Ascents in Arapiles as various tick types by Cameron Roy

learning to aid with a toprope. Some of the old pins can't be clipped because they're bashed too far in.

Hard moves at the traverse. Not sure if you're supposed to move back left and through rooflet or just continue straight up on jugs.

Reachy

With Jamie and Jack. Loved it!

Superb corner crack! Approach is a bit dicky.

Kind of hard to see where to go starting off the tree. Went up little depression between bulges heading towards leftmost crack. Seemed a bit dangerous so I'm feeling this is closer to 19 than 18.

The rest of the climb was great though.

Alzheimers onsight - seconded this 3 years ago but didn't remember anything. Heaps of excellent protection available, I placed 18 pieces! Great climb for double ropes. A bit too much chalk for my liking.

Had a blast after Missing Link. Fell off really quick but came back to the ground and then got it clean.

Nice moves

Pity about the big ledge in the middle.

Rapped from the bolts.

I found the crux a little harder than asteroid, but I thought asteroid was more sustained and enjoyable. Missed the dinosaur but Elisa pointed it out while seconding.

More sustained and enjoyable than dinosaur.

Great route, good gear. Small footers through the crux.

Reachy. An excellent wire at the crux helped a lot.

Yeah baby! Superb line, awesome climb.

Got a couple of wires stuck in the belay so had to abseil down with a rock.

Made me work a bit.

I felt the 2nd bolt wasn't required. It could be 17 with 2 bolts or 18 with just the 1st bolt.

Move onto the belay ledge was spicy! It rained while we were on the ledge so I got scared and Phil did the 2nd pitch.

Thought I might have been condemned in that cell for life. Eventually worked out how to escape (there is chalk everywhere and most of it is no use.) The second crux at 2/3 height is also pretty nice.

Stellar route. Good protection. Very sustained after the low crux, strenuous to place gear there, then continuously absorbing before the final climax through the roof.

Pretty good. Funky move at the crux.

Required a bit of grunting to get up this. No time to hang around! Gear was pretty good but the rock is a bit average in places - i knocked a bit out while placing a cam.

Crux leaving the ground with no gear. Really nice climb after that. Loose blocks on top

Awesome line. Very sustained. Gets steeper and steeper as you go. Great summer climb.

Man i love placing wires like this! Stellar route.

Great route, more gear than I expected. Continually exciting. Excellent way to finish the trip.

Continually absorbing. Fiddly gear at the start, good thereafter.

Nice route despite appearances. Climbed past bolts and up to alis.

Good fun after abseiling off bluff major.

Led P1.

Oceanoid, French Crack, haul bag up the back = sweet night camping on top of the pharos with Jamie and Jack

With Jamie and Jack

Finish seemed like it would be hard if you were short.

Good to second this after leading it a couple of months ago. Thought provoking but not as dangerous as its reputation.

Jam on!

Took some natural pro as well, seemed like a good first 17 at Arapiles.

Only a short crux, first two thirds of the climb is relatively easy. My first trad 17 at araps.

Tough start, need a small cam. Then superb climbing.

Linked P1+2. Start fairly strenuous. Second pitch nice. Third pitch superb.

Felt really strong on this, or maybe it's soft at the grade? Bit of farting around to get off the top.

Unprotected boulder problem off ground, took me a few attempts. I suggest anchoring your belayer/spotter. After that it was a fairly pleasant route. Traverse on P1 exciting. Some nearby climbers made some suggestions for pulling around the roof on P4.

Was a little worried after seeing it was previously rated 18 here on thecrag, but it felt like an easy 17 to me. My reach might have helped.

Takes great pro, I laced it up waiting for the crux that never came.

Loved it. Gear was sufficient. Didn't see the old carrot mentioned in the guide.

Pretty goey moving up to the flake! Placing gear was strenuous.

Got a bit scared at the jam crack so built a belay and brought Elisa up. Got braver and headed up. Super awesome climb. Placed more gear than was necessary but that's what I do when I'm peaking...

Exciting route but it's only 2 moves long. Didn't see any loose blocks (as mentioned in the description.) There was one large flake though.

I'm 193cm tall. Placed a high cam at the start at full stretch to protect the crux rockover move.

Thought I was onsighting, but turns out I toproped it 2 years ago. Felt pretty solid on this, perhaps due to being tall. Gear is alright, despite looking thin from below.

Hard hard hard! Pushed me to my limit. I was stoked when I was through the crux on P1, but there was plenty more to come. Used all draws and cams on P1, used all draws on P2. Messed up double ropes on P2 twisting them around each other. Step across scary and hard. Bottomless chimney challenging! Led all the way up to French Crack - the last overhang isn't easy either.

Easy since I knew the moves.

Redpoint, but 3 years since I seconded it so I didn't really remember anything. That block below the crux freaked me out big time. Then some very hard moves, but the gear was better than I was expecting.

Finally able to get up this today. Took a fall on my first attempt but then worked out a sequence

Gear much better than expected. Placed a couple of tiny wires but also lots of bomber big wires too. Crux for me was at 3m. Then arrange good wires before an easy traverse and some more gear. After that it was consistently thought provoking but not scary.

Great route!

Looks like I toproped this 5 years ago so it's a mere redpoint, but I didn't really remember anything useful.

Didn't remember much from last time, quite pleasant.