Ascents in Western areas

quicker and less goaty than the cave...

A great find. Excellent moves with committing sections. Skippy had his game face on for this one.

Gravelly. Mega potential.

Got it 3rd attempt, really burly good fun. Felt a bit vomity for a while after

Psyched myself up and did the 3m jump across the canyon to get off instead of the cave

Gravelly but will clean up well. A classic thrutchy grovel fest. Love it.

Had a play at the start but wasn't committing to get my feet up and didn't get far

Keen to tick this off but took an unexpected fall after the second piece, somehow nipping the tip of my 'flexible stem' and had to sit down for a few minutes. This might have also been when the mystery rope burn in my arm pit also happened that I found a day later.

Had a go at the start but didn't get into it properly. The B's had worked most of it but were struggling with the finish section, which I was happy to jump on and flash with my weird caving tactics.

Crux is a high fingery start then good jam practice. Perfect spot for top roping crack practice

Guessing at the grade. I don't know if this felt hard because it was sharp or felt sharp because it was hard...either way it was freakin sweet!

Did with no gloves. Was good but I should have worn them, a few teethy bits

This thing was so sharp I could barely pull on while dogging it. This is NOT river rock!

Verrry slopey

One of Alan's new routes! Broke off a few holds going for the third ascent, it climbs well!

Surprisingly worthwhile, and climbs a lot better than you might think. Quite long, without being highball. Fun!

Good, but more like sustained 18/19 for a friction slab (after the initial low-angle easy part). Scary because of the friable rock. Some varied moves make it worthwhile. It's a lot longer than you can see from below.

Another friction slab dog cleaned up. Incredibly tenuous to the second bolt (21), then sustained 18 (Tarana grading) to the top, with some wicked runouts on the way. Long, delicate, and awesome. My toes were screaming by the end of it.

Great to get back on this one for the tick. Done as a warmup, and other than a tricky start it went pretty easily. As I said a year ago, this is good in that it's much more varied than the other slabs around it, though not ridiculously hard. The start is a tough sequence, but it's great once you crack it. Enjoy!

Oh god, this was terrifying. Up to 4th bolt then bailed!

lost the head game. did an easier route just to the right

Heavy start, nice mix of arete and slab

Of the four slab routes I did, this is probably the only one really worth doing.

And a close second ascent please. Only did it so Brendan would stop giving me slack for forgetting his esky.....A neat climb. Might want to take some mats into the cave for crossing the void. Climbing shoes are also a recommendation.

Up dodgy slab for two moves, not recommended

Up marginally better slab for three moves

Up slightly better slab for about 5 moves.

Up dodgy slab for two moves, not recommended

Up marginally better slab for three moves

Up slightly better slab for about 5 moves.

3rd ascent of this great new route, one scary moment when a "handhold" broke off 3m above previous bolt not far from top. The start is probably closer to a grade 20-21 move.

More features and diverse climbing than the other slabs nearby. Hard off the starting boulder, followed by cool mind-boggling moves, then a hair-raising traverse onto a JUG! Don't get suckered into climbing too high before the traverse, or you'll be unable to climb out of the position like I was!

Hard, but awesome. Clean to third bolt, broke a hold and cheese grated down the rock. Then up to clipping fifth bolt before bailing. Challenging and mind blowing!

I am sticking with 21. Bloody hard onsite with the first ascent of beluga 2012. The bolting up top seems to go the wrong way into the lichen instead of left up the clean rock??

FFA. A great easier slab on the waterfall dome. A slab with biggish holds.