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	Grade	Route	Gear style	Quality	Climber
Sat 18th May 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	13 ~14	★★ Dunes Direct - with Nathan Whittleston 1 13 30m Second 2 11 25m Second 3 10 22m Trad 4 12 23m Second	Trad 100m		Kaleb Amos
Fri 17th May 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	12 Hard	★★ Dunes	Trad 100m	★★★ Mega Classic	Ben White
2 pitches
Thu 16th May 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell	Trad 130m		Reuben Mcneill
	12	★★ Dunes	Trad 100m		Reuben Mcneill
	16	★★ Arab	Trad 110m	★★★ Classic	Reuben Mcneill
	12 Hard	★★ Dunes - with Craig, hugh sutherland	Trad 100m		Craig George
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Craig, hugh sutherland	Trad 130m	★★★ Mega Classic	Craig George
	16 ~17	★★ Arab - with Craig, hugh sutherland 1 16 25m Trad 2 10m Trad 3 3 15m Trad 4 25m Trad 5 32m Trad	Trad 110m		Craig George
Thu 9th May 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	12	★★ Dunes	Trad 100m		Pallot
Sun 5th May 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	12	★★ Dunes - with Meredith Apple, Emil	Trad 100m	★★ Very Good	Maxwell Cullen
Linked the first 3 pitches into a big one to save some time then megadeath took us to the summit.
	12	★★ Dunes - with Maxwell Cullen	Trad 100m		Meredith Apple
First day romp simul climbing with max and Emil
Sat 4th May 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Issy Jukes 1 35m Trad 2 40m Second 3 15m Second 4 40m Trad	Trad 130m		Myles
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Lost Turtle (LostShark666666) 1 30m Second 2 6m Trad 3 30m Second 4 13m, 30m Second	Trad 110m	★★★ Classic	Selin
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Selin 1 10 30 Trad lead by Lost Turtle (LostShark666666) 2 6 6 Second lead by Selin 3 9 30 Trad lead by Lost Turtle (LostShark666666) 4 9 13 Second lead by Selin 5 10 30 Trad lead by Lost Turtle (LostShark666666)	Trad 110m	★★★ Mega Classic	Lost Turtle (LostShark666666)
Fri 3rd May 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	12	★★ Dunes - with Sam Tidswell	Trad 100m	★★ Very Good	Khush Dodhia-Shah
Sweet morning's climbing!
Wed 1st May 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Jonno Rau 1 35 Trad lead by Jonno Rau 2 40 Trad lead by John Pitcairn Jonno climbed the 6m to jetty at top of chimney, ie the original P2. 3 15 Trad lead by Jonno Rau 4 40 Trad lead by John Pitcairn	Trad 130m	★★★ Classic	John Pitcairn
Rapped off: the usual very hard pull on the first rap and got a rope tail wrapped around a block/crack up above, had to re-lead the chimney and traverse to free it then downclimb. The rap often provides a fair bit of trouble and I wouldn't recommend it, walk off.
Tue 30th Apr 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	16	★★ Arab 1 16 25 Trad 2 10 Trad 3 3 15 Trad 4 25 Trad 5 32 Trad	Trad 110m		Alex
First simul climb
Mon 29th Apr 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	12	★★ Dunes - with Scott	Trad 100m		Wendy Law
Another fun simul climb with Scott for his last day in Araps.
