Ascents in Township Creek

Amazing line!!

Bailed on the 5th bolt on my second attempt. Great climbing, quite sideways and engaging, felt I would have been able to get up it if I weren’t covered in boob cheese and spent the whole day in the glaring sun. I am but a boy in playground of men.

A sick and twisted Narko-Martinian Joke on plebian climbers seeking a mild trad route in an otherwise burly area. Felt grades harder than Amundsun, and although very pleasing to look at, the climbing was not at all fun.

Got on after fireball for a consensual skin sacrifice. Got exactly what I asked for, skin is now fucked. Almost cooked it at the pinch

Fairly typical onsight story. Had hope and psych, started off bouldery, felt pretty insecure. kept it 'somewhat' together for the first half. Got to the crux and got completely shut down aha. Couldn't do the move, felt totally desperate, sacrificed all my skin flailing and eventually bailed.

Warm up, rad route!

Very nice flowing climbing even being wet

The best slab climb I've done.

Good climb, nice warm up for the harder routes. When we climbed it, the hanger, washer and nut for second bolt and one or two of the other nuts were loose. Next group to jump on might want to bring a wrench to tighten the bolts and put second back on. The parts for the second bolt have been placed at the back corner at the base of the route, blocked with a rock.

a good warm up

Wow.

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Fell on the final crux move after the last bolt on second shot. Awesome route.

Second shot.

I'm trying to think of a better arete climb in Tasmania, and struggling. Uniquely sustained.

Second redpoint. A bit soft, possibly 27/28

Tried for the onsight, got pretty close.

Cool arete with really weird rock on the face, heaps of lil crimps!

Felt much easier than last time!

If this is the one that starts the same as Edelweiss and then goes up to the rings at the start of Fat Alcoholic Slapper, it’s more like a 17/18

Mind bending beta

Brilliant moves, great location, body movement is delicous will be heading back to this naughty line asap

Can climb it to the bolts but can’t top out haha!

Took a small fall after first ledge

Good stuff , a bit soft for 18

Great climbing. Quite sustained. Would be a classic if it didn't have the ledge at 1/3 height.

Got shut down by a thin finger lock only a couple of metres up and ended up aiding my way through most of it in the hot sun. Great looking line. It would be good to come back and do it with a bit more style next time.

Really good. Maybe a soft touch at 18.

Really cool moves alternating between powerful and balancy, some of which I couldn't do.

2 shots. 1st was to reequip, rechalk, scrub dirty holds and try and remember the complex crux sequence. 2nd was the Send attempt, but I had a foot slip on the last move of the crux and circumcised my right fingertips in the fall. Pulled back on and went to the top. The route would probably go in another shot or two, but I just didnt want to even touch those 2 righthand razorblade holds again (probably the sharpest holds ive held in Tassie). I agree with Jed's climb breakdown below entirely. =(

Repeat. Still a great warmup, and again I climbed it without supplemental gear, bit DAMN that last bolt is in a deathtrap location. If you fall clipping it (fairly likely since you leave good holds and feet to traverse off-route on bad holds and feet for the clip) you WILL ground with 6 bolts up. Next time I'm back here I'm going to move the bolt myself.

THE line of the crag. "If you can walk past this without salivating, quit climbing and take up croquet! " A proud, slightly steep, blank arete on vibrant orange rock. 3 shots, but only figured out the main bouldery crux on my last lap. Gr23 arete to a stance before the crux. Prominant, sharp crimping and arete slapping crux with sapping moves to exit it. Then a stance before more powerful moves to turn a sentry-box roof. Mind-boggling bridging and high-foot rock-over toeing the arete post-crux.

Very cool face and arete climbing following a varying thin seam. Laybacking, crimping, fingerlocking... its all here in high quality. I climbed it without the optional cams, and im bloody glad I didn't fall from the end of the crux (would be an exciting, though safe fall). Rock is generally good quality, but not perfect. A very good warmup.

climbed first ascent placing gear after cleaning and top rope ascent. Trad with DBB . The appealing crack, on left when descending the approach gully.

Ingvar warned me that this was ALMOST 8a grade, yet he still managed to talk me into giving it a go. Hmmm... gr29 arete climbing is involved, technical and tenuous even getting off the ground. Climbed to the end of the crux (with 1 million falls and rests) then bailed from the (slightly) easier upper section to give my skin and poor belayer a rest. Put together most of the moves bar one that I cant quite do, but I'm not fit enough to link. Perfect rock, hypertechnical, core-sapping arete moves.

2 shots. I suspect when this gets repeated it will consolidate to 25. Lots of hard climbing on both the face and the arete where you could fall off any move, but the last move to the anchors (where my onsight ended) is nails. Even on my 2nd shot I still fell off in the same place (though it was now in the full sun). Top crux is malevolent slimper thinness through a slight bulge and with bad feet. Radical climb, though.

2nd shot. Mostly enjoyable tricky arete climbing, but with a pronounced, very cruxy crux section that felled me on the onsight. Makes a great warmup when you know the crux sequence.