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	Grade	Route	Gear style	Crag	Quality	Climber	Date
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	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Sam May	Sun 8th Sep 2013
Minor adventure at the end of the day with huge packs, topping out in the dark. Challenging route finding on P1 and the start of P2, with the belay in an odd spot. After that, cruise home on jugs past the deluxe belay ledge for P3.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	James	Sun 8th Sep 2013
Afternoon adventure with heavy packs to avoid the walk out. Over shot the first belay, spotted it and had to be lowered back to it! Look closely at the photo topo. Route is awesome, especially at sunset. The wind is amazing and the huge ledge is magic, all the wind dies out there and you can hear weird echoes. OS P1, Second P2, Second P3.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		Dave Rigter	Sun 12th Apr 2009
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	Average	Ro-boat	Sun 8th Sep 2013
Decent scambling.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Karni & JB	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Sean	Sun 18th May 2014
Rap in for pitches 2 & 3, start of pitch 2 tricky and sustained up to cave. Led pitch 3 with airy start
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Rob	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Lisa Vitaris	Sun 2nd Nov 2014
2nd multi pitch!
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Richard Pattison	Sat 31st Jan 2015
Enjoyable. Traverse pitch has plenty of small cams to protect leader & 2nd. Use slings at start of 2nd pitch to reduce drag. Traditional tree belay on top ;o)
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Carsten	Sun 12th Apr 2015
partner slipped on first move,2nd pitch. Due to rope stretch she still hit the floor and rolled ankle very bad. 2nd party should spot if possible
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Rene Provis	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		Lincoln Quilliam	Sat 23rd May 2015
Awesome juggy exposed adventure! 0:45
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Gavin	Sat 13th Jun 2015
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		William Skea	Fri 14th Dec 2012
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Carsten 1 lead by Carsten 2 lead by Carsten 3 lead by Andrew H	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Andrew Harward	Thu 16th Jul 2015
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Dave Rigter	Sun 3rd Jan 2016
Went off course and ended up going left instead of up the face. Lead 2nd pitch with very little in the way of gear placements. Should read beta before climbing I blame my partner who assured me the route went left!
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Carsten	Wed 30th Dec 2015
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		Dan Brown	Sun 21st Aug 2016
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Andrew Stevenson	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Matt Short	Sat 3rd Dec 2016
Nice adventure climbing, well worth a trip up.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		Roman	Tue 3rd Jan 2017
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Stephen 'scuba' Ayling	Sun 23rd Apr 2017
Cruisey Climb, great vies of the valley! mostly carrots with a few gear placements. Single rack would be plenty, used about 7 bolt plates.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Rene Provis	Wed 1st Jan 2014
Climbed this great route a few times, don't recall when first. Great picnic ledge!
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		Nikhilesh Sharma	Fri 16th Feb 2018
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Angela P 1 15 70m lead by Steffi Quijote 2 lead by Angela P 3 lead by Steffi Quijote	Trad 70m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Steffi Quijote	Sun 15th Apr 2018
Did this in 60km winds. Was definitly wild! Almost got blown off the wall a couple of times but it was such a fun time out! A really nice climb!
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Joe	Sat 26th May 2018
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		Jason Nguyen	Thu 14th Jun 2018
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		Julie Pon	Sun 29th Jul 2018
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with AndrewB	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Dave Burt	Mon 13th Aug 2018
Last climb of the day unfortunately was in the shade and windy! Cool but run out traverse on p1 - apparently I stayed to low. Great belay ledge at top of p2- there was some sun! P3 best of the three!
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Will Vidler	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	Average	Harry Kadi	Thu 13th Sep 2018
Pretty shotty rock, up an interesting line. Pretty fun but wouldn't do it again!
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Harry Kadi 1 12 70m lead by Harry Kadi 2 15 lead by Will Vidler 3 14 lead by Harry Kadi	Trad 70m	Blue Mountains	Average	Will Vidler	Thu 13th Sep 2018
Decent climbing but on generally pretty average rock. Felt very solid with fairly substantial packs on, especially the second pitch. A bit of an odd mix of mostly bolts and occasional gear. Highlight was the exposure!
