Ascents: Ascents in Absent Friends Buttress

	Grade	Route	Gear style	Crag	Quality	Climber	Date
	23	★★ The Great Unknown - with the troopers	Trad 15m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Chris Speer	Fri 27th Jan 2023
Ice cream grade for an onsight. Technical, sustained and dirty. Nice little route.
	20	★ Good Friends - with Martin	Trad 12m	South Sister	★ Good	Cameron Semple	Sun 8th Nov 2020
Short and tough
	20	★★ The Loner - with Martin	Trad 16m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Cameron Semple	Sun 8th Nov 2020
Bit easier than it looked. Made use of some flexible holds though.
	20	★★ The Loner - with Stevie	Trad 16m	South Sister		Fraser	Mon 1st Mar 2021
Plugged in a #4 at just over half height then ran it out to the top, slowly while contemplating the monster whipper as my rope was running over a nice sharp edge.
	20	★★ The Loner	Trad 16m	South Sister	★ Good	Sami	Sun 30th May 2021
	20	★★ Absent Ascensionist	Trad 16m	South Sister		Fraser	Sun 30th May 2021
pretty damn good
	20	★ Good Friends	Trad 12m	South Sister		Fraser	Sun 30th May 2021
	20	★★ Three Ancient Treasures	Trad 13m	South Sister		Fraser	Sun 30th May 2021
classic finger licking crack
	20	★★ Absent Ascensionist	Trad 16m	South Sister		Sami	Sun 30th May 2021
	20	★ Good Friends - with Will Grant	Trad 12m	South Sister	★ Good	Ewan Barry	Fri 3rd Sep 2021
Short and sharp, hardest part is working out which way to top out. Good of you want a bit more of a boulders route
	20	★★ Absent Ascensionist - with Zach	Trad 16m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Tiburonny	Thu 30th Dec 2021
probably the easiest of the lot
	20	★ Good Friends - with Cameron, Faser, Fraser, Fletcher, Aaron	Trad 12m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Chris Speer	Sun 28th Aug 2022
Short, hard, excellent finger crack.
	20	★★ Three Ancient Treasures - with Cameron, Faser, Fraser, Fletcher, Aaron	Trad 13m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Chris Speer	Sun 28th Aug 2022
Easier than the one to the left with a harder finish. Great thin hand jams.
	20	★★ Absent Ascensionist - with Cameron, Faser, Fraser, Fletcher, Aaron	Trad 16m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Chris Speer	Sun 28th Aug 2022
Another excellent widening crack from hands, fists, off-width.
	20	★★ The Loner - with the troopers	Trad 16m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Chris Speer	Fri 27th Jan 2023
Interesting offwidthing using a variety of techniques. Good stuff.
	18	★★ Absent Friends - with Martin	Trad 16m	South Sister	★★★ Classic	Cameron Semple	Sun 8th Nov 2020
Another classic hand crack.
	18	★★ Absent Friends - with Stevie	Trad 16m	South Sister		Fraser	Mon 1st Mar 2021
classic, splitter #2s the whole way.
	18	Couple of Lost boys - with Stevie	Trad 15m	South Sister		Fraser	Mon 1st Mar 2021
nice and thrutchy very slow climbing
	18	★★ Absent Friends - with Will Grant	Trad 16m	South Sister	★ Good	Ewan Barry	Fri 3rd Sep 2021
Top half makes it worth while, straight jamming to the top
	18	★★ Absent Friends - with Cameron, Faser, Fraser, Fletcher, Aaron	Trad 16m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Chris Speer	Sun 28th Aug 2022
Nice hand jamming. Easy for the grade.
	17	Adjacent Friend. - with Henry Garratt	Trad 18m	South Sister		Fraser	Sun 30th May 2021
	16	★ Knerd Knowledge - with Will Grant	Trad 7m	South Sister	Don't Bother	Ewan Barry	Fri 3rd Sep 2021
Licheny and short
	23	★★ The Great Unknown - with Stevie	Trad 15m	South Sister		Fraser	Mon 1st Mar 2021
first climb of the day, very slow going.
	23 Easy	★★ The Heights of Zaphon - with dan	Trad 16m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Chris Speer	Sat 28th Oct 2023
Full value route. Techy bridging with small gear into interesting traverse into glorious finger crack. Nice.
	20	★ Good Friends - with dan	Trad 12m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Chris Speer	Sat 28th Oct 2023
Repeat
	20 ~19	★★ Three Ancient Treasures - with dan	Trad 13m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Chris Speer	Sat 28th Oct 2023
Repeat
	23	★★ The Heights of Zaphon	Trad 16m	South Sister		Fraser	Sun 30th May 2021
	23	★★ The Heights of Zaphon - with aaron, Chris Speer	Trad 16m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Fraser	Mon 29th Aug 2022
took a few attempts to figure out the first three meters. Couldnt be bothered to remove gear between burns so on the send go i had a piece of pro at 3m pre placed. definitely recommend this, the second half of the pitch using the glorious left finger crack made it very worthwhile
	20	★ Good Friends - with Zach	Trad 12m	South Sister	★ Good	Tiburonny	Thu 30th Dec 2021
2nd go, nice sequency climbing
	16	★ Knerd Knowledge - with Henry Garratt, Will Grant	Trad 11m	South Sister		Fraser	Sun 30th May 2021
Good job will!
	20	★★ Three Ancient Treasures - with Martin	Trad 13m	South Sister	★ Good	Cameron Semple	Sun 8th Nov 2020
Not as thin as it looked. Bit dirty.
	20 ~19	★★ Three Ancient Treasures - with the troopers	Trad 13m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Chris Speer	Fri 27th Jan 2023
Repeat. This is on par with Pleasure in the Pain. So needs a downgrade.
	18	★★ Absent Friends	Trad 16m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Sami	Sun 30th May 2021
	18 ~17	★★ Absent Friends - with the troopers	Trad 16m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Chris Speer	Fri 27th Jan 2023
Repeat. Perfect hands and soft.
	18 ~17	★★ Absent Friends - with dan	Trad 16m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Chris Speer	Sat 28th Oct 2023
Repeat
	20	★★ Three Ancient Treasures	Trad 13m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Sami	Sun 30th May 2021
Fell near the top. Sustained finger crack without much on the side to help. Aspire to improve at this style.
	20	★★ The Loner - with Zach	Trad 16m	South Sister	★★ Very Good	Tiburonny	Thu 30th Dec 2021
grunt fest