Ascents of Golden Echo

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.