	16	★★ Arab - with Dylan Glavas 1 16 25m Trad 2 10m Second 3 3 15m Trad	Trad 50m		Myles
Fri 26th Apr 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Susan, Corey 1 35m Trad 2 40m Second 3 15m Trad 4 40m Trad	Trad 130m	★★ Very Good	Emma
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with em, susan	Trad 130m	★★★ Classic	Tyler Morgan
	13	★★ Dunes Direct 1 13 30m Trad 2 11 25m Second 3 10 22m Second 4 12 23m Second	Trad 100m		Sam Tidswell
	16 ~17	★★ Saracen - with siany	Trad 110m	★★ Very Good	Slackaction
Stiff P1
Tue 23rd Apr 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	16	★★ Arab	Trad 110m		james ritchie
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell	Trad 130m		Jeh C
Very good outing. Led P1, 2 (linked) and 3. Brock went from the slot to the top. Good variety and thrills at a very modest grade
	13 ~16	★★ Dunes Direct - with Ben 1 13 30m Second 2 11 47m Trad 3 12 22m Second	Trad 99m	★★★ Mega Classic	John
Cruxes on pitch one and four are spicy. Felt like about 16-17. Linked P2-3.
Sun 21st Apr 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell	Trad 130m		Sam Tidswell
Thu 18th Apr 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	16	★★ Arab - with myles	Trad 110m	★★ Very Good	Dylan Glavas
Really good!! Crux was tricky withoit knowing about the jug overhead
Tue 16th Apr 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with aminah 1 35m Second 2 40m Trad 3 15m Second 4 40m Second	Trad 130m		Pat Grant
Mon 15th Apr 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with tim	Trad 130m	★★★ Mega Classic	Henry McNamee
Sun 14th Apr 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	16	★★ Saracen - with Adam Sanders, Justin Wimmer	Trad 110m	★★ Very Good	Michael Sanders
	20 Easy	★★ Scarecrow	Trad 28m		Adam Sanders
Superb.
	16	★★ Saracen	Trad 110m	★★ Very Good	Adam Sanders
This is really good.
	20	★★ Scarecrow - with Adam Sanders	Trad 28m	★★ Very Good	Justin Wimmer
	16	★★ Saracen - with Adam Sanders	Trad 110m	★★★ Classic	Justin Wimmer
	12	★★ Dunes	Trad 100m	★★ Very Good	Adam Sanders
First climb of the trip.
Sat 13th Apr 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	12	★★ Dunes - with Adam Sanders	Trad 100m	★★ Very Good	Michael Sanders
	13 ~14	★★ Dunes Direct - with J’aime Brunet, Zara, Josh Ring	Trad 100m	★★ Very Good	Poppy
Linked second and third pitches with mega drag. Zara did an extra piss ahem pitch.
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell	Trad 130m		Simon
Had a VERY long day with my friends who are new to multipitching. Lots of traffic. We got a rope snagged when pulling it down after the first rappel, which I think is quite a common issue on this route,so yeah be a bit wary, maybe factor in some extra time
Mon 8th Apr 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	12	★★ Dunes - with Matt Singleton, Nat	Trad 100m		Will Turner
	13	★★ Dunes Direct - with Nat, Will Turner	Trad 100m	★ Good	Matt Singleton
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell	Trad 130m	★★★ Mega Classic	Matt Wilson
with zoe and jason rpt
	16	★★ Arab - with Matthew Creahan	Trad 110m	★ Good	Matt Wilson
one good pitch, one bad pitch, Matt C managed to cut loose on moves I did without my hands which says a lot ...
Sun 7th Apr 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Pete, Grant Shu 1 35m Second lead by Pete 2 40m Second lead by Pete 3 15m Trad lead by Nathan Miles 4 40m Second lead by Pete	Trad 130m		Nathan Miles
Sat 6th Apr 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	16	★★ Saracen 1 16 35m Trad 2 13 12m Trad Ran pitch one an two together. 3 16 33m Trad 4 13 34m Second	Trad 110m	★ Good	Zorba Parer
With Markus…Broke a foot hold and took my first proper whip since breaking my ankle. All worked out well.
