Crag Guide for Frog Buttress

Sequency stuff. Would get a star anywhere else.

With Laura. Ok.

with 1 rest

with Sandra, warm up

with Sandra, finally ticked this one

With Luke

Middle crack is hard... feels like 21/22.

So so close almost to the jam :(

putting gear on

Death lead. Good climbing though!

piker's non contrived (scared) version

First lead in a LONG time. Sketchy!

Great route, good jamming practice.

first ever trad lead. had to figure out the starting moves before pushing thru the rest of the cl...

Had to do this slimy thing as I tried to warm up on Plate tectonics in the sun on day9.........go...

Pretty good climb. Probably worth linking with MP

After mistaking Yeah, Yeah, Yeah for this climb and failing it was good to jump on this climb and...

Jumped on this climb by mistake thinking that it was Wizards Back having not read the guide prope...

Contrived is an understatment.You could climb the crux 1m to the left at about 18.Only has 1 pito...

awesome moves on this one! great climb, wicked cracks & good gear placement the whole way!!

2nd climb of the day, very enjoyable with some thought provoking movement in the off width bits. ...

A few tricky moves with a stuffed ankle

Odd, awkward climb. Finished up IB. With Warren.

Nice easy climb up the corner.

Seconded no-chalk Rob. Climbed in my hiking boots -not a great way to do this climb-. A pretty or...

Lead succssfully past crux, then I failed to commit to the last 3m as a groundfall was a certaint...

Good gear to 2/3 height. No gear after that. The climbing isn't hard, it is just a headpoint. ...

I found this hard. Blazing sun, bad headspace. YOUCH!

Kinda tricky, not in a great mindset.

Crack, perhaps my favourite so far. Interesting moves, loads of fun. Can be done with holes in le...

Seconding Laura

with matt, not the best but another ticker off the list.

Almost came off!

Nice climbing. Had to come down and get my bigger cams that I forgot to rack.

with lara,

My apologies to the tree on sorry day.

Hats off to Alex for leading this scary mother!

Cruisy and fun.

Clean, but quite desperate and messy for the crux move.

Not sure of the point of this one.

OK VS to RK

good climbing but some poor rock and pro

With Damien. Start felt hard today

In Boots

First time climbing this one. Nice moves, bit punchy

With Lysanne and Chad.

Damn I wish I could jamB!

Seconding Laura.

First climb at frog! Great intro, plenty of gear, not hard but still interesting.

had 2nd'd before. A bit short, but exciting to the bolt. Good moves

also 13.6.02

An unusual climb of dubious merit.

with russel, my mission to tick all the climbs at frog, got to do the crap ones.

Hope I was off-route, but suspect I wasn't.

2001

University of hand jamming

First lead at frog, rested nut probably shouldn't have

TR'd this as part of my Stars up & down warm-up.

Ross did really well on this. 6m is a substantial runout!

Classic although face climbing, nice to mix it up a bit, and slightly tricky gear.

Worlds easiest 21. Probably on the money at soft-ish 20. Regardless of grade, this is an amazing ...

Had so much fun on this great little climb! Thanks nigel

Took the chimney option at the top. Totally different climbing than i'm used too. Pretty cool.

Wandery but worthwhile.

Moves are good, rock is crap, gear is some ware in between

A cool recess on another sweaty day.

Hard work for the grade, even harder with my ankle

I finished out in a hanging finger crack in the arete. Great position!! Way longer than 12m the w...

not hard for the grade, but I suppose the gear is fiddly and there is a runout at the top

5 times

A bit loose (Mark ripped a block off on lead and plummeted), and very runout off the second bolt.

Really good! All wire/nut ascent for a bit of a laugh. The funky start is safe as houses with RPs...

1 RP for the crux

Great little climb, should be more popular.

Thought I'd give it a go with Andy, but my head wasn't in the zone. 10.8.2003 2nd Susy up this ...

ew a bit yuck, i got a bit scared and sent some rope down for some RPs

OK but I suspect I finished on Peaches and Cream

Pretty manky. Terry was in a masochistic mood. Still, it's tons better than the stuff I've been d...

