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Sun 23rd Jul 2023 - Kangaroo Point | ||||||
Right Main Wall | ||||||
1 | ★★★ Milk Run | 2m, 1 | ||||
Crux was getting my safety in...
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Sat 1st Jul 2023 - Frog Buttress | ||||||
West of the access track | ||||||
14 | ★ Mr Frog | 17m | ||||
Thu 6th Apr 2023 - Arapiles | ||||||
Mitre Rock South Mitre | ||||||
1 | ★ West Ridge of Mitre | 100m | ||||
6 |
★★ Guiding Light
1
2
3
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Guided by Katie
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Wed 5th Apr 2023 - Arapiles | ||||||
Fang Buttress and Surrounds Major Mitchell Gully Ali's Area | ||||||
3 | ★ Ali's | 60m | ||||
Wed 5th Apr 2023 - Arapiles | ||||||
Bluffs Bluff Major Blockbuster Ledge | ||||||
11 | ★★★ Blockbuster | 30m | ||||
A stonking nut placement every metre.
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Wed 5th Apr 2023 - Arapiles | ||||||
Bluffs Bluff Major Bluff Major West Face | ||||||
10 | ★★ The Keyhole | 25m | ||||
No gear, but no issue after the first few moves. Fun squirming for a few metres.
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Tue 4th Apr 2023 - Arapiles | ||||||
The Watchtower Faces Pinnacle Face Siren Area | ||||||
10 | ★★ Xena | 110m | ||||
Tue 4th Apr 2023 - Arapiles | ||||||
The Watchtower Faces The Watchtower | ||||||
9 | ★★★ Arachnus | 110m | ||||
Linked 2-3. Took more medium cams than most equivalent routes.
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Mon 3rd Apr 2023 - Arapiles | ||||||
The Watchtower Faces Pinnacle Face Area Below Tiptoe Ridge | ||||||
6 | ★ Ordinary Trees | 140m | ||||
Ordinary..
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Sat 4th Mar 2023 - Arapiles | ||||||
Northern Group Harlequin Cracks Area | ||||||
11 | ★★ Harlequin Cracks | 80m | ||||
6 | ★ BA Mosquito | 45m | ||||
Sat 4th Mar 2023 - Arapiles | ||||||
Pilot Error Cliffs Pilot Error Area | ||||||
9 | ★ Butte | 28m | ||||
10 | ★★ Mesa | 33m | ||||
10 | ★ Neta | 25m | ||||
Sun 19th Feb 2023 - Railay | ||||||
Muay Thai | ||||||
5 | ★ The Devine Ascention of Sully | 9m | ||||
5 | ★ The Beacons Memorial Climb | 8m | ||||
Thu 5th Jan 2023 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd The Dam Cliffs Steep Wall | ||||||
19 | ★ Little Diego | 12m, 4 | ||||
Mon 2nd Jan 2023 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd Bell Supercrag The Blowhole | ||||||
21 | ★ Perkins Paste | 20m | ||||
Made a meal of the thin section.
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Fri 30th Dec 2022 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Rhum Dhu | ||||||
14 | ★★ Shandy | 99m, 6 | ||||
P1-3. Quality rock and easy jugging.
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Sat 6th Aug 2022 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
Blackheath Area Hat Hill Crag | ||||||
20 | ★ Dinosaur Train | 13m, 5 | ||||
None of the holds were what I expected, enjoyed it.
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Sun 17th Apr 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
The Pharos and Surrounds The Pharos Back Wall | ||||||
14 | ★★★ Lamplighter | 78m | ||||
Came back for P2 and 3.
I was promised roof chimneying, and P3 delivered, just not how I was expecting. It was wild in any event 😂 |
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Sat 16th Apr 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
The Watchtower Faces Pinnacle Face Tiptoe Ridge Area | ||||||
5 | ★★★ Tiptoe Ridge | 120m | ||||
Ascent during sunset with a full moon rising. Can't ask for better than that.
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Sat 16th Apr 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
The Watchtower Faces Pinnacle Face Siren Area | ||||||
9 | ★★★ Siren | 150m | ||||
So on this day I was bitten on the exposed toe by a large black skink. Sucker ambushed me while I was on belay.
Climbed the route also. |
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Sat 16th Apr 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress | ||||||
10 | ★★★ Eskimo Nell | 130m | ||||
Crux was climbing around the tourists on the Easter long weekend.
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Fri 15th Apr 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
Atridae Muldoon Area | ||||||
10 | ★ Clytemnaestra Buttress | 45m | ||||
As one pitch. Didn't protect the first pitch, extended my gear on the second and still had horrendous drag. Fun otherwise.
