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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Sun 15th Feb 2009 | |||||
i honestly don't know how to rate this climb. i totally lost it, i was emotionally, physically & mentally ruined when i got out of this. a few positives is that i did not give up, i did manage to have some technique at the top. a big thankyou to Col for getting me out
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Tue 13th Apr 2010 | |||||
17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Tue 13th Apr 2010 | |||||
17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Average | Wed 1st Jun 2005 | ||||
17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★ Good | Fri 25th Feb 2005 | ||||
17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★ Good | Thu 18th Aug 2005 | ||||
With Gareth - an interesting adventure...sooner or later I had to go down this thing - lots of bats!!
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Don't Bother | Thu 6th Jul 2006 | ||||
call us stupid or ballsy (i think the former!!) but we decided to do this properly and pull the rapel rope for a lead from the bottom - yes it was a bit despairing looking up to a little patch of light!!!
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Average | Sun 15th Mar 2009 | ||||
i honestly don't know how to rate this climb. i totally lost it, i was emotionally, physically & mentally ruined when i got out of this. a few positives is that i did not give up, i did manage to have some technique at the top. a big thankyou to Col for getting me out, i am glad that i did it in the end
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★ Very Good | Thu 6th Jul 2006 | ||||
u gotta do it! think most of the smell is actually bat piss as they were everywhere! runout sus gear in mud..
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★ Good | Mon 18th Dec 2006 | ||||
I should go back and lead next time.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Average | Thu 18th Aug 2005 | ||||
not the most spectacular climbing but a novel experience. with Scott F. Only head down there if you like bat guano smell and guano clogged cracks.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | 1973 | |||||
17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Average | Sun 15th Feb 2009 | ||||
i honestly don't know how to rate this climb. i totally lost it, i was emotionally, physically & mentally ruined when i got out of this. a few positives is that i did not give up, i did manage to have some technique at the top. a big thankyou to Col for getting me out, i am glad that i did it in the end - it went in wrong - i dogged this so bad!!!
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Oct 2011 | |||||
17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★ Good | Thu 7th Jul 2016 | ||||
Surprising fun, and with no evidence of it ever having been used as a toilet. 25m lower to nearly the bottom. (A horrifically tight hole continued another 5-10m.) The hole is narrow (front to back) but quite long (side to side). Easy chimneying up from there with a nice hand crack appearing a short way up and continuing all the way to the top. Felt very soft for the grade.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Dani Hess | 30m | Mon 1st May 2017 | |||||
What an adventure! There's nothing quite like pulling your rope after abseiling 30m down a hole and just hoping you can make it out. Kudos to the first ascentionists.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Average | Fri 12th May 2017 | ||||
17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Fri 28th Jul 2017 | |||||
17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Mon 7th Aug 2017 | |||||
Only the top 2/3. Was too dark w/out a headtorch to start from the very bottom.
Was dry, acceptably clean and no fecal matter. |
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Sean Peters | 30m | Sun 10th Sep 2017 | |||||
An experience! Nothing for you, if you don't like tight chimneys or have claustrophobia. Otherwise, do it! It doesn't even smell bad down there haha
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Classic | Tue 24th Oct 2017 | ||||
This is such a mad adventure!!! Who wouldn't want to rap 25m down a cave and pull the ropes ... Okay maybe most people wouldn't, but mad props to those who do, especially the first ascentionists. You want to be decently versed in chimneying before you pull the ropes. Linked this directly into Hell's Angels (without touching the ground) to make it the longest vertical route at Frog. Ryan called the linkup, "River Styx". Well worth it. Giving this "Classic", just for the pure novelty of it.
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19 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Fri 13th Jul 2018 | ||||
What a classic climb! Should be a must do. Disappointed not to get it clean, would be quite challenging to adequately protect with standard gear.
Lower down to the floor at about 30m. First section a unique and somewhat desperate squeeze chimney with occasional chockstones to ledge, then blast up chimney with twin crack feature and delight in your rebirth at the climb entrance.
Felt harder for grade, but how do you grade a squeeze chimney ? Should do more of this size. |
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with davedave | 30m | ★ Good | Fri 13th Jul 2018 | ||||
did this for the experience only. felt quite destroyed after conquistador and DD so jugged after a while of hard chimneying. felt like fun caving!
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Classic | Wed 11th Jul 2018 | ||||
Why is this so hated? Dont pull your rope of course, far out that would be a bad day, but as a top rope chimney practice, plenty of fun
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Steffi Quijote, Gavin | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Wed 11th Jul 2018 | ||||
Great route, just don't pull the rope!
