Ascents in Australia by Tom Bes

Q. What's more annoying? A boulderer wearing a hat or not wearing a shirt while climbing. A. I need to get a life If I had more time maybe a hard linkup to this great r hand crimp would have appeared. I couldn't find it today.

A powerful compression move to start. Took many tries to get established and then throw up to the sloper, especially as if you sag a bit too far you end up leaning on the other boulder. You know in your soul if you truly dabbed.

It needed a name

Practiced my frog foot techniques, found some good palming spots and some tight chicken wings and it made the difference. Also support from local kid walking the dog was a big boost.

Felt harder this time, I think I was less straight on. But what bomber stacks

Trsolo ascent cause my climbing partner is stuck in a different LGA. Great climb though!

Need to practice this size....

can get all the way to the lip at keyboard climbers but by then i have nothing left.

many attempts until i throw to the ledge one too many times and sliced my finger. next time!

new top section. I tidied up all the climbs here as most of them have lower starts that i hadnt noticed before.

Hooray a top out finally on this wall! I felt like old mate blaxland or whatever discovering a pass through the mountains. 2 mantles in one climb, probs should of called it mickey mantle.

new lower start. way better & harder.

took me more attempts this time than when i first climbed it. maybe i was tired from cleaning so much lichen of the thing. such a great climb

yes please slab me right and slab me tender

TB LUVS SLABS

interesting traverse. its all about the feet. smeary feet and slopey top. had me sweating. Which crusty will come out of hiding to retroactively claim this one? its a fun game

great

oooo that sinker sounds hollow but seems solid. great

nice and pumpy

i love all the climbs on this boulder. did many laps

yum

love that heel feel

great idea of Meeeeeeee. oh man was that ledge dirty. once i transferred all that dirt to my hair and body it went.

love it. I wore down an inch of my wire brush cleaning this whole slab but it was very worth it.

a way to end the big traverse with a big move

im lichen these climbs YES!

probs my favourite climb on the boulder. beautiful wavy features makes for nice movement. did many repeats.

man that drop down move when you have to stop your downward motion and keep going is a killer. gonna need a lot of power to get through the last big move too.

The crumbly nature of the fully detached huge block on the Trad climb next door freaked me out. I quite possibly didn't climb the proper route here as I was more on the arete.

Decent for here

I feel like the stars only relate to other climbs at this crag. I wouldn't rate many of these highly due to the loose and ledgy nature of everything. But when your are stuck in George's river LGA it gets the job done!

This is surely chipped. But it is a quarry I guess. It's all about the first few moves. They are great, also tried it a bunch of times without using the big natural hold closer to the crack and just sticking with the chipped holds. Make gaining the ledge more of a throw. Maybe adds a grade? Either way fun stuff

Good for here

dont do it

fun

great

Even though me and Mr Monty accidentally reconciled under our alter-egos, I'm gonna claim an FA on this one as the amount of feet and crimps that broke off on me shows that no one has ever weighted this rock before. Good climb. Just don't even look at the big death block to the right 😵

turns out its easier than i thought. Thanks James Fenech for top out beta. And also for reaching to the sloper in one move when i have to do 3 smaller ones...

sometimes you DO have to go into the alcove. i knew it. fun.

footwork is slightly contrived but makes for a better day out

Ahoy sailor!

Clap your hands now, clap, clap, clap your hands now.

So borange

Named after the cacophony of kookaburra chuckles on the FA

sometimes, its the only place open. But its the boss

Ive wanted to climb this line for a long time. great

smeeeaarrsss

fun if you like smearing

cool line, mantling out of the corner was the crux for me

bit high. to scared to go direct unroped.

great, clean line. clean as in features, not dirtiness, its v sandy.

yum

first jam is bomber

High and exhilarating

What a great name for a climb and hold

Slap a slope?

Deluxe

Please somebody get this reference

Mmmmm dishy feet and lichen

The more Gladys locks me down, the more new boulders I have to find I guess. Love you tho Gladys

Probs don't do it. I only put it up cause you would try otherwise. Yeah you.