Showing all 54 ascents.
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Thu 21st Mar 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | |||||
Sun 19th Nov 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb - with Zack | 170m, 10 | ★ Good | ||||
A fun scramble in an awesome location, can easily be done on majority trad gear. Jogged in and out.
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Sun 24th Sep 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | |||||
Broad-headed snake on pitch 2, under the roof, sitting comfortably in a handhold.
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Sat 23rd Sep 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 |
★★ Tom Thumb
- with
Laurie Bristow
1
8
18m
2
13
40m
3
9
16m
4
8
45m
5
13
21m
6
8
26m
| 170m, 10 | ★ Good | ||||
Views from the Fortress are always great! The climbing is alright. Not much gear needed. Although you could insist on climbing it more traditionally and eschew some of the carrots... which I ended up doing just to make it more interesting.
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Sat 5th Nov 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 |
★★ Tom Thumb
- with
Taylor Cassady
| 170m, 10 | |||||
Good adventure, very comfortable cruisy climbing. Should've trimmed the rack a bit for the sake of the approach, only needed 4 pieces (mid sized cams and a nut).
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13 | ★★ Tom Thumb - with Saxon | 170m, 10 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Wed 10th Aug 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 |
★★ Tom Thumb
1
8
18m
2
13
40m
3
9
16m
4
8
45m
5
13
21m
6
8
26m
| 170m, 10 | |||||
Sat 30th Jul 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 |
★★ Tom Thumb
- with
Ryan Cooper
| 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Take snacks. I can't climb 170m without snacks.
I can't do much without snacks. I'm weak like that. |
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Sun 16th Jan 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Sun 4th Jul 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb - with Nathan Murdoch | 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Tue 22nd Jun 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 |
★★ Tom Thumb
1
8
18m
2
13
40m
3
9
16m
4
8
45m
5
13
21m
6
8
26m
| 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Classic ramble
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Sun 13th Jun 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | |||||
Sun 25th Apr 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | |||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb - with Macca Hill | 170m, 10 | ★ Good | ||||
Sat 3rd Apr 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
First time with Jesse and Bri. I led P1, 3, 4 and 6. Jesse led P2 and 5. Awesome adventure - spent 1.5hrs chilling in a cave so another party could pass. Walked out as the sun was setting!
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Sun 21st Feb 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 |
★★ Tom Thumb
1
8
18m
2
13
40m
3
9
16m
4
8
45m
5
13
21m
6
8
26m
| 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Wed 3rd Feb 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 |
★★ Tom Thumb
- with
Zi Hui Lie
| 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Much faster than last time. 7 hours C2C pitched out (not including sunset lunch).
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Sat 16th Jan 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb - with Brendon Flanagan | 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Sat 14th Nov 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Sat 10th Oct 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Sat 12th Sep 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★ Good | ||||
Easy climbing, hardest part is route finding. Some of the carrots are hidden amongst chossy iron stone. Climb isn’t direct rather it wonders around the face.
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Tue 8th Sep 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb - with Fernando Diaz | 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Sun 30th Aug 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 |
★★ Tom Thumb
- with
Dmitry Linkov
| 170m, 10 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb - with Tyler Sydney | 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Sun 15th Sep 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | |||||
Sat 4th May 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Sat 27th Apr 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Good day out and adventurous for the grade. Good mix of natural pro and carrots where needed (if you can find them)
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Sat 13th Apr 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
12 |
★★ Tom Thumb
- with
David Shapira
1
12
150m
2
3
4
5
6
| 150m, 10 | |||||
Fri 5th Apr 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | |||||
Sat 5th Jan 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 |
★★ Tom Thumb
- with
Greg
1
8
18m
2
13
40m
3
9
16m
4
8
45m
5
13
21m
6
8
26m
| 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Mega windy day so plans changed from Margarine Ridge to Tom Thumb. First abseil was tough in the wind, but the route felt relatively sheltered once we got on it. It presented a nice mix of easy climbing in a great location. Having a rack of a few cams and nuts meant I felt the climb was well protected on the first and second pitches where there were less bolts/carrots around.
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Sun 16th Dec 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 |
★★ Tom Thumb
1
8
18m
2
13
40m
3
9
16m
4
8
45m
5
13
21m
6
8
26m
| 170m, 10 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Fri 25th May 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb - with Harley Von | 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Beautiful view and great exposure. The walk in and out is all part of the adventure. It’s a very easy climb but good to blow the cobwebs out if you haven’t climbed in a while. Would highly recommend if you were taking a beginner. It’s a mix of a scramble and a climb.
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Sat 17th Feb 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Hot.
