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	Grade	Route	Gear style	Quality	Climber
Thu 21st Mar 2024 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10		saxon
Sun 19th Nov 2023 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb - with Zack	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★ Good	James Harrington
A fun scramble in an awesome location, can easily be done on majority trad gear. Jogged in and out.
Sun 24th Sep 2023 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10		Greg Nagy
Broad-headed snake on pitch 2, under the roof, sitting comfortably in a handhold.
Sat 23rd Sep 2023 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb - with Laurie Bristow 1 8 18m Second 2 13 40m Trad 3 9 16m Second 4 8 45m Trad 5 13 21m Second 6 8 26m Trad	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★ Good	Aaron Wong
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.
Sat 5th Nov 2022 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb - with Taylor Cassady 1 8 18m lead by Saxon 2 13 40m lead by Saxon 3 9 16m lead by Saxon 4 8 45m lead by Saxon 5 13 21m lead by Taylor Cassady 6 8 26m lead by Taylor Cassady	Mixed trad 170m, 10		Saxon
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).
	13	★★ Tom Thumb - with Saxon 1 8 18m lead by Saxon 2 13 40m lead by Saxon 3 9 16m lead by Saxon 4 8 45m lead by Saxon 5 13 21m 6 8 26m	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★★ Classic	Taylor Cassady
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	Mixed trad 170m, 10		Greg Nagy
Sat 30th Jul 2022 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb - with Ryan Cooper 1 8 18m lead by Ryan Cooper 2 13 40m lead by Jacob Henwood 3 9 16m lead by Ryan Cooper 4 8 45m lead by Jacob Henwood 5 13 21m lead by Ryan Cooper 6 8 26m lead by Jacob Henwood	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Jacob Henwood
Take snacks. I can't climb 170m without snacks. I can't do much without snacks. I'm weak like that.
Sun 16th Jan 2022 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Alex Mantaut
Sun 4th Jul 2021 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb - with Nathan Murdoch	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Katie Bowers
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	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	James Hockey
Classic ramble
Sun 13th Jun 2021 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10		William Skea
Sun 25th Apr 2021 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10		Macca Hill
	13	★★ Tom Thumb - with Macca Hill	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★ Good	Ryan Hill
Sat 3rd Apr 2021 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★★ Mega Classic	James
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!
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	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	maaddzzyy
Wed 3rd Feb 2021 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb - with Zi Hui Lie 1 8 18m lead by Anton Korsun 2 13 40m lead by Anton Korsun 3 9 16m lead by Anton Korsun 4 8 45m lead by Zi Hui Lie 5 13 21m lead by Zi Hui Lie 6 8 26m lead by Zi Hui Lie	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Anton Korsun
Much faster than last time. 7 hours C2C pitched out (not including sunset lunch).
Sat 16th Jan 2021 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb - with Brendon Flanagan	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Phuong Ho
Sat 14th Nov 2020 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Alexander bacon
Sat 10th Oct 2020 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Matthew Ashworth
Sat 12th Sep 2020 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★ Good	rickau
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.
Tue 8th Sep 2020 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb - with Fernando Diaz	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Alexander bacon
Sun 30th Aug 2020 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb - with Dmitry Linkov 1 8 18m lead by Dmitry Linkov 2 13 40m lead by Dmitry Linkov 3 9 16m lead by Dmitry Linkov 4 8 45m lead by Dmitry Linkov 5 13 21m lead by Dmitry Linkov 6 8 26m lead by Dmitry Linkov	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★★ Classic	Tyler Sydney
	13	★★ Tom Thumb - with Tyler Sydney	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Dmitry Linkov
Sun 15th Sep 2019 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10		Earl Paras
Sat 4th May 2019 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Diego Perez
Sat 27th Apr 2019 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Joel Ovington
Good day out and adventurous for the grade. Good mix of natural pro and carrots where needed (if you can find them)
Sat 13th Apr 2019 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	12	★★ Tom Thumb - with David Shapira 1 12 150m 2 3 4 5 6	Mixed trad 150m, 10		Charlie Webb
Fri 5th Apr 2019 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10		Romain
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	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	George Kenelm Kerswell
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.
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	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★★ Classic	Stefan
Fri 25th May 2018 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb - with Harley Von	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Tim gayton
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.
Sat 17th Feb 2018 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★★ Classic	Chris Bennetts-Cash
Hot.
Sat 2nd Sep 2017 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb - with Nikhilesh Sharma	Mixed trad 170m, 10	Average	Luke C
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	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Tim Richards
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	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Scott Bishop
Wed 28th Dec 2016 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb - with Patrick	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★★ Mega Classic	James
Fun day out with Pat and Nate. Beautiful views. Needed to take more water!
Sun 9th Oct 2016 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★★ Mega Classic	Nick van der Kooi
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.
Tue 29th Mar 2016 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Callum Cruickshank
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	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★★ Classic	Jarred
great fun, very enjoyable
Sun 7th Feb 2016 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb - with Timo Siebeck	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Enrico Stahn
Sat 7th Feb 2015 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★ Good	Sam May
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.
Thu 13th Mar 2014 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10		Jake Griffiths
First Multipitch a while back, thought I logged it but apparently not. Last pitch in the dark with head torches haha
Sat 11th May 2013 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Steve Teng
Wed 9th Jan 2013 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★★ Classic	Sam May
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.
Sat 1st Dec 2012 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10		Stephen Winnacott
Tue 14th Feb 2012 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb - with alisha borglund, Alisha Borglund	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★ Good	William Borglund
Great day out. Fun rap in and easy climbing out.
Sun 8th May 2011 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★★ Classic	Radka
Wed 24th Nov 2010 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★ Good	Jack
Not so nice in the summer sun. Fun day out!
Sun 13th Apr 2008 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Dave Rigter
really nice intro to multipitch climbing. Great views
Tue 1st May 2007 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	jenka
Went back and lead it.
Sat 10th Feb 2007 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★ Good	Jim Croft
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.
Sat 9th Apr 2005 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★ Good	Nathan Timms
Sat 5th Mar 2005 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
	13	★★ Tom Thumb	Mixed trad 170m, 10	★★ Very Good	Mike Patterson
nice alpine style positions

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