Ascents in Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd

luke broke a footer on the crux pitch otherwise would defo have onsighted it

i ripped off a massive piece of ironstone and had a 10m fall going up the corner on the traverse/money pitch

awesome day out

The best multi I have ever done and one that keeps with my trend of achieving climbing 'firsts' in intimidating locations. I onsighted the first pitch which was rather gripping but probably quite easy at the grade, giving me my first Trad 23 and then, after belaying Paul's ultra solid send, almost almost scraped the crux pitch clean on second. I slipped off essentially the last move of the crux right at the end of the pitch despite feeling quite solid. After one false start I pulled on and mantled up to the belay. This pitch is all time!! featuring unlikely steep climbing at about grade 22 all the way until the intimidating and awesome final crux sequence; The best!! I then led and onsighted the third pitch (having told Paul I wanted to lead the layback that Ben Cossey is climbing in the TNF ad in the guidebook), a significantly harder 23 than the first pitch but ultra rad and super demanding for the section of real climbing before it turns into a ramble to the belay. At this point my head was pretty gone and I was feeling exhausted so Paul said he was happy to lead the last two pitches, an offer I gratefully accepted and I managed both of these clean on second with a major fight to keep it together on the final pitch as my lack of day-endurance took its toll and I found myself pumped stupid.

All up it is probably one of the best days of climbing to be had in the Bluies and I would highly recommend it to anyone who can muster the psych!!! Get on it!

Awesome new multipitch. P3-P5 only. Stella rock and awesome exposure. P4 is super sustained, rad moves. Stoked to onsight the P5 pitch.

P2 crux was fiesty! Managed to do the crux 2nd go then onsight to the anchors, the top half of p2 was some damn amazing climbing! worth it just for that section. The 23 was a monster crimper pitch.. Felt it's tricky to onsight in the crux section cos of a hard to spot hold, a great 45m crimp fest. (p3 tops out at lunch ledge, can do exposed crawl to rap area-stashed lunch)

So close to the onsight!!!! Tried to straight-in jam the .75 crux rather than doing 3 layback moves to the fingerlock 🤷‍♂️ Oh well. Should go with the right beta next time.

Anyway. Great climb. Not too hard for the grade. Excellent locations.

Listed gear beta is spot on. Definitely don't need the #4 though.

The start of the 25 pitch was so difficult for me. I eventually figured out a way after sitting on the bolt, back and fourth. I was so exhausted after all this I ended up sitting on gear and pulling on gear several more times throughout the rest of the pitch.

Happy I was able to climb all the other pitches clean.

Outstanding climbing on every pitch

Wow - lost for words really, life changing day what an incredible adventure. Strong friendship! Truly looking forward to the next time, albeit the thunder storm

Need to work my thin hand jams for the p2 crux. Got too pumped and took the whip. Otherwise all other pitches went free! Will come back next trip for the all free ascent. Awesome exposure and good placements! Was sitting bricks walking up to the route but the nerves died as we got higher. The belay jacket was a necessity as temps were in the low single digits with blasting wind, such an awesome adventure that I'll remember for a very long time.

Many cool moves and pitches in one of the coolest positions in the mountains. Got pumped and stumped at the top of pitch 2 but the rest came together nicely.

Great movement all the way on varying rock quality.

After a sleepless night got up at 6:30 knowing I was gonna try pull the onsight of my life out my ass.

Tried to link the first three raps with a beena blocked 60+70m combo resulted in roughly 1hr and 45 mins of myself and Alyssa faffing furiously with a 3:1 to drag the rope down.

Finished hauling the rope down and rapped in by 10:45

Super awesome route. Just like some classic rad trad but with a squillion bolts. First pitch is really fun and quite sustained but probably not 23, i think 22 is fair. I thought pitch two is even better again, being fairly moderate till about half way where it gradually gains intensity until the very end. Here the crux was made quite tricky as the entire upper section of the face was problematically saturated and almost none of the face holds were at all useable. Hence i channelled my inner trad dad and power stemmed the corner direct to glory. Not sure of the grade here; the moves would certainly be pretty gnarly for a 23 but i dont really onsight 24 and it was pretty much only the one hard sequence coming out of a good rest, so maybe it isn't too bad. The last pitch was also really cool with the traverse being awesome and super out there. I found the crux quite difficult to read and subsequently fell off After it was figured though out the moves were fine. Definitely deserving more attention! Get on it!!

TOP climbing, really nice corner with some tricky moves in pitch two and amazing traverse and overhang in pitch three. One of my best climb in Blue Mountains.

Great climb, pitch 2 is probably tricky at the grade. Pitch 4 is great. Got all the moves but too pumpy for me to link them all.

A bit less techy corner climbing than expected but a really good climb nonetheless. Some nice exploding choss holds to keep things lively.

Pitch 2 was hard, definitely reasonable to grade it 24. The whole thing was a fun time and went very smoothly

Will have to come back for the last pitch. Really happy to get the second pitch clean. A bit wet here and there. Didn't stem that much. Just face climbed most of it. Heaps of choss to keep you thinking.

Great climb, some questionable quality in the top pitches but great entertainment value. Sat at the crux move to read it but the rest was clean.

Another pierces classic! It always feels good smearing on sandstone after a week of climbing polished tonsai limestone.

Epic multi, all pitches high quality. Deployed the 100m static for an easy rap in for this and rutger

Really fun day out, enjoyed p2 the most. 7 hours car to car, definitely unique.

Sustained,long and bit wondery 1st pitch got lost travers far left and back...2nd pitch hard start! 3rd pitch thin sustained 4th pitch brutal would say more like 24(very good to have couple of ring bolts there very, carrots would be difficult to clip) 5th first part very nice exposed rest easy wall and 6th hard a few moves at the begging. Overall awesome day out exhausted to the bottom. I wouldn't be afraid to say it is solid 24 but we didn't have ideal condition, Even though we started at 6am was super humid and yesterday heat didn't help to recover at all. Be solid in the grade and go get this one!

Such an epic day!!! Maybe a party of 3 was ambitious but lots of fun was had! 1st pitch good, 2nd pitch wtf that first move!? Then ok.. 3rd, Epic! 4th Epic! 5th EPIC! 6th EPIC! (but rope drag a definite problem! Take many long runners!) A shame i was the only one to see the exposure of the last pitch in daylight! All topped out about 7:20pm

Keen to return! Would definitely recommend!

10.5 hours, route is closer then the think walking in. Pumped out on the first pitch down climbing to a carrot. Awesome day,