Ascents as various tick types by Alex Mougenot

Alex Turnbull climbed this in the rain to confirm that it is, in fact, slippery when wet. Nice to finally lead another one of my old TR projects!

Thought this was sport, so used my safety to sling the drill hole.

Quite good climbing, and the gear is better than the guide makes out although definitely a route to place as much gear as possible - and be smart about your placements - as the rock is quite suspect. I finished up the drill hole and mantled out - note the ledge fall below if you don't jump out while falling.

Fantastic! Fun climbing in a nice position. Fun traversing in higher, though climbing the crack without the wasps there would be rad in terms of position!

Was going to climb some other stuff but tweaked my neck bouldering! Old man vibes hahaha. Still a great morning out with great people.

How have I never led this. Stellar climb. Pleasantly surprised to find out this goes the whole way to the top! Superb.

Nice slabbing as always at Tinny, even if most the routes do kind of blend into one another in memory haha!

Pretty chossy, even for KP! Get rid of that one-star haha

Cool. Used a few hand stacks.

Nice jams!

Poor objective climbing on poor rock, though the INCREDIBLE exposure and position more than make up for this! The most unique route I've been on, and a highly valuable experience!

Lucked out with 5 days of no rain out there, though we awoke at 4:30am on Day 3 (our climbing day) to thick mist which made it harder to find the proper blade, ending up starting up the cliff just past the blade. After scrambling up 120m+ of scrub we realised this, abseiled back down into the gully off the R side of Blade Ridge, and fortunately found a way to mount the ridge from here.

At first climbing I was a bit out of sorts, not having done much of this style climbing for a long time, but after a few pitches I was back and firing to go. Battling drag is key on this for speed - the answer to this is usually running it out with the many aretes and corners to navigate. Man the ridge climbing is incredible! We reached the top of Blade Ridge at 6pm, and made the decision to not continue up the NW Face through the night and figure out the descent at night. Rapped and traversed into the left gully and climbed out back to camp.

Not without loose rock and poor gear, but heavy on exposure and position. Although the NW Face has a greater balance of good climbing movement, good rock, gear, and exposure - in my opinion the pure uniqueness of Blade Ridge trumps this.

After having done the Blade the day previously, Ryan and I were going to walk out. However, it was a blue bird day and the disappointment in not being able to climb the NW Face the day was still fresh in our minds. Mid-packing up at around 9am we decided to drag the trip out and climb the NW Face. Our excitement and satisfaction in the epic climbing of the day before propelled us up the NW Face which does not disappoint. Great position, the remoteness, decent climbing in certain sections, and good rock (apart from the roof traverse) makes this a classic!

What a trip blessed with amazing company, a feeling of being in another world, remoteness, uncannily bluebird weather, and out there climbing. Very thankful.

The moves up the blank arete were ace.

Such a great route! Great work Russ & Cris - super impressed and can't wait to take many a friend on this route

First foray into roped solo multipitching. Practice at KP helped massively to iron out the kinks but took some key lessons from this experience. Ended up taking 4 hours bottom to top, and 1.5 hours rapping back down. Used double ropes, climbing on one, trailing the other, then top-rope soloing on both ropes to clean the pitches.

All up, including TR solo seconding and a few Wayne's World pitches - A 720m day of climbing! Felt weird to do so much climbing by myself, but really enjoyable all the same.

I really rate this line! So good. Finger felt a bit tweaky on hold hold, but I'm good to start climbing again. Rehab milestone!

Mooooves the whole way.

Cheers for the rebolt. Really enjoyable climbing that isn't straightforward, though a bit reachy at the end.

Incredible climbing reminiscent of Watchtower Crack. Don't be intimidated by the offwidth.

Was sick watching Kyle's inspiring lead of Verglas.

Great climb! Fun wandery climbing. Bit spicy at the grade, so bring your head game and small wires if you're leading around the 19 mark or lower. Was great to see Kyle flash Androcles in fine style too, in the heat!

