Ascents as various tick types as sport by Paul Frothy Thomson

Stop-start, but cool cruxes! An excellent second warmup.

As good as advertised. Short'n'sweet, with really interesting technical climbing. Fairly sustained at the grade. I bet that upper crux surprises a few people.

Can't claim the onsight, cause I'd done the start on Bee's Knees

The crux is very much the gnarly start boulder. The upper bit through the roof is fun, and not too hard, but the bolting is kinda ledge-fall-y. Not as choss as it looks, either.

For some reason I decided the obvious hold out left at the top was off-route (on the line next to this), and ignored it. Since when did I contrive climbing? 2nd shot. A really great route with a lot of climbing despite being short. The top boulder is rad!

Sweet. This was my goal for this trip, and got it done! With not a drop of chalk on it, it was a tricky, sequency number, but totally suited my style of climbing. Even in the full sun, it was fun!

Nothing physically harder than grade 23, but lots of technique and committment called for. I climbed the arete direct all the way to the top. Almost a classic (but for the poxy start, and the overall shortness).

2nd shot. Best line I climbed at this crag!

My onsight ended at the last bolt, tickling the good fingerlock. With no chalk on this, I felt like I battled hard and improvised well, only to be pipped at the post. But it wasn't for lack of trying, so that's okay

Great rock, super techy moves, and an obvious feature to climb. We belayed from ground level, and had no problems with rope drag or length of fall.

FFA. 2nd shot. Thanks Viona for letting me free this awesome face route!

Cruisy slabbing to a good stance at the 2nd last bolt, then its all on to the finish, with very technical climbing following a weird feature up-and-right -footwork was key!

Great fun, and excellent vision from Viona!

13 in the new guide. Awesome climb for the grade, as the book says: "Classic slab moves". - No chalk and someone elses climbing boots.

Great fun. Tricky start to the first bolt, after that it's pretty straightforward. Fell on the first bolt on my first attempt, clean after that, and cruised it second shot. Other than the trad climbs here, this was the pick of the bunch in my opinion. - No chalk and someone elses climbing boots.

Quite good. 17 is more on the money (the new guide says 18... Maybe for 1 move). Sustained at 17, but a nice short route. - No chalk and someone elses climbing boots.

Good fun. Reasonably sustained for the grade. I'm really struggling with identifying the good footers here. - No chalk and someone elses climbing boots.

Completely unremarkable. Warm up, I guess. - No chalk and someone elses climbing boots.

Awesome arete climbing. Everything you could want in a harder grade arete, but contained within 20m of grade 17 climbing (and a weird finish). Definately worth the effort of roping up! - No chalk and someone elses climbing boots.

Takes less time to climb than it does to put your shoes on to climb it, but all of moves are worthwhile, especially for the grade. Nice low-grade arete climbing. A bit exciting getting to the 1st bolt if you do the direct start up the arete.

2nd shot. Possibly the most sandbagged 22 I've been on in Aus. Solid/hard 23 for sure. The hardest I pulled all day by about 2 grades. Punchy, thin, sharp climbing on less than perfect rock (for the area). Don't believe the crap in the guidebook about this being one of the best at its grade. Even ignoring the sandbag its pretty average.

2nd shot. Blew the Onsight with an unfortunate foot slip while questing around at the crux... damn, I suck. Cruised it (and loved it) 2nd shot. Brilliant steep stemming on perfect rock, with a profound and pumpy crux.

2nd shot. Utterly spanked by the boulder problem start to the 2nd bolt on the onsight. Reminds me of a sloper version of War and Peace in the Blueys. Definite crux at the start to a very hard clip on a giant sloper, then big moves between (mostly) big slopers to the top, with a fair bit of climbing for a short route. Better than I expected, and quite pumpy.

Fun. A crimpy bouldery start for 4 bolts leads to easier, pumpy slopers to the top. Fun climbing but over quickly.

Not quite an Onsight. I fell at the first bolt (admittedly, the crux), lowered off and ticked it 2nd shot placing the draws. I was quite pumped and had to climb past the anchors to clip them below me off better holds. Bouldery to the 2nd bolt, then briefly but intensely up to the anchors with no "good" holds to be found. This one got me flash-pumped quickly.

Clean repeat. Wow, I forgot what a wild showstopper the finale (through the roof direct) is. Earns the grade for this one sequence, but its a good one.

Varied and interesting. Technical slab of varying degrees of slabiness and spaced bolting for the most part, with a final committing sequence through the roof on slopers right at the top. Quite good. Some tough and memorable moves on the slab, but the roof is the showstopper.

Clean repeat. Just pleasant, flowing slabbing the whole way. Dreamy!