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Fri 27th Jul 2018 | ||||
30m deep cave chimney... Pulling the ropes down there was fun... my headlmap ran out of battery after 5 metres
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★ Good | Sun 11th Nov 2018 | ||||
Knocked this off my bucket list! Glad I’ve done it, it was a wicked adventure, but I never intend to do it again. Incredible experience but a terrible climb.
The bottom is not as tight as it looks, don’t be put off by the size. It’ll never host a party, but 2 people fit fine. Super slippery, I fell multiple times in the lower squeeze but re-wedged myself each time before flattening my belayer (or weighting any gear). Some cool 3 dimensional movement in places. Gear beta: Use passive gear, cams just aren’t secure in the general dirtiness of the rock. The layer of soft calcite over everything also makes any cams pretty suspect. I thought the available pro was adequate. |
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Sun 11th Nov 2018 | |||||
17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Classic | Sun 19th May 2019 | ||||
So me and Ryan dropped my green cam down this ... hence the top-rope ascent from having to get lowered down to retrieve it! A great unexpected mini-epic. PS - the chimneying on this is some of the most varied and interesting mid-size chimneying I've done. So good! Everyone get on it!
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Dan Cox, Vincent Tran | 30m | Fri 5th Jun 2020 | |||||
Hardest 17 I've ever done. Memorable experience. One and done!
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Alan K, Vincent Tran | 30m | Fri 5th Jun 2020 | |||||
Just for fun, never again.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Dick | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Thu 6th Aug 2020 | ||||
This fucking broke me for the day, both via exhaustion, pain, and because I kept compulsively knee barring and thrutching what should have been perfectly normal moves on other climbs later. On the plus side, a lot better at tight chimneying than when we went down there Recommend wearing long pants. And maybe just stop halfway down where the rock, gear and climbing are all quite good. The bottom half...
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Josephine Roper | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Thu 6th Aug 2020 | ||||
Memorable. An adventure. Type 2 fun. Borderline type 3. Never, ever, again =D
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Dylan Glavas | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Fri 18th Dec 2020 | ||||
Set out in search of an adventure. Was not dissapointed! Bottom half was absolute trash, thrutching my way up a tiny chimney as the big slab wall was too moist. Would not force my worst enemy down that hell hole. Top half was epic, but protection was limited. Easy, sick climbing to a victorious and well anticipated topout. Took a minimum of 4 beers to recover from this ordeal.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Lee Prescott | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Fri 18th Dec 2020 | ||||
(Would recomeneded waiting a while to climb this after rain) Pure shitfest, manky, disgusting, call it what you will, it was fucked. The second half was alright.. First half was absolutely disgusting, especially after recent rain. Itd probably be alright if the slab wall was dry. If you want to get scratched up, dirty and grunt for 30 minutes up a filthy half body in half body out chimney then this is for you, spent approx 3 and half hours in this hell hole belaying and climbing. Would rather cop 2 pencils through each eye. Also prussiked a metre or 2 on the rap rope past a gross section.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Tyler | 30m | ★★★ Classic | Mon 28th Dec 2020 | ||||
Not the most inspiring climbing, but a fun adventure and one of the only routes you can climb in the middle of the day in summer!
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Wed 27th Jan 2021 | ||||
17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★ Good | Mon 28th Dec 2020 | ||||
Great for the story... smells like piss. 10/10
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Ruth | 30m | ★★ Very Good | Mon 8th Feb 2021 | ||||
Definitely one to do at least once.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Jarred Vardy, Genevieve Forshaw, Ruth | 30m | Mon 15th Feb 2021 | |||||
I've heard so much about this route and thought "you've gotta try everything once... right?". Well it's pretty much what all the descriptions and comments say. Type 2 fun for the first half (wet, muddy, limited holds, practically no pro, etc), but it certainly makes the top half feel like a 5 star climb and the feeling of accomplishment crawling out into daylight is pretty incredible!
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Sun 24th Apr 2022 | |||||
Actually quite a fun and unique outing once you accept you are going to get dirty. What's less fun is topping out & the rope has gotten stuck, having to go all the way back to the very bottom, then jumar back out again.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Sun 24th Apr 2022 | |||||
Actually quite a fun and unique outing once you accept you are going to get dirty. What's less fun is topping out & the rope has gotten stuck, having to go all the way back to the very bottom, then jumar back out again.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Tue 12th Jul 2022 | |||||
17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Nick Gresham | 30m | ★★ Very Good | Sat 20th Aug 2022 | ||||
Exhausting. Full body pump
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Sat 20th Aug 2022 | |||||
This climb is not good for ones general health
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Sunny | 30m | ★ Good | Mon 12th Sep 2022 | ||||
17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sat 4th Mar 2023 | ||||
Psalm 139:7-12. Wow, what a surreal experience climbing in a subterranean chimney! Alone on the crag rappelling down into the belly of the mountain with awe and trepidation of what waited below, I climbed out into the late arvo sullied and sweaty yet refreshed and transformed by my time in the depths. Chimneying through a strange world, circled by moths eyes flashing red, spider webs with water catching diamonds in the lamplight and the silence; no outside noise just the sound of harness scrapping up the wall and deep breathing rising towards the bright.