Such a bloody sick line. Could climb this forever! Good intro to low-key thrutching I reckon! Probably was 15 back in the day when this grunty stuff was the norm.

Always great.

This is a weird one. So short, but always worth it! Such solid fist jams up high

Simulclimbed after bailing off the major crackline to the left - chossiest rock on Tibro! But me a rap-in job.

Simuling this was fun! Yarded off every bolt on second to keep up with Kyle hahaha.

Rapped into the 2nd pitch belay of Watchtower Crack. Leading the traverse pitch was fun. Cool delicate moves up the start of the corner. Made the belay a few metres too high, but was comfy enough - comfier than last time on the hanging marginal belay below the proper stance haha!

What an adventure classic!!!! Cruisy yet engaging the whole way samples of hands, fists, offwidths and chimneyjng along the way, with a technical crux to make things interesting! Enjoyed every moment of the line! Highly recommend this to anyone who likes crack climbing, and my only advice is that stacking hands in the wide sections takes away alot of the thrutch!

Great easy adventure. A good beginner multi addition alongside Zeitgeist, Line of Credit, and Troposphere. I felt that the top pitches had too many bolts, skipping most of them, though this is good for people just getting into it

As grand a day-venture as you can have in SEQ! More like 370m as rather than the 300m description. Incredible slab climbing on the whole route, apart from the crux section up a rotten corner with uninspiring gear. Proud of pushing through the mental battles on this one.

There is some awesome multi pitch slab potential to the left of this route which will be just stellar climbing. An awesome contender for ground-up mixed routes I reckon.

3 hours hike-in, 5hr20 on the route, 2.5hr hike-out.

So me and Ryan dropped my green cam down this ... hence the top-rope ascent from having to get lowered down to retrieve it! A great unexpected mini-epic. PS - the chimneying on this is some of the most varied and interesting mid-size chimneying I've done. So good! Everyone get on it!

17 start. The top is seriously such a climb for grade 14! Gets better every time.

Great fun! Bit of bushbashing, and some nice sections of climbing. No memorable moves or sections, apart from the slab on the 6th pitch, but a great quality adventure nonetheless! Ryan did P1, P4-5, P8. I did P2-3, 6-7

A lot of the rock on the South Face seems to have eroded with an incut in them, as opposed to the north faces and Desperation Wall being sloper - maybe the tops of the columns lie in the south, and the bottoms in the north?

Felt harder than 17 in relation to Wading Ape and Tintogale. I would put it at 18/19? Super fun regardless. Cool handless, one-legged squat rockover up high!!!

The first of our 24-hour quest.

Beaaautiful!

Quick lap. So nice! A weird swarm of native bees were hanging around the 2nd last bolt hahaha. There were hundreds of them!

This is such a mad adventure!!! Who wouldn't want to rap 25m down a cave and pull the ropes ... Okay maybe most people wouldn't, but mad props to those who do, especially the first ascentionists. You want to be decently versed in chimneying before you pull the ropes. Linked this directly into Hell's Angels (without touching the ground) to make it the longest vertical route at Frog. Ryan called the linkup, "River Styx". Well worth it. Giving this "Classic", just for the pure novelty of it.

What. An. Epic. The short trip report: A combination of mishaps, inexperience, and ill-preparedness led to an 22 hr car-to-car 'outing'. Vertical bush-bashing. Awesome chimneying. Roof chimneys. Runouts. Rusty bolts. Getting benighted on the wall with one head torch. Sleep-walking back down.

Longer version: Liam and I started hiking at 4:30am on Sunday, and took a lot longer to get to the climb than we expected. To start the day off on a good note, when replacing my headtorch batteries, I found that the AAAs I had were mis-manufactured to be a couple millimetres too short. Awesome. Nevertheless, we made it up the ridge, rapped in, traversed under the big roof and scrambled up to start the East Face of East Peak on Mt. Barney. It had been our goal for about a year and a half, and we were excited, more than a little nervous. Little did we know that we would be spending the next 12 hours up on the wall.