	16	★★ Arab - with Matt Wilson 1 16 25m Trad lead by Matthew Creahan 2 10m Second lead by Matt Wilson 3 3 15m Trad lead by Matthew Creahan 4 25m Trad lead by Matthew Creahan 5 32m Second lead by Matt Wilson	Trad 110m	★★ Very Good	Matthew Creahan
Fantastic pitch 3, rest is a bit forgettable
	13	★ Lawrence	Trad 100m	★ Good	Justin Wimmer
Fri 5th Apr 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell	Trad 130m	★★★ Classic	Andrew Durrer
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Andrew Durrer, Lauren Hunter	Trad 130m	★★★ Classic	Carl Walsh
Enjoyable ramble with friends : ) also took the abseil descent this time which was a lot easier than the central gully walk
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Andrew Durrer, Carl Walsh 1 35 Second 2 40 Trad 3 15 Trad 4 40 Second	Trad 130m		Lauren Hunter
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Madison Peabody	Trad 130m		Louis Umashev
Thu 4th Apr 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	16	★★ Arab 1 16 25 Second 2 10 Second 3 3 15 Trad struggled a bit in the chimney 4 25 Second 5 32 Trad	Trad 110m		Rollacoasta
	13	★ Lawrence - with Aaron Galligan	Trad 100m	Crap	Will Grant
Probably the worst route I have ever climbed, certainly at Araps. Between the garden of the first pitch, the poor rock of the second pitch (which makes for poor gear) and the overall poor quality of movement, I can't stress how much you should avoid this route. Generally I'm I think any climbing is good climbing, but I was really questioning that here. Sure there was some nice chimeny moves on the top pitch, but 5m of alright climbing can't make up for the remaining 95m of garbage.
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Isaac Buckingham 1 35m Second lead by Isaac Buckingham 2 40m Trad lead by Shellie Joseph 3 15m Second 4 40m Trad lead by Shellie Joseph	Trad 130m		Shellie Joseph
Wed 3rd Apr 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Jason 1 35m Trad lead by Matthew Creahan 2 40m Second lead by Jason 3 15m Free solo 4 40m Trad lead by Matthew Creahan	Trad 130m	★★★ Classic	Matthew Creahan
Quality rambling after a few scary moves
	13	★★ Dunes Direct	Trad 100m		Alex Doyle
Went for a sunrise solo because I happened to be awake early. Must have been a bit tired because some moves felt more commiting then they should have at grade13. Kept the brain under control though so I'd call that a win.
Tue 2nd Apr 2024 - Arapiles
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	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell	Trad 130m		Maui Ryan
Mon 1st Apr 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	12	★★ Dunes	Trad 100m		JonnyWorldPeace
	13 Easy	★★ Dunes Direct	Trad 100m	★★★ Classic	Mikey Song
Managed to climb the whole thing with Aaron in under 3 hours. First sunrise climb in Araps!
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell 1 35m Second 2 40m Trad 3 15m Second 4 40m Second	Trad 130m		Richard Harris
Sun 31st Mar 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Louis Birkhead 1 35m Trad lead by Adam Donaldson 2 40m Second lead by Louis Birkhead 3 15m Free solo 4 40m Trad lead by Adam Donaldson	Trad 130m		Adam Donaldson
Such a good climb, fun first pitch to run out. Enjoyable chimney solo for pitch 3.
	16	★★ Saracen - with Angus G	Trad 110m	★★ Very Good	Liam Mangan-Smith
P1 and P3 were amazing, mini Oceanoid then a beautiful position up thin crack. Had a hawk land next to us.
	12	★★ Dunes - with Lawrence Wonhas	Trad 100m	★★ Very Good	Liam Mangan-Smith
Super fun moves. Good position.
	13	★★ Dunes Direct - with Issy Jukes 1 13 30m Trad 2 11 25m Second lead by Issy Jukes 3 10 22m Trad 4 12 23m Trad	Trad 100m	★★ Very Good	Pedro Rocha
Very enjoyable jugging the whole way!
