to get to the first bolt. Be careful. Quite sustained, though no particularly hard moves.
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2662
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| 24 |
★★ Bloodnut
![]() | 25m | Moonarie | ★ Bon | Lun 22 Avr 2019 | |||
A great thin main crux, and lots of other hard moves, but also lots of rubbish rock. I thought this was very hard at the grade, and I power-screamed up it.
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2654
points
| 24 |
FA
★★ Wrapt
![]() | 50m, 6 | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Mer 15 Déc 2021 | |||
FFA. Freed the boulder problem start (might be harder than gr24?) to make this an all-free route. On my retro flash (everything above the start boulder), I fell off on easy terrain at the tippy top after breaking off a hold... so down I came to go again. sigh
A bit old school, but awesome, not-too-hard climbing up an imposing, steep face, following the line of least resistance. Good bolts, so get on it. |
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2649
points
| 21 |
★★★ Trinity Wall
![]() | 30m | Arapiles | ★★★ Classique | Lun 25 Sept 2023 | |||
Gripping! Its hard to grade something like this, where tenuousness, fear and difficulty are all coalescing. Suffice to say: spacey, technical, improbable, and intimidating.
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2648
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| 21 |
★ Capilano
![]() | 25m | Arapiles | ★★★ Classique | Jeu 21 Sept 2023 | |||
Seems kinda underrated? Wild, exposed, pumpy climbing at the grade. The traverse was all-time, right!
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2647
points
| 21 |
★★ The Wraith
![]() | 35m | Arapiles | ★ Bon | Sam 16 Sept 2023 | |||
Not as good as Tannin. Rock is dubious in places, and some of the gear was a bit sketch. Still great, technical face-climbing, though
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2635
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| 28 |
★★★ Beyond Belief
![]() | 40m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Sam 24 Déc 2022 | |||
2 Attempts. On my 2nd I managed to get to the last 5m body-squeeze/offwidth section with a single rest, but never really managed to work out the last few metres. To me, with my physiology, it seemed like I was going to need to invert? But lacking more big gear, I was too intimidated to commit properly to it. I'll have to come back with bigger gear, and maybe a few more skills.
The rock is a mixed bag, but it's outweighed by the wildness of the climbing, which is varied, brutish, and intimidating. I used 7 x #4, 2 x #5 and 1 x #6 for the roof part of the crack. I could probably have done with another #6 at least, and perhaps something bigger (purely for the purpose of working the last part of the roof). |
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| 26 |
★★ Koyaanisqatsi
![]() | 70m, 17 | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Sam 27 Fév 2021 | |||
Repeat attempt (not clean today). Pitches 2 & 3 only (as a giant pitch).
Sure, this is obscure, but P2 is radical bold-ish gritstone-style arete climbing. Better than I remember, and also quite a bit harder. |
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2632
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| 23 |
★★★ The Great Outdoors
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| 70m | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Sam 18 Juil 2020 | |||
Awesome position, and definitely "out there". Old school face adventure where the difficulty is as much in the route finding (especially on the chalkless ground-up onsight) as it is in the moves. With only 8 carrots on P2, its rather "gripping". The traverse on P1 is kinda slippery, and has a proper hard crux for a warmup. Totally worthwhile... but Wild Wild West is probably better
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2610
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| 22 |
★★ The Block
![]() | 95m | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Dim 31 Oct. 2021 | |||
Surprisingly good! Would be classic but for an utterly disgusting exit pitch.
P2 has a nails start, then becomes great laybacking and bottomless chimneying. P3 has a beautiful narrow-corner crack followed by a very rad (but kinda weird) bolted slab that I was working proper hard to onsight. P4 is a blight on the landscape... but at least its short! Therr is a certain archetype of traddy climber in the blueys that NEEDS to get on this - hugh sutherland I'm looking at you! |
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2604
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| 22 |
★★★ Focal Point
![]() | 60m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Dim 10 Oct. 2021 | |||
Surprisingly good! Climbs like a harder version of P2 of Catch the Wind, on great rock, and with funky moves to negotiate the steepness. It also isn't too hard for the grade (especially considering how sandbagged trad routes at this grade often are), and was just tonnes of improbable fun to climb. With a touch more traffic (and an exit pitch) this should be a Tradsters trade route.