The first two pitches went easy, though the shrub/tree belay from the old guide is gone. The 3rd and 4th are a bit tricky to follow, as the tree belays seem to have both gone as well. Liam did really well in pushing his mental game but still staying composed, linking the two pitches and finding an okay-ish semi-hanging belay atop the 4th. It was his 2nd trad multi. Here, we had to make the call. It was 1pm, 5 hours to sunset, and we still have 5 pitches and a bit under 200m to go ... It was either leave gear and rap off, sketchily traverse over to the bolts on The Governor and rap down, or go for the epic. It was an easy choice. The next pitch (p5) had some beautiful slab with good gear, curving back left towards the chimney and p6. What a pitch of chossy class! The classiness far outweighed the choss. "Climb the overhang by any means" totally sells this pitch short. "Badass roof chimneying would be more apt. I don't know of moves like this in Qld. I spent ages on this pitch, just battling fear on the uncertainty about what was to come. In reality, it didn't turn out to be that bad, and the gear isn't terrible, although the moves felt comparable to a grade 20. Linked with p7, and reached the top as the sun was setting. It was then that we realised that Liam had left his headtorch in his bag on the SE Ridge... From then on, the leader got the headtorch, and hauled the seconder, who battled through blind climbing and vertical bushbashing, sometimes aided by their phone light. The new moon didn't help. There were some awesome chimney sections in those upper pitches. One of them was this tight 3-sided chute, which was closed off by matted grass on the air side. Think chimneying up a garbage chute, with one wall that you couldn't use, and filled your chalkbag with grass haha. Oh and it was wet ... We grew to love the vertical bushbashing, too, and perfected our grass-climbing technique.

We topped out at 9:30pm greeted by a frosty wind with numb toes, blood on our hands, grass and dirt in every possible crevice, and big grins on faces. We did it! Our high spirits were definitely aided by the snake lollies we chewed, the sugary goodness washing away thoughts of the oncoming 5-hour descent. Trudging on, we found our way to the ridge without too much trouble. Once the scrambling ended, the weight of the day (and the lack of sleep in the nights before) set in. Delirious with fatigue, w ticked off two more firsts for the trip: falling asleep whilst standing up, and falling asleep whilst walking. We were stumbling over eachother. At one point we found these abandoned cans of soup. The first mouthful was glorious. By the fourth, my tastebuds realised that it tasted like cold vomit. Ah well... we were hungry.

After a few naps, 5 hours of stumbling, a few rolled ankles, and 40% of phone battery (my new torch - the headtorch had long since become useless). It was 2:30am when the tray of Liam's ute embraced our spent bodies. We were too far gone to notice the 1.5°C night. YEAHPA!

PS - Liam cried.

Also, this weekend was probably the first time that Barney has seen an ascent of The Gov and the East Face Route in a single weekend!

Classic adventure. Very unique and well worth it if you're into chimneying between faces and leaning towers! If you imagine the chimney climbing of Satan's Smokestack, but remove two walls (and all corner cracks), you get this. Mind, the gear, though ...The first piece I completely trusted was the gold big bro at about 15m. Did a VF out left through the offwidth/fist crack. Out onto the face of the pillar is nicer.

Was a perfect finale for a great trip. From sinking in the first jam, I fell into an incredibly enjoyable flow state. I think it was my first time feeling that on gear.

Thecrag is all about the climbing, but this trip was equally as awesome because of the people. The mountain exudes this magic that both becalms and invigorates those who are drawn to it. What an awesome trip, and amazing people. See you again!

Easy for the grade - that first traverse wasn't too difficult, especially when comparing it to Muldoon's roof. Fantastic, though! The sea of jugs invokes memories of Bunny Buckets.