Sat 30th Mar 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	13	★★ Dunes Direct - with Cathy 1 13 30m Second lead by Cathy 2 11 25m Second lead by Cathy 3 10 22m Trad lead by Matthew Creahan 4 12 23m Trad lead by Matthew Creahan	Trad 100m	★★★ Classic	Matthew Creahan
Pleasant jug thrashing
	12 Hard	★★ Dunes	Trad 100m	★★ Very Good	Leo Hock-Morris
	16	★★ Arab - with Nestor 1 16 25 Second 2 10 Trad 3 3 15 Trad 4 25 Second 5 32 Trad	Trad 110m		Andrew
Scary first pitch. Exciting traverse. It has 4 pitches. The last one is as for Dunes. 3rd pitch has interesting moves out out roof.
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Richard Harris 1 35m Trad 2 40m Second 3 15m Trad 4 40m Trad	Trad 130m		Tyler Morgan
	16	★★ Arab - with rew	Trad 110m		Michelle C
Led P1&3. Went for the face rather than the crack on P3 again. Found out later there's some hidden hold in the crack that makes it less horrific than it looks.
	13	★ Lawrence 1 9 35m Trad 2 13 35m Second 3 13 30m Trad	Trad 100m		Stefan Yap
	16 Hard	★★ Saracen - with Luca	Trad 110m	★ Good	Ross Paynter
Engaging climbing straight off the bat lead to quite an adventure. Used up most of my pro on the first pitch and decided to not link P2 & P3. Was doing P2 and it didn’t look like I’d done 12m at what I now know as the small stance (small stance has an old belay chain!!!). I kept pushing for another ledge that never came. Climbing though bushes and a lil spicy move for what I thought was a 13 made me think I was severely off route. Eventually making a ledge, I set up a belay with the last of my slings. Turns out I linked P2 and P3 accidentally. Overall had a blast leading this. Certainly scratched the itch with this lead.
	16	★★ Arab - with Michelle C 1 16 25m Second lead by Michelle C 2 10m Trad lead by rew 3 3 15m Second lead by Michelle C 4 25m Trad lead by rew 5 32m Trad lead by rew	Trad 110m		rew
Fri 29th Mar 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Nathan Miles, Grant Shu	Trad 130m	★★★ Classic	Pete
schweet, lead p1 to after the chimney. second p2 to the oasis then lead p3 to the top. bit draggy linking the chimney from the ground.
Thu 28th Mar 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Angus G	Trad 130m	★★★ Classic	Liam Mangan-Smith
Something fun and unique on each pitch.
Tue 26th Mar 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	13	★★ Dunes Direct - with Kristie H 1 13 30m Trad Very committing laybacking start with a polished slab with minimal protection, finished off with a pretty gnarly crack before the anchor 2 11 25m Second lead by Kristie H Mostly jug hauling. One steep bit at the beginning but overall fine. 3 10 22m Trad Glorified scramble with one steep movie. Very nice protection 4 12 23m Second Sketchy corner with minimal protection from the leader and a short traverse	Trad 100m		Robin Kumar
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell	Trad 130m		Alex Doyle
Sat 16th Mar 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Yuji Nakano 1 35m Second lead by Yuji Nakano 2 40m Second lead by Yuji Nakano 3 15m Trad lead by Adam Ametovski 4 40m Trad lead by Adam Ametovski Some unfortunate rope drag made the top out a touch spicy.	Trad 130m		Adam Ametovski
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Adam Ametovski 1 35m Trad lead by Yuji Nakano 2 40m Trad lead by Yuji Nakano Guidebook description separates the chimney pitch and the face climb, so Adam did the 6m chimney before swinging leads 3 15m Trad lead by Adam Ametovski Adam linked this and next pitch 4 40m Trad lead by Adam Ametovski	Trad 130m	★★★ Classic	Yuji Nakano
Great on a 30°C day
Tue 12th Mar 2024 - Arapiles
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	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell	Trad 130m	★★ Very Good	Sunny G
Wed 6th Mar 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	16	★★ Saracen 1 16 35 Trad stifffffff 2 13 12 Second 3 16 33 Second 4 13 34 Trad	Trad 110m		Sunny G
