Ascents climbed between 2003-01-01 and 2003-12-31 as various tick types by Susy G

Entry 1: 21 April 2003. With Andy and Horney. Dropping 25 times onto that Petzl bolt was more than the bolt or my belayer could really handle. Note to self - return Xmas 2003, remember to bring abs. Entry 2: 30.12.03. With Ben, Simon, Rob and Pommy. Returned Xmas 2003, brought abs and entourage. YES!!!!!

With Andy. For such a short route this has heaps of variety and packs a few punches.

With Simon. Two long thin pitches with great moves. I didn't expect to be negotiating an overhang on a slab climb. Unexpected spice!

With Simon. i've always wanted to do this climb and it was just as good as I'd hoped it would be.

With Simon. An outstanding lead by Simon. I loved the cruisy start, the thin traverse (we're talking fingernail crimps and matchstick edges), and the super lactic diagonal (which turned my forearms to wood).

With Brendan. I liked it so much I did it twice.

With Ben and Brendan. Don't bother unless you like being sandbagged and can climb slabs.

With Ben & Brendan.

With Ben. Nice.

With Ben and Brendan. A veritable gem.

With Ben. Sensational little climb. A good recommendation from Andy m the walking talking guidebook.

With Ben. The confounding elements increased the challenge - baking sun at 7.10am and the left seam streaming water from the rainstorm.

With Ben and H. Some awesome hand and fist jams on this.

With Ross. The gods looked down and they saw Ross and Susy climbing together again. And the Gods said "in keeping with tradition, we shall create an epic". And so it came to pass. Night fell. And upon her return to Brisbane, Susy purchased a small clock to hang upon her harness garment. Amen.

With Ben and H. The crux is a nice move.

With Ben and H.

With H. The sweetest 13 you'll ever find. A great way of warming into Araps.

With H. The bulge on pitch one is a boomer. Pitch 2 is pretty ordinary

With H. Easiest 15 in the universe including Mars.

With H. A little ripper. Scary to do at night though.

20th March 05 with Pete. With Horney. Pumpy start eases off in due course before a short V groove which required some thought to solve. Happily the crack protects superbly with a full rack of cams and 4-5 mid-size wires. Nice climb!

With Ben. Suitable descriptors include but are not limited to: tear-inducing, painmaking, arm-busting, podiatric cripple-fest. One of life's mysteries though is how, by the time I've driven home, climbs during which I wailed pitifully and swore foully, have morphed into unforgettable mega-classics that I love .

20th March 05 with Pete. With Andy and Ben. It's Winston Alley with testicles. What's not to like?: It's got fingerlocks, bridging, highsteps and awesome thin hand jams. Glad I was told to pack extra reserves of grunt and determination - I needed them.

With Chris. Pleasantville Crag 9am Oct 25: A nice cool morning, the right gear, peaceful atmosphere, and just a couple of challening moves on a classic climb - weekly endorphin fix complete.

With Ben. Not much to this climb really (overgraded even). I reckon the grade is derived from the fairly anorexic pro rather than the difficulty. For a frogprincess like me though the crimping and smearing was wicked fun! I liked this climb a lot.

With Ben. I prefer to leave the chimneying to Mary Poppins. And if I'd wanted to spend my time bridging I would have become a dental technician. After the initial gruntfest I stopped being grumpy and, yeah, the top half was kinda fun I guess.

24 Aug 04 after Jo. With Ben. Location location location. The flakes are seriously flakey. Cams strictly forbidden or the flakes will go and the climb will be radically changed.

With Ross. Go-ey for the grade!

With Ross. I-yuew. Greasier than a breakfast at the Cosmopolitan cafe...

27 Mar 05 with Ben. With Ross. There's serious climbs and there's fun climbs. This is the funnest climb I've ever done. 30m of twist locks on huge buckets with fantastic feet high up on the Atridae. Hooted and grinned the whole way

11 July 04 with Ben for his onsight. With Mark. Girl eats man-eating fish! (Man-eating fish feeds on RPs and everything SMALL). I'm awarding 'best in grade' at Frog Buttress.

