Ascents in The Colosseum

Good route! Just hard for the grade like everything else here…

Wasps!

Another nowra sandbag

Another nowra sandbag

Pretty interesting for a 22…?

Pretty stiff

Really great climbing until the nails finale which I couldn’t figure out.

Heinous move at the start then more solid climbing! Could be a few grades above 23 but good regardless.

Nails at the grade but a good route that’s worth doing.

Not quite. End of day attempt and humid. Very plausible another day.

Awesome! Actually might be correct for the grade!

This is a good climb but man those last few sequences to the top are nails at the grade.

hard finish. Just needed fresh fingers. Probably more like 24

Excellent! Sloper crux down low then great finger crack corner.

Great route. Ended up using the crimp to the right. Super sustained. Get on it!

Superb route! Love your work Graeme Hill. Not even that hard for the grade.

Had a go brushing all the holds, got shut down by that damn first move again, couldn’t commit to it with the unpleasant conditions. The rest of it is still brilliant.

Thought this was the 20, finish is nails for 22, maybe 24/25. Packs some great variety of moves for such a short route, and even a kneebar no hands rest!

putting the anchor draws on must add a couple grades, great until then

far out thats a lot of slopers, surprisingly really fun tho

Way better than it looks. That first move is sick but super low percentage, got from there to the anchors with 2 small rests.

clean from first bolt. Just gotta sort the first move

Superb slopy climbing. Probably a little hard for the grade.

Wow! its actually 20! (if you clip anchors from below) with the last move its pretty hard. The topo in the book is incorrect.

Onsight up to last bolt. But couldnt figure out the last move. Seems utterly nails for the grade.

Rad moves

draws up and bush.

draws up and a brush. Was quite dirty

lovely slopers. Great climbing. the knob is an awesome hold. Probably the easiest of the 22s on this wall

Another great route with a pretty balancy crux

draws up and a brush. Was quite dirty

What a joke. Harder than the 22 and 25 that we also climbed that day and not nearly as fun as either.

Really fun and not your usual Nowra fare.

The topo in the guide book seems to be off by one for this climb. Originally jumped onto this thinking it was the 20 to the left. Again, great climb, but was haaaaaaard, even for 22. And the move guarding the anchors seems ridonculous. Just couldn't do it no matter what I tried.

Super stoked to get to the 4th clip on onsight attempt. But the final moves to the anchors were pretty nails. Repeated falls. As mentioned by others, the 20 grade is yet another sandbag on this wall. But, awesome climb regardless, so long as you can handle the first few metres of baked on bat/bird shit....