Ascents of Golden Echo having Beta

Good moves, cool exposure, friendly lizards.

pleasant. duncan fell seconding. bit of a swing!

barefoot

Great exposure and cool fun.

Great fun & exposed

very nice climb, pity it was so windy and a monkey calling kiwi was on kachoong

With Ed. Some great moves in a very exposed position.

With Cate. Q. What do you call a route with vivid orange rock, sensational position, and a wicked whimpering traverse? A. Mega-classic!!

(repeats: 2nd 29.4.04)

With Ed

Fantastic climb with beautiful moves across wall and out right above the Kachoong roof. Well worth it if you're standing on photo ledge.

Exposure corner! Yeow Fun but kinda freaked out

Exciting line with great exposure, very classy 18!

Fantastic location

Magnificent! Start is well protected with cams (micro to hand size, with lots of finger size opportunities), despite what the guidebook says. Awkward moves approaching the corner and moving up to the roof, then a committing traverse out (cams up to loose hand size useful) before it gets much easier, but also much more exposed, as you step out from under the roof. Easily up from there until a slightly thought-provoking finish. Take plenty of long quickdraws to avoid causing rope drag.

nice juggy hauling

After Anna's Kachoong siege photo session. Deliberately didn't watch Frankie and Anna earlier, managed to make the left face awkward with an undercling traverse then didn't protect the right face traverse enough (ie at all). I'm told this is great, and none of the moves are hard, but a traverse through a corner really doesn't float my boat much.

Pretty easy for the grade maybe

Chose it as a warmup but it turned out to be sweet!

Fun

Probably one of the best 18s at araps for exposure! So cool!

Had pre placed gear but I feel it’s offset by the fact I was wearing approach shoes. Really sick.

An excellent line. The traverse, corner and roof provided some fun moves to work through.

This put me through the motions! Gear down low wasn't amazing so I got scared but ultimately made it through. Very engaging and lovely moves and exposure for an 18. Only at Arapiles

Great fun, glad to have doing time for this one.

Felt real chill for the grade?

Ligia lead it as well

No wear near as nervous on the sharp end this time, than when I did it the first time, on second.

A puzzling move at the roof!

Will come back to lead.

Good fun

Good fun

Some awkward beta through the lower corner, but moves throughout the rest were otherwise a delight. Impressive lead by Josh, I would have been squirming. Good composure.

A little sketchy through the roof section. Glad I wasn't placing gear here.

Nice fun climbing. Seconded Jez.

nice! very nice! good lead tom!

Seconded Justin. Great Climb!

another overcammed cam to clean

Nice lead by Dominick! Some interesting climbing!

Amazing! One of the best grade 6 routes I have ever done 6a+?

awesome climb through the roof,great exposure , good warm up as well

Very classy.

Cool route.

Cool moves and great rock. Felt soft for an Araps 18.

The second must not fall Funky moves through the roof, I was too scared to fling off into space.

Quality climb. Wish it was longer. Nice moves on the traverse.

Lead this next time!

Epicc. Loved it

Awesome warmup route for the day