"Let it be forgotten"...Couldn't agree more. Continued on towards top, making it a 45m climb.

the grade is for the first 4 metres. Half-a-day of climbing before trip washed out.

No fun. Hard start with tiny wires, then ledges with momentary good climbing in between.

Followed Pete. Insecure and scary.

pretty bold climbing. Happy not to fall off in a few spots. satisfying to get this one done after...

Thought this was tough for the grade. Pretty desperate mantle at the end of the middle section.

Had some fun struggling up the offwidth variant start...

20 in the current Frog guide. Harder than 18, but soft at 20. Started up the direct start, after ...

Great technical jambing in the middle section. Wasn't quite sure how to finish it off.

Worked on top rope a couple of times, better with tape, still feels insecure and hard.

Failed at the direct start. Need more practice on loose fingers, or just sack up and layback it.

an exciting finish- well worth it!

Balancy and a bit thrilling

One hard move, but good to try something different.

sandbaged?

hard to find but good, packs it in for 8m

1983 M.M.

with Susy. What a shoddy piece of crud

With Gareth. If stars are good and swastikas, say, are bad, then I give this climb 3 swastikas. O...

Just have to watch all the potential ledge falls.

This is shithouse, take a gerni with you to clean it prior to climbing, Chris Cromptons first climb

Handy tip #93: when grabbing a tree, make sure the bark isn't about to pull off.

Really bad climb, but it provides a great way to kill the person belaying! Lots of loose rock (so...

Chris had some trouble and popped a Cam, so I got to warm down on it. Super awesome very fun climb.

Have to do a lap every trip! So fun

Well, I've been on Erg 2 years ago, does that mean i can still claim the onsight for Erg direct? ...

Wow! Everything from fingers to off-width. Struggled with the direct start, then needed a rest ar...

nice bouldery finish

I can see myself getting this but the direct start? May be some other time.

working shot. [1/2]

Awesome. Committing. Great route! 2nd shot

With Ben. It's hard to rate a climb you can't tick..

Rested at half height. Need to work on my technique in between finger and hand width... Nice though.

Immaculate line and climbing. How annoying is the new guidebook? This is not 22, it has been 21 f...

A bit dirty down low, but otherwise fantastic. Good gear, great position.

not too bad.

Stoked to tick this. The tough start doesnt make this climb as hard as some of the other 22s at F...

Awesome great fun to run a lap

What an awesome day! Duncan ticks the Kite, I cruise Debrilla. A day to remember!!!

4 times always lead from the ground up

Foot slipped, oh well

Deserves more stars in the guide. One of my favourite climbs yet. Pretty strenuous.

Inspired by the recent wide boyz film, had to get my offwidth on and break in the big cams I boug...

Seconded a couple of years ago. Good to come back and lead it.

It was only yesterday and already I can't remember anything about it... Nothing special I guess. ...

Fun route

with rob quite scary past the nutat the top

a worthwhile diversion to retrieve a stuck rope

only good when you get to fat matress

Would be better if it was longer

Absolutly desperate laybacking - 2nd shot with gear in place.

With young farty Gareth. Woo-hoo! Show me the gas man

With Gareth and Mario

Fantastic! My first experience hand/fist stacking in an off width, and it actually worked!

Great climb. Nice technical bottom section...then the offwidth. Good fun

There's a few tricky bits on this route. w/Simon and Monique

First day at Frog!!! w/Duncan Steel

1 fall

Ka boom. [0/2]

with Aaron

Secinding No-Chalk Rob. Very good value, but tough at the grade. 17 as per the new guide is proba...

With Laura. Some awkwardness in top half.

Fell less than 1m from the anchor seconding Duncan, could have done better!

Fell on last move on first shot. Buggere haha

I don't know how to climb this!!! 2nd time I've been on it

15 times

4 times

Very thin gear. Very happy Lee. [2/4]

With Mario. Amen. The opera is over. The fat lady has sung. RIP Satanic Majesty

...Sorry Suzy!

did it last year

thin, sustained, with powerful crux. 4th ascent. [4/6]

This is a great route despite the skull and crossbones in the guide

2nd Fran

Fell of the start. Then came back to ground and flashed rest on Mark g gear

Varied and slightly adventurous. Great! Two ropes and extenders were a must. Climbed in from the ...