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Sat 2nd Sep 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb - with Nikhilesh Sharma | 170m, 10 | Average | ||||
Tue 30th May 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
12 |
★★ Tom Thumb
1
8
lead by
Lomax
4
12
lead by
Wright
5
9
lead by
Myself
6
8
lead by
Lomax
7
12
lead by
Wright
8
8
lead by
Myself
| 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Sun 7th May 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
12 |
★★ Tom Thumb
- with
Ryan L
1
8
lead by
ryan
2
12
lead by
scott
3
9
lead by
ryan
4
8
lead by
ryan
5
12
lead by
scott
6
8
lead by
scoott
| 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Wed 28th Dec 2016 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb - with Patrick | 170m, 10 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Fun day out with Pat and Nate. Beautiful views. Needed to take more water!
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Sun 9th Oct 2016 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Finding the beginning of the climb is a touch difficult. There is a buttress out on which the anchors are--it helps to know exactly what this looks before setting off. Researching this and the walk in as much as possible helps--we did and still added 30 minutes due to getting lost.
The abseils are good. I was thinking of a 150m vertical abseil, so looking out over the ledge each time was reassuring. It's more like a slope which is broken with dirt, rock/scrub horizontals, so that the one abseil pitch is like 15m, 25m and then 10m. It can be quite difficult to avoid vegetation and tree branches, and also knocking off rock. Helmets are required on those below, and they should be conscious of where they are standing and where the abseiler is. The climbing is easy. The major difficulty is route finding - and by route finding is to say finding the bolts. My friend lead this and then I'd find carrots that he missed and then the climber after me would also find missed carrots. It is so juggy, when you look up it's not a vertical wall that you can follow the bolts - some parts its just when you're right in front of it - not below it or above it or to the side. Gear - whether cams - does not place. For me as my first multi-pitch, as a seconder it was awesome. The climbing is good, no worries, i think even anxious climbers would be fine. My lead climber did not mind some mammoth run outs on due to missed carrots. Leading it for this reason does require a good head and a lot of people would not mind long run outs on grade 12 - but if you do, the exposure would make this unpleasant. The start of the 2nd pitch is not a grade 12. The climb starts 1.2m off the grade--the ledge is a cave, getting the feet onto this lip is a seriously hard move--on a single pitch climb there would be a pile of rocks at the bottom for this first move. Finding the bolts on the 4th pitch was extremely difficult. This is a grade 8. I wasn't leading, but the basically the guide said you start up to the right, then move left and straight up. The leader did, and then could not see a single bolt, anywhere, moving around. If there were markers of where the bolts were leading this would be jolly good fun. As my first multi-pitch, I have rated this as a mega classic for the grade (13). A sport 150m multi-pitch in a UNESCO Heritage Listed National Park, an abseil down into the Grose Valley, the stunning nature of the walk in--there would be nothing remotely like this for its grade elsewhere in Australia, and the fact that it is so good, I honestly don't know what more could be expected. |
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Tue 29th Mar 2016 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Sun 27th Mar 2016 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 |
★★ Tom Thumb
- with
Callum Cruickshank
1
lead by
sandra
2
lead by
sandra
3
lead by
me
4
lead by
me
5
lead by
sandra
6
lead by
me
7
| 170m, 10 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
great fun, very enjoyable
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Sun 7th Feb 2016 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb - with Timo Siebeck | 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Sat 7th Feb 2015 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★ Good | ||||
Less interesting the second time round. A good one to take your canyoner/bushwalker mate on though.
Not getting the ropes stuck on the abseils and rope drag are the cruxes. |
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Thu 13th Mar 2014 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | |||||
First Multipitch a while back, thought I logged it but apparently not. Last pitch in the dark with head torches haha
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Sat 11th May 2013 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Wed 9th Jan 2013 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
How do people write off this route? Is 150m of blazing jugs not good enough for you?! 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th pitches all fantastic. Mostly clean and solid.
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Sat 1st Dec 2012 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | |||||
Tue 14th Feb 2012 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb - with alisha borglund, Alisha Borglund | 170m, 10 | ★ Good | ||||
Great day out. Fun rap in and easy climbing out.
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Sun 8th May 2011 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Wed 24th Nov 2010 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★ Good | ||||
Not so nice in the summer sun. Fun day out!
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Sun 13th Apr 2008 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
really nice intro to multipitch climbing.
Great views
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Tue 1st May 2007 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Went back and lead it.
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Sat 10th Feb 2007 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★ Good | ||||
With David Eckstein, alternate pitches, I failed to start the second pitch in the right place and ended up doing a pitch to the left behind the belay and finished it at the top of the last rappel station. we then traversed right to the correct belay.
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Sat 9th Apr 2005 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★ Good | ||||
Sat 5th Mar 2005 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Leura The Fortress | |||||||
13 | ★★ Tom Thumb | 170m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
nice alpine style positions
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