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Wed 29th May 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Repeat warmup, such a classic.
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Wed 15th May 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain — 4 attempts | 20m, 11 | |||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Tue 14th May 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Brendan Coulter, Kai Becks | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Really nice!
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24 Easy | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Deserves the stars. Excellent first route at far side
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24 | ★★★ Brain Drain — 3 attempts - with Brendan Coulter, Dylan Glavas | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Close on the flash, then progressively worse as the day went on.
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Mon 13th May 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain — 2 attempts | 20m, 11 | |||||
very exciting beta progress for moving between the two jug rails after the flake!
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Sun 12th May 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Ross | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Thu 9th May 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 Easy | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Sat 4th May 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Mattia Fornari, Rebecca | 20m, 11 | |||||
Fri 3rd May 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain — 4 attempts | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Sun 28th Apr 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Thu 25th Apr 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 Easy | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Kwin Phan | 20m, 11 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Sat 13th Apr 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Fri 12th Apr 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Fri 29th Mar 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Sat 23rd Mar 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Fri 15th Mar 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Thu 14th Mar 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Fri 8th Mar 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
handlebar
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Fri 16th Feb 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Sean Peters | 20m, 11 | |||||
Fri 9th Feb 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with lloyd wishart, giles | 20m, 11 | |||||
Mon 29th Jan 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Sat 27th Jan 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Giga Crew | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Hanging draws, sat quite a bit. Worried about my shoulder being less than 100%
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24 | ★★★ Brain Drain — 3 attempts - with Luke Yerbury, Freya lamont | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Awesome climbing! Moves felt totally fine but I have no endurance, looks like I know where to put my training!
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24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Tue 23rd Jan 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Mon 22nd Jan 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain — 2 attempts | 20m, 11 | |||||
some of the big spanny moves felt tricky especially being pumped as on link. Such an epic route though. One to go back for!
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24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Soooo goooddd
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Sat 20th Jan 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Catpass Clanky, Luke Yerbury, Matt Singleton, Will Turner, Bob Brown, Andy Brown, Kate | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Gassed my way into the kneebar through the 3 star mega, then ran to the chains. Sick. Also with Sunny, Nat, Tommy, Justin, Sophie, Liam, Julia, etc. 8th day on.
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24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Catpass Clanky, Luke Yerbury, Matt Singleton, Will Turner, Bob Brown, Andy Brown, Kate | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Messed beta on RP attempt.
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24 | Kneepad ★★★ Brain Drain - with Matt Clawson, Big Farside Crew | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Too busy to try and onsight anything today. This thing was mega!
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Wed 17th Jan 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
One burn highpointing to ledge under knee-bar rest. Bailed before the rain rolled in. With Chelle and Izak.
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Sat 13th Jan 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Ben, Luke Hef, Mattia Fornari, Aradia Davies, Bob Brown, Andy Brown, Ben Jenga | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
All moves, punted off, pumped after.
Also with Vanessa, James, Mitch, Justin, Calum, Raph, Brody. Big turn out.
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24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Wed 10th Jan 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with ryan holm | 20m, 11 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Tue 9th Jan 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Awesome climb 🔥 feels like 21 😝
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Sun 7th Jan 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain — 2 attempts - with Tommy J Hutchinson | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Fri 5th Jan 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Excellent
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Tue 2nd Jan 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with claire xian | 20m, 11 | ★ Good | ||||
Sun 31st Dec 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain — 3 attempts - with MS | 20m, 11 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
1st- bolt to bolt, 2nd - worked on some crux beta - lower jug right hand far left, left to complex crimp, dropknee to pocket. 3rd - total dogshow/draw retrieval.
Great climbing, didn't feel very close - poor route fitness. |
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Wed 27th Dec 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Andy Brown, Belledonna Brown, nate foster | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Tue 26th Dec 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Sun 24th Sep 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Grace Mackie | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
clean end of day burn.
