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	Grade	Route	Gear style	Crag	Quality	Climber	Date
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	29	★★ Stelvio - with Match, Jared Tyerman, Maxwell Cullen	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Paul Frothy Thomson	Sat 4th Sep 2021
27ish to the 2nd last bolt, and not too bad, though obviously untrafficked and in need of some mileage to clean it up. The final 2 bolts are nails, and I couldn't touch the last move to the anchor. Could be a rad 27 to finish up the last 3m of the 25 immediately right.
	29	★★ Cloudheat Extension - with Match, Jared Tyerman, Maxwell Cullen	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Paul Frothy Thomson	Sat 4th Sep 2021
A few cool sequences, though brick hard for 3 bolts, and with an utterly disgusting key chip (I can't fit my fingers in it). Pretty average rock. I wouldn't give it another lap.
	29	★ S for Stile - with Match, Jared Tyerman, Maxwell Cullen	Sport 18m	Blue Mountains	Don't Bother	Paul Frothy Thomson	Sat 4th Sep 2021
The start and finish is okay face climbing. The 10m in the middle is a contender for the most glue I've ever seen on a climb, and the worst rock on bentrovato. I broke off 2 key glued holds at the crux almost immediately, so it may not even go anymore. Avoid... seriously!
	29	★★ Stelvio - with Jared Tyerman, Maxwell Cullen, Nikita Miltiadou	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Paul Frothy Thomson	Sat 25th Sep 2021
2 more shots. Had some good linkage on my 2nd shot today. Its kinda down to a single move I just can't stick without rope tension. Proper hard crimp bouldering at the end of 20m of more moderate climbing.
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	23 28	★★★ Marxism (Marxism Pitch 1)	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Jason Lammers	Fri 17th Dec 2010
Hyper !!
	23 28	★★★ Marxism (Marxism Pitch 1)	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Adam Bramwell	Sun 27th Nov 2011
Dogged for self preservation
	23 28	★★★ Marxism (Marxism Pitch 1)	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Jason Smith	Sun 27th Nov 2011
Nice consistant wall climbing. Pitch 2 looks...... interesting
	23 28	★★★ Marxism (Marxism Pitch 1)	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	chris	Mon 21st Feb 2011
This is great, but would be improved by starting at Vespasians wall then heading right. Would need a couple of bolts for the link.
	23 28	★★★ Marxism (Marxism Pitch 1)	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Vanessa Wills	Sun 11th Mar 2012
rather pumpy
	23 28	★★★ Marxism (Marxism Pitch 1)	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Vanessa Wills	Sun 11th Mar 2012
rather pumpy
	23 28	★★★ Marxism (Marxism Pitch 1)	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Gerhard Deiter	Sun 11th Mar 2012
	23 28	★★★ Marxism (Marxism Pitch 1)	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Ben Jenga	Sun 22nd Apr 2012
The best route of the day, really commanding climbing but so so good. A really great climbers route.
	23 28	★★★ Marxism (Marxism Pitch 1)	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Dan Theman	Sun 22nd Apr 2012
some awesome moves on this one. really glad Ben convinced me to get on it. i should have flashed it but was stuffed from Guillotine.
	23 28	★★★ Marxism (Marxism Pitch 1)	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Dan Theman	Sat 12th May 2012
went the wrong way down low. pulled back on and went through the crux to the top clean. next time
	23 28	★★★ Marxism (Marxism Pitch 1)	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Paul Frothy Thomson	Wed 30th Jan 2013
On-site attempt in the dark with a headlamp. Fell off only 2 or 3 moves from the "easier" section at the top, cause I'm weak. Great, wandery, varied climbing which remains sustained most of the way. Substantially better than Guillotine.
	28	★★★ Marxism	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains		lucky chance	Sat 6th Apr 2013
so I rapped down the top pitch sussing out all the moves as I went, climbed it well enough hang-dogging the whole time up to a crux,worked it out, climbed through it (thinking oh man that was super hard I'm sure its the crux...) it Wasnt! the next bit proves even harder and I'm not even able to make the moves.. NAILS! hats off to anyone who's climbed it
	23 28	★★★ Marxism	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Paul Frothy Thomson	Sun 1st Dec 2013
Pitch 1 only in the baking sun. Still took me 2 shots (today) to get it after I got lost below the crux on the first shot. Stunning climbing the whole way on great rock. This type of movement epitomises face climbing!
