Ascents as various tick types as sport by Paul Frothy Thomson

Pretty easy for the grade, and not as good as it's lefthand neighbour. The punchy moves to the anchor are memorable.

A hard start, with some interesting, funky climbing higher up. More of a full package than most of the routes here.

2nd shot. Didn't find the key hold past the roof on the onsight. Pretty cruisy at the grade (and the best warmup here) when you know where the holds are.

Was cruising this on 2nd until I slipped off in the spooge AFTER the crux . The rock is average, but the position and climbing are both great, and despite the hassle this is thoroughly worthwhile. Pretty bloody steep for the grade.

Clean repeat. warm-up lapping.

Clean repeat. warm-up lapping.

Huzzah, I finally ticked my old nemesis. Interestingly, the move I struggled with on link today was a bunched face move immediately after what I remember being the crux. Weird. Great, but very cruxy around the roof-turn.

Clean repeat. I remember the crux of this being very tough when I first ticked it, was a cruise today, even going more direct than Neil does. Much more fun than I remember.

Repeat. Awesome. A great warmup.

Clean repeat. One of the best at the grade in the mountains. Improbable and inspired.

Clean repeat. Easy at the grade, but a brilliant warmup. A pleasant pumper with a punchy start.

Repeat attempt, not clean. Another EOD warm-down attempt. Better linkage than last time, but I struggled a bit with the upper crux in todays wet conditions.

Repeat attempt, not clean. An EOD warm-down. Surprised myself by doing this with only 2 falls, despite remembering very little. Felt strong.

Repeat. EOD warm-down. Up-climbed and down-climbed the entire route clean on lead for added challenge.

Clean repeat. Just a bloody great route, probably one of the best at the grade in the Blueys.

FFA. Literally the most effort I've put into any climb in the Blue Mountains. 9 days, in soaring temperatures, rain, wind-blowing-waterfall-onto-route, and some sub-arctic conditions. If it weren't one of the most amazing lines I've ever climbed, and if I didn't have a dedicated belayer (who put up with some big falls and subsequent epic temper-tantrums) throughout all of it I doubt I would've finished it.

Mind-blowingly good technical face climbing on beautiful waterwashed rock, up the only wandering line of holds to breach this part of the wall. The Money pitch is 24 slab into a V6 extended boulder-problem crux into a 25/26 sustained face finale.

The grade is open to debate. Up until recently I would've sworn it was 28 (based on the effort it took me, and the fact I only EVER linked through the crux once from the ground, and never managed to repeat that effort), but Will Vidler employed short/light/young/strong beta to do the crux of the crux (in isolation) in a totally different manner, which -though not a link- invites the possibility the crux isn't such a shutdown move. Hence: gr27.

Clean repeat. With Tom's running beta-speil, I was pretty psyched to re-ticked this one despite the moistness.

Clean repeat. Good to smash this one out straight up in damp conditions. A particularly great and unique first half.

Wow, quite a "journey" of a route. I'd love to claim the onsight, but I actually pumped out at the 3rd bolt (2m into the climbing) after battling to get a long runner on an over-recessed bolt. Came down to the start, off I went, and Onsight from the 3rd bolt to the top. A kinda "traddy-style", sparsely bolted, wandery adventure route that wouldn't feel out of place as part of a multipitch. Lots of tough sequences between mega-rests, but quite runout. If you don't use double-ropes, you need to back-clean the 2 most rightward bolts, or suffer the worst rope drag in history. The top section is more sustained than I expected, with a funky, gnarly variety of moves up a linked series of cool features.

A rather aesthetic intricate slab, though not hard at the grade. Pleasant finger-jugging with a few big moves all the way to the anchor. A great cure to a hangover, right Will Vidler ?

A 1-sequence crux at the grade, surrounded by oodles of very old-school wandery gr19 slabbing. Lots of technical trickery, but nothing particularly hard. Despite being a bit "un-trafficked", it was actually quite enjoyable. In the 35 degree heat though, the monster pitch felt like a marathon of hard work, and thereby masochistically pleasurable. Totally worthy, if you don't mind a few bits of gear and some old-school runouts.

EOD Training lap repeat attempt. Not clean today, as I struggled to link the start boulder in the epic humid slime. The rest of the route was a titanic spooge-fest battle, but some worthy linkage considering. Really cool.

2nd shot today. On the Send it went surprisingly easily, which is rad considering how hideous I felt on the 1st lap (as a warmup). Even radder to have managed yet another Team Send with Tom Collins . Psyched to have managed the trilogy of steep routes at this grade ( TWoAF, Rolling Thunder, Realised Ultimate Reality ) in successive weeks.

Clean repeat. Felt bloody hard at the end of the day, and I had to crank proper hard to stay on. Short, but damned sweet.

3rd shot. Considering how hard this all felt on the first 2 shots, it went down weirdly easily on the 3rd lap. Very steep in the same vein as reality dysfunction, but with a greater variety of moves in the second half, which makes it more of a climbers climb. The pounce to the horn is exciting.

Repeat repeat. EOD lap for a laugh. Still quite fun and varied.

3rd shot today, 6th lap total. After taking a rather hideous upside-down, leg-behind-the-rope fall on my first lap, I very nearly bailed. But on my final lap of the day I scrapped and thrutched my way to victory. Glad to get this anti-style route done and dusted. Essentially, a series of intimidating steep boulder-problems separate by fairly good rests.

Another repeat, this time with Roberto... A speed-lap on Second to beat the approaching stormfront. Dreamy.

After Jason McCarthy 's mega onsight of this, I was hoping I could flash it... nope: bungled the moves to gain the lip, and it was all over. A very weird start leads to a long pumper on generally good holds. Quite the long and varied adventure. With some reinforcement of the key flake in the roof, this could be almost classic.

To the 1st anchors only. Quite tough in the crazy heat/humidity, with a consistently blank crux in an old-school slabby slab style.

Clean repeat, srconding Neil to escape the crag at the end of the day. We topped the route and walked off

Neil gave me the boulder-problem crux beta and it was mark an execute all the way. Very onsightable with our chalk on it, but might be worth waiting until I rebolt the deathiest death block start in the next few weeks (might even be classiquè then!). Steep face climbing on finger jugs, beautiful water polished rock, and intimidating exposure.

A 2nd shot re-tick today (I'd ticked it many years ago with some effort), went easier today, but the first half is still bloody desperate bouldering. I like this (except for the ledge before the end ).

No beta flash (draws were up)... kind of a dawdle until the very end. Not great, but its a warmup.

My favourite of this wall, mostly cause its a bit more sustained. The new direct start is worthwhile, and the main crux is fun thinness.

P1 only. 2nd shot. With some chalk on it (now), and full committment to the opening boulder, this is very onsightable for mere mortals. The start looks nails, but totally isn't, and is VERY VERY rad! The rest of the route is the old-skool classic its rep would have you believed. The acrobatic juggy steep bit up high is sooooo tasty.

Bwah, quite sustained and bloody hard for the grade. Techy and tenuous and very long. A weird line, but a worthy one. Not sure about the new bolts near the start

Not the most inspiring rock, but when its this steep, juggy and thuggy at such a tame grade, who can complain.

An aesthetic and appealing line. Fun.

My other favourite route of the wall. A total freaking sandbag (prolly 20ish at least) but great climbing.

A few tricky moves. The rock on this wall is really good for blueys easy routes.

One hard crimp and lots of easy pleasantness.

An ordinary lower half but getting better up high. A lunchy finale.

Pretty good. An easy interesting start with a cool facy section up high.