Ascents of Never Say Never

Little bit dirty and some thoughtful rock but good fun. Should see more ascents and it would clean up.

The first three pitches are actually great climbing putting aside the dirty vegetated cracks. Would be a ripper if clean. The final pitch is forgettable and a mess.

Great looking line. Doesn’t deliver. Poor rock on second pitch. Terrible, almost unusable belay at top of second pitch especially when it’s wet as you’d be getting dripped on. Dead vegetation in the crack a nightmare for your eyes, nose and lungs. We realised corner systems are not great places to climb after a fire that’s followed by a flood.

Cool line with OK rock.Pitch 4 is pretty grim though - you have to pull through an overgrown and burnt banksia (it will snap pretty soon) to get to the bolt on the slab.

With JJ. Ran out of gear halfway up the first pitch and set a hanging belay. Generally good for a long trad route in the grose, although there's some weird hollow sounding rock down low.

Led P2. Dave 1 and then some variant death by vegetation and I ended up doing last pitch of slipstream to escape in dark.