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| 24 |
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★ Tradfear
![]() | 87m, 6 | Blue Mountains | ★ Bon | Dim 3 Oct. 2021 | |||
A great outing up a major feature (visible from Perry's!) but not necessarily a great route. Steep and atmospheric, but generally average rock. All of the various cruxes are above gear, which makes this feel like a real trad route, despite a few bolts.
The quite bold start to P2 had me get scared and jump off twice before I could change my headspace and push through the runout crux for the send, after which I flashed to the top. A great pitch which is crazy overhanging through multiple roofs. Pitch 3 is short and steep up an overhanging offset arete, but the rock is hideous. Pitch 4 is basically unprotected until you regain Superdyke (after which the rock and climbing greatly increase). |
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2596
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| 23 |
★★★ Spoilt Mercy (Link-up)
![]() | 32m, 10 | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Sam 21 Mars 2020 | |||
A super-logical linkup on generally great rock (marred only by the traverse being kinda contrived). Quite pumpy and sustained. The whole upper half is brilliant.
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2582
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| 24 |
★★ The Passenger
![]() | 55m, 6 | Moonarie | ★★ Excellent | Lun 22 Avr 2019 | |||
Marred only by a very very brief crux, this is great taipan-esque climbing with a bouldery slimper start and a blueys steep finish. Not 25 as in the guide, and probably not too bad for 24, really... but worthwhile.
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2580
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| 24 |
★★★ Fingernickin'
![]() | 100m | Moonarie | ★★★ Classique | Lun 15 Avr 2019 | |||
P1 only, flash on Emil's gear. An amazing and intimidating looking overhanging crack, which actually climbs a lot easier than it looks. I went for the hideous, scrappy, burlfest approach rather than a stylish ascent, relying on my strength rather than poise for the ascent... but it worked
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2578
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| 26 |
★★★ Gigantor (free version)
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| 100m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Dim 10 Sept 2023 | |||
Day 6 for the Redpoint!
I really wanted to come back and improve the style on this. Firstly, because I think mine is the first repeat of the route, and secondly, because this route is both harder and scarier to do it placing the gear (the former for P1, the latter for P2)... It's also proud enough that it warrants the extra effort. So, as you might imagine, I'm pretty chuffed to have gotten this done, and in pretty good style. Full disclosure: I did have the first few pieces of gear clipped off the belay at the start of each pitch. Quote of the day: "Don't get upset if I start freaking out; I'm weak, wimpy Frothy, not bold, strong Zackie" |
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2561
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| 23 |
★★★ Gentlemens Drag
![]() | 28m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Super classique | Dim 9 Juin 2024 | |||
Clean repeat on TRS. There was a toprope hanging down it, so I did a second warmup on TRS. Felt about gr22 today, and just a joy to climb. I also found 3 no-hands rests in the top 2/3rds! Maybe the Blueys best pitch of crack?
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2560
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| 24 |
★★★ Textures of Consciousness
![]() | 70m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Jeu 1 Déc 2022 | |||
Clean Repeat. Seconding Simmo after the First Ascent. Still bloody great.
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2555
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| 24 |
★★★ The Thin Line of Reprieve
![]() | 75m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Super classique | Sam 18 Déc 2021 | |||
Clean repeat. Climbed on Michael's gear to exit the crag (and strip the route) at the end of the day.
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2550
points
| 24 |
★★★ The Thin Line of Reprieve
![]() | 75m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Super classique | Sam 4 Déc 2021 | |||
Repeat. Only to half height to retrieve a stuck cam from last weekend, but I then downclimbed on lead all the way through the bottom crux clean as well, so I'm logging an ascent
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2549
points
| 24 |
★★★ The Thin Line of Reprieve
![]() | 75m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Super classique | Dim 28 Nov. 2021 | |||
Clean repeat - EOD Pinkpoint lap to facilitate retrieving Marty Doolan 's in situ gear.