By FAR the best climb I did at Hillwood, despite being the easiest. Very sustained slabbing with pretty much every move to the grade, and all moves quite different and memorable. The strange location and angles of holds keeps you thinking the whole way, and the tricky finale through a slight bulge adds the sting in the tale to make it awesome.

Sharp little crimps, but everything is just so much more positive than you expect. A fun little ramble.

I fell off the start boulder a couple of times till I found the holds. A very cool finale.

Repeat. Weird, funky, and tough.

First climb on Basalt! Weird climbing up a wall of scales. So many sneaky sidepulls and weird feet. Hard move at the start and the finish, but genuonely enjoyable techy thinness all around.

Onsight solo. Okay.

Onsight solo. Pleasant easy climbing.

Onsight solo. Short but enjoyable. Topped out.

Onsight solo. Enjoyable middle section.

Onsight solo. Cant complain. Fun final moves.

Good climbing. Thin and technical. My 2nd fav climb on this wall.

My favourite route on this wall. Great moves involving body position and footwork.

Onsight solo. Quite good. The shouldery sloper moves around the blob were exciting without a rope.

With Isaac. Pitch 1 (21) & Pitch 2 (23) only, Onsight both pitches. So much better (and outrageous) than it looks from the ground. P1 starts up a pleasant corner, but soon becomes reminiscent of The Spartan at Piddo (awkwardly underclinging a steep block as you traverse forever delicately, toeing the lip of an undercut). Rad exposure! P2 is an extremely technical face with a powerful steep start, and sustained strange moves above. Didnt do P3 as it looked pretty average.

Pumpy, but on pretty good holds, nice rock, and with only a brief cruxy section. Probably more 22 than 23. No classic route, but worth a star (and would be super-popular in the Blueys).

A great, technical, thin and sustained line. A bit mossy due to lack of traffic (and I was scrubbing holds and footers on lead before entering the insecure top crux), bit even some greenery cant rob this of classic status. Psyched for the true (unchalked, unworn) onsight.

Grrr, fell off a Grade 20 move at the 2nd bolt (despite being on Onsight, my belayer started spouting beta, which -as it turned out- was totally wrong). Came back to the ground without working the move, and then onsighted to the top (which encompassed all the hard climbing). Some good climbing with a sustained upper half, but due to the aspect this has a grotty feel to it, and will probably attract moss.

Fell off at the 2nd bolt (which IS the 1st crux) when I didn't find the good part of the crux sloper. Lowered back to the ground without trying the move again, and went straight up to the top, flashing most of the climb (and the upper crux). Slopey and crimpy lower section, then intriguing arete and steep face upper-section. Enjoyable.

Not too bad for an easy climb. 3 varied and tricky sections that might stump the average sport climber. Quite clean.

2nd shot. Quite sustained and with a tough crux. I got shut down by the mid-height crux until I worked out a good sequence, and cruised the route fluidly on the second shot. There are a LOT of moves on this that you could fall of, including the tricky section above the crux. Good hard-ish face climbing.

The climbing is awesome, sustained and intense... the rock quality is average (though I didnt break off anything). Straightforward moves, just intense and without any reprieve to chill and breathe. Happy with the flash. Steep crimping with big moves and tricky footers.

A long adventure. Blew the onsight ONE move from sticking the technical bridging crux (with a foot-slip off a tic-tac I was bridging off) at the 3rd bolt. Lowered back to the ground, untied, retied and went up, onsighting the top 28m of this climb (including the upper 2 cruxes, both about gr23). Varied climbing up a complex line. With this adventure its not over until its over (you could easily blow the gr21 arete slapping final moves to gain the anchor). The crag classic for the JOURNEY it presents.

2 Top Rope Laps (it's still a Project so there was no point leading it). First lap wasn't clean, due to trying to find the crucial "good" part of the arete slapping section. Very short, and briefly powerful, but interesting arete-slapping and fridge-hugging, heel-hooking around the left-arete, and then again around some sloper-sidepulls to the right. Rad. Will be great when it's finished.

Repeat. Clean Placing draws today. Felt harder than I remember it, but the water streak might have contributed to that. Could be 23? Rad technical stemming and beautiful white quartzite.

Yep, I'm going to give a route at THIS crag classic (and a Gerry Narkowicz new route as well!!!). Amazing white quartzite patina up a fairly blank box-groove system. Lots of technical bridging and stemming, with sustained climbing the whole way. The "classic" status is awarded on the proviso of the FA that he'll do some more "fine-tune" scrubbing on the upper 1/3rd to bring it to perfection.

One very hard sequence (probably utterly nails if you're short) surrounded by easier, okay climbing. Not a great route, by the groove feature looks intriguing.

Aesthetically unappealing, and the rock is rather average, but the climbing is quite good. Consistently thin and balancy. It comes together nicely for some technical trickery.