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Nikhilesh Sharma, George Paulides	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Luke C	Fri 19th Oct 2018
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		Nikhilesh Sharma	Fri 19th Oct 2018
Pleasant climbing throughout. Take a single rack of cams and lots of bolt plates. Team epic hunters who weren't looking for any epics whatsoever (reason they choose this climb) ended up having almost an epic. Pitch 3 'Scary moves off the cave' says the description on thecrag. Felt very very scary and very very hard for a 15, but we were like 'old school climbing, it is what it is'. Apparently we were on Shock and Awe's last pitch (graded 23), really good classic climbing none the less. Comrade with a busted shoulder had an epic mechanical aiding the roof, then prussiking up while being assisted on a failing hauling system. At the roof, Don't follow the ring bolts, take the non-epic option of carrots further to the left.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Ryan L	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Scott Bishop	Sun 28th Oct 2018
Fun little multi with some nice exposure at times. Rock wasn’t great but nothing broke on me so maybe I’m just being precious.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with shauno 1 15 70m 2 3	Trad 70m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Scott Bishop	Sat 19th Jan 2019
Climbing this in dense fog and then the dark made it a bit more exciting. Fun adventure.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		Nick Murphy	Fri 26th Apr 2019
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Daniel Kunovsky	Sun 7th Jul 2019
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		Scott Reynolds	Sun 7th Jul 2019
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Geoff Cooper	Sat 3rd Aug 2019
First pitch - the bolt is out to the right off the block. Once clipped, traverse along with either small cams, or a number 4 and number 5. Quite easy but this route favours taller climbers. Second pitch - started following another party but incorrectly went up the left wall. Don't do this. From the first bolt, pull onto left wall and go up only around 2 metres then back to the right-hand wall. Follow the line of carrots diagonally right and up. Not much pro needed as there are plenty of bolts. Third pitch - from the 2 carrots on the left, keep traversing around. The next bolt is super close and easy to clip before heading scarily out onto the overhang. Fortunately the climbing is quite easy and this pitch also is mostly sport bolted. Belayed off tree (10 metres back) and the single bolt near the lip.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Geoff Cooper	Sun 25th Aug 2019
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Nat 1 15 40m lead by Josephine Roper 2 15 20m lead by Natalie - deleting acc 3 14 20m lead by Josephine Roper	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Josephine Roper	Mon 16th Sep 2019
Bit of a false start as going right from the carrot seemed a bit hard and slippery (the sun in my eyes might not have been helping). Retreated and went straight up and a bit left through some poor rock to the HD mark, so I guess then I was doing the first pitch of Hands Down instead. Third pitch I tried to do some bouldering when just going a bit left is much easier.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Andrew, Kyle Weatherman 1 15 40m 2 15 20m lead by Andrew 3 14 20m lead by Kyle Weatherman	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Emanuele	Wed 25th Sep 2019
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind (Wild is the Wind P1) 1 15 40m lead by Dean	Trad 40m	Blue Mountains		Dean	Fri 27th Sep 2019
Led P1; basically one long traverse on easy breaks; only three cams (incl. #4) and tree needed. Next pitch Sean went all the way up the corner instead of following the carrots so we missed out on P2 and P3 . The carrots head R near the bush 2m up the corner!
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Laurent and Mateus	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Ben Dawes	Sat 9th Nov 2019
Good exposure for the grade. Almost a sport climb. Need 3 small cams, a set of wires and one no. 3 cam.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with grace	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Ben Hanley	Sun 10th Nov 2019
Great exposure on pretty average rock!
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Robin Imskog, Ben Dawes	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Ida Ginstrup	Sat 16th Nov 2019
Climbed two pitches and then slept on the ledge. Space for a lot of people including some hammocks. Climbed the last pitch the day after. A bit windy
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Dean 1 15 40m lead by Joey Scarr 2 15 20m lead by Dean 3 14 20m lead by Joey Scarr	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Joey Scarr	Sat 30th May 2020
Nice climb. P2&3 mostly carrots. Start of P2 felt hard at the grade.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Joey Scarr 1 15 40m lead by Joey Scarr 2 15 20m lead by Dean 3 14 20m lead by Joey Scarr	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Dean	Sat 30th May 2020
Start of P2 is the crux. Went the right way this time! Enjoyable.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Pinky	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Daniel D	Mon 7th Oct 2019
climbing out from the cave is cool
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Ben Hanley	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Grace Mackie	Sun 10th Nov 2019
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Raddoggin	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Stuart	Thu 13th Aug 2020
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Stuart	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		Raddoggin	Thu 13th Aug 2020