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Fri 15th Apr 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
The Watchtower Faces Left Watchtower Face | ||||||
12 | ★★ Watchtower Chimney | 110m, 1 | ||||
On the way to tackle Mr Chicken.
Fun in its own right. Mangled the chimney pitch by forgetting chimneys have two sides... |
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Thu 14th Apr 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
Organ Pipes Area Organ Pipes D Minor Pinnacle | ||||||
14 | ★★ D Minor | 35m | ||||
As a single pitch on dusk, great last minute mileage.
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Thu 14th Apr 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
The Pharos and Surrounds The Pharos Back Wall | ||||||
10 |
★★★ Lamplighter (Lamplighter P1)
1
10
30m
| 30m | ||||
P1 only before we ended up on Judgement Day by mistake, and the traverse bolt on that has been chopped...
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Thu 14th Apr 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
Northern Group Harlequin Cracks Area | ||||||
11 | ★★ Salami | 81m | ||||
The chimney was wicked. Heaps of good hexes. Had to get out at one point when the squeeze got too real.
Also this was one chimney too many for my harness. The abrasion sawed through my gear loop, showering the chimney with my gear... Linked top two pitches in a draggy scramble. |
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Tue 12th Apr 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
Bushranger Bluff Main Wall | ||||||
6 | ★ Revolver Crack | 20m | ||||
13 | ★ Sexless Sue | 20m | ||||
Very worthwhile
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Tue 12th Apr 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress | ||||||
13 | ★★ Dunes Direct | 100m | ||||
P2 surprisingly exposed, P4 corner surprisingly hard.
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Mon 11th Apr 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
Organ Pipes Area Organ Pipes Central Organ Pipes | ||||||
10 | ★★ D Major | 50m | ||||
11 | ★★ Piccolo | 33m | ||||
One pitch
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Sun 10th Apr 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
Atridae Agamemnon Area | ||||||
11 | ★★★ Agamemnon | 40m | ||||
First route at Araps. It's no Frog Buttress, but goes alright
As a single pitch. |
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Sun 10th Apr 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
Atridae Muldoon Area | ||||||
12 | ★ Clytemnaestra | 45m | ||||
Bloody good fun chimney. Proper squeeze friction chimney in the bottom.
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13 | ★★★ Muldoon | 42m | ||||
Worth most of the hype.
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Sun 21st Nov 2021 - Mt Beerwah | ||||||
South Face | ||||||
15 | ★ Lhotse Flake | 310m | ||||
Climbing this in late November was a mistake. The entire route cops full sun, all day. We got thoroughly cooked and dehydrated.
Climbing was reasonably good, except pitch 3 and 4 which was low angle and scrubby but par for the course on S Beerwah. |
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Sun 10th Oct 2021 - Brooyar | ||||||
Eagle's Nest | ||||||
16 | ★★ It's A Long Way To Tip A Fairy | 45m, 8 | ||||
Hadn't done this one. Great long jugging like the rest of this wall.
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Sun 10th Oct 2021 - Brooyar | ||||||
Hanuman's Hangout | ||||||
21 | ★ Hanuman's Eye | 15m, 6 | ||||
Fun through the rooflet, there's holds if you find them in time.
Finish up over the sandy bulge was very average. Would link into the nice headwall finish to the chains of the 20 next time. |
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Sat 9th Oct 2021 - Brooyar | ||||||
Point Pure | ||||||
19 | ★★ Overhanging Corner | 20m | ||||
Climbs much better than the lichen makes it look.
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18 | ★★ The Cornflake Climb | 27m | ||||
16 | ★ Islamic Cowboys Say Jihad | 20m | ||||
Sat 2nd Oct 2021 - Mt Cooroora | ||||||
The Shifting Slabs | ||||||
15 | ★ Bubble and Squeak | 60m | ||||
Not bad. South Beerwah-esque
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17 | ★ Angel Tits | 30m | ||||
Fun
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Tue 31st Aug 2021 - Brooyar | ||||||
Green Lane | ||||||
17 | ★ That gully guy | 6m, 3 | ||||
Backlog now it's listed here.
Climbed circa 2016 because it was there... Rapped off a number of small trees. |
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Sun 8th Aug 2021 - Frog Buttress | ||||||
West of the access track | ||||||
20 | ★★ Satyricon | 35m | ||||
Took a long while to do this. Managed to place gear the whole way through the crux, much to my seconders dismay.
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Mon 2nd Aug 2021 - Kangaroo Point | ||||||
Left Main Wall | ||||||
18 | ★ Mank Mistress | 18m, 5 | ||||
I interrupt your regularly scheduled programming of Frog choss to bring you... KP choss.