"Warm up", following up Damo. Tough start sequence, nice technical climbing.

Bit tough for a warm up. Bit tough full stop. But good fun, lots of exposure and excitement.

10m runout or bail? Bail. Take bigger gear next time!

a long and absorbing lead. I think it deserves a star or two.

The warmup to a very bad day...

Ran out of big gear, Big Bros please

Did not enjoy the mantle ........shat myself. With rob

tempted to step into pollux but didn't. Good climbing

Found it hard - apparently I have no offwidthing techinique at all. Asside from that, quite nice.

Was expecting it to be much harder (after seeing someone resting beforehand), but it was straight...

Climbed on No-Chalk Rob's pre-placed gear to retrieve a stuck rope. Surprisingly good, and somewh...

With Graham. A bit awkward in places.

2 rests on my first shot

Lots of good rests along the way

First climb of the day, Little bit tricky at the crux. Can be done with holes in left shoe

With Jenna

Fantastic climb with a variety of challenges. Date?: Pleasant crack and face climb. Not a scary o...

Seconded Phil. Better than what the guide makes out. Almost worth a star, I reckon.

cruisy

I really had fun on this one

Tricky start. Average everything else.

Wussed out. Hard start.

Frog just kills me.

With Smelly, Nasty, Cranky, Burping Susy Gee Wizz

Loads of loose rock so wear your helmet! I had a cricket ball sized rock hit me square on top of...

It spanked me yesterday, forgot the moves, and the gear at the top freaked me out. Could not re...

hasn't seen much action for a while. Nice airy step around the arete.

Hard and sustained.

With Colin. Sweet climbing in great location with excellent pro.

Slippery fingerlocking and laybacking up smooth corner. Tough.

Thin and smooth.

Sweaty morning, hard work.

A 12 metre adventure. Get on it if your there. Found gear fiddly to place.

With Mario.

Worth a lap if you're there; maybe

With Mario

3rd lead attempt. Excellent movemont and a reasonably inspiring line. Up until this send, I alway...

The corner is now substantially less loose after we kicked the crap off it. Probably only about ...

With Brother Colin. The two key holds in the start of the V-groove can't be used as they're buste...

Threw away the onsight with a silly foot slip at the top, AFTER all the hard climbing, and landed...

Really good! A bit broken up, but great fun.

with Susy G, hard moves off ledges, nice to second. Did it in 2 pitches.

A bit desprate in spots. Good to do it once.

After 'pink pointing' the day before had to come back and place the gear, off the back of secondi...

pre placed gear 2 falls working head space

good commiting climbing. Hadn't been done for a while.

An interesting climb with varied sections. The chimney felt pretty hard with some interesting con...

Seconded No-chalk Rob. First pitch only to access Borderline 29. Good value at the grade with a w...

Climbed in the rain. The one move traverse is cool, but not as exhilerating as you might be led t...

Nice moves to get across to the flake.

Rap in, its good

worth rapping in to

OK if you avoid the chimney section

If you dont do the chimney, its good

My one "real" climb of the day.

With Ben. Fantastic climb worth more stars except for the chosspile up the top. Great crux on a f...

Wow, probably the hardest ive ever had to work for a trad 20. Tough all the way, and brutal towar...

Didnt read the guide, got on it because it was shady. nice climb just turned to sweaty mess. Alot...

Following Cam up, cold, didn't feel good.

Short and punchy. Sustained but not too cruxy. I enjoyed this one, felt like a bit of a sport cli...

A good beginner route with loads of gear.

Baby's first trad lead

Just a bit too contrived.

with ben deasy, contrived piece of crap. Why climb this when there is a classic 12 less than a m...

Kind of hard. 15 in guide book, I tend to agree

This was a fun/stressful bit. Quite desperate to get gear in.

Insignificant (unless you come off).

with ben deasy, contrived piece of crap, stick just to the right side of a 1m wide chimney.I don'...

Nothing of interest here.

