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	Grade	Route	Gear style	Crag	Quality	Climber	Date
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Greg Blachon 1 17 25m 2 17 15m 3 17 25m 4 5m	Trad 70m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Nikhilesh Sharma	Sun 3rd Mar 2019
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.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Ash Brennan, Mira Jordan 1 17 76m lead by Sid Tinney 2 lead by Sid Tinney 3 4	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Sid Tinney	Sat 18th May 2019
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!
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Andrew, Kyle Weatherman 1 17 30m 2 17 15m lead by Andrew 3 17 25m 4 14 6m lead by Kyle Weatherman	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Emanuele	Wed 25th Sep 2019
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Cameron Harkins 1 17 30m 2 16 15m 3 17 25m 4 14 6m	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Nicolas Di Campli	Sun 1st Dec 2019
Decent climbing - really enjoyed the slabby face of P2 and the overhanging corner on P3. Some nice belay spots.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Stephen Roche, Greta 1 17 30m lead by Mac Labine-Romain 2 17 15m 3 17 25m lead by Mac Labine-Romain 4 14 6m	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Mac Labine-Romain	Sun 28th Jun 2020
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
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Ben Taylor 1 17 30m lead by Harry Ryan 2 17 15m lead by Harry Ryan 3 17 25m lead by Ben Taylor 4 14 6m lead by Ben Taylor	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains		Harry Ryan	Thu 30th Jul 2020
	17	★★★ Fire Bug 1 17 30m 2 17 15m 3 17 25m 4 14 6m	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	maaddzzyy	Sun 2nd Aug 2020
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Cameron Harkins 1 17 30m 2 17 15m 3 17 25m 4 14 6m	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Tad Karapetian	Sun 6th Sep 2020
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
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Josephine Roper 1 17 30m lead by Marco de Jongh 2 17 15m lead by Marco de Jongh 3 17 25m lead by Josephine Roper 4 14 6m lead by Marco de Jongh	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Marco de Jongh	Sat 24th Apr 2021
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
	17	★★★ Fire Bug 1 17 30m 2 17 15m 3 17 25m 4 14 6m	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	James Hockey	Mon 4th Apr 2022
	17	★★★ Fire Bug 1 17 30m 2 17 15m 3 17 25m 4 14 6m	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Aurora Pandora	Sat 5th Nov 2022
Just wow, so much fun from start to finish!
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Aaron Wong 1 17 30m Second lead by Aaron Wong Not fun chimney with full bag. My bread got very squished 2 17 15m Trad lead by Laurie Bristow First trad anchor built here 3 17 25m Second lead by Aaron Wong Weirdly hard steep bit. Maybe just tired... 4 14 6m Trad lead by Laurie Bristow	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains		Laurie Bristow	Sun 20th Nov 2022
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Stuart McElroy	Thu 1st Apr 2004
with Isabelle from SRC
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	scott ruddock	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains		ness	2006
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains		Adam Bramwell	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Jason Lammers	Thu 29th Jan 2004
with shaun
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	Average	David O'Donnell	Sat 30th Oct 2004
as good as cracks get I suppose
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Doug	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	trevor oconnell	Sun 29th Aug 2004
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains		russ	Wed 25th Dec 2002
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Chris Bentham	Sat 30th Oct 2004
unreal 3rd pitch
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains		Nick Clow	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Niall Doherty	2004
Shudder at thoughts of the original ascent on sparse passive protection
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Vanessa Wills	Sat 28th Aug 2004
loved pitch 3
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Drew Henman	Sun 13th Jul 2003
Beautiful climb, one of the best natural lines I've done...ever!!
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Roger Austin	Sat 29th Apr 2006
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Rod Smith	Tue 30th Dec 2008
Not really a crack climb but a mega classic nevertheless. Led p2,3-4. Rick led p1. Trad man...
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Peter Webster	Sun 1st Oct 2006
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	michelle Cannon	Sun 9th Nov 2008
I led pitch 2 and 4, Russ led 1, 3..!
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains		Shane Riley	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Tony Williams	Sat 19th Dec 1998
great climb in great position
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains		Mic	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Chris George	Tue 19th Feb 2008
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Boyd Robinson	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Phil Ward	Sun 16th Jan 2011
P3 is the most difficult to protect. Otherwise a great climb.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains		Adam Glen	Sun 9th Sep 2012
2nd pitches 1 & 3, onsight 2 & 4
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains		Jara	Wed 1st May 2013
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Marty Doolan	Wed 3rd Nov 2010
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Carl Johnston	Wed 19th Sep 2012
Got engaged on this route. Left little notes attached to each piece on the final pitch and had a rind at the top ready with a picnic. Gotta rate it mega classic. Cant remember the climbing at all. (Wish I could remember the date !)
