Ascents as Clean as sport by Paul Frothy Thomson

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. 2 Laps for training. Damn I love this thing

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Clean repeat. My favourite of the easy routes. Climbed this after up-climbing and down-climbing La Nina for a ~60m easy epic.

Clean repeat. Downclimbed clean for some extra pump.

Clean repeat. Cruisy and oozy.

Clean repeat. Good for what it is.

Clean repeat. Giving The Mullet himself the guided tour of the Blueys.

Still a great romp at the grade.

Repeat.

Sooooooo good! Gotto be one of the best, right? From the 3rd bolt up, this is all pure class.

Clean repeat. Cruised it this time. Great warm up.

Clean repeat. Dreamy for a sport climb.

Clean repeat. It'd been quite a few months since I last did this, and I almost fell off today!

One the best here, for sure. Just bloody great pocket-oozing up the crux finale, followed by a burly, engaging crux. Rock is just unerringly cool! I did this with a "gentleman's sit" at a no-hands rest while it was still a project.

Clean repeat. Been a long time since I've been on this one, and I was pretty happy just to punch it straight out, given the rather bouldery start (post hold-breakage). Quite good!

Repeat. Basically, 3 mantles, to a no-hands rest, followed by an utterly brutal boulder problem that I'm calling 24. Not a good warmup!

Clean repeat. Fun fun fun!

Clean Repeat. Draw retrieval lap. Still good steep fun.

Seconding Simmo to get to the upper ledge.

Clean repeat. Even running with water, this thing is bloody brilliant. So many cool features.

Clean Repeat. Just the first ~30m (to the lower anchors) as a warmup. Even better than I remember! Damn, this has to be one of the best 3 23's in the Blueys! You know its good, when it's so cold I can't feel my fingers, but I'm still frothing the climb!

Clean Repeat. One of my favourite 25's in the Blueys. Good training.

Clean repeat. Great warmup as always. OMG, the conditions were amazing!

Backlogging (lost ticks on TheCrag... again). Clean repeat. Seconding Matt on both pitches. Amazing climbing, but bloody hard at the grade!

Seconding Michael and Will! A few hard moves, but great climbing and pleasant rock.