Great climb, carrots most of the way.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Lenka Chadaj, Conrad Roberts	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Ally	Sat 29th Aug 2020
Led pitch 1 and 2, left the sport pitch for Conrad. Awesome climb in the sun on a winters day.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Ally, Lenka Chadaj 1 15 40m lead by Ally 2 15 20m lead by Ally 3 14 20m lead by Conrad Roberts	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Conrad Roberts	Sun 30th Aug 2020
Slightly chossy and fragile rock but wonderfully varied climbing and great exposure. Third pitch is a bit of a runout on just carrots, especially since I missed the last one before the topout - FYI it's just above the last ledge, to the left of the empty bolthole from a previous rebolting. I saw the empty hole, assumed the carrot had fallen out, and just gunned it for the top. Whoops 😅
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with David	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Ally	Sat 3rd Oct 2020
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		Nathan Murdoch	Mon 9th Nov 2020
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		Lachlan McDermid	Wed 25th Nov 2020
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Charity Maj	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Keith Davison	Sun 14th Feb 2021
Need 4 cams only 0.3, 0.4 x2, 1 Rest can be done with the carrots provided Pitch 3 is the money pitch for sure
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Keith Davison 1 15 40m lead by Keith Davison 2 15 20m lead by Charity Maj 3 14 20m lead by Keith Davison	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Charity Maj	Sun 14th Feb 2021
1st pitch: felt easy. slightly pumpy at the beginning. 2nd pitch: Felt harder. A bit reachy. Used more cams and totems at the start. Traverse a bit scary. 3rd pitch: a bit scary to start but great feet n and hands all the way up. Money pitch for exposure. Good belay stations. Use the carrots above 2nd pitch as top belay to avoid drag. It’s on the over hang to the left.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		Claire Jay	Wed 7th Apr 2021
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Yaniv 1 15 40m 2 15 20m 3 14 20m	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Kalang Kedumba Jones	Sat 5th Jun 2021
Awesome experience with a bit of everything. ‘Why walk when you can climb out?’ A late decision to send led to cold fingers while wicked winds threatened to throw us off. The name is accurate! But we persevered, dropped a bolt plate (the carrots stick out unecessarily) and made it to the giant cave for a beautiful sunset! Leaving P3 at twilight heightened the already exciting exit out of the cave, but was worth it, not least because we failed to bring head torches (typical). Next time will bring less bags and less gear - just need a few small cams for P1, a small wire and maybe a #3 for P2
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Chris Lam	Sat 4th Sep 2021
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Geoff Cooper	Sat 23rd Oct 2021
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Andrew	Sat 23rd Oct 2021
Awesome exposed climb. Led pitch 2
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Gavin	Sun 24th Oct 2021
Followed the whole lot, was a lovely carrot patch. Very little gear actually required. (just enough to make you bring the rack unfortunately.)
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Isabel Roper, Nat	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Josephine Roper	Fri 31st Dec 2021
NYE ledge party
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Dave Pastafarian	Mon 3rd Jan 2022
Pretty much a sport climb on carrots bring a couple of hand size cams for the start of pitch 1 and 2.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Emily Hoffmann	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Bruno Alves Buzatto	Sat 2nd Apr 2022
This was a little gem, but make sure your second likes traverses Also, if it's been rainning recently, be aware that you will go through a small waterfall in pitch 1 — our rope got pretty drenched! Love blueys multipitches so much, how I miss this place!!
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Geoff Cooper	Sun 8th May 2022
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Ryan Cooper, beth	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Jacko	Mon 6th Jun 2022
Nice climb with great ledges to hang out on, if only it wasn't freezing. First pitch felt much shorter than 40m.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		cotton peterson	Tue 5th Jul 2022
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Lawrence Wonhas	Sun 13th Nov 2022
Wind was indeed wild, so was the rain
	15 Hard	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Zsofia Nichols	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Tom Atkinson	Mon 2nd Jan 2023
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		Matthew Robbins	Sun 16th Apr 2023
	15 Hard	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Christian Pilarcik 1 15 40 Trad 2 15 20 Second 3 14 20 Trad	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	John	Wed 26th Apr 2023
Super fun and particularly beautiful as you can’t see the farmland from here.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with John	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		Christian Pilarcik	Wed 26th Apr 2023
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Brendan Crisp 1 15 40m Trad 2 15 20m Second 3 14 20m Trad	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Tad Karapetian	Sun 17th Sep 2023
Fun climbing, exposed and good because. Loved the traverse at the beginning and boulder move on second pitch. To Whoever collects the bolt plate I dropped, you're welcome.
	15 Hard	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Chuth	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	John	Wed 27th Sep 2023
Great fun.