Man, sport trad is fun. |
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2542
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| 25 |
★★★ Echo Crack
![]() | 190m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Sam 26 Nov. 2016 | |||
If this is my last climb before I get unfit from my new job, at least it's a bloody awesome way to finish! Much better climbing than I expected (even the bottom "crap" pitches weren't all that bad by Blueys Adventure-Trad standards, merely "average"), and the money pitches were utterly spectacular. Not as good as Samarkand, but definitely worthwhile! I found the sustained crack sections on the upper pitches challenging, because (with my added refusal to use tape) they are a really bad size for my hands. P1 (Onsight) - Loose-ish easy corner-crack climbing; P2 (2nd Clean) - Okay climbing up a varied corner system for 2/3rds, then loose finale; P3 (Onsight) - Boulder problem to gain and get established into the crack (I ran this out into scary territory above "okay" gear), then very stance-friendly steep corner-crack climbing, mostly off-hands with a few fists in there; P4 (2nd Clean) - Sustained endurance steep fist-crack test-piece, with a funky -and tricky!- face crimping finale. In HINDSIGHT, my ideal rack for this climb would be: 1 x 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.75; 2 x #1; 3 x #2; 7 x #3 (with some "spaced but tolerable" placements). As it was, on the crux pitch, I ran out the crack quite a lot.
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2533
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| 23 |
★★ Fuzzy Logic
![]() | 25m | Point Perpendicular | ★★ Excellent | Dim 10 Mars 2024 | |||
Repeat. Been a long time since I onsighted this. Though I found it easy today, I didn't really enjoy it. Very contrived, and on average (grainy) rock. A few cool moves, though.
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2529
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| 25 |
★★★ Grasshopper
![]() | 40m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Lun 1 Juin 2020 | |||
Repeat. Helping out a mate
Even more fun when you don't have any pressure whatsoever hanging over your head. |
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2529
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| 25 |
★★ Cicada
![]() | 45m, 16 | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Lun 1 Juin 2020 | |||
Repeat attempt (not clean). This is almost starting to feel like a ritual: repeat lap(s) on Grasshopper followed by one hail mary attempt at le grande link. This is just so hard absent beta and chalk. Still... probably my best "ground up" attempt yet, mostly turning pear-shaped on the upper crux and battling through the rest.
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| 21 |
★★ The Venom
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| 110m | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Mer 10 Août 2022 | |||
Surely one of the best lines in the Gorge? Even quite wet today (after all the rain) this was really rad -and quite gripping. Though untrafficked and a touch loose (it is Glenbrook Gorge, after all) the rock is generally pretty good, and the route takes the plum line up the proudest part of the raddest wall.
Onsight but for P2, which I'd actually climbed previously as part of another route. I definitely found committing to the crux on P3 quite intense, as it's not obvious where it goes. All I'd say is: follow the gear. |
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★★★ The Great Divide (The Great Divide Project)
![]() | 15m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Dim 26 Déc 2021 | |||
2 x laps. The First was a long ordeal, trying to properly suss viable moves/sequences/gear/clipping. The second was to confirm what I learned from the previous lap. Thought I had it all figured out (though it would need a lot of effort still to send!) but on my 2nd lap there was a single move I couldn't repeat. Tired? Or just too hard? Who knows.
IT was rad tackling this knowing I'd need new beta -being the first of my physiology to undertake the challenge. My beta encompassed mono-fingerlocks, and 2-finger stacks through dead-horizontal roof. Painful as hell, but megar megar. Thanks heaps for letting me have a play, Jacques! |
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2518
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★★ Susie now Settled
![]() | 25m | Point Perpendicular | ★ Bon | Sam 9 Mars 2024 | |||
Not clean. Great to have something new to do (all on gear) when you've done everything else here, but it is really contrived (and kinda hard to decide what exactly is "off route").
