Ascents of Avago

5 year saga is over, I have made it to the top of this route. Worth it? probably. The start is a sandbag, the next bit is cool too, the chimney/gully was very fucking runout, fortunately found one decent bit of gear before making a diagonal for the carrot anchors of the 17 version to avoid a dirt crawl topout. Really should get more ascents, lower half is good fun, top half is a good tradventure.

Progress! The start is doable now I can actually hand jam. Made it to the ledge with a rest, rapped off the bollard owing to some uncertainties.

Managed up the fun crack to the first ledge which was nice. However, wouldn’t commit to the next crack with my gear on hand so bailed using the protruding bollard. The next few meters looked interesting so many try again another day.

There’s a sling and maillon left behind if anyone wants it...

Eventually worked out some tall person beta for the start and how to approximate it by jumping, but was feeling pretty battered by then so stopped.

Nick was having trouble getting off the deck and the sun was coming over, so we went home. Looked fun though.

very cool climbing at the grade. much better than it looks from the ground.

Sandbag with awkward start off deck

Awkward start, rambly middle and poorly protected top-out.

Either we got off route or this is a grade 20 sandbag with a 9 meter runout finish.

Classic piddo sandbag - hard but well-protected start with a few cool moves higher up too

very hard for the grade

second time. toby led.

did the face variant at grade 15

hard start

Dave lead.