Ascents in Blue Mountains as various tick types by Nick Roach

The climbing is nice. Some problems to solve and not too heinous. I think it's 26 though, and not too hard at that

People will say it wasn't a real flash, but it was to me

Second draw was clipped. A good climb. The bottom part wasn't as hard as I'd always assumed it was. I was in agony getting myself to the top though

This is a really great route. Especially the middle two pitches

Skipped boulder problem and did Messiah exit

A complex ascent. After several aborted attempts I rope soloed to the carrot under the roof (3.5 pitches). When I entered the roof, two pins blew and I fell and hit the face, injuring my knee. After camping on the ground I bailed. I then had a full-blown nervous breakdown for about a month with my gear still hanging at the belay and a rope fixed to the ground. Anton offered to help me finish the climb, and he led the roof. I led P5, then Anton led P6.

A good sustained climb, protected just the right amount

No harder than the other 25s I think, but noticably sparsely protected

Maybe I did this before the cheater's way, but I did it properly this time

Good:

• The self belay system and process worked well (although I didn't fall)

• I wore my Yosemite socks

• Day for it

Bad:

• So many thin flakes!

• Haunted by remembered derision from my ex; this was the last climb we did together

• Elbow and shoulder hurt a lot while jugging

Ugly:

• Clipping through my cache loop ➰ in the middle of the 19 crux. I got a bit flustered

I went left a bit in the middle, which might have been a McDougal. Maybe one day I'll try to go direct

Harder than I expected and the huge runout to the anchor scared me a bit

Thanks to Cato's beta

Didn't find the walk in track at the top and did some bush bashing and an extra rap to get in (needed to walk further north along the well-maintained walking track after coming down from the parking spot). After that was over with, it was a nice climbing experience. Mostly good gear. The crack is pretty vegetated and dirty though.

I seconded this once about two years ago and had to try pretty hard. I wanted to see how it would feel after climbing cracks in the US. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it felt like jugs

2 laps

Did an interesting whip and flip from the anchor on my first go today. Sent second go

The trad pitch that emerged from the Hotel Cal traverse was pretty cool. Felt significantly easier than 22. The last pitch didn't have much gear but had plenty of thin flaky holds. It was a good thing Brave Dave led that one

It was suggested that I might flash this route. It took 8 goes

The first ascent. Dave led P1 and I think P2 as well. I led P3 for the last time with death blocks still in place. I put in some screws to be safer. Dave drilled a screw bolt ladder up to the roof, then we camped on the ground in hammocks. Next morning I started on the roof and was overjoyed when I weighted the first pin and it held me. I put in two more, then very tricky clean aid before it became easier. It was completely outrageous going through that roof, and I was so happy to get through after dreaming about it for years. Dave lowered out our bag and I hauled it up. He cleaned the roof while I blissed out to some drum n bass from my phone. Dave bravely led P5 when it was not at all clear how it should be done or if gear was available. He got through the no-gear section using pins and a couple of screws. He drilled one screw while sitting on a 3mm knifeblade that was only about 20mm into the crack. It was so janky. It was slowly folding while he worked! When he reached the face he had too much drag to be able to climb free. He put a skyhook on a jug, pulled up some armfuls of rope and climbed the rest of the pitch with a huge loop of slack! I seconded half of that pitch, then jugged from the crux. It was up to me to climb P6 but I was super tired. Also it was pretty hot and the holds were very slippery. I climbed pretty slowly, going in hard to gear to rest. Some of that gear was pretty bad. It was a terrifying ordeal. Dave jugged to the belay and I hauled the bag and we shuttled the gear to the cave, both struggling to absorb that at last we'd climbed the whole route.

This would be such a great route if someone were to rearrange the bolts a bit

s'aight

This is such a great route. It was a pleasure to climb it. So much fun! Whose draw did I take from the start?

I had fun on this route. Underrated

Not as hard as Smoked Mussels, for me at least. The job's only half done until Cato Todd gets it too

Holy fuck that was hard. To me it had a similar difficulty to EIEIO. Harder than all the 27s at Sharon Stone