Ascents in Gateway, Doomsday & Fort Rock

Seconding Monty. A fairly pleasant grey slab with a few proper techo slab moves. Enjoyable in the style.

Glad Duncan led this! Can't imagine many people would bother with this one? I'm actually not really sure why you bolted it Monty, let alone with carrots. I'm sure there's a good story.

Dial- a - belayer service for monty on the FA. Really good quality climbing on good quality rock. Even pockets too!

shame there is the classic mtns undercut start.

but forget that and get on it.

Do be constantly aware that there is a tourist walkin track beneath you so don't kick any rocks off.

Cool climbing with a few tricky bits.

I found this really hard at the grade. A hard start that almost spat me off leads through some cruisy climbing, to a sustained and pumpy finish. I feel like I wasn't too far from falling off some of the upper moves as a warmup.

Need to second as the massive traverse makes it "uncleanable" otherwise. The slab section off the belay on orange marble was super-tech!

The undercut start is thin for a warm up - maybe do Cockarona first up instead. Long, varied and quality climbing in a similar vein to the rest of the routes on this wall.

Tunnel vision on the onsight and headed left at the top to one of the 22's traverse bolts. Lowered off and sent. Pretty much a one move wonder.

Flash but for a "gentleman's sit" at a no-hands stance. Probably a bit easier if you're my height, but the entire steep section at the top is quite sustained regardless. A fairly cruisy lower half, and a fairly intense upper half.

Good one, felt like a bit of a gamble which way to go at the top.

Super enjoyable long outing in an exposed position. Very technical face climbing with a proud headwall. Would be 23ish but for a single nails heartbreaking move to bump up the grade a smidge. A great warmup for its neighbour.

Another mega adventure. Off right up the top just before it gets even harder. Took a few goes to work out a sequence past the last bolt. Super cool.

I was closest to falling off the top of this. No chalk to guide the way, proper hunting.

Long and fun with solid featured rock, especially up high. These routes deserve more traffic!

Brilliant! Super-sustained with so many moves that are puntable, but no true shutdown crux. The entire headwall is mega, but don't underestimate the slab (I came closest to falling off there). Probably hard for 24, but easy for 25? Substantially harder than its lefthand neighbour, but this is the real money of the crag.

Super cool long route on great rock. So many tricky sections, has at least 5 cruxes. Pretty happy to onsight this with near zero chalk and only placed a couple of random draws on rap, taking no notice of the the route.

Some proper tricky moves on the slab. Did this as the last route and was happy to get away with it.

Long and varied. Proper slab down low, funky mantles in mid section and a little moonboard crux at the top. This route is great but I didn't have enough left in the tank!

I hope you like slabs. Everything that is hard about this is contained in its slab moves. Fortunately I do like slabs

Slab climbing that's right it's a slap in the face, much complaining and whimpering . Needs a brush to make it nicer.

Maybe the most memorable move on the whole wall: the slab-mantle! Deary me, kill me now!

Fun climbing the whole way. A better warm up than Minority of Fun. Rope stretcher on rap with a doubled 70m to reach the belay.

A local chap beat me with a cane and threw rocks at me until I ticked!

flash pump on warm up, 2nd go.

Warmup of my day on my first 24 ever? Probably not a 24 :p.

Sweet steep climbing. I don't have enough oomph to onsight. One fall at the steepest bit/crux, definitely worth coming back for.

Glad to be back! Remembered this as not too hard but this time it felt tricky. Maybe i was tired, or i've gone weaker? 4th day climbing!

Perhaps not very hard for the grade, and certainly contrived... but fun as an end-of-day sunset lap, and it covers some pretty funky terrain on improbably good finger-jugs.

Not a bad warm up. Not too hard at the grade either.

In the final light of 2018..

Hard "warmup"

Fun repeat.

For a warm up stuck on the end of the crag, this is pretty good

First flash of the grade.

Pretty cool just need more time to work it!