This was pretty scrappy rock up top. |
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Sat 24th Jul 2021 - Frog Buttress | ||||||
West of the access track | ||||||
17 | ★★ Neon Philharmonic Variant Finish | 18m | ★★ Very Good | |||
This was stellar. Better than Borderline 29. Protectable but crazy airy. Get on it. Take 2 3's for the top half.
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17 | Just Made It into the Guide | 5m | ||||
Much less of a route than plenty of others.
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Sat 24th Jul 2021 - Frog Buttress | ||||||
East of the access track | ||||||
18 | Kronk | 6m | ||||
It's not worth it for a change of scene. It's just not worth existing.
I did see a nice micro-garden en route. |
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Sun 18th Jul 2021 - Frog Buttress | ||||||
West of the access track | ||||||
17 | Oscillating Pineapple | 10m | ||||
Fruit themed day:
A fun few jams that you can seee from the ground, then loose chockstone choss. |
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Sun 27th Jun 2021 - Frog Buttress | ||||||
West of the access track | ||||||
17 | Canned Heat | 20m | ||||
Very protectable. Interesting enough in the middle but filthy through the top half. Wading through the loose scree to a tree wasn't ideal either.
Chimneyed up to the base of the route in behind the pillar and re-dropped the rope to my belayer - No drag for me, but unfortunately for her we now know the direct start is nails
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Sun 9th May 2021 - Frog Buttress | ||||||
East of the access track | ||||||
9 9 R | Fluorescent Mank | 25m | ||||
And with this inglorious waste of guidebook space, I've finished every route at Frog under 17. Thanks Shabbi, Moogie, Ren and every other unfortunate soul who's had to visit some of these forgotten classics with me.
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Sat 17th Apr 2021 - Frog Buttress | ||||||
West of the access track | ||||||
21 | ★★ Oppenheimer's Monster | 25m, 2 | ||||
The face climbing was lovely. I'm not convinced that any of the gear in the top half would hold a whip.
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19 | ★ Cold Turkey | 27m | ||||
The description lies. This is far from sustained thrutching. Plenty of face holds and stances. Minimal wide technique required. Enjoyed it.
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Sun 11th Apr 2021 - Frog Buttress | ||||||
East of the access track | ||||||
17 | ★ Fat Mattress | 30m | ||||
Nice jamming broken by ledges.
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Fri 2nd Apr 2021 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
Medlow Bath Reservoir Dogs | ||||||
19 | ★★ Stuck in the Middle with You | 38m, 15 | ||||
Crimpy goodness.
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Thu 1st Apr 2021 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
Mount Victoria Area Bardens Lookout Little Triggers Wall | ||||||
21 | ★★ Dr Do Little | 15m | ||||
Not the ideal warm-up.
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22 | ★★ Lady Grinning Soul | 25m, 7 | ||||
Really fun, not hard but enjoyable movement.
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Wed 31st Mar 2021 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd Bell Supercrag The Blowhole | ||||||
20 | ★ Araldite | 20m | ||||
Thoroughly enjoyable.
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16 | ★ Kwik Grip | 15m, 9 | ||||
17 | ★ Louie Gets The Blow | 14m, 5 | ||||
Rude start at 17. I'd say some holds have come and gone
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18 | ★ Blow Fly | 15m, 8 | ||||
Tue 30th Mar 2021 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Rhum Dhu | ||||||
19 | ★★ Dirty Rotten Pig | 130m | ||||
Some nice climbing at the grade, plenty of bolts and they're where you would want them at every point. Can't fault a 2 minute approach either.
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Mon 29th Mar 2021 - Warrumbungles | ||||||
Crater Bluff | ||||||
14 | ★★★ Cornerstone Rib | 190m | ||||
What a feature! A bit wet and cold but it's a good ramble up reasonable rock with good gear throughout where you want it.
Worth the hike out there and the soggy scramble off the back. |
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Mon 29th Mar 2021 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
Leura Sublime Point West Face (Main Area) Middle Cliffs Ben Trovato Wall | ||||||
22 |
★★★ Guillotine (Guillotine P1)
1
22
20m
| 20m, 23 | ||||
Fun. P1 only.
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23 |
★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1)
1
23
25m
| 25m, 22 | ||||
Draws were up. P1 only.
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Mon 8th Mar 2021 - Mt Tibrogargan | ||||||
Desperation Wall | ||||||
16 | ★ The Ideas Man Extension | 80m, 3 | ||||
Not hard, but a bit runout and some pretty average rock.