	16 Hard	★★ Saracen - with Harry Judd 1 16 35m Second A stiff first pitch, felt closer to 17 2 11 12m Trad Very soft, felt closer to an 11, nice easy stemming problem. 3 16 33m Second 4 13 34m Trad Very enjoyable final pitch, with an airy finish. Loved it.	Trad 110m	★★ Very Good	Laurence Judd
Mon 4th Mar 2024 - Arapiles
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	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell	Trad 130m		arlo
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with arlo	Trad 130m	★★★ Classic	Ben Anthonisz
Best easy multi around I think
Sat 2nd Mar 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	12	★★ Dunes	Trad 100m		Connor Smith
Fri 1st Mar 2024 - Arapiles
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	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell 1 35m Trad 2 40m Second 3 15m Trad 4 40m Second	Trad 130m		Michael Ave
First multipitch trad climb
Thu 29th Feb 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell 1 35m Trad 2 40m Trad	Trad 75m		Michael Ave
Mon 26th Feb 2024 - Arapiles
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	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell	Trad 130m	★★ Very Good	Dan Bodd
My go-to climb to show some Arapiles newbies around
Sun 25th Feb 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell	Trad 130m	★★ Very Good	Sunny G
	12 ~13	★★ Dunes - with Jason Lu 1 30 Trad 2 25 Second 3 12 22 Second 4 23 Trad	Trad 100m		SwagAustralia
Nice line, the start of the first pitch is an easy slab but with basically no gear. Last pitch with the final corner crack is very beautiful.
	12	★★ Dunes - with Manu, Phoebe 1 30 Second 2 25 Trad 3 12 22 Second 4 23 Second	Trad 100m		Jason Lu
	15	Drifting Sand	Mixed trad 25m, 1		Kieran Loughran
Have led this a few times and was fun to second. Tried a stick-clip and it worked, though would have been easier if bolt was a fraction lower. Oh well, the bolt wasn't placed with stick-clip in mind. Probably grade 15 with stick-clip, 17 without.
Fri 23rd Feb 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	13	★★ Dunes Direct - with Lina	Trad 100m	★★ Very Good	Tiburonny
Mon 12th Feb 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	16	★★ Saracen	Trad 110m		Alexis Arnold
Sun 11th Feb 2024 - Arapiles
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	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell - with Maddie Pik 1 35m Trad 2 40m Trad 3 15m Trad 4 40m Trad	Trad 130m	★★★ Classic	che talbot
Fri 9th Feb 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	13 Hard	★ Lawrence - with Andy	Trad 100m		James Regan
Great route, especially on a hot day to escape the sun! Andy led the first pitch, and despite someone describing it as 'the worst pitch at Arapiles' he enjoyed it. Protection, while poor, was better than expected. Rap chains protect the final traverse. I led pitches 2 and 3. Pitch 2 has a few interesting sections, and pitch 3 has just the one which feels quite stiff, but couldn't be better protected. There was a couple of pieces of booty on pitch 2 left by previous parties, that we were unable to salvage.
Mon 5th Feb 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell	Trad 130m	★★★ Mega Classic	Ben White
Chimney at the exit of last pitch was awkward and fun
Sun 28th Jan 2024 - Arapiles
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress
	12 ~13	★★ Dunes - with Laura Hodgson 1 30m Trad Spicy finish for a 13. 2 25m Second 3 12 22m Trad 4 23m Trad	Trad 100m		Matt Sheppard
	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell 1 35m Trad 2 40m Second 3 15m Trad 4 40m Second	Trad 130m	★★★ Classic	Samuel Francis
Sat 27th Jan 2024 - Arapiles
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	16	★★ Arab	Trad 110m	★ Good	Pedro Manuel
With Nadine
Fri 26th Jan 2024 - Arapiles
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	10	★★★ Eskimo Nell	Trad 130m	★★ Very Good	Lauren Williams

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