Regardless, it has some rad, powerful moves. With my busted wrist, there was a single move I couldn't do today, but otherwise it seemed "achievable"... maybe. |
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★★★ Life Without Meaning (Project Paul #2)
![]() | 40m, 11 | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Sam 13 Nov. 2021 | |||
Day 11: Just the one redpoint burn before bailing from the worst conditions I'e ever had. After all the rain the waterfall was pumping, but the 80kmph gusting winds were blowing said waterfall all over the route, and the belay.
On my one burn I powered through the crux like a boss, only to have an epic clipping at the end of the sideways runout due to clipping hold being proper wet. After this I went from below this sequence to the anchor. I just seriously need a bit of luck out here. |
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★★★ Life Without Meaning (Project Paul #2)
![]() | 40m, 11 | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Sam 6 Nov. 2021 | |||
Day 10 - 4 more redpoint burns, new highpoint on the jug one move from the no hands rest, on my last shot of the day, pumped to oblivion and unable to finish it off. Got unlucky on the first 2 burns (one fall I ended up BELOW Will after falling off), and had a dry slip while crushing on my 3rd.
2 more days of good connies and I reckon I can get this done. |
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★★★ Life Without Meaning (Project Paul #2)
![]() | 40m, 11 | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Mer 3 Nov. 2021 | |||
Day 9. Equalled my 2nd best highpoint 3 times (out of 4 redpoint burns) but still didn't push any higher. This still makes it my best ratio going through the low crux. More epic beta refinement until I was so tired I could barely jumar out. Forgetting my brush did NOT help things today.
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★★★ Life Without Meaning (Project Paul #2)
![]() | 40m, 11 | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Lun 1 Nov. 2021 | |||
Day 8. No new highpoint, though I came up with more reliable (though burlier) beta for the first boulder crux, and totally new beta for the move I fell off on my highpoint (which means I should never do THAT again... assuming I ever get there again).
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★★★ Life Without Meaning (Project Paul #2)
![]() | 40m, 11 | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Dim 24 Oct. 2021 | |||
Day 7 - The closest I've come yet. Now including the bottom boulder problem into the rest of the pitch, I fell off on the final moves of the lower half before the no-hands rest. Then on the "one-sit" attempt, I actually stuck the move I normally fall off at the tippy top, but bungled a footer and didn't make the easier moves... But at the end of a big day, I was wrecked.
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★★ Don't Wet Yourself
![]() | 20m | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Dim 13 Fév 2022 | |||
Ground-Up Onsight of an (at the time) unclimbed line. Used a #0.5 + #0.75 in the break below the traverse line; #0.2 (Black Totem) after sticking the first hard moves up the detached flake; and a #1 in a horizontal break above the crux.
Made it onto the slab (above the crux) before it was too wet even to manage even mere gr18 slabbing. Piked out from there, rather than continuing on the true line. |
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★★★ Life Without Meaning (Project Paul #2)
![]() | 40m, 11 | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Sam 16 Oct. 2021 | |||
Day 5. 3 more laps, and twice more the final move gets me. Groundhog day, much?
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★★★ Life Without Meaning (Project Paul #2)
![]() | 40m, 11 | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Dim 10 Oct. 2021 | |||
Day 4, 3 more laps. Falling off the final moves at the top of this is fast becoming a theme, here. The sequence is hard in isolation, but after 35m climbing it's hard to have the internal discipline to boulder it out. I put in a lot of effort to refining the sequence, and I think I have finally sorted it out (albeit with the loss of a LOT of skin). The biggest concerns now are exhausting all my (wonderful) belayers, or it getting too hot this season.
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★★ Stolen Valor
![]() | 35m, 11 | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Dim 2 Fév 2020 | |||
Quite worthwhile, and general good quality rock once the initial crack is dispensed with. Sustained, with no real defined crux, but a few unlikely sequences, and a potentially heartbreaker finish.
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★★★ Life Without Meaning (Project Paul #2)
![]() | 40m, 11 | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Mer 6 Oct. 2021 | |||
3 more shots. Twice fell off the final crux right at the tippy top. The low crux is still giving me a lot of grief, though. So much fun, falling off doesn't matter all that much (though running out of climbing partners does
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★★★ Life Without Meaning (Project Paul #2)
![]() | 40m, 11 | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Ven 1 Oct. 2021 | |||
2 shots. HARD! Some of the most complex and technical steep climbing I've ever done. The dyno at half-height through the roof is outrageous, and the top 15m headwall is nearly Hairline-levels of mega, up a series of improbable linked features. Still one move I've never worked out near the start.