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Mon 8th Mar 2021 - Mt Tibrogargan | ||||||
Celestial Wall | ||||||
18 22 | ★★ Rubicon (Rubicon p1) | 85m | ||||
Found it awkward and hard in the sun, could just have been me..
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Mon 15th Feb 2021 - Flinders Peak (limited access) | ||||||
Sanctuary | ||||||
19 | ★ Platycerium | 23m | ||||
Wed 6th Jan 2021 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd Pierces Pass Lunch Ledge | ||||||
21 | ★★★ Mirrorball | 49m | ||||
One of the better routes I've climbed in the mountains. Soft at 21 but beautifully continuously 19ish for a long, dead vertical pitch in an airy position.
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19 | ★★ The West Face of the Mirrorball | 120m | ||||
The mist on the way in turned to proper drizzle for the first few pitches which turned a bit of a ramble into something more engaging. Some odd bolting.
I got the even pitches. |
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Wed 30th Dec 2020 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd Bell Supercrag Duck Wall | ||||||
20 | ★ Duckling | 12m, 4 | ||||
Sat 5th Dec 2020 - Mt Tibrogargan | ||||||
Candy Mountain | ||||||
16 | ★ The Real Rainbow Unicorn | 18m, 5 | ||||
Stiff.
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14 | ★ Banana King | 12m, 5 | ||||
17 | ★ Lichen The Candy | 18m, 6 | ||||
18 | ★ Cookie Monster | 18m, 5 | ||||
Sun 22nd Nov 2020 - Flinders Peak (limited access) | ||||||
Sanctuary | ||||||
21 20 | ★★ Nostrildamus | 18m, 8 | ||||
Nicely varied, non continuous, would make for a decent wamrup.
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21 | ★★★ Lock Stock | 20m | ||||
Start was akward then the good holds keep coming.
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Sun 1st Nov 2020 - Flinders Peak (limited access) | ||||||
Sanctuary | ||||||
19 | ★★ Catastrophist | 20m, 9 | ||||
18 | ★ Freeloader | 28m, 9 | ||||
Sun 4th Oct 2020 - Serpent | ||||||
Serpent Wall | ||||||
17 | ★★★ Minotaur p1 | 20m, 6 | ||||
14 | ★★ Minotaur p2 | 15m, 2 | ||||
18 | ★★ Dante's Inferno | 15m, 4 | ||||
Some genuine slab moves. Really fun.
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21 | ★ Harpe | 6m, 3 | ||||
Sun 20th Sep 2020 - Whinpullin (Minto) Private Land CLOSED | ||||||
18 | ★★ Tourism Carrot | 18m | ||||
Sat 5th Sep 2020 - Mt Ngungun | ||||||
Babylon | ||||||
13 | ★ Quango Quagmire | 18m, 7 | ||||
19 | ★ Gossamer Threads | 13m, 3 | ||||
Probably soft depending on how much you indulge in the arete. Fun fighting the barn door either way.
+3 to R. |
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11 | ★ As Thick As Two Planks Stuck Together With Stupid Glue | 25m, 7 | ||||
Agree with Peter Martland , it can't possibly be a 12 as that grade is exclusively for chimneys.
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Sun 9th Aug 2020 - Mt Tibrogargan | ||||||
Summit Caves | ||||||
13 | ★★★ Trojan | 73m | ||||
A bit rude at 13, but a grand outing with better rock and pro than expected. Ryan linked 1-2 gifting me P3, which is classic for Tibro. Great rock and wild position pulling into the bottomless corner with plenty of air. 4-5 were pretty loose and garbage, but it was nice to finish on the summit.
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Sun 9th Aug 2020 - Mt Tibrogargan | ||||||
Caves Route Sector | ||||||
10 | ★ Caves Route Direct | 28m | ||||
Some new terrain. Started lower and further left than this topo shows for a longer pitch.
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Sun 2nd Aug 2020 - Frog Buttress | ||||||
West of the access track | ||||||
14 | ★ Mr Bojangles VF | 7m | ||||
16 | ★ Rack Attack | 12m | ||||
Sat 1st Aug 2020 - Mt Beerwah | ||||||
Wayne's World | ||||||
16 |
★ It Will Be Mine
1
| 52m, 8 | ||||
19 | ★ Party Time | 30m, 7 | ||||
16 | ★ Excellent | 27m, 5 | ||||
17 |
★ No Honk (No Honk P1)
1
17
57m
| 57m, 12 | ||||
Sun 19th Jul 2020 - Wildside | ||||||
16 | ★ Dronestrike | 16m, 4 |