	23 28	★★★ Marxism	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Peter	Sat 5th Apr 2014
P1 - Been waiting a while to get on bentrovato wall now and it didn't disappoint. I was so happy with this onsight! Super climb and one of the best 23's in the mountains
	23 28	★★★ Marxism	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Rob Medlicott	Sun 25th May 2014
Pitch 1 only. Hard start, to pretty good climbing but some coarse rock was not feeling great on the splits on my little fingies...
	23 28	★★★ Marxism	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Mitch Perkins	Mon 25th Aug 2014
pitch one only... awesome movement on somewhat course rock. great stuff!
	23 28	★★★ Marxism (Marxism (Pitch 1 only))	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Jason McCarthy	Mon 23rd Mar 2015
Found this very sustained for the first 3/4 of the route. Great climbing though the sharp grainy rock is a bit horrible on the fingers.
	23 28	★★★ Marxism (Marxism (Pitch 1 only))	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Lee Cujes	Sat 10th Mar 2012
Pretty pumped on the warm up. What a great wall though!
	23 28	★★★ Marxism (Marxism (Pitch 1 only))	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains		Lindsey Winterton	Sat 22nd Aug 2015
	23 28	★★★ Marxism	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Ben Jenga	Sat 22nd Aug 2015
Not quite as good as I remember, maybe because I found it harder.. Still the best 23 on the wall. Rad and Long
	23 28	★★★ Marxism (Marxism (Pitch 1 only)) - with Rene Provis	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Matthew Perrett	Sun 29th Nov 2015
Engaging climbing, nothing to hard but very consistent. Pumpy.
	23 28	★★★ Marxism - with Heath Black	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Rob Medlicott	Sun 8th May 2016
First pitch only again. Great fun! After speaking to Monty and realising that the tree has drooped a lot and the start holds are now out of reach, i feel i may have onsighted it before, by pulling up to start at the slopey ledge last time but its done now
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) 1	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	lawrence	Tue 30th Aug 2016
	28	★★★ Marxism	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Adam Camm	Wed 7th Sep 2016
	23	★★★ Marxism 1	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Julien Brugniaux	Sat 13th Aug 2016
1st pitch only. Similar type of climbing as Guillotine but a tad harder. I just can't tick that thing for the life of me...fitness is not my forte and that shows on this route. I come to Sublime point about once a year, let's hope the third visit to the crag will be the lucky one...
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) - with Matthew Perrett 1 23 lead by Me	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Ro-boat	Wed 2nd Nov 2016
Got tricked by the old "start off the tree" business. So i thought the start was nails. But the rest of the climb is excellent. Maybe detract half a star for dubvious footer rock quality.
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) 1	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	tim fredrickson	Sun 4th Dec 2016
	23	★★★ Marxism 1 23 lead by Will	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Will Vidler	Fri 21st Apr 2017
first pitch only
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) 1 23	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Caroline	Sun 4th Jun 2017
Good first pitch. Batman to the 1st break
	24	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) 1 24	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Stephen Varney	Tue 13th Jun 2017
Out of respect for the recently deceased Adam West (the real Batman), I didn't pull up to the break. Rather, vertically challenged as I am, I bouldered from the tree. I started hands on the sidepull and little dish. I felt it added one grade but not two as per the description. Still took me half a dozen shots. Pumpier than it looks.
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) 1 23 2	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Joshua Norris	Sun 9th Jul 2017
Fantastic route.
	23 28	★★★ Marxism	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Grechy	Sun 13th Aug 2017
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) - with Harry Kadi 1 23 lead by Will	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Will Vidler	Wed 8th Nov 2017
Very happy to tick this one off today too. Took two shots. Very pumpy and sequencey number but super rad nonetheless
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) 1 23 25m	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains		Trisha Helman	Fri 26th Jan 2018
Enjoyable.
	23 28	★★★ Marxism - with Grace	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Tom Collins	Sat 19th May 2018
Pitch 1 only - great climbing
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) - with Sean 1 23 25m lead by DS	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	DS	Sun 27th May 2018
Wahhh, 1st move is already so bouldery for the shorties. Fell of the onsight attempt going for the right hand hold. Involve a alright left side pull and high right feet and gotta go for the ok ledge. Not that good as well, but regardless, or just pull on the quickdraw. Super sustain lower half consisting of crimps and reachy moves to a cruisy end on Jugs.
