Ascensions dans World comme Clean par Paul Frothy Thomson

3 x Early-morning TRS laps clean for training. Very cool, IMHO.

Subjectively, the start for me probably makes this route 26, but I suspect more compact climbers might find this not too bad, as there are plenty of options (making this not a "reachy" climb) but it is awkward and bunchy at my height.

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?

My favourite of the routes on this wall. A rad start up a corner/crack feature, then continuous climbing on great rock, with quite a few tricky moves. The pockets near the top are wickedly cool.

Great climbing. Reminds me of Theory of Negativity -albeit, less funky features- though longer. Only a brief crux.

Seconding Neil to exit the crag. The moves were great, but the rock was friable at times (which meant I was more concerned about breaking something, than enjoying the climbing itself).

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!

Clean Repeat TRS.

After chopping the original (crappy) start, re-jigging the bolts in the upper section, repairing a super key broken hold (that was forcing a weird "round the world" sequence, and meant the crux bolts were all in the wrong place), and developing a whole new (gr21) start, I needed to see if my efforts had borne fruit.

In short, this is now one of my favourite routes on the wall. I'd call it 2nd best after Life of Riley. Its rad that with a bit more route development experience, and a bit of time and effort, this route -that has always frustrated me for having a crappy lower half, and a good but poorly arranged upper half- is now one of my favourite sporty sport routes I've put up.

I really hope this gets more traffic now, because it deserves it.

Incidentally, the gr21 Bottom section (25m to the first anchor) is proper good climbing, and would happily stand next to such contemporaries at Cosmic County.

Repeat. 2 Laps. Truth be told, I fell off the bulge-boulder below the arete on my first lap, but corrected it on the second. A mixed bag of quality, and the arete itself is really easy, but it was still fun enough. Pretty much every hard move is escapable if you stray from the bolts a bit.

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.

Repeat. 2 Laps for training. Damn I love this thing

Repeat. My favourite route at Windjammer. Felt super relaxed and in control on it today, and got to the top without a pump.

Repeat. I remember this feeling nails, but I absolutely cruised it today. Super obvious, and super pleasant crack climbing.

Repeat. I forgot how sustained this was. With my current form, I just barely squeaked it, to be honest.

Repeat. This is just a really fun climb, and not too hard at the grade. Feeling good on the slow return-to-form after 5 months on the couch.

Seconding Jacques. Hardly a proud or inspiring line, but it is a worthy challenge that had both of us grunting with effort.

Seconding Gezza. Man, what a rad finish at the grade. Committing, despite appearances.

Clean repeat. Seconding Lucas to get the gear back. Campused the roof for a laugh. What an iconic route!

Clean repeat. Seconding Jenga to get the gear back. Just goooood fun!

Clean Repeat -seconding Jenga. Route 2 of 2 of our speedy early morning ramble. Probably better than Eskimo Nell (and much better than I remember it).

Clean repeat -seconding Jenga. Route 1 of 2 in a speedy before-breakfast push to work up an appetite. Just a classic easy outing.

Seconding Simmo. Climbed as a giant 50m pitch. Absolutely awesome in this manner, eith a super cool finale up the face.

Stacked! So many dropable moves the whole way up. A face-climbing connoisseur's delight! Seconding the First Ascent clean -I almost came unstuck when the FA decided to use a locked locking bina bolt-side at the hardest crux, resulting in some mid-crux desperation. A classic for sure.

Seconding Simmo. Wasn't planning on doing this, but Simmo made it look super-fun, and so I followed him up it. Really interesting, varied and insecure climbing (especially at the start) that packs a punch for such a short route.

Same-day TRS repeat (clean) to climb out. Dreaaaaaaaaaaaamy.

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).

Repeat. Clean TRS lap for fitness. Probably prouder than the original Subliminal, but shares too much of the same climbing to usurp its classic status.

Clean Repeat. TRS. This was probably the best of the routes I did here today. I found the two cruxes on this kinda hard -though it might just be post-covid fatigue.

Clean Repeat. TRS. Not much harder than This Sporting Life, really.

Clean repeat. TRS. A really cool steep section.

Clean Repeat. TRS for fitness after 2 weeks sick in bed. Pleasant face climbing on the 2nd pitch, with nice rock!

Cool feature, though not as proud as it looks from the ground. Given how much climbing it shares with its righthand neighbour, it wasn't substantially harder (maybe a grade, or so?) Last climb of the trip, and down to the wire, so no time for the proper red point, though its not any harder than the cheeky toppy.

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).

2 Laps to warmup -the second with 10kgs of extra weight for training.

Still hard at the grade, but still super awesome for such a short route. Steep technical pocket cranking in an exposed position FTW.

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

Coming back to try and clean up the pitches I didn't get clean last time.

Unfortunately, the ropes I brought weren't long enough to get to the belay below P3, so for now that pitch will have to remain un-sent.

It was bloody hot out here today, but the route was still great.

Seconding Niel to exit the crag. Second clean P1 and P2 -at least this gave me a chance to climb P1 clean (albeit on second, though taking off the bolt plates). At the end of the day, I was bloody tired, and this felt like hard work.

Supporting Mitch on the First Ascent

An awesome, mid-length multi, with no boring bits, and nothing too hard. Might be one of the best multis in this grade range (I guess the competition would be routes like Saccharine Nightmare or Yak Banquet?).

P2 was my favourite

Clean Repeat. Seconding Simmo after the First Ascent. Still bloody great.

All 4 pitches clean on second. Seconding Monty on the First Ascent. A bloody great line, where access is a cruise, and the first 3 pitches are all worth a full 3 stars. Great rock, great position, and quite sustained. Happy to have been a part of this process.

Clean repeat. Haven't been on this in years, and I was pretty chuffed to have no real troubles with the crux on it. Just a bloody great route, Jenga!

Clean repeat. Still a well-conceived quest around the face.

Clean repeat. This has got to be one of the coolest steep sport routes at the grade, right?

Clean repeat. Just the right amount of warmup

Clean repeat. My favourite of the mid-grade routes here. Always happy to chuck a lap.