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Sun 2nd Apr 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Sat 5th Nov 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Ben Hanley, Simon Alsop, Khanh | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Thu 30th Jun 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Grace Mackie | 20m, 11 | |||||
Fri 25th Feb 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Name a better warm up 4 in the mountains.
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Sun 20th Feb 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
x2 warm up.
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Wed 26th Jan 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Sat 22nd Jan 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Grace Mackie | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Great sustained climbing, gets a solid flash-pump going as a warmup!
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24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Ben Hanley | 20m, 11 | |||||
Lives up to the hype, very cool featured rock
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Fri 29th Oct 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Luke Hef | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Sat 23rd Oct 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with ale_bog | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Very very fun. Second shot after getting my body a bit tangled in the traverse.
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Sat 25th Sep 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Tried this many years ago but done putting the draws up today. Really fun and interesting climbing.
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Tue 7th Sep 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
All quality. Great route. Excellent moves. Thoughtful bolting.
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Sat 4th Sep 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Lap
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Sun 15th Aug 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Mon 14th Jun 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Stephanie Levesque | 20m, 11 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Good warm up!
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Sun 23rd May 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Fri 23rd Apr 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
I reckon tricky for the grade!
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Tue 6th Apr 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Very happy to have ticked this mega classic - what a climb! She's a pumper, only managed to stay on by pure stubbornness after sticking my crux for the first time
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Fri 2nd Apr 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Wed 31st Mar 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Match, Cosi Hofman | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Lucas Low | 20m, 11 | |||||
x3 shots had some trouble with body position on the crux.
mega classic! |
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Mon 8th Mar 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Sun 28th Feb 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Super fun!
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24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Two warm ups
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Sat 27th Feb 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Stephen Varney | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Repeat. Warmup
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24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Sun 21st Feb 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Heath Black, Stephen Varney | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Repeat. Warmup
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Sat 13th Feb 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Tom Collins | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Clean Repeat.
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Sat 19th Dec 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with James vilimaa, Jared Anderson | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Clean repeat x 2 - In such hideous conditions, any climbing is a blessing, even if it's just lapping the classics. Such a cool line of features. Visionary, even.
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Sun 2nd Aug 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Backlogging
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Tue 28th Jul 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Back loging
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24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Wed 27th Nov 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Mon 25th Nov 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Sun 13th Oct 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Fri 4th Oct 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Wed 25th Sep 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Gee Rad | 20m, 11 | |||||
Mon 1st Jul 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Wed 22nd May 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Sun 21st Apr 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Mon 1st Apr 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Sat 23rd Mar 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Tom Collins, Ben Jenga, Mitch, Lucas C, Magdalena de la Torre | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Clean repeat. warm-up lapping.
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24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Ben Jenga, Paul Frothy Thomson, Lucas C, Magdalena de la Torre, mitch | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Nice pumpy climbing with nothing to hard on unique features.
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Sat 16th Mar 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Ben Jenga, Lucas C | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Clean repeat. One of the best at the grade in the mountains. Improbable and inspired.
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Sun 3rd Mar 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Kayla Peet | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
What a sweet line! Started to work out the beta but main goal is fight the pump. Excellent climb in cool area. Awesome day. Will write the beta down on a piece of paper and sleep with it under my pillow...
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Sat 16th Feb 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Marty W, and Martin | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Still no send, but thanks to the guys to introduce me to this new crack!
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24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Marty W, and Martin | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Blew the flash / on-sight, what ever it was! Definitely not prepared for this one! Quite a fun climb though!
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24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | |||||
Fri 15th Feb 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Jorge | 20m, 11 | |||||
Got this first shot as a “warm up” . Great climb !
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Sun 10th Feb 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain - with Martin | 20m, 11 | |||||
Think it will go next time , was close to a flash
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Sun 3rd Feb 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Pumped out on the warm up lap but got there second shot without too much drama
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24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Mon 24th Dec 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Farside Main Wall | |||||||
24 | ★★★ Brain Drain | 20m, 11 |