Ascents in Mt Boyce

Climbed the 1st and 2nd but didn't bother with the 3rd. Can lower to the ground from the top of the second with a 70m. Fun traverse and some great grey rock that gets overlooked these days.

nice outing. Highlights include clean hand traverse on pitch one, and really balancy but well protected crux on pitch two. We abseiled off, pulling ropes was awkward rd

That certainly is a gold star!

That certainly is a gold star!

Loved it! Very happy to he seconding pitch 2 though, spicy runout

The first pitch was sustained for the grade, absolutely terrific climb. Wish I remembered my crack gloves, left a trail of blood behind. Second pitch was deffo above my ability, that committing and awkward move would have terrified me on lead.

Pretty nice crack

Funny how fate works, lost the 'roshambo' compelling me to lead pitches 1 and 2. It was like the climbing gods wanted me to lead the chimney, the style I have a 40% love and 60% hate relationship with.

Pitch 1: Intense, bouldery and unprotected but not too hard of a first move has one questioning what will the mystified 'crux' 50m higher up behold. Thructched up the chimney, my knees and back bracing the last of self belief I had. After somehow making it out of that coffin, climbing gets easier and involves stemming to mental recovery.

Pitch 2 linked with P1: "O boy another roof"(more like bulge). One committing layback, followed by some graceful stemming(?) and the rest is history. I have never been so happy in my life after stumbling upon a pile of shit (birds'). Made a belay at the most comfy belay ledge(with a view) ever.

Pitch 3 (surely the crux): Time to watch my partner struggle and give him words of false hope and even falser wisdom. As second, it wasn't too bad; a couple of hand jams, a couple of don't jams and use those big hold moments, finger locks and a get me out of here FIST JAM. So glad I wasn't the one on the sharp end or was I? Belay is in the meditative cave.

Pitch 4: Big smiles while traversing left on even bigger ironstone bands. Belay carrots at the top.

PS This climb was first done in volleys with hemp rope tied around the waist, a few machine nuts and metal hexes as protection. After doing this climb, if you feel like you deserve an ice cream, you probably do. But remember those tough lads and this tough climb also deserves our utter respect.

Engaging climbing in an incredible position! P1 belay was a bit crowded with 3 people, but doable. Split P3 into 2 pitches, climbing above the block and belaying from there to cut down on rope drag. Finished well in the dark due to some people abseiling in and jumping on P3 ahead of us us... Not super ideal, but thankfully we all had headlamps!

Decent climbing - really enjoyed the slabby face of P2 and the overhanging corner on P3. Some nice belay spots.

man what cool climb! pitch 3 is one of the funnest pitches ive lead at the grade. the belay ledges for pitch 1 and 3 are fairly average, and having spent a fair bit of time at them in a party of 3, would probs link 1+2 and 3+4 if i did it again

mega route for the grade. A few tough moments and fun exposure but got through it after trusting my jams. Definitely go to the highest point of the cave for the belay and don't spend 30 minutes struggling with cordalette a bit lower down :p

Awesome day out, definitely a blueys classic, linked pitch 1 & 2 drag wasnt too bad. Pitch 3 is ever so slightly harder than 1&2, mostly because the rock quality on pitch 3 is questionable

Just wow, so much fun from start to finish!

amazing 45 degree crack. All muscle here. Contrary to the description, pitch 2 IS worth doing

Nice and easy route. Definitely not for beginners because pro is not obvious.

Pretty cruisy climbing, bit on the runout side of things. Second pitch is bloody awesome!

Second pitch is a bit runout.

A brilliant and very worthy mini tradventure. I fell off straight away at the start of pitch one, came down from the first piece of gear, ditched most of the rack because it weighed so much, and fired it off. Such a classic and quite feisty pitch, felt quite 23 honestly. Second pitch was a fun ramble, I broke off an enormous footer though and went for an unexpected and exciting one arm dangle. Pitch three is also great; a novel roof crack to start and pleasant layback to finish. Doubles (or triples!!) to 0.5 and singles above that seemed like a good rack. Wires were helpful too. Barely need any quickdraws, maybe four regular ones and two extenders for the roof on pitch three. You can also take one bolt bracket for the belay at the end of pitch two, but it probably isn't necessary. The bush bash off the top also wasn't too bad, definitely faster than trying to rap and walk out normally.

Yeah Yeah. Hard thin start then each sequence getting gradually easier the higher you climb but the pump gets larger. Sick little pumper.

Gonna tell everyone to get on this.