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★★★ Goblin Mischief
![]() | 50m, 1 | Moonarie | ★★★ Classique | Mer 17 Avr 2019 | |||
Psyched. True onsight with no chalk on the route and a veneer of dust over everything. Onsighting this was my goal of the trip, and has been for years since I first learned of moonarie and this routes rep. I was even sandbagged by two old locals telling me not to take my bolt plates right as I was about to set off... nice work guys, you got me good. I brought a rack-and-a-half, which led to some monster runouts above dubious gear, but with more small cams it didnt need to be. Not a physically hard route, but a technically challenging mental headgame with some real ropecraft necessary. Improbable and strange, with beautiful moves on the arete, and easier gritstone climbing higher up.
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★★★ Peer Review
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| 28m, 10 | Bruny Island | ★★ Excellent | Mer 27 Avr 2022 | |||
Great warmup. Climbed both pitches as 1 big pitch. Beautiful climbing up funky grooves on P1, and easier but worthwhile box groove traddy stemming on P2. I brought a rack of medium wires, and cams 0.3 - 1 for the top.
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★★ Jezreel P3
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| 15m, 2 | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Sam 24 Juin 2023 | |||
Repeat -P3 only. Returning to clean up the style of the ascent of P3, now that it's not pouring with water.
Gr22 for P3 seems fair when it's in condition. Awesome roofing protected by a crappy hanger, a #3. a #0.4, and nothing else. Has a bold-ish vibe. |
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★★ Dazed and Confused
![]() | 20m | Arapiles | ★ Bon | Mer 20 Sept 2023 | |||
Kinda scary. I sandbagged myself climbing up the right arete of the boulder, then just got rattled by the poor gear and surprisingly average rock at the start of the real climbing. It was.more fun further up, though.
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★★★ Evolution
![]() | 220m, 55 | Bungonia Gorge | ★★★ Classique | Mer 30 Août 2017 | |||
I finally got to do the 3 "classic" pitches on this route, and sure enough, they WERE bloody classic. P1-P3 - Repeat, Lead Clean (I've onsighted them previously when I climbed Aurora) - Very slabby. A Poxy start pitch, a very thin middle pitch, and a bold (but not as hard or as scary as I remember) finale pitch. Not as terrible as I remember; P4 - 2nd Clean - Probably the hardest bit of climbing on the route. I found this sustained, pumpy, technical and with terrible feet. Great!; P5 - Onsight - Great, sustained technical climbing up a vague corner-system. A proper classic. P6 - Onsight - Extremely juggy, steep-ish climbing on perfect rock. Very straightforward, but tonnes of fun in an exposed position. P7 - We chose to finish up the top (crux) pitch of Jumpmaster instead of the normal finish (which I ticked first go today placing all gear on lead).
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★★ Electric Warrior
![]() | 30m | Arapiles | ★★ Excellent | Mar 19 Sept 2023 | |||
Jeebus! I found this nails at the grade. I struggled with the slippery start until I sorted my feet, though the top was no slouch either. One of the harder routes I've done at the grade.
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2481
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★★★ Thunder Crack
![]() | 30m | Arapiles | ★★★ Classique | Lun 18 Sept 2023 | |||
Great! Id always avoided it for fear and mixed reviews, but it was awesome! The slippery start was less problematic than I expected, and the rest of it was stance-friendly exposed 3-Dimensional climbing.
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★★★ Wake of the Flood
![]() | 50m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Lun 3 Oct. 2022 | |||
Clean repeat. Climbed as a giant pitch from the ground. Man, that top boulder is still nails (I fell off it all the way back to the ledge, then reclimbed the top pitch clean from there placing gear).