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) 1 23 25m	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Ludek Sykora	Sun 27th May 2018
Pitch one only (23) first half very crimpy get off the tree is hardest...
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) 1 23 25m 2	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains		Levi Worden	Mon 16th Apr 2018
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) - with Steph L 1 23 25m	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains		Gee Rad	Sun 2nd Sep 2018
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) - with Vanessa 1 23 25m lead by Rob Medlicott	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Rob Medlicott	Sun 9th Sep 2018
	7a	★★★ Marxism 1 7a	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Armand	Mon 10th Sep 2018
P1 only. First shot after putting the draws on. Great!
	28	★★★ Zoncolan	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		Sean	Sat 29th Sep 2018
	28	★★★ Zoncolan	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		Sean	Sat 29th Sep 2018
	28	★★★ Zoncolan	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		Sean	Sat 29th Sep 2018
	28	★★★ Zoncolan	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		Sean	Sat 6th Oct 2018
	28	★★★ Zoncolan	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		Sean	Sat 6th Oct 2018
	28	★★★ Zoncolan	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		Sean	Sat 6th Oct 2018
	28	★★★ Zoncolan	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		Sean	Sun 7th Oct 2018
	28	★★★ Zoncolan	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		Sean	Sun 7th Oct 2018
	28	★★★ Zoncolan	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		Sean	Sat 13th Oct 2018
	28	★★★ Zoncolan	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		Sean	Sat 13th Oct 2018
	28	★★★ Marxism - with Riikka	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains		Vladi Eileen	Sun 9th Sep 2018
First pitch
	28	★★★ Marxism - with Riikka	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Vladi Eileen	Sat 3rd Nov 2018
First pitch for warm up
	28	★★★ Zoncolan	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Ryan Holmes	Sun 18th Nov 2018
Fun. 2nd go.
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) 1 23 25m	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains		Jesse Adams	Thu 10th Jan 2019
	23	★★★ Marxism 1 23 25	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains		Anzhela Malysheva	Tue 22nd Jan 2019
Sharp at the start, good climbing otherwise
	28	★★★ Marxism 1 23 25m 2 28 37m	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains		xavier nuttall	Sat 16th Feb 2019
	28	★★★ Zoncolan - with , Salvo Moscato, Vladi Eileen	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Ludek Sykora	Sun 24th Feb 2019
Wow didn't expect do this one. Good project to work on!
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) - with Will Vidler 1 23 25m	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Harry Kadi	Wed 6th Mar 2019
Super fun and sustained! Great warm up
	23 28	★★★ Marxism	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Matthew Glendenning	Sat 6th Apr 2019
	28	★★★ Zoncolan - with Stephen Varney	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Paul Frothy Thomson	Sun 3rd Mar 2019
2 investigatory laps. Surprisingly good, sustained technical face climbing, marred only by glue-coated holds and a few very contrived first bolts. Definitely worth a few more laps.
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) - with Jon Leighton 1 23 25m	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains		Emily Coats	Mon 15th Apr 2019
	23 28	★★★ Marxism	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains		adam palmer	Sun 21st Apr 2019
Pitch 1
	23	★★★ Marxism 1 23 25m	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Bo Palmer	Sat 20th Apr 2019
First pitch.
	23	★★★ Marxism - with Dylan Gilmore 1 23 lead by C Bro	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains		C Bro	Sat 27th Apr 2019
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) - with Daniel Borsi 1 23 25m	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Blake Fuller	Sat 27th Apr 2019
Ticked just the first pitch. My first tick at the grade! Took a while to figure out how to get into the route from the Batman start, but everything else was a delight - technical face climbing delight.
