Ascents climbed between 2013-01-01 and 2013-12-31 as various tick types by o_g

Warm up. Always feels a bit tricky.

Intense from bolt 3 to 5. Im not sure how I didnt fall off. Brutal crux sequence on sidepulls with poor feet moving right to and past bolt 4.

Well I actually had a rest at the crux, but ive redpointed this sucker before, so just putting the tick on 'the record'.

Warm up, and testing of tweaked rh lumbrical. Workable with buddy taping. Note to self, if doing maximum 2 finger hangs, taking no rest between front 2 and back 2 to save time is not a winning strategy.

Fair bit of swell meant a bit of wind blown spray kept things a bit damp on an otherwise low spooge day. Stick clipped bolt 2, climbed up then tried to put a new draw on to un-backclip, but back-clipped again. Tried again, back clipped again. Got mega pumped and almost fell off. Held it together. This route is pretty run out

Epic granite journey. Ten metres of easy corner to get to the first bolt, then follow the steel and holds untill the holds dissapear into slabville. We rapped of the 2 hanger belay, to the belay on AB, then rapped again.

The start looks juggy. Its not! Ambush crux. Well played granite, well played.

Felt a bit gritty in spots. Looks like a hold has broken off too.

Sweet delicate sharp arete at the top. Had to yo yo up and down the crux before finding something that would work.

Always a pleasure. No rouge waves today, but Roger P did knock a large pile of choss in my direction which kept things interesting.

Back at the Paradiso! Weather looked marginal, and there was much spooge on arrival at 2pm. Conditions were fair from 4 to 7. Shock Wave felt hard today. No chalk or tick marks! How the hell are you supposed to climb when the holds are hard to find?

Had to try something I was capable of getting up clean. Strenuous anchor clip.

Awesome. Delivers exactly what it promises when you look at it.

Excellent sustained climbing. Almost came off the top, when I went a bit high before moving right. Just able to reverse and recomsider. Classy Freddie Blassie.

Classic may be a slight stretch, but I had a blast on this. Probably the route I have enjoyed most on this trip. Takes a fingery slabby wall, then climbs a 20m long single tufa system that gets fatter the higher you go. I only just managed to catch its tail, and layback up it to a rest, then had moments of indecision on the steep fingery crux on its left wall, before hurling myself onto its back in a moment of desperation, and somehow sticking on then riding the annaconda to the chain

Some poxy rock down low, and the bolts are starting to look pretty rusty. Nice climbing in the tufas in the top half.

Felt mega pumped on this.

We popped in for some easier angled climbing after the morning at sikati. Lasted one route for me. Nice climb.

Great climbing, almost a rare mega classic vote from me. No real hard moves, and good rests are available, it will come down to whether you have the stamina for the final section of laybacking and sidepulling up the tufas.

Lolita was a stunning temptress, however she has enjoyed a greattime with many suitors, and is starting to show her age. Still amazin. I had to take several rests, and wasnt sure if I had the stamina for a second round. Luckily, I did.

This extension is excellent, with technical steep slabbing on an immaculate rounded arete a long way above the ground. An 80m rope will get you back to the ground. Borderline classic, and feels technically a grade or two easier than the other 6c's at the crag.

Nice thuggy line, requiring some grunting and snorting.

The crux at 3/4 height felt nails! Thought I was off.

Bit annoying that this shares the same finish and chain as Drama. I imagine there would be plenty of that in Sept/Oct when the crag is packed and there are always climbers on both routes.

This route looks rubbish (it starts looking better when it gets in the shade!), but actually climbs really well. Plus you have to use a mono! Sweet.

Good technical face, with a physical blocky roof.

Strange diaganal line, has some nice climbing. Tricky at the end mounting the diving board block.

Had to use the full bag of tricks to tick this, including taping my thigh to make a knee bar comfortable, and skipping 3 clips. Third shot today. Pretty sore after contorting myself into the big hole to try to recover. Phhhhhew.