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Rene Provis	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Lincoln Quilliam	Sat 23rd May 2015
AWESOME!! Double pitched 1-2 and 3-4 on a single rack with double small wires, could've taken double mid cams. 1:45
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Andrew Stevenson, Susie	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Matt Short	Sat 15th Aug 2015
Great climbing, may favourite was pitch 3, not to strenuous if you bridge.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Benedict Armitage	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Alastair McDowell	Sat 25th Jul 2015
A great route all trad beautiful splitter lay back and loved the top cave belay!
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Ro-boat	Tue 16th Feb 2016
My favourite moderate multipitch to date. Clean second p1 and onsight p2 and 3. Good rock, good belays and really varied. Fun morning out.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Caroline	Mon 25th Apr 2016
Awesome!!! Lead 1st pitch, Tom did the rest.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with John Croker	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Adrian Kladnig	Sat 18th Apr 2009
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Jason McCarthy	Sun 22nd May 2016
Another Bluies mega classic trad route. I linked P1 and P2 into a awesome long pitch and Jenna linked P3 and P4. Trad climbing doesn't get much better. Be careful of the loose block in the start below the small tree.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Nick Morgan	Wed 29th Jun 2016
Yeaaa babay!! Led pitch 1 & 3
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Alastair McDowell	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Ewa Siedlecka	Thu 3rd Nov 2016
Solid moves for the grade, and thoroughly enjoyable. With chimneys, cracks, and steep sections, there is something for everyone. Be careful of the loose chockstone right off the start.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Abi Prakash	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Eamonn	Fri 18th Nov 2016
Really wicked climb with some solid moves at the start. Awesome belay spots (in the shade!). Hot day, but good climbing. Found the big blocks on 3rd pitch a bit nerve racking as didn't look too too solid. Lead 3rd pitch.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Dany	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Keith Davison	Sat 12th Aug 2017
P1 - hard start, used the tree. nice and narrow chimney. used knees to stem/jam (very painful). end in a trad belay. personal grade (16) P2 - very short (~10m) but tough layback corner (BD 0.75-2). trad belay under block where all the bird shit is. would have been better to climb up left another couple meters and belay next the those block flakes. personal grade (17) P3 - Crux pitch. climb left out from under block up and back into corner. easily up flake block steps. (crux) steep corner has poor feet up over bugle into poor hands and ok feet. be efficient placing gear or you willl get pumped out. up into cave for trad belay. personal grade 18? P4 - 6m traverse on sketchy ironstone. be careful/delicate on feet cause some of those flakes have big cracks are could break. (BD 0.2 - 0.75) overall an epic climb, wish there was a couple carrots at the belays. time: 2h45m
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with che 1	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Gee Rad	Fri 6th Jan 2017
The first pitch, to Say Cheese anchors.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains		Ryley Broekman	Tue 28th Feb 2017
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Alex Riegelman	Fri 5th May 2017
The first pitch felt pretty chossy and out of character with the rest of the route. Otherwise, quite nice.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Grechy	Wed 12th Jul 2017
Night multi fun times linked pitches 2 and 3 what a fantastic route
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Gus	Sun 16th Jul 2017
The days warm up, such a cool little jaunt. The chimney took a bit of re-orienting (probably because I suck at offwidths) but the rest of it climbed super nice. Fun moves higher up!
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Richard Pattison	Sat 15th Oct 2016
Awesome climb. Got a red cam stuck on the 1st pitch, Mel shouts up on second "you placed it, you'll have to free it". So... abseil back down, dangle for 10 minutes trying to wiggle it back out and mangle my fingers more than any crack climb ;o)
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Rene Provis	Wed 1st Jan 2014
Don't recall when I first did this awesome route, likely sometime in 2014
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Ancala	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Adam Mujaj	Sat 30th Sep 2017
Linked P1 and P2. A double set of cams would have come in handy!
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Daniel Butler	Sat 4th Nov 2017
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Daniel Butler 1 lead by Sam 2 lead by Dan 3 lead by Sam 4 lead by Dan	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Sam Small	Fri 3rd Nov 2017
Great climbing! And the weather turned out stellar! P1 had some awkward offwidth chimney which had me grinding my way up the wall. P2 Dan took the lead and lead his first MP trad route with a trad belay! Then P3 had some navigation over some steep blocks to a scenic belay in a cave! Great day for it!