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind — 3 attempts - with John 1 15 40m Second 2 15 20m Second 3 14 20m Second	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Chuth	Fri 29th Sep 2023
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Ev 1 15 40m Second lead by Ev 2 15 20m Trad lead by Geoff Cooper 3 14 20m Second lead by Ev	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Geoff Cooper	Wed 15th Nov 2023
Will bring 90 degree bolt plates next time. Too stressful putting wires on the large carrots through the middle of the second pitch
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Jason Nguyen, Caitlyn	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		Jack Ferguson	Sun 28th Apr 2024
Really fun day out, Jason and Caitlyn lead up as a pair and tinam and I behind them on seperate ropes. Ended up catching friends at top of P1 and had to help them rescue some gear when they went up the wrong way for P2 . So ended up being a little bit of a mega trying to help recover there gear and save them an even bigger day. All gear recovered and everyone safe tho so big success!
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Caitlyn, Jack Ferguson, Tinam	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Jason Nguyen	Sun 28th Apr 2024
With Caitlyn, Jack and Tinam with a brief feature from Robin and Kristie. Pleasant climb, cool position and comfy belays! Led all the pitches as it was just the most straight forward way with our party. P1: Easy traverse, cams in breaks. P2: Quite the awkward move into the corner, rest is straight forward. Some gear down low and up high. P3: Cool exposed start, jug haul. Put in two pieces, just because I could!
	15	★★ Wild is the Wind - with Kristie H	Trad 80m	Blue Mountains		Robin Kumar	Sun 28th Apr 2024
Went dangerously off route on the 2nd pitch. Had some help from a few friends to retrieve the gear. Decided to bail before anything else bad happened and live to climb another day 🙂. Will be back
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	14	★★ Little Johnny	Sport 30m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Tony Williams	Fri 4th Apr 2008
Had to lead it to get stuck rope! Nice lead
	14	★★ Baby Carrots	Sport 35m, 10	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Aaron James Spinks	Fri 1st Oct 2004
Killer rope drag
	14	★★ Baby Carrots	Sport 35m, 10	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Simon Ellis	Sat 28th May 2005
	14	★★ Baby Carrots	Sport 35m, 10	Blue Mountains		Skye O'Donnell	Sat 19th May 2007
	14	★★ Baby Carrots	Sport 35m, 10	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Lauren Haasnoot	Sun 2nd Jan 2005
A windy expedition!
	14	★★ Little Johnny	Sport 30m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Tony Williams	Fri 4th Apr 2008
2nded Nick
	14	★★ Baby Carrots	Sport 35m, 10	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Niall Doherty	Sat 4th Mar 2006
Nice to have a rap-in climb out route of this grade for the beginners.
	14	★★ Baby Carrots	Sport 35m, 10	Blue Mountains		Skye O'Donnell	Sat 19th May 2007
	14	★★ Baby Carrots	Sport 35m, 10	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Phil Ward	Mon 12th Oct 2009
Do it, if only for the awesome hanging belay start!
	14	★★ Baby Carrots	Sport 35m, 10	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Mat Karbowiak	Sun 18th Oct 2009
Not a bad climb, hanging belay at the start was fun.
	14	★★ Baby Carrots	Sport 35m, 10	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Iain Duggin	Sat 4th Sep 2004
crazy belay. interesting crux. skipped a few bolts. take slings as it wanders a tad.
	14	★★ Baby Carrots	Sport 35m, 10	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Adam Bramwell	Mon 29th Mar 2004
wild!! a true bumbly adventure
	14	★★ Baby Carrots	Sport 35m, 10	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Kenton Horsley	Fri 17th Jul 2009
	14	★★ Baby Carrots	Sport 35m, 10	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Mike Patterson	Sat 28th May 2005
the belay makes the climb!
	14	★★ Little Johnny	Sport 30m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Mike Patterson	Sat 19th Sep 2009
Johnny's not toooo bad
	14	★★ Baby Carrots	Sport 35m, 10	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Phil Ward	Thu 15th Oct 2009
Do it, if only for the awesome hanging belay start!
	14	★★ Baby Carrots	Sport 35m, 10	Blue Mountains	Average	Vanessa Wills	Sat 8th Jul 2006
good for the grade, but I dont like seconding
	14	★★ Baby Carrots	Sport 35m, 10	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Mic	Sun 4th Dec 2005
	14	★★ Baby Carrots	Sport 35m, 10	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	John Thirlwell	Thu 15th Oct 2009
Gets a classic rating for the start!!
	14	★★ Baby Carrots	Sport 35m, 10	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Roger Austin	Wed 1st Mar 2006
	14	★★ Baby Carrots	Sport 35m, 10	Blue Mountains		Jim Croft	Wed 27th Oct 2004

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