Ascents in Australia by Harrie Van de Linde

climbed without knowing the grade until after, dyl did well.

niiice

was a fight for my life, last climb of the trip. I got it all in the end but my goodness, some of the finger locks are quite committing. great small gear, bring doubles of everything below red.

why this has no stars in the book I don't know. was one of the only cracks I could convince zac to do with me and it went quite well. classic grovel/squeeze/ chimney that is a piece of work when you're leading, but great fun all round.

pretty cool crack system, harder than 14 surely

pretty good, but not as good as I thought it would be. bit of a fight actually.

was an ok route, top is not great though. just another 18 for me IMO.

done before, always cool, lead on Zacs gear, following closely

first climb of frog, late arvo session

awesome rad adventure getting back out onto QLD rock. was a late start to the day and a long approach up the ridge but finally made it after midday. With 3 in our group and half ropes the climbing took a while but managed to get to the top a little after sunset. it's sunny and warm during the day but once natures light disappears behind the horizon, the darkness soon turns to cold chills and the lack of food for lunch begs us to get home for a hot hearty meal!!

dont know what happened here, just couldnt hold onto the final sloper to reach for the jug, took a fall like 5 times and still couldn't. ohh well can't win em all

cant remember if we did 4 or 5 pitches but was the access to the bottom of the main cave to do Trojan. wouldn't like to do this in the wet. rapped down here at end of day

loved another route in Tibro. climbed cave route then onto this mega one through the base of the main cave. really cool climbing, shame all the pitches are soo short but we had a grand ol time as usual.

again started late and in a group on 3!! was a warm day and cooking in the sun but we got to the top and were all stoked with the achievement. There were a lot of bolts for a trad climb, but that's Tibro for you. Traverse Crux was pretty cool, a bit airy and exposed in spots with some marginal rock quality, but all good in the end, loved it as always with the best boys!!

What a Beauty of a climb, wanted to get on this for ages!!! It's very underrated being at the far end of the crag, most people miss it. Book says 18, crag says 20. 20s about right, some hard finger crack laybacks n whatnot really get you thinking. I Was sooo close to the top with a double pinch move, but just rushed it and missed a simple foot spot. Easy enough second go, will come back another time. all the other roofs on this end wall look pretty cool too. no one else wanted to try, rap down to clean.

while the corner was wet, climbed this arete to set another anchor.

just set a TR for the group to get everyone on the wall. (multiple newbies) bit hard to see/hear the climber from the bottom but big group, meant someone could be much further back to watch.

yeah pretty cruizy

yeah, humbled by this one, cracks a bit small for proper jams and up into the layback. got up eventually

pretty cool, too many link ups on this wall, could go anywhere with all the chalk.

first route of the arvo, harder than expected

had a great time on this with Khush, both got a few leads, something different to doing Cornerstone for a 3rd time!! some cool moves, good gear and topped at a similar time to the party on Cornerstone, had chats on the way up. down in the dark but at like 9pm ish.

what an absolute MISSION this climb was. ever since seeing Dyl and Lee on it, the same time last year, we knew we had to Do it. it just looks at you when walking up from the carpark, its a must do for anyone brave enough. with Khush And Sam in the other pair, the 4 of us set off around 8am for the mega line climb of the weekend, with the hot sun coming up, it was going to be a long day. bashed around and finally found the start about 1030 I think. as Ashton wasn't leading I had to do every pitch, which was a struggle after a while, but well worth the push on. i was in front so some of the pitches I left gear in the climb for the others to lead on, which helped them, but made us all quiet slw together. first 4 or 5 were pretty good with the pitch 6 traverse being super exposed, I was told I took the line to high but except for the heinous drag, ended quite well. after that I think I did part of Pegesus, some sick corner finger crack, that Ashton really struggled on, but everything else was cruizy. until we got to the top in the dark and didn't remember where the rap was, took quite a while to figure out it was on the other summit. and then 1 hour turned to 2, then 4, then we were at camp at 2am. soo when you're out of water for 4 hours and not thinking too clearly, time just goes on. but all went physically well, and we got up the next day for another one!!

pretty good, Jordan got on his first lead for a while, then I finished the rest in a 55m and 15m pitch. after the epic the day before, getting off was super easy, and got back to camp at like 4pm.

always a good day out on the wall!! only a few pitches up and then called it but got Chloe back on the cliff and absiel practice. (for anyone else, first 3.5 pitches are all sport, bring 12 draws if you wanna link P2 & P3, couple of extenders too.

back on the slab, which requires much more concentration and patience, each step at a time. cool moves but I did use a stiff draw to clip a few early, as it would be a gnarly big swing off.

awesome hand crack, one for the learners. bit of thinking needed for the middle section with good jams to be found. khush gave it a red hot go, but still trying to work out the best way to jam for powerful moves and high foot steps.

I found this quite tricky for a warm up 13. gear was good but the techy feet and undercling moves felt hard

think its this one, old book is a little vague. middle climb, between both caves, easy lay backs

dont know if i got any FAs in this area, being so close to main walk. buuut is quite mossy, dirty and vegetated in crack

Pretty good route, still had a heap of snow at the belay that we had to walk across. Harder than 12 in sections but all good gear.

If the start is harder than 18, and the roof is prob around 20/21, then why grade it 18 IDK.

Really cool route, unfortunately didn’t commit to crux with spicy runout clip

did this last pitch instead of finishing counterbalance, looked much better, and it delivered. the undercling flake is fun, good gear and solid.

great route, a couple of different methods used, but a while longer than anticipated, so only got the 1 multi done. did another pitch at the top, from Balance, well worth the variant finish.

nice but quite hard to find, this area is just massive boulders all piled on top, with lots of little caves and squeezes. starts at #6 and finishes on micros. Yes final move is quite hard, I definitely finished the route but the topout was the crux.

pretty cool ramp, that steepens. gear is fine but with flaring cracks at points.

khush had first lead, easy just getting back into it.