Felt like a bit of a squeeze job, and also felt hard for the grade to me. Better than a poke in the eye.

This looked the best of the available routes. Not bad, bit sharp on the tips in spots.

With Eric. With an 80m rope we did this in 4 pitches (eric p1-3, and p6-7). Taking the 8am ferry, and getting dropped at the base, we topped out at 11.30. The walk off took longer than the climb. About half the climbing on the route is great, which is not bad for such a lomg route. If your climbing in the 6's, it would be testing. If your climbing in the 7's, its a great actibe rest day, as you get to see the island of Telendos.

Draw retreival mission after yesterdays rain. Some say that I may have grabbed the chain and that as such this was not a valid ascent. My sporting hero Lance Armstrong once said "I'll say to the people who don't believe, the cynics and the sceptics: I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles."u

Tried to fit some climbing in before it rained. Pretty atmospheric with strong wind and thunder. The climb? So, so.

The grey rock in the top half was super wet today. Needed the breeze!

Didnt look like much from the ground, but interesting and super technical steep slab.

Starting to get a bit worn, but classicville up the sequency tufa blobs.

Not bad. Like a lot of the routes on this wall, you need to ooze and udge your way through a few sections.

Hard to get to enthused about this route. Easy start, hard crux, easy finish.

Warm down gold. The rock on this route is like delicious chocolate ice cream with penut chunks mixed through it. Really, thats not a metaphor for how sweet the climbing is, thats what it looks like!.

Nothing particularly memorable. Upgraded to 6a+ in the 2010 guide, the crux still feels harder.

The top half is great, reachy and bridgy. The initial easy slab detracts.

While still reeling from the news last night that the 2.30 gyros shop is closing today and the family is moving to Melbourne, I managed to hold it together to get the tick. Sweet. Top felt super solid, but I managed to again fall of the easy middle section by getting lost.

Liked it, liked everything about it. Well, I didnt like that it spat me off near the top as I thied to follow the masses of chalk and traverse to the left sidr of the final arete, but I cant blame the route for that. Actually I couldnt work out how to do that move, so just cranked straight the right side of the arere via bridging and small pockets. The bolts make sense with this sequence. Physical and pumpy gold. Get on it.

Tidy.

Improved with height.

Pretty sustained and long. No lower off! Had to remember how to go in hard and thread through the rings. Effort!

Four metres of quality climbing at the top. The remaider failed to impress.

While others focused on the iconic tufa routes in the centre of the crag, I focused instead on the techy bridgy slabby goodness on the right. This felt tough for the grade.

Quality climbing, with a definate crux leaving the low tufa blobs and getting established on the black streak. This route gets two thumbs up.

A bit dirty, and uneven in quality.

Really had to think through the sequency crux at 3/4 height.

Has an outstanding 15?m section on white marble like stone. Other people doing this route seemed to be belaying from the ground, not the top of the access ramp.

Ordinary start, but really liked the top.

First half is great, then it decomposes into an easy slab.

This extension is great, big moves between positive holds. Long extention draws help with rope drag.

Nice to clean up an old dog. Borderline classic. Still felt hard for the grade to me, but then I probably missed 10 obvious no hand rests (obvious to people with knee bar competence).

Doesnt look too inspiring from the ground, but is the best of the long slabby routes on Spartan Wall that ive done so far.

After belaying Ben's record setting accent, on which he managed to drop the rope while trying to clip the chains an amazing 8 times and still tick, I had to have a razz. Short, steep, and plastered in chalk. Given I was worried about hitting the left wall of the cave if I blew a clip, I thought it only fair to bridge off it. My groin now feels rooted, and not in the way I would like it to be.

Warm up. I quite enjoyed this.

Jezus. Thought id continue up this for the warm up. Felt absolutly nails hard, thought I was off three times. Ended up wedged in a prickly trench trying to recover before fighting to the chains drencehed in sweat. Possibly not the ideal warm up. Although I cant deny I was warm after it.