Ascents in Australia by Tom Bes

I mainly climbed fisticuffs once I could reach the crack. Those jams are too tempting

Took my first Trad whip in a long time from a foot slip on the layback up the top. Blaming new shoes. Had a light bounce of the ledge below. Thrilling. Great climb. #7 is good for top

Feels hard. Would love an extra inch of reach on this one

Tried to stay on the face too long. When I got back to ground my boots were full of leeches. Such is life

quotes from this ascent in chronological order: 'why do i have all this stuff?' 'these are the worst conditions i've ever climbed in' 'f*ck oh f*ck its a leech'

I was suprised to get a clean repeat of this after having a heat death on vitez. But the highlight of the day was then catching Jake Delaminate on the Longest Survivable Whip™ on his greenpoint attempt. fell from the chains to just below the first bolt. jeez louiz.

Oh lord. Insane lip contortion moves, loose choss everywhere. But I strangely loved it? Got to the last move and ran out of strength for the fingelock layback. Ended up finding a nice knee bar solution to get the top out.

Retreatd on lead, too scared to fall on the slabby section. Glad I bailed as the next holds ended up sucking too! A fun top rope time

A nice traddy time and a wet rainy day

Great fun! Route of the day. Cool first move and even an option for finger jams up top

Nope. Another 14 sandbag

Tricky after last carrot. Slap around for hidden jug

Some 14s here are not like the others. This one felt like 14 but none of the others!fun climb

Almost easier than the 14s to the right. Hard start but then fairly juggy

Tried it on lead but bailed due to the stiff runout start. Not close to a 14 in my book

Works well as an early Trad lead as suggested

Can't believe I've never done this properly. I have bailed into the crack from the hand traverse routes but never done the worthwhile start. Quiet wide and burly. Some good fist jams

Not as strong as I remember

I did this as purely an offwidth and had a great time! If you only use the crack and none of the great edges and jugs everywhere you can heel-toe and chicken wing the entire route! Good offwidth training.

What a great hand crack! Shame it stops at 2/3rd height where it gets a bit trickier.

Bit wet from seepage. Awkward moves and a trickier top. Glad to do it though.

i stubbornly tried to climb this like an offwidth and only managed to completely tire myself out. then i resorted to hauling on the breaks and it was much easier but not as fun

awesome initial crack was a good challenge and then a lovely ease up to the top

jamz. if only it was longer!

checking gear placements for my friend on their first mountains lead! a nice climb

i thought this was great! it is definitely unusual 3D climbing but that wasnt a negative. loads more gear than you expect, mainly in the left face cracks

NOTE: new carrots dont fit right angle bolt plates. so much going on in this climb. wild mantle, fairly limited gear and a pumpy overhanging topout. a real ewbank 15.... i made most of the mistakes i could possibly make and chickened out of the last moves above the bolt

classic boulder retreat: holds run out up high, sun in eyes, slopers all around, Nope

yum holds

such a good left hand start hold i had to get full value out of it.

tufas and smears

Soundtracked by Riot by Dead Kennedys hence the name. a nice time. watch your head on the tree https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cxy8DuLypfT/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

if you like smeary slabs you will have fun. balancey

great little climb!

cooool gaston move

i think i did a messy combination of the 3 climbs in this spot.

cool line, crimps seem to run out when it gets high

Harder than I remember but great

Not as nut centric as I remembered. Beautiful climb though

Did it 3 times and made the crux steeper move way harder 2 of those times.

Got to place some big cams yum

Slopey fun up top

flakes

rampy

Thumbdercling was very fun

Pokemon mon mon

Great juggy route

Happy good times

In Glob we trust

an interesting time

fave new climb in this section

I've been wanting to climb this crack for a long time. turns out it doesn't climb much like a crack. Named after the FA's ironic farewell at the start of every climb. And today was the last time we will climb together for the foreseeable future so it couldn't be called anything else. I'll miss ya Jake

now i have the awkward first move dialled this climb is a joy

climbed this the best i ever have. stayed left side in the whole way for a change. Green point

after entering full buns mode while on belay, i did a sickly aid second. this was the spark of a week of illness for me bleeehhh

i better warm up on this as im not feeling too good...

where has the greenpoint tick type gone?? Anyway the greenpoint needed a #7 mainly and a #6 to leave behind in the tighter bits. and then gear of #1 and under for the top. I'll have the inserts ready soon to update page 175 of your guidebook with the greenpoint pic.

this felt easy today amazingly. a great confidence boost to start the day. but everything is easy when seconding

dont believe the anti slab sentiment in the guidebook, it was a very enjoyable slab. once i figured out where to go. i stayed right of the first bolt to move up initially. great friction moves

Felt more tenuous, and harder, than lunatic. Less holds and more exciting for me. What a day of climbing, such a good easy to use crag.