Nice Climbing

The best of the short routes hereabouts.

Nice beginner climb to teach chimneying and stemming

Scott Camps called it ludicrous, so I stick to that!

This would be a very ballsy lead as pro is almost non existent apart from one bolt

Contrived, but in good taste; flowing moves.

The person who soloed this as an FFA has my total respect.

First route we climbed at Frog. Good fun Trad climbing.

Weird for first trad/crack experience

finally getting my movement back for frog

With Phil box. Not much gear in the top half, so ran it out.

Lara 2nd, felt harder than a 10!!!

with rory

Put the draws on for Cam, leaving the 2nd bolt clipped. Didn't bother going to the top, lowered o...

Second shot with the draws on, Zac educated me that this is a 'pink point' ( I always wonder what...

Nice hand-stacking in the first half, but got my knee stuck. Successfully body jammed my way up t...

With Rodney. Had to run it out with no Big-Bro

Good recovery for me since accident but was bad to top rope but aching to get out there

Good intro to frog for the newbies.

full on. black and blue alien needed.

I think it would be pretty hard to climb out of the tree onto the cliff. Nice climbing though.

Second go! So stoked that I hung on through the top onsight. Thanks Aaron for the super beta

wow, many rests, this is gonna take a lot of work and much cooler weather.

What a brilliant day's climbing. One of the best days at frog except for the heat. I stitched it ...

Interesting 1st half, dirty 2nd half.

okayish

Worst house in the neighbourhood. Quite hard if you stay in the crack and choss. My feet were lik...

Pretty dodgy rock in places, but lovely climbing. I chickened out left from the stance, couldn't ...

ground up

Very overgrown w ferns at start. digressed to left to avoid ferns. craig seconded. very nice over...

Meant as a warm up. Couldn't find route and it looked crappy, so I bailed.

finally! the conditions were good, i'm finally over that flu, i had no excuses left! Scott belaye...

first time leading it. first time i felt like i could climb since that dreaded flu wiped out frog...

Climbed this due to my partner backing off. I don't blame her as it felt a bit stiff but still a ...

Seconded no-chalk Rob. Did the grade 17 start. Of the easy climbs around this grade, id say that ...

Followed Cam up. Neat climb.

great warm up...

Hard needed more small gear needed rescue

Pre-placed first four pieces

Shakily up to the crux, pumped silly, a couple of falls, placed some dodgy gear, continued slowly...

one rest to get gear and one because i was stuffed

felt hard maybe 25

Paul led the first, and i did the top pitch. Punchy little climb, very airy. Three cruxes on ...

Warm up. Slowly slowly. Not really 100% on my climbing game.

Difficulties at the start, thought about bailing, continued on with sweltering expanding painful ...

2nd time I have folowed this route in a week.I think i will lead it soon.

a beautiful passage of stemming detracted by the tree and the climb thereafter.

Great moves.

Really nice Frog climbing. Cool step across to swap cracks.

Good fun and not to hard

End of the day, felt epic, wasn't pretty, hung on and still got it clean.

Really nice moves. Climbed smoothly.

only fell off the very last move! Great route, no gear for the first 15m though!

scarey

scarey

Death Route

Death death death. Hats off to Lindorf.

w/Monique

Got to the rest at 2/3 height first shot, then dog w/Duncan

Adam got the O/S. Realy sustained.

10 times always ground up

My first 26 onsight! The crux is about 5m off the deck but the whole route is really solid at th...

With Cate. Spring is here! 2nd shot on this. Still had to aid the start. Watched Cate tackle it, ...

With Damien. Wow! the flared jams section from about 7 metres, to the top, is absolutely fantasti...

clean 2nd try

had seconded on 2.5.04

No Onsight cause i belayed someone on this 2 years ago. Strenuous and kind of brutal right from t...

one rest

Still loving aretes! Delicate and awesome. Much nicer finish than Cock Corner.

with Ad

with Ad very bouldery and good

with Ad very bouldery and good

A very nice climb, and not too stiff at the grade. I didnt bring much big gear so the crux was gr...

Faffed with gear, placed some hexes, got there in the end.

