Ascents in Eldorado as Onsight

Quality climbing with good gear. Clean and dry when everything else at the crag were very dirty.

Classic guide book author tooting his own horn, or perhaps just trolling gumbies from beyond the grave - a real dick williams move. 2 eternities? That's linguistically impossible.

Approach was cooked, as was descent. P1 was okay despite the near death experience but I guess that's 'Welcome to the Bluey's' for ya? A mild form of hazing? P2 was gross. Maybe I goofed it, but went straight up when twin cracks veered right. Run out on shit rock above shit gear. Not even totems could save us.

The top is a sandy, post-apocalyptic, charred, deathscape with loads of boulders and tree ready to hurl themselves and us off the cliff. Thankfully no one else was there-rocks were even falling without human intervention. Paranormal activity? Nightmare? Least fav climb ever? Today goes by many names.

Climbed a fantastic crack up and right of Cymbeline, hoping it was a new route. Presume it is this route though, as the crack is cleaned and had a cairn at the start.

Another slight disappointment.

The second pitch of this climb is really good! 3-stars though? I would say, no. I compare the pitch to Blimp down in the grampians and it is not as good as that. Pitches 1 and 3 are somewhere between forgettable and bad. I would probably drop the whole route down to 1 star, but the selection of good trad corners in Blue Mountains is lacking so I'll leave it with 2.

LOL. 3 stars. Not a chance.

A decent romp, but too much vegetation and it is really nothing like 2 Eternities stacked on top of each other.

Incredible climb. Crack that kept going with feet outside the crack (on ironstone layers) providing ample rest. Rene led pitch one, and ill have to come back to lead it. Truly like two eternities on top of each other! I led Pitch 2, which was more on the face. well protected most of the way, but a cactus and funnel-webs started to impose on holds and placements around halfway up. Placed two last bits of gear and ran it out on the top on thin holds that thankfully didn't break. one of my boldest leads so far!

First pitch is RAD!! Which is the only real reason I can excuse the sorry second half...!! Great day out in the valley.

Old school grunt

Desperate start (21) with crap gear, Classic middle 40m. Crap last pitch. Got rained on from 1st belay so was a bit scary sliding on that slippy ironstone at top- lucky ther's bomber jams. Take a full rack and more! #5 cam may help on wide section to make it less scary.

Better if P2 wasnt choss.

needed a bit of cleaning and gardening and bi cams but pretty exciting thrash up a wide crack.

bit loose, very dirty, needed some trees, bushes and boulders yank out on the way. Lots of big cams needed. Slinging the big flake before committing to the offwidth is a bit scary!

p1.