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	Grade	Route	Gear style	Crag	Quality	Climber	Date
	22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains		russ	Thu 1st Apr 2004
	22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Nick Clow	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains		James Hardy	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains		Stuart McElroy	Sun 7th May 2000
with Dude
	22	★★ Cheap Skate	Sport 20m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Nick Clow	Sun 11th Nov 2012
	23 22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Nick Le Baut	Mon 7th Oct 2013
23 in guidebook but feels very soft. Awesome rock, great move and position
	22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Tim Haasnoot	Wed 9th Oct 2013
End of day pumper in the sun
	22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Paul Frothy Thomson	Thu 14th Nov 2013
New guide calls it "test piece 23", I thought it was hard for 22, but probably soft at 23. Regardless, it is radical climbing the whole way (with around 2 million bolts to keep it "safe"), with some awesome technical sections, a brief bit of thugging, a balancy arete and a thin face. Not a test piece, but certainly a classic.
	22	★★ Cheap Skate	Sport 20m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Vanessa Wills	Tue 9th Dec 2014
Some hard moves between horizontals at 167cm
	22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Ro-boat	Wed 17th Feb 2016
Well I too got played with "test piece 23" and "three star" rating. I give it 22, 1 star. The start is good climbing but lower quality rock. I found the arete ledgey but balancey so go figure...
	22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Vanessa Wills	Sat 19th May 2018
Nice moves, definitely no harder than the route to the left
	22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Lawrence Curran	Mon 13th Jan 2020
	22	★★ Cheap Dive - with Hayden L	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Mac Labine-Romain	Wed 4th Nov 2020
	22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Rick	Mon 8th Mar 2021
	22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Lee Cujes	Sun 11th Jul 2021
Great fun.
	22	★★ Cheap Dive - with Tom Williams	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Bryden Williams	Mon 12th Apr 2021
Great route. Those scoops at the start! Had to downclimb a section above the break but stuck it. The arete had me smiling
	22	★★ Cheap Dive - with Adrian Kladnig	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Ben Hanley	Mon 10th Apr 2023
	22 ~23	★★ Cheap Dive - with Stan	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Morgan Woods	Mon 12th Jun 2023
23 in the guide and solid for that grade. Nice to onsight this one. Powerful moves getting to the arete then okay. Really cool
	22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains		Matt King	Wed 16th Aug 2023
	20	★ Knot the Mumma	Trad 15m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Adrian Ridgley	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	20	★ Knot the Mumma	Trad 15m	Blue Mountains	Average	Damien Haines	Tue 13th Apr 2010
Wander up to first BR then start slab climbing for 5m
	20	★ Knot the Mumma	Trad 15m	Blue Mountains		Chris Yeomans	Sun 1st Sep 2002
	20	★ Knot the Mumma	Trad 15m	Blue Mountains		Mick	Fri 18th Apr 2003
Scarey face grating slab
	20	★ Knot the Mumma	Trad 15m	Blue Mountains		Stuart McElroy	Sat 13th May 2000
with cate
	20	★ Knot the Mumma	Trad 15m	Blue Mountains		Adrian Kladnig	Wed 14th Apr 1993
	19	★ Mr Poopypants	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Tony Williams	Sat 11th Feb 2006
Hard move off the big cairn to rock scars! then plod up to top.
	19	★ Mr Poopypants	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Niall Doherty	Sun 14th Dec 2008
Enjoyable, varied climbing.
	19	★ Mr Poopypants	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Zorba Parer	Sun 19th Feb 2006
	19	★ Mr Poopypants (Unknown left of 327)	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Tony Williams	Sat 18th Feb 2006
	19	★ Mr Poopypants	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	Average	Boyd Robinson	Sun 8th Apr 2012
	19	★ Mr Poopypants	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	Average	Boyd Robinson	Sun 8th Apr 2012
	18 19	★ Mr Poopypants	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Doug	Fri 15th Apr 2022
Sport route with optional cams. Some delicate arete moves. Start is more pleasant than it looks. Probably still soggy at 18. Nose-butting sharp edges not recommended, chunky gusher.
	18	★★ Turkish Delight	Trad 60m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Nick Kaczorowski	Fri 1st Dec 2006
overhung hands to chimbly then surfboard, absolute gold!
