Ascents in The Pharos and Surrounds as trad by Cameron Roy

Led p1 after Elisa bailed. Abseiled off. Doubles and a few long slings helped subdue any rope drag.

Man i love placing wires like this! Stellar route.

Guiding.

Awesome line. Very sustained. Gets steeper and steeper as you go. Great summer climb.

Cool climb. Not sure about putting gear behind some of the flakes on the traverse.

Didn't have to spend that much time inside the crack.

Deceptively jammy.

Kind of hard to see where to go starting off the tree. Went up little depression between bulges heading towards leftmost crack. Seemed a bit dangerous so I'm feeling this is closer to 19 than 18.

The rest of the climb was great though.

Really nice line, well worthwhile.

Thought I might have been condemned in that cell for life. Eventually worked out how to escape (there is chalk everywhere and most of it is no use.) The second crux at 2/3 height is also pretty nice.

Get your limbs inside the crack! Take a bd 4. A 5 is handy too.

As much as I love double ropes, this seemed fine on a single. Nice climb, good name.

Finally able to get up this today. Took a fall on my first attempt but then worked out a sequence

Was a little worried after seeing it was previously rated 18 here on thecrag, but it felt like an easy 17 to me. My reach might have helped.

Takes great pro, I laced it up waiting for the crux that never came.

Felt tough, but well protected so all good. Quite sequency traversing left.

Got burnt by this again, this time accessing it via 'The Shroud' and a traverse from the tennis court past 'Five Fingered Mary'

Required several sits and plenty of hard work to get to the top. Need to practice my jamming...

Had to have a sit on this - jamming isn't my style much. Probably felt much harder after just doing Oceanoid.

Hard hard hard! Pushed me to my limit. I was stoked when I was through the crux on P1, but there was plenty more to come. Used all draws and cams on P1, used all draws on P2. Messed up double ropes on P2 twisting them around each other. Step across scary and hard. Bottomless chimney challenging! Led all the way up to French Crack - the last overhang isn't easy either.

OK climbing, but access is a bit of a mission.

Great climbing, very sustained. Loved it!

Oceanoid, French Crack, haul bag up the back = sweet night camping on top of the pharos with Jamie and Jack

With Jamie and Jack

Third pitch is awesome, others mediocre.

With nick. Almost needed my brown undies after the second pitch. Had seconded it before so knew what was coming on the third. Super fun!

With deb. First pitch nice (although gear is spaced,) 2nd pitch pox, 3rd and 4th pitches linked.

Adventure climbing. Step across at top is nice. Guiding with Scouts. Sam and Craig.

Led pitches 1 and 4. With Jamie and Rob Baker on a TAFE trip.

3rd pitch description "This pitch looks horrendous but really isn't too bad" - yes, but it was a pretty big surprise for a 14! Great to get to the top of the pharos. Rapping off we ended up at a very cramped rap station and I was hanging off it for a bit - loved the exposure!