Ascents as Red point as sport by Paul Frothy Thomson

Clean repeat. Sweet! It's been a decade since I was last on this (when I ticked it) and it was rad to get on it today and just do it straight up, placing draws, without too much difficulty.

One of the best technical, sustained, and consistently clean face climbs in NSW.

FA. A "Lowers Mountains Classic" (with all the caveats that statement encompasses).

A climb of many components, but the technical finale is definitely a show stopper. No boring bits, that's for sure.

First Ascent. Climbed ground-up before it was cleaned/brushed, and it felt like gr21... But after a good session to clean it, it's settled at 18.

An interesting short slab, on mostly good rock, marred only by its escapability.

Great! Not too hard at the grade, but bloody awesome. The low crux is just fun, but everything above it is mega at about gr23. Great rock, and pretty sustained. Might be my favourite route here.

2nd shot. I only carried 2 draws through the crux, so climbed the top 20m clipping only 2 bolts.

A funky (but incongruous) start crux leads to a magnificient gr21ish headwall up cool grooves and scoops.

Coukd be hard at the grade. Hilarious roof jugging, to gnarly lip-turn traversing. Loooong.

3rd shot over 2 visits, placing draws. Other than the nails direct start, this is about gr22ish to the roof boulder. The roof boulder itself is gnarly sequence, with a pumpy, committing finish.

Fell off trying to get the 2nd draw on (the crux of the route!). A cool, but gnarly opening boulder, then pleasant easy bridging.

The start was running with water, and I slipped off it. Then, from the ground to the top. I liked the runout headwall, but not much else about this route.

A nails sequence at the roof-turn. At this stage of tiredness, im not even sure why I'm roping up a anymore.

One fall on the nails boulder problem (much harder than the posted grade) off the first ledge. Otherwise, onsight.

Radical steepness via features and kinda thrutchy climbing. Has an old-school vibe.

Fell off the last move of the opening boulder on the onsight (with no chalk on the sneaky sneaky holds, and in the full summer sun, I ended up in no man's land trying to rock over an invisible footer on no holds). Came down, and sent 2nd shot, onsighting from the 3rd bolt up.

Basically a gr24 thin and bouldery start into gr20 climbing with enjoyable, cruisy moves.

Could use more cleaning.

First ascent of the "reinstated" version. Tonnes of fun, and great rock the whole way. technical, airy, and unlikely. The faff of the traverse-y start is worth it when the climbing is this good.

Fell off the gnarly start a few times before I sussed it (if you told me it was gr25, I wouldn't argue) then punched out the route. Proper classic old school climbing on amazing rock. Super improbable techo moves.

Unfortunately, the rebolt done on this is worse than just climbing on the original carrots (not joking). Bring bolt plates!

FFA. More funky steep stuff. Though the crux is clipping the anchor, it's less "Fist Full of Steel" and more Coolum-esque. Probably the easiest route on the upper ledge.

Clean Repeat. Why doesn't this get done more? It's been an age since I last ticked it, and was a joy to climb straight-up today with no real problems, despite it being completely untrafficked. Rock the entire way was bomber, and even the grey-section was so clean you could eat off it.

Clean Repeat. One of my favourite 23's in the mountains. An excellent 2nd warmup.

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!

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.

FFA. Sweet! Finally got it done despite the proper arctic conditions! Having fallen off the move to match the lip of the roof 5 times, it was an awesome feeling to keep it all together for the send.

A bit sharp, sure, but its a lot of time climbing completely horizontal at a relatively tame grade. And the boulder to gain the lip is all time rad.

FFA. More hilarious steep jugging. After you leave the no-hands rest 5 bolts up, its all campus-y action to the end. Enjoy the mushroom jug!

I'd have given this 24, but the last move to the lip seems proper roof bouldering to me? Let me know if it should be downgraded.

FFA. This ended up taking the better part of two full days of effort to tick, but the moment that we had good conditions, it went down smoooooooooothe.

Short and punchy. This is the sort of steep, juggy, campus-y roof climb where you just giggle like a mad chook the whole way.

Repeat. Great way to access the top of the boulder. Has cleaned up nicely since last time I did it, and is now good insecure fun.