	18	★★ Turkish Delight	Trad 60m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Tony Williams	Sat 18th Feb 2006
deserves a star. bettter than it looks.
	18	★★ Turkish Delight	Trad 60m	Blue Mountains		Stuart McElroy	Sat 13th May 2000
	18	★★ Turkish Delight	Trad 60m	Blue Mountains		agent13	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★ Turkish Delight	Trad 60m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Paul Frothy Thomson	Sat 18th Jan 2014
Great! No stars in the current guidebook? Brilliant trad climbing on great rock and with awesome movement and gear. Climbs much easier than it looks and its easy to rap off the anchors for Cheap Dive and clean that way. What more could you want?
	18	★★ Turkish Delight - with Hywel Rowlands	Trad 35m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	thara	Mon 29th Jan 2018
	18	★★ Turkish Delight - with DJ	Trad 60m	Blue Mountains		Match	Sun 12th Aug 2018
way steeper than than expected. this crack is quite unique as you can jam pinch and layback up the vertical ironstone band. then into a tight bottomless chimney. than thrutch your way to success! if you rack your cams on your left it would be way easier.
	18	★★ Turkish Delight	Trad 60m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Lawrence Curran	Mon 13th Jan 2020
Average rock, nice climbing
	17	★ Birdsnest Soup	Trad 30m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Stephen White	Fri 29th Mar 1996
	14	No Pants	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Noora Adam	Sun 19th Feb 2006
	14	No Pants	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains	Don't Bother	Damien Haines	Tue 13th Apr 2010
Blocky climbing with poor pro after 1st belay
	14	No Pants	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Tony Williams	Sun 19th Feb 2006
Do 1st pitch only to new lower offs. look for giant bolt at chimney then step left. Probably 16 at least.
	14	Rainy Day Saturday - with Sydney North Climbing	Sport 60m	Blue Mountains	Don't Bother	Murray Pinnock	Sun 14th Sep 2014
Lots of dust and loose rocks for you and your belayer. Tonnes of face gardening and a mossy gripless runout over the second pitch nose. Certainly an experience.
	9	Fandooglie	Trad 45m	Blue Mountains		Nuwan Munasinghe	Sun 15th Nov 2020
First lead trad route.
	19	★ Mr Poopypants	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Chris Yeomans	Mon 11th Jun 2007
	19	★ Mr Poopypants	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Nick Kaczorowski	Fri 1st Dec 2006
cairn central! intresting first holds...
	19	★ Mr Poopypants	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Mark Ashmore	Sat 25th Feb 2006
About 16. A little runnout at the top. Ok
	25	★★ Red Dwarf - with Steve Cooper	Sport 13m, 7	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Jared Tyerman	Sat 5th Sep 2020
Really bloody nice. Sick start crux, sit down rest, mega pocketed sequence to stellar deadpoint and cruisy climbing to top. Kneebar rest before top lip lets some juice drain. A few attempts and went 😃. Short but sweet.
	23	FA ★★ Bad Moon Rising	Trad 50m	Blue Mountains		Rod Young	Tue 13th Apr 2010
LED with Ant 1980
	23	★★ Bad Moon Rising	Trad 50m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Paul Frothy Thomson	Sun 9th Jul 2017
Yeeeew! 1st shot today placing all gear on lead, 3rd shot total over 3.5 years. As I've said before, this is classic EXCEPT for the poxy shale-start. Once you get in the crack proper, it's great trad climbing that just gets harder and more committing all the way. The crux for this is absolutely crazy (and really hard for me, I'm cranking solid 24 through that crux sequence... might be easier if you're short, or have beefy fingers?) and intimidating now that the fixed wire is a long-forgotten memory... Hanging upside down on the lip of a roof-arete via a heel-toe-cam to place a cam in the crack below is ridiculously cool. Very acrobatic and strenuous.
	22	★★ optimisation	Sport 13m, 6	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Vanessa Wills	Sun 17th Jul 2016
Short but interesting moves. Got scared going for 4 th bolt on the onsight and though the sequence was good and I did have the clipping hold it felt very unsafe. Much better second go with a longish draw in situ. Cool move at last bolt.