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) - with Blake Fuller 1 23 25m lead by Daniel Borsi	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Daniel Borsi	Sat 27th Apr 2019
First tick at the grade! Hard start (even with Batman) then awesome sustained climbing in a beautiful position
	28	★★★ Zoncolan	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Ludek Sykora	Sat 15th Jun 2019
2shots middle crux is not ideal can do moves hard way burning all power top section seams like no problem fingers hurts a lot
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) 1 23 25m	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains		DagonSky	Sat 29th Jun 2019
One of the best 23s in mountains. Enjoyed every single move on it. From the beginning to the end. Superb climbing
	23 28	★★★ Marxism	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	ryan holm	Sat 6th Jul 2019
	28	★★★ Zoncolan	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		Meef	Sun 23rd Jun 2019
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) 1 23 25m	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains		Lawrence Curran	Sat 21st May 2016
	28	★★★ Zoncolan - with Jess KD, Kirsty	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Adam Mujaj	Wed 14th Aug 2019
	28	★★★ Zoncolan - with Jess KD, Kirsty	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Adam Mujaj	Wed 14th Aug 2019
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) 1 23 25m	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Scott Butler	Sat 16th Nov 2019
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) - with Rebecca Crabb 1 23 25m	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Liam Thurston	Sun 24th Nov 2019
Working out the crux moves
	23	★★★ Marxism P1 - with Rebecca Crabb 1 23	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Liam Thurston	Sun 24th Nov 2019
Getting all the crux moves clean with a rest between them
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) - with Bev 1 23 25m	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains		Nigel Tuckley	Thu 12th Dec 2019
	28	★★★ Zoncolan	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Deleted climber 2524873413	Thu 27th Jul 2017
	28	★★★ Zoncolan	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		Zuzana Zbrankova	Mon 27th Jan 2020
	28	★★★ Zoncolan - with Heath Black, Tom Collins	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Paul Frothy Thomson	Wed 19th Feb 2020
Good progress and good linkage. Still no idea how to clip the crux bolt on link (skip skip?). Definitely need some icy conditions for this one. Surprisingly sustained.
	28	★★ The Old Sleepy Horse	Sport 26m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Paul Frothy Thomson	Wed 18th Mar 2020
A pretty radical sustained route with growing intensity. Would be a hard 26 until literally the last move before the easy finish, which is nails and kinda awkward. With the glued-in crux hold at the start of this ( The Violent Young Pony ) having snapped off, the entire start sequence is much more strenuous. I had to work hard to retro-flash the 24 placing draws.
	28	★★★ Marxism P2 1 2 28 40m	Sport 40m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Paul Frothy Thomson	Wed 25th Mar 2020
P2 only. TRS inspection. Essentially an awesome 24 from the ledge until you're at the same height as the Guillotine P2 anchors (one of the best linkups around would be P1 linked to this point; there is currently a bail biner there) then 6m of heinous climbing on bad rock (amounting to 6 moves), to an easier but awesome finish. Wouldn't recommend this as a "28" pitch, but would recommend the foreshortened version as a linkup (similar to doing Guillotine P1-P2 but harder and better!).
	27 28	★★★ Zoncolan	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	ryan holm	Tue 28th Apr 2020
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) 1 23 25m	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Steffen Ha	Thu 30th Apr 2020
	23 28	★★★ Marxism	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains		Roman	Sun 17th May 2020
Pitch one. The first move off the tree wasn't that pleasant and took me a few goes.. but the rest is amazing climbing all the way!
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) - with dave 1 23 25m lead by Scott Bishop 2	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains		Scott Bishop	Fri 24th Apr 2020
Pitch one only. Nothing left on the tank after guillotine.
	23	★★★ Marxism 1 23	Sport 62m, 22	Blue Mountains		zachw	Sun 7th Jun 2020
	28	★★★ Zoncolan	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Luke Hansen	Thu 22nd Jun 2017
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) - with Steffen Ha 1 23 25m lead by Alec Landstra	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Alec Landstra	Thu 9th Jul 2020
Super nice climbing!! Some nice slopers and cool features
	28	★★★ Zoncolan	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Riccardo Parin	Fri 10th Jul 2020
	23	★★★ Marxism (Marxism P1) - with Tom Collins 1 23 25m	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains		Grace Mackie	Sat 19th May 2018
	23	★★★ Marxism 1 23 25	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	DagonSky	Sun 2nd Aug 2020
Laps
	23	★★★ Marxism 1 23 25	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	DagonSky	Sun 2nd Aug 2020
Laps
	23	★★★ Marxism 1 25	Sport 25m, 22	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	DagonSky	Sun 2nd Aug 2020
Laps
	28	★★★ Zoncolan - with alyssa smirnov	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		Joshua Norris	Sat 29th Aug 2020