It was desperately wet at the bottom and so i had to jug three or four meters of the lower section. I wouldn't lead it in its current state and with the limited pro down low but hopefully with time drying out I'll make a return. A must do climb for all its uniqueness at frog. Incredible! |
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Umberto Schena | 30m | Sat 15th Apr 2023 | |||||
17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Steve M, Sam J | 30m | Sat 29th Apr 2023 | |||||
17 | ★★ Macraderma - with dave j, amos j, Tom James, Caroline Dinon | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sat 29th Apr 2023 | ||||
Top rope train on frog's secret chimney, drying out nicely and so satisfying to climb.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Thu 11th May 2023 | ||||
Hot down there this arvo, had me working hard. Ready for the lead
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with yim | 30m | ★★ Very Good | Sun 21st May 2023 | ||||
I don't know how yim convinced me to go down this hole in the ground. It was pitch black and covered in dirt and bugs. Full on chimney the whole way up sacrificing pants and elbow skin along the way. Good to do once and then convince others to do it
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with yim, Thomas Oulié | 30m | Sun 21st May 2023 | |||||
Such a unique route, everyone should do at-least once
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with James Anthony | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Fri 2nd Jun 2023 | ||||
Satisfying lead down under with great flow and moves.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Rach | 30m | Sun 18th Jun 2023 | |||||
A ride down to the basement to cap of Rach's stellar trip and her final climb and she loved it. "It feels like I'm giving birth!" - "It feels like I've been reborn!" A frog rite of passage
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Amanda | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sun 18th Jun 2023 | ||||
Just to feel the flow - no no, this time down to retrieve dropped gear. No metamorphosis for me, just a lot of grunt and a bloodied knee.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★ Good | Mon 26th Jun 2023 | ||||
Foooookin nails hard down the bottom
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Wed 5th Jul 2023 | ||||
theres no way people lead this and pull the rope
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Wed 12th Jul 2023 | |||||
What a cosy little hidey hole
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Wed 12th Jul 2023 | ||||
17 Hard | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Average | Wed 19th Jul 2023 | ||||
An experience
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sat 22nd Jul 2023 | ||||
Filthy down there this arvo, needs a good vacuum.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Mad Dog Mike | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Thu 27th Jul 2023 | ||||
Welcome to bat country Mike.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Thu 3rd Aug 2023 | ||||
From the womb of the mother earth I have been reborn anew. Hats off to those with enough self-loathing to lower in and pull the rope.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 150m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sat 5th Aug 2023 | ||||
X5 clean laps and saw my first bat!
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 90m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sat 26th Aug 2023 | ||||
Three shots of the good stuff. No.2 traversed over from big ledge at halfway to other side for a change of scenery, unroped and climbed a short handcrack and then chockstone hopped up and out the other side. The perspective change revealed a sweet looking diagonal crack that rises up from the other side to the Macraderma entrance.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Amos | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sat 2nd Sep 2023 | ||||
Down climbed route top to bottom and then back up.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 60m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sun 3rd Sep 2023 | ||||
x2 laps
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sun 10th Sep 2023 | ||||
Someone's taken a leak down there recently, bit of a stink up top.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Tom James, amos j, dave j | 60m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Fri 15th Sep 2023 | ||||
Big bachelor got his first run down Macra; a pefect metaphor for marriage. X1 lap in the dark challenge and another as a speed challenge, 3:38 for myself then promptly beaten by bro with 2:58– luv it.
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17 ~19 | ★★ Macraderma - with Sam J | 30m | Average | Fri 15th Sep 2023 | ||||
Lower yourself into the pit of despair. Filthy, and dark, bring your headlamp. Emerge back to the harsh daylight, battered and sweaty.. if you like suffering this one is for you. 17 seems a bit of a sandbag..
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Jul 2023 | |||||
Holy shit
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Sat 4th May 2024 | |||||
Hello darkness my old friend
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Mon 6th May 2024 | |||||
I've come to talk with you again
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