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Lucy Rose	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains		Tom Collins	Sat 24th Feb 2018
P1,P2 - Tom P3 - Lucy
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Harry Kadi	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Will Vidler	Tue 27th Feb 2018
Another easy trad classic ticked off the list and one that I thought was very solid at the grade. Harry led a giant first pitch, climbing we are not sure how many actual pitches and finishing on top of a big block. This left the awesome overhanging cruxy section to the top out for me which was just fantastic. Highly recommend!!
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Will Vidler	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Harry Kadi	Tue 27th Feb 2018
Probably solid at 17, awesome climbing on bomber rock 95% of the way! Lived up to the hype for sure!
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Dave Hoyle	Sat 19th Mar 2011
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Mike croker	Tue 3rd Apr 2018
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Erika, Nav	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Chris Duffield	Thu 12th Apr 2018
Classic old school crack climbing. Chimney, through to hand crack. We climbed in two pitches. Take plenty of fist sized gear. A great day
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Erika, Nav	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Chris Duffield	Thu 12th Apr 2018
Classic old school crack climbing. Chimney, through to hand crack. We climbed in two pitches. Take plenty of fist sized gear. A great day
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Mitch 1 17 76m lead by Roman 2 lead by Roman 3 lead by Mitch 4	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains		Roman	Sun 20th May 2018
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Hayden Gordon Field, Ken anderson	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains		Match	Thu 9th Aug 2018
YASS YASS YASS channeled the the DJ and sent this beauty on sunset linked P1 and P2. Ridiculously hard move off the ground. wish i had a #6 after the crux.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains		Levi Worden	Mon 22nd Apr 2019
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Rick Helm	Fri 24th May 2019
Top pitches ane mint. First pitch is terrible.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains		Peatey	Fri 24th May 2019
P1 start was a bit thuggy and loose. Great after that. Protectable chimney is a rare pleasure P2 should be linked w P1. P3 cool steep stem corner.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Scott Butler	Sat 17th Aug 2019
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Sean Peters 1 17 30m lead by Dean 2 17 15m lead by Dean 3 17 25m lead by Sean Peters 4 14 6m lead by Sean Peters	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains		Dean	Fri 27th Sep 2019
Starting moves weren't kind to my already-inflamed R shoulder - the tree getting in the way doesn't help either Linked P1 and P2, to belay at the higher suggested ledge. With a double rack it's worth saving a couple of cams #2 and larger for the anchor. Trying to build one with the small gear I had left wasn't ideal. Did P3 in more of a dihedral style, rather than trying to finger-lock the crack. Sean linked P3&P4, which apparently added in a bunch of rope drag at the end. Since P4 is just a few metres of walking across dubious ironstone plates, Sean's suggestion of a more direct finish to the highline anchors is a good one.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Michael Hallang	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Timmy Wong	Sun 29th Sep 2019
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Ryan L 1 17 30m lead by Scott Bishop 2 17 15m lead by Scott Bishop 3 17 25m lead by Ryan L 4 14 6m lead by Ryan L 5	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Scott Bishop	Sun 6th Oct 2019
Such a nice morning out. I can see why this is a bit of a classic. Excellent climbing in a beautiful spot. The nesting falcons on the next buttress kept us company. Maybe a good idea to stay off the walls from here to wild is the wind until the end of the nesting season. Linked p1&2 and 3&4
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with grace	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Ben Hanley	Sun 10th Nov 2019
Fun and varied climbing. Third pitch is the money pitch, interesting climbing around a flaring crack with spaced, but good gear. Pretty solid crux pitch for 17. Climbed in two pitches, linking 1/2 and 3/4.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Luisa Sugawara	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Simon Sharples	Sun 17th Nov 2019
Awesome climb!! Luisas first multipitch. I Lead every pitch. Old school 17crux was super tough but I got through it clean. Didn't link any pitches because I didn't have enough cams in the right size. Definitely would recommend doubles of .75 1s and 2s. Unfortunately we got a no 6 trango cam superstuck on P2. On the upside it will make for a bomber fixed piece for future climbers! Be careful as there is a falcon nesting next to the big belay ledge after P2. Didn't seem to happy with us being there.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Josiah Hess	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Dani Hess	Tue 26th Nov 2019
	17	★★★ Fire Bug 1 17 30m lead by steve willson 2 17 15m lead by steve willson 3 17 25m 4 14 6m lead by steve willson	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	steve willson	Fri 29th Nov 2019
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Nick Roach	Sun 12th Jan 2020
This is such a cool climb! Good rock, plenty of good gear and compulsory jamming. I didn't climb through the chossy cave at the end and went a bit further left instead. It worked out fine. We linked pitches 1&2 and 3&4
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Ben Dawes	Sun 12th Jan 2020
Lead pitch 1 and linked 3 & 4. Pitch 3 got pretty rowdy with some exciting moves.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Pinky	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Daniel D	Mon 7th Oct 2019
linked p1+2 (seconded). p3 is the $ (lead)
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Ben Hanley	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Grace Mackie	Sun 10th Nov 2019
Climbed easily as two pitches, leading P1+2 and seconding Ben for P3+4. Ben got the money pitch (P3) on this one, steeper than you'd expect for 17!