2nd'ed 17 July 04 with a different Colin. With Colin and Ben, & Andy's BIG camalots (2 x 4, 2 x 4.5). This climb rocks. Thin hands first, fat hands second, feisty fists follow. Bugga the butt jam but, I bridged the widest bit.

6 Mar 05 with Pete. It's still 17 stars worth of quality moves...With Ben. So long, so hard, so imposing - no, it's not a line from Boogie Nights, it's Devil's Dihedral, the longest, hardest, imposingest 20 I've met at Frog yet. Surprisingly the twin crack first half gave me more grief than the crux and the grunty finish. At the top my voice broke as I let out a feeble, wilted 'yahoo' and took stock of my various strains: both feet, right calf, left shoulder, aorta, heart muscle, right armpit and both sides of my brain. Any climb that leaves me so utterly shagged lives forever in the pantheon.

With Sean. Must I be cursed as a freak for regarding this route as a rip-snorter? For sheer diversity and problem solving, plus being able to evoke emotions ranging from bewilderment to abject cringing, I anoint it 'mega-classic'. between it's ledges it gives good slab (oxymoron), hard corner, and beastly off widthing. I felt like I'd died and gone to heaven (note: one person's heaven is another person's hell).

With Guy. A very manageable 20 with snuggly foot and hand jams plus a smattering of jugs to crank on. Couldn't have protected it without adding Guys goodly assortment of biggie Camalots. I'm happy as a clam - a really nice climb.

With Guy. A funny old thing (I mean the climb)

3 April 05 with Ash. With Damien. "The belligerent diaphanous clam over-indulged - until bereft."

With Mark. The only good slab is one with 24 Lemon Ruskis in it. Sick people who must do this climb should stock a carabiner with small RPs and the lucky charm of their choice.

With Ben.

24 April 05 with Janette at dusk. With Ben. Gorgeous hunk of orange peel looking rock. Strenuous and hard. I saw the onsight symbol and I saw the green tick with the black dog. It was thinking of that black dog that pulled me through.

With Ben. Make a pre-climb sacrifice to the God of RPs, and put on your blue suede edging shoes for a necky start. Then wipe brow and charge up a varied twin crack corner with the funnest moves and jams. Loved it! (Felt like I wasTrinity without the leather and glasses.)

With Mark. As offwidths go, this is a beauty. Hard to decide how to classify it - good or v. good. Staring at my jam-grazed knee and ankle scabbed from using it to lock into the offwidth, I determined that only a 'ver good' rating could justify such outrageous self-abuse. Big hexes and a #5 Friend a must. Oh and don't believe the guide when it says 25 metres. It's 4O at least to a rappable tree.

With Ben. Another off width bites the dust. Big gear would have been nice, but there were other (creative) options.

With Horney. At last the enemy has fallen. With Guy. Finally! Left armbar, right foot and hand on right arete. It helped seeing how Guy handled the wide section.

With Horney. Nothing to write home about. Good warm up.

27 Feb 05 with Pete. With Mark. Remarkable only for the rare novelty pockets on the upper slab and the crux where I found the way to free my hands for the gear placement at the diagonal was through the use of a body position akin to "Spiderwoman practising a Kama Sutra routine" and requiring an adductor busting inner thigh bar

With Guy. Nice little climb, worth doing. It has a cute widdle wooflet and a cool layback at the top.

2nd August 04 with Ash.With Guy. Hello Sailor is the Frog technique supermarket offering most every jam size including bonus heel/toe-ing and a free thrutching thrills thrown in for good measure. Loved it!

With Ben and Brendan. A highly disgusting climb. Toblerone blocks are tougher to break off than the blocks on this thing.

With Ben

Feb 27 05 with Pete and Colin. With Mick and Ben. Like the RP under the bulge and the face hold just when I was despairing about the flared finger crack. The belay perch at the top is precarious to look at and two flakes on the climb will come off very soon

With Marissa. With Mick and Ben. Awesome finger tip layback and finger locks. Great gear, from the first small wired hex all the wat through the green cam, green ann blue alien and smalll nuts. Love this climb (did I already say that?)

With Ben. Stay away from this disgusting thing.

With Andy

With Andy. Good jams