5 days of effort in total to free both pitches. It takes a lot for exposure to scare me, but this route managed it. Super obscure, but stunning.

Wild, gymnastic traversing, with huge falls into space. I got in the habit of climbing this with my grigri pre-set just behind my knot, and my Jumaar ready for rapid deployment.

On one of my laps on P2 I took a really bad fall, to the point I thought I'd broken my foot. I managed the Send on my final real shot of the trip.

The Aid move on P1 probably goes free if you've a bigger standing reach than me. The one on P2 definitely goes free, but it adds at least 3 more grades to the pitch. Feel free to go for the true FFA!

Clean repeat. Awesome to get back on this almost 10 years after I first put it up, and not be dissappointed with the route or my equipping.

Also rather psyched to just punch it out placing draws despite it being obviously untrafficked, cause it's quite hard to read and rather committing. Genuinely good arete climbing, and something quite different to other aretes in this grade range in the Blueys.

First shot placing draws (with no chalk on the route, and some rather wet holds) but since where this branches from River Styx is probably only gr23, it's certainly not a retro-flash

A rad juggy, traverse-y odyssey. If you're going to finish via any other route than River Styx, you might as well keep on trucking left. Much better than Tomb Raider.

The only route on the upper tier. After the haaaaard start, this is great steep red-river slimper pulling with a bit of air below you.

2nd shot, sent the same day I bolted it. For the Send, I skipped the last bolt -something I still do on repeat laps. Really sustained, and you always seem to arrive at the crux way more pumped than you want to be.

4th shot FA in a day. On my 3rd shot I bungled the moves above the crux! Mostly fairly moderate, but the crux is hard, morpho, knee-destroying heel-hooking.

Lots of climbing, and much pump -I almost fell off the top of Summer of Rain. Somewhat faffy given the traverse, but the climbing is an awesome journey at the grade.

4 days of effort, but proper chuffed with the result. 3 distinct cruxes, but no true rest inbetween. I fell off the final move to the anchors 3 times on link. Slab style, though on a slightly steep wall, makes "rockovers" a dynamic affair.

First shot today (though I blew my onsight a few years ago). Great rock for the bottom half up a ruddy red steepish face, and engaging runout arete climbing at the top. Bolts up high are very misleading.

1st redpoint burn today, 5th shot total. I was adament that this was gr27 up until the Send, which was surprisingly uneventful -though given my aching finger joints and muscles a day later, I must've been trying pretty hard.

Three boulder problems separated by good rests, with the middle one being the hardest and most radical.

Retro-flash. Not too hard at the grade, but great climbing and mostly good rock. Quite technical.

Clean repeat as a giant pitch for an EOD warm-down. Was kinda like onsighting with no chalk on the route, its length rendering individual moves unmemorable, and the time since I last lapped it.

Definitely only 24 -even as a giant 60m pitch- and generally pretty chilled slab/face climbing with lots of stances, and a few exciting (but safe) runouts. Why does no one climb this?

Clean repeat. Despite proper alpine weather, this made a surprisingly good warmup due to the copious rests (I found 6) no-handers. As this route/crag hadn't seen any traffic in quite a while, it was pleasant to climb this with surprisingly minimal chalk on it. Fun thugging.

Clean repeat. Very traddy steepish stemming, with a short crux that seems hard on the "onsight" but is actually pretty easy at the grade.

Clean Repeat. A fairly sustained thin middle section, though not too hard at the grade. The first third of this is rather ugly.

Clean repeat (this time placing draws). I haven't been back on this since I ticked it years ago, and fortunately it's as good as I remember. Moderate slabbing, to a rather sustained finale with quite terrible feet.

Clean repeat, this time placing draws. Smashed this out straight-up, but I genuinely do not like this pitch. Seriously, if going for the Caveat Emptor headwall, start up Sanction of the Victim, please!

Clean repeat, this time placing draws! Great to retro-flash this 4 years after I was last on it, especially with no chalk on the headwall! The slabby start is okay, but damn the steep, intimidating arete is intense pleasure.

Clean repeat, this time placing draws. The entire extension to this is excellent, sustained, technical steep climbing, with an engaging finale. More "rests" than Sanction of the Victim, but more complex cruxes.