Ascents by Matt O

Seemed like not much holds or protection on the face. I ended up hugging the arette all the way up. Didn’t feel like a 16 but maybe it was harder if you stayed on the left.

Unprotected crux before the first placement at 5m. I would have Bouldered up to the left and set some gear to protect the start.

Really struggled on this one! Very fingery and balancing moves!

Pretty classy, great opportunity to lay back. Bomber pro the whole way. Very chilled

Watch the pro for your second as you traverse around onto the other face. First bit is really nice.

Very chilled

Actually pretty cool, only wet at the bottom. Overhanging towards the top, but good holds and decent pro.

Really good fun and well protected. The first bolt could probably be stick clipped from the belay, but I used a cam to protected the first move up to the bolt and then removed the cam to reduce rope drag. Come back down via the gully to the left of the climb.

First pitch is actually pretty good with good pro (though I threw down a couple of loose rocks). You can protect the traverse crux by reaching over and setting a #2 camalot. The other pitches were very chilled out but a good intro to multi-pitch trad. Scariest part was setting up the anchor at the top of the scramble traverse.

Meh, I should have gone right at the flake for brother hood, but I didn;t have a big cam to go behind it.

Great climb. I had a bit of a panic attack before I realised you are supposed traverse left at the top.

Great moves, pity it's so short. First move is really hard! Had to use the rope.

Really exciting, any bigger than me and you wouldn't fit! Looks like there are two ways to go, I stayed deep in the crack and went straight up to the anchors (squeeze all the way). Intan and Michelle moved out to the front of the crack where there was more space.

Only one BB

Botched the onsight and wandered onto the climb to the right. Felt hard for a 16.

Had a couple of thoughtful sections.

Stay away from the chossy crack.

I broke off three holds (sorry guys!). This makes both the start and the crux harder. I would say it's about 19 now. Last climb of the day and I didn't have enough strength left.

Not sure if I was on the 16 or the 19

Some hard moves. Cut open my thumb on a desperate side ways reach

Really good moves for the first third and then a bit average.

Not sure what all the fuss is about. No stars from me.

2 laps roped solo. Got shut down by the arette both times, one rest each time. Probably because these were my last climbs of the day. Lots of fun though!

Awkward to set up for a top rope though, I had to rap in from a big boulder above and had lots of drag pulling my rap line down.

Classic climb, dogged the onsight at the crux. Will definitely be back

6 laps, clean roped solo on laps 4 & 5. Super powerful climb. Really great fun. Don't know if I'll ever have the endurance to lead it though.

Pretty sustained. Very well protected.

Pretty hard. Got to just below third bolt.

Surprisingly good, thoughtful moves all the way to the anchors.

I don't think I was on route as there was no 17 moves. I think staying further right would have helped. Also loose rocks just below the anchors.

Wow, very hard. Good project.