I loved this climb but then I am into this kind of stuff. Great to see the gnome in the bottom of...

Fun getting back on this 2 years after it spanked me and spat me back out. Didnt feel too hard th...

Probably on of the best climbs I have ever done. Amazing jamming all the way up which all flowed ...

Repeat. 2 years ago this was such a struggle for the onsight, today i could just climb and enjoyt...

with Ben. Better than i thought!

A dull starting ramble leads to some amazingly sustained fingercrack movement with a few tough mo...

this didn't go well.

also 1998

Can't believe that this hasn't been climbed before, but could not find it in the guide. Once on t...

Is this the chimney off left of WC? Quite good!I was thinking grade 15

Very good beginners climb.

Used as an access pitch to get to Plume Ledge. Pretty fun little route though and a great beginne...

Finally got around to climbing the 2nd pitch! Character building stuff.

Trad lesson for Kristin. Got a bit dark.

Nice face-start. The crux is getting into that bloody awkward chimney.

Soloed up the face, then traversed off left.

With Graham.

overhanging hand crack, yay! very loose up top with boulders and dirt

Gear is adequate

Straightforward pulling with one nice throw.

Nice sharp, easy laybacking.

Hard work...a 14 off width???

First lead at Frog in a long time. Nice hand jamBing, just wish it was longer!

Followed Neets.

With Andrew. Crap.

accessing the plume ledge

My first lead at frog. I found it pretty difficult especially were the crack wides right at the t...

Seconded no-chalk Rob. The wide crack at the top is all chicken wing jams for me, and not very pl...

red point today first try.1 t/r lap last week.could be 1*

big runout between 2nd and third had me nervous

Last route of the week and managed to jam up it fairly easily. Great rout for practicing jamming.

first climb of the day, first proper crack climb ever. flashed apart from a foot slip at the very...

Grim, but I've had worse.

barefoot lap for fun.

With Damien. Bold and committing and difficult crux above 2 zero RPs and a number 1 peanut. Follo...

this would be a scary lead, my leader had to back down and went up WC 2

I did it OS on top rope, I don't think that I will ever lead it, Very SERIOUS

i was going to select "crap" but some people like offwidths.

Hmmm. dodgey rock but ok none the less

Went up it not knowing the grade and enjoyed it very much. gear is good enogh and rock is OK. Bet...

Awesome route with great jamming and some varied climbing up higher. exposed!. solid gear the who...

Seconded Tristan. Felt mostly pretty easy, one slightly grunty move and one slightly reachy move....

Gear was bigger and better than I remembered.

awesome climb

With Mark.

good practice

Used this to get to the top

dogged this years ago on second, nice on lead

As I work with Marty sometimes I had to give one of his roooots a crack. Very nice climb!!!

First route at frog for the year and first route there in about 4 months, loved this route would ...

Fun

Hard move near the top, which would be tricky to stop and place gear on.

probably wouldn't want to fall off this one.

Definately a gruntfest!

good grovelly fun

Good old style fun. more than 1 no.6 analogy would be nice!!

Had gear and rope already in up to 8m from previous days attempt. Very happy to get this clean on...

Seconded Cam. I thought the start was slightly off balance and hard, once I got into the crack th...

Seconding No-chalk Rob. This is my third time seconding this clean (without a tick) and it is sti...

foot hold snaped so i took a weee bit of a fall!

Seconding No-chalk Rob on the best lead fight ive ever seen him take on (and succeed). Great clim...

with Nick

Love the jams in the start, really cool all the way through! Face climb finish is difficult, but...

2 years ago i tried this and made a mess of it. Im stoked to be back here now and ticking it in f...

Finger locking practice. It hurts some.

rest on the traverse

Really good. Varied moves. Didn't do the direct start.

Found the direct start hard. The climb overall was amazing.

20 x average 20 with Ben

In the rain. Sustained at 19. Pretty cool and varied climbing with a real 3-dimensional feel due ...

Scared

Such a nice climb! A good mix of jamming, face climbing and even a little overhang!

Warm-up. Really good! I found the starting crack trickier than expected, but interesting all the ...