Ascents as Onsight by Thomas Gissing

Some thin crimpage, a bit of a dodgey second clip. Otherwise OK.

Climbing with Lu on day 1 of the trip!

About as good as it gets at 15.

Nice. More delightful, slightly overhanging jugging.

Not too bad. Concur with Matt re: the bolting. Especially considering this is the 'warm up' here.

Draw retrieval mission. Fun jug haul.

Warm up.

Happy with this. Haven't onsighted anything for quite a while, and I think this is the hardest I've done. The start was funky to sequence, then its just keep it together till the chains.

The rock is a bit crapola, but this and the 24 are both worthy routes imo.

Linked into this from stand-start at the arete.

Would be a classic 13 corner at Frog. Wierd climbing a route like this with bolts.

Forgettable. Steep bulge where you crank on a death block straight in front of your face.

Top rope from Fat Annie for Lu, then ran up it for mileage. Wrecked! Pumpy lie backing.

Decent easy route, but has one very cruxy, traverse move which is tricky for shorties.

Sweet. Funky crack moves and a mantle. Really fun and interesting climbing.

Fully protectable on gear - but I'm not complaining.

Chossy and quite forgettable.

Fantastic. Some very nice movement, good length, follows a natural feature.

Cool down mileage at the end of a long day.

Absolutely buggered when I tried this. So much fun though!

All pretty similar on the RH side. Pleasant, well protected climbing.

First proper day out for more than a month. Humbling to come back feeling so unfit.

Thought this was the 19 - a very stiff warm up. Just squeaked it.

22/23AU

Not a fan. Slippery, wierd line. Got pumped out of my brain considering the length.

Pretty good. Again, pretty pumpy for the length. Worth doing.

Jugs, jugs, jugs! Sweet, easy climbing. Little bit harder than its neighbour I think.

Great holds. Damn fun. Feels almost like a gym route.

Back log. I remember this being very weird. Terrible, really.

Back log. Both 19s were great, but pretty easy.

Back log.

Back log. Was very happy with this onsight - I remember there being a fantastic crux move on a flake.

Hung out for quite a while on the topout trying to scrape away lichen.

Interesting movement on some strange holds and very thin feet.

Same difficulty as the other stuff imo. Not quite as nice.

Great. Everything here worth a star.

Fun, easy moves! Slopey arete movement is sick.

Had an epic. Spent what felt like 2 minutes beached whaled on the top as Alex through up a chalk bag. Finally squirmed up with absolutely no style.

Not good with bouldering grades, but it felt easy for V3.

As a stand start, I don't think it's V4, but I couldn't say what it is with any kind of accuracy.

Last climb of the day.

Awesome route on good holds. Slab was fun. No dramas until a bit of a "Where the f*** is the jug?!" at the chain.

The pick of the bunch for me. Very interesting looking rock and classy arete climbing. Absolutely worth the few minutes it takes to walk to the end of the wall.

Bit of a tricky one on the onsight with the excessive amount of features and the run out finish. Moves are very straightforward once you find the holds though.

First climb of the day after a sweaty walk in.

Great route, perfect warm up.

Bridging, few little insecure bits. Had a bit of a mental wobble placing the small gear while bridging. As good as easy corner climbing gets.

Cool corner. I wandered a bit, which is why it felt easier than 13. Whatever I ended up climbing was great though. Fun moves, great gear.

No offence to the local climbers here, but all these contrived climbs are a bit silly I think. The area would benefit from a consolidation in the guidebook, down to the obvious lines and leave the variations to the individuals. No need to name and grade ever conceivable link up and create routes that force you to avoid holds or obvious lines of weakness.

A route far right, following a couple of big flakes. Easy, fun moves! Nice!

Another boulder problem into easy ground, but really fun.

Always feel heady on this wall, and confused about what I'm on. Think I was on this. Easy to escape the harder climbing at the top.

Loved the undercling. Nice route. Seems like the cut loose is a common occurrence. Awesome.

Enjoyed it, bit of a one move wonder though, and maybe a soft move for 18. It's a bit tricky to stay to the 'hard' line on some of these routes.