Showing all 59 ascents.
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Mon 6th May 2024 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | |||||
I've come to talk with you again
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Sat 4th May 2024 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | |||||
Hello darkness my old friend
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Fri 15th Sep 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 ~19 | ★★ Macraderma - with Sam J | 30m | Average | ||||
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 - with Tom James, amos j, dave j | 60m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
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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Sun 10th Sep 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Someone's taken a leak down there recently, bit of a stink up top.
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Sun 3rd Sep 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 60m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
x2 laps
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Sat 2nd Sep 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Amos | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Down climbed route top to bottom and then back up.
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Sat 26th Aug 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 90m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
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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Sat 5th Aug 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 150m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
X5 clean laps and saw my first bat!
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Thu 3rd Aug 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
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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Thu 27th Jul 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Mad Dog Mike | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Welcome to bat country Mike.
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Sat 22nd Jul 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Filthy down there this arvo, needs a good vacuum.
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Wed 19th Jul 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 Hard | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Average | ||||
An experience
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Wed 12th Jul 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | |||||
What a cosy little hidey hole
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Wed 5th Jul 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
theres no way people lead this and pull the rope
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Jul 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | |||||
Holy shit
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Mon 26th Jun 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★ Good | ||||
Foooookin nails hard down the bottom
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Sun 18th Jun 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Amanda | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
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 - with Rach | 30m | |||||
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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Fri 2nd Jun 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with James Anthony | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Satisfying lead down under with great flow and moves.
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Sun 21st May 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with yim, Thomas Oulié | 30m | |||||
Such a unique route, everyone should do at-least once
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with yim | 30m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
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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Thu 11th May 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Hot down there this arvo, had me working hard. Ready for the lead
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Sat 29th Apr 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with dave j, amos j, Tom James, Caroline Dinon | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Top rope train on frog's secret chimney, drying out nicely and so satisfying to climb.
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Sat 4th Mar 2023 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
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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Sat 20th Aug 2022 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | |||||
This climb is not good for ones general health
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Nick Gresham | 30m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Exhausting. Full body pump
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Sun 24th Apr 2022 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
West of the access track | |||||||
17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | |||||
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 | |||||
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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Mon 15th Feb 2021 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Jarred Vardy, Genevieve Forshaw, Ruth | 30m | |||||
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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Mon 8th Feb 2021 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Ruth | 30m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Definitely one to do at least once.
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Mon 28th Dec 2020 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★ Good | ||||
Great for the story... smells like piss. 10/10
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Tyler | 30m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
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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Fri 18th Dec 2020 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Lee Prescott | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
(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 Dylan Glavas | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
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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Thu 6th Aug 2020 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Josephine Roper | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Memorable. An adventure. Type 2 fun. Borderline type 3. Never, ever, again =D
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Dick | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
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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Fri 5th Jun 2020 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Alan K, Vincent Tran | 30m | |||||
Just for fun, never again.
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Dan Cox, Vincent Tran | 30m | |||||
Hardest 17 I've ever done. Memorable experience. One and done!
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Sun 19th May 2019 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
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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Sun 11th Nov 2018 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★ Good | ||||
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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Fri 27th Jul 2018 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
30m deep cave chimney... Pulling the ropes down there was fun... my headlmap ran out of battery after 5 metres
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Fri 13th Jul 2018 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with davedave | 30m | ★ Good | ||||
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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19 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
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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Wed 11th Jul 2018 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Steffi Quijote, Gavin | 30m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Great route, just don't pull the rope!
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
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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Tue 24th Oct 2017 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
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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Sun 10th Sep 2017 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Sean Peters | 30m | |||||
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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Mon 7th Aug 2017 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | |||||
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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Mon 1st May 2017 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma - with Dani Hess | 30m | |||||
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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Thu 7th Jul 2016 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★ Good | ||||
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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Sun 15th Mar 2009 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Average | ||||
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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Sun 15th Feb 2009 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Average | ||||
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 | |||||
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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Mon 18th Dec 2006 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★ Good | ||||
I should go back and lead next time.
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Thu 6th Jul 2006 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
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 | Don't Bother | ||||
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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Thu 18th Aug 2005 - Frog Buttress | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Macraderma | 30m | Average | ||||
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 | ★ Good | ||||
With Gareth - an interesting adventure...sooner or later I had to go down this thing - lots of bats!!
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