Ascents of Joe Blake

Excellent crack with a kick in the tail. Mostly 1 & 2 cams down low and a couple of small cams for the top

Sick-as line of (mostly) hands! Great pro throughout. Gets pretty tight in parts, so good for those with smaller mitts.

Slabby balancy finger section at the top was spooky for me. Definitely my anti style. There was probably better pro than a uncammed black totem and a shallow #4 nut

Only climbed P1. Heard P2 was rubbish.

Good to come back to send it, glad I had loads of gear. My hardest trad send yewwww

Crag classic for sure! Amazing line with fantastic climbing and jamming that goes from hands to fingers. P2 didn't look too appealing.

Absolutely epic. Very secure hand jams and then thins out, need to come back and lead this. Didn't do p2 as didn't look great unless you have loads of small gear.

Beautiful crack ranging from perfect hands, to tight hands, to fingers. Consistently 1s for a fair portion. Felt hard for 19.

Top pitch has a fairly hard undercut start to get established in the corner then east ground with barely any gear until the top out. Probably not 18 and probably only 15m. Next time I would rap from P1.

Ash took P1 and nailed it! Bazangin climb that packs quite the punch. Odin really feels like a mini Ikara, which I guess it actually is, with Ikara just down the valley and the Odin walls being a little smaller. Style vvv similar as well, but also, obvi. How's that for a controversial opinion?

Very cool pitch, felt tired and wasnt keen enough for tyhe second pitch.

Rock quality not great in places - hold broke off and pulled on cam. Big jug at ledge before bolts not attached to much and v scary, careful. Great climbing

Up there with the best crack at the grade in the mountains. A little harder for someone with big feet and hands!

Pretty dirty after fires and floods but nice climbing

Used all my 1/2/3 before the mid section were I really needed them. Climbed slow and got in my head climbing the mid section with a terrible #4 placenent. Had a rest just before the roof. Turning the roof was easier than expected, shoulda just gone for it.

Top pitch is not really worth it. Rap off the rings.

Absolutely amazing! Hands, Rings, Fingers, Tips, Face. This has it all. The route essentially starts easy and gets harder the higher you go. Experienced some pretty nontrivial foot pump towards the top and really struggled to find adequate (foot) rests to shake them out.

fantastic. Rapped down from the rings at the top of first pitch about 40m up where the crack finishes.

Really fun climbing !

a bloody awesome line so much fun the unrelenting #1 crack threw me off but the fingers crimp rock over crux is magical! a must do for everyone!

Old tick before the fires. Epic climb and great moves and gear the whole way up, progressively getting slightly harder.

WOW! All time mega classic crack. Great jamming and cool finger crack sequence where you have to lock rather than typic bluies face holds. Odin Head is a crack climbers dream location. Must come back for the other routes.

Seconded first pitch, firsted second pitch ... Rapped from tree to rings . Then to ground with a 70...

Crack is not my jam but this was fun. Doesn’t look great from start but the line above is sick. Wear crack gloves!

A proper Trad. So different from sport. Took me a while to figure out how to use my feet. Thanks to my masters teachings!

The best pitch of 19 in the mountains? Sutained splitter with good gear. Too much sport climbing makes the crux last 5m the easiest bit. Didn't do 2nd pitch - needs small gear to rps; looks fun but an easy rap after the money pitch makes an easy choice.

2020 Dec