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Ben Taylor	Thu 30th Jul 2020
Fun climbing.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Tom Bes 1 17 30m lead by Tom Bes 3 17 25m lead by Jake Delaney 4 14 6m lead by Tom Bes	Trad 61m	Blue Mountains	Average	Jake Delaney	Sun 13th Sep 2020
I was real salty about this climb, and thus today marks the first day of the 'Strip Firebug of one of its four stars, Mr. Carter' campaign. Considering the details of the fabled first ascent, a flame war seems fitting. Let it begin...
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with J 1 17 30m lead by Peter Melouney 2 17 15m lead by Peter Melouney 3 17 25m lead by J 4 14 6m lead by J	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Peter Melouney	Fri 27th Nov 2020
Great route. Linked P1/2 and P3/4.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug 1 17 30m 2 17 15m 3 17 25m lead by Jimmy O'Reilly 4 14 6m lead by Jimmy O'Reilly	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains		Jimmy O'Reilly	Thu 14th Jan 2021
Linked first two and last two pitches.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Ian Kotze	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	Average	Gavin Rech	Fri 5th Feb 2021
I agree with other comments saying this route is over rated and under graded. It is a historical classic and still worth climbing but I wouldn't go out of my way.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains		Anton Korsun	Sun 7th Mar 2021
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Ken Thrash 1 17 30m lead by Steffen & Saskia Bollmann 2 17 15m lead by Steffen & Saskia Bollmann 3 17 25m lead by Ken Thrash 4 14 6m lead by Ken Thrash	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Steffen & Saskia Bollmann	Thu 15th Apr 2021
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Steffen & Saskia Bollmann 1 17 30m lead by Steffen & Saskia Bollmann 2 17 15m lead by Steffen & Saskia Bollmann 3 17 25m lead by Ken Thrash 4 14 6m lead by Steffen & Saskia Bollmann	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains		Ken Thrash	Thu 15th Apr 2021
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	james ritchie	Sat 22nd May 2021
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Dave Pastafarian	Mon 3rd Jan 2022
Tremendous line all on bomber gear up the corner. Lived upto the hype nice and comfy belays aswell. Went into the shade by 3pm aswell 🙌.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	James Collins	Tue 17th May 2022
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Chris Lam, Adam Cufer 1 17 30m lead by Aaron Wong 2 17 15m lead by Aaron Wong 3 17 25m lead by Aaron Wong 4 14 6m lead by Aaron Wong	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Aaron Wong	Sun 12th Jun 2022
Great climb. Super stoked to lead this whole thing! Tests a range of skills, including trusting trees, a short chimney, some lovely hand jams. All the belay points were also quality destinations for taking in the view.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Jess C 1 17 30m lead by Jess C 3 17 25m lead by Luke	Trad 55m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Luke	Sat 18th Jun 2022
Felt like the first pitch was the money pitch. 3rd only really had a short section that was good before the average stuff at the top. Linked 1/2, 3/4 and then a bit of a walk off at the top choss. Took a double rack of cams but had plenty of everything left over. Was good for the grade but not sure it deserves an ultra classic. Flake crack and Interstate are way better.
	17	★★★ Fire Bug - with Jason	Trad 63m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Greg Carter	Tue 28th Jun 2022
	17	★★★ Fire Bug 1 17 30m Trad 2 17 15m Trad 3 17 25m Trad 4 14 6m Trad	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Claire Evans	Sun 18th Dec 2022
What a fun day out! Enjoyed the first pitch and found it very adventurous. Between a sketchy first move, trees, chimney and crack it was engaging and varied. My climbing partner told me they'd read a crag entry saying we'd need big gear for the anchor... I listen to this and saved some Cams that would have been useful only to build the anchor with small gear! Bomber anchor and an awesome spot to belay as we linked the first two pitches. By the time I started seconding the next pitch I got quite hangry... not good while climbing. First part of the next pitch I found engaging and a stuck nut made things interesting. Backpack was getting in the way as I was trying to get out the nut but I had a mega knee bar/jam while i reevaluate life as you do mid pitch. I tried to take the backpack off and attach it to my harnesses but made matters worse... in this process a totem went flying off the cliff, it somehow survived. Once I got past this section I was able to enjoy the rest of the pitch. Overall an awesome climb and worth the stars!

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