I used 2 ropes, but only clipped one for the first 2 pitches, and the other for the final boulder. With a bit of strategy with gear placements and runners, there was no drag whatsoever. For the giant single pitch, bring a double rack 0.3 - 2, and a single #0.2 and #3, as well as an extra 0.5, 0.75 and 1. Wires optional. |
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★★★ Supercrack
![]() | 65m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Sam 8 Juil 2017 | |||
Psyched for the onsight! A burly, perfect #2 cam roof-crack, that overhangs about 9m. Juggy jams, bomber rock, oodles of gear. Super streno with outrageous moves. Kinda intimidating, but not too hard at the grade. We skipped P1 (you can walk around it), P2 - Clean 2nd - intimidating without big gear, awesome steep stemming/chimneying; P3 - Onsight!
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★★★ No Space in Time
![]() | 20m, 7 | Bare Rock | ★★★ Classique | Jeu 2 Juin 2016 | |||
Repeat. Not Clean today (I didn't even try). A lap to the top for some photos and to retrieve my gear.
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★★★ The Thin Line of Reprieve
![]() | 75m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Super classique | Sam 20 Nov. 2021 | |||
Another clean repeat, this time seconding Gavin on his successful pink-point. Dreeeeeeeamy
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★★★ Grasshopper
![]() | 40m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Classique | Ven 16 Août 2019 | |||
Clean repeat. As mega as I remember. Would be the bestest ever with better rock. Did a speed "no stopping to rest" lap placing gear for added excitement. The 2 main pitches are mega to link and the most memorable way to climb this.
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★★ Cicada
![]() | 45m, 16 | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Ven 16 Août 2019 | |||
Repeat attempt (not clean) trying (yet again) to climb this as a 40m monster... unsuccessful (yet again) as I dogged the hell out of the upper pitch. Old Frothy was MEAN with his route grades! (24???), but at least with the repositioned bolts this is fine for the ground-up attempt. With better rock this would be classic, as it is... its an upper-tier very good.
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★★★ Mildly Amused
![]() | 35m, 9 | Mount Wellington | ★★★ Classique | Jeu 24 Déc 2015 | |||
Super-psyched! It's not often I get to boast about onsighting a 35m gr25 mixed climb in Tassie! Engaging crack climbing for 15m on gear (at about grade 23) with some involved and improbable gear-protected moves. Then an outlandish fridge-hugging sequence past a square-cut rooflet and into technical face climbing (with a few token arete slaps) for the remaining 20m of climbing. Perhaps not too tough for the grade but with no chalk on it, and some wet holds, I'll take it!
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| 24 |
★★★ The Thin Line of Reprieve
![]() | 75m | Blue Mountains | ★★★ Super classique | Dim 24 Oct. 2021 | |||
Clean repeat. Seconding Luke at the end of a double-send (of this route) day. Awesome!
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★★ Dauntless
![]() | 170m | Blue Mountains | ★★ Excellent | Sam 22 Avr 2023 | |||
Just one more big Katoomba Cliffs -with everything that encompasses- mixed epic off the list.
I liked P2, P3 and P5, but the other pitches are really just doddly, chossy access/egress pitches. P2 had some cool, wandery, super runout face climbing, with more sideways than up. The opening mantles were tough! I got off route trying to free an old aid route at one point -eventually broke a hold and took a big whip, realised my mistake, lowered back to a big no-hands ledge, and continued onsighting the correct line. This was my favourite pitch of the route. P3 was a sketchy solo on loose rock to the first bolt, then a cool fused corner, followed by an easy, but airy traverse. P4 is just a short vertical walk. P5 necessitated pioneering some new beta since the crux breakages. I eventually figured out some very unlikely morpho beta that went at the same grade. After the crux, its some pretty wild unprotected campus traversing to the belay. P6 Is a long death by ironstone arete. Easy, but not much gear. P7 is an even more death by ironstone pitch, with even worse gear, leading to a vertical gardening exit. |
Done over about 8 days of effort in total. I originally led the crux pitch as two shorter pitches (27 and 26 respectively) via a hanging belay, before coming back to eliminate the belay and do it properly.