	22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Ken Thrash	Sat 1st Oct 2016
	22	★★ Cheap Skate	Sport 20m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Paul Frothy Thomson	Sun 9th Jul 2017
Awww... Broke a tic-tac crux hold off while cruising (at the 3rd bolt), and thus ends the onsight attempt. Lowered off to the ground and climbed up again from there clean to the top. Aw well... Not as nice as Cheap Dive, but still quite engaging, and I thought pretty hard for a 22? There are tricky moves all the way up. Very worthwhile.
	22	★★ Cheap Skate	Sport 20m	Blue Mountains		Matt King	Wed 16th Aug 2023
1st shot after cheap dive
	22 ~23	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Anthony Geoghegan	Sat 2nd Mar 2024
Thought this was a solid 23. Sustained. Great route.
	20	★ Knot the Mumma	Trad 15m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Nicolas Lmn	Sun 21st Jul 2019
	19	★ Mr Poopypants	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Rod Smith	Sat 7th May 2011
With Big John.
	19	★ Mr Poopypants	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Jason Lammers	Tue 21st Mar 2017
Had no cams for the first lap.
	20	★ Knot the Mumma	Trad 15m	Blue Mountains		nathan	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	20	★ Knot the Mumma	Trad 15m	Blue Mountains		jameswcroft	Tue 13th Apr 2010
led
	20	★ Knot the Mumma	Trad 15m	Blue Mountains		Justin Clark	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	20	★ Knot the Mumma	Trad 15m	Blue Mountains		Jim Croft	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	20	★ Knot the Mumma	Trad 15m	Blue Mountains		David Adam Stiles	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	20	★ Knot the Mumma	Trad 15m	Blue Mountains		M.Warren	2001
	20	★ Knot the Mumma	Trad 15m	Blue Mountains		Nick Clow	Mon 28th Jun 2010
	18 18 R	★★ 327	Trad 35m	Blue Mountains	Average	Scott Ruddock	Mon 10th Sep 2007
	18	★★ Turkish Delight	Trad 60m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Vanessa Wills	Tue 9th Dec 2014
Second pitch 2. Pretty easy.
	18	★★ Turkish Delight	Trad 60m	Blue Mountains		Frank Boyd	Mon 14th Oct 2019
Another ripper. Great day out
	17	Demeresque	Trad 74m	Blue Mountains	Average	Scott Ruddock	Mon 10th Sep 2007
	14	No Pants	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains		Mike Garben	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	14	No Pants	Trad 76m	Blue Mountains		rick phillips	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	13	Meanderthal	Trad 43m	Blue Mountains		Scott Ruddock	Sun 8th Aug 2004
	22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains		Justin Clark	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains		Simon Wilson	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	22	★★ Cheap Skate	Sport 20m	Blue Mountains		Jara	Sat 3rd May 2014
	22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains		Matthew Shaw	Tue 21st Jan 2020
Fun!
	19	★ Mr Poopypants	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		Jara	Sun 8th Mar 2015
	22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Phillip Booth	Sat 26th Aug 2017
Enjoyable climb. Starts with cool in-cut scoops that leads to the crux before the traverse (at least for the onsight). Then pretty easy sailing to the top with several ledges to take good rests on if needed. 2nd shot easily. Stuffed up the 'crux' sequence around the 3rd bolt. Once I had my beta it was no harder then the rest of the climb.
	19	★ Mr Poopypants	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Rod Smith	Sat 10th Mar 2012
With Dr Carl and Stu. Exciting start, the rest is cruisey.
	22	★★ Cheap Dive	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains		Adrian Kladnig	Sun 6th Dec 1998
	22	★★ Cheap Dive - with Mira, Hayden L	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains		Stephen Roche	Thu 16th Apr 2020
	18	★★ Turkish Delight - with john Croker	Trad 60m	Blue Mountains		Adrian Kladnig	Tue 31st Dec 1996
	18	★★ Turkish Delight	Trad 60m	Blue Mountains		Jacob Bridgeman	Sat 10th Mar 2018
	19	★ Mr Poopypants	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Elliot Braham	Sun 7th May 2006
	19	★ Mr Poopypants	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Rod Smith	Sun 14th Dec 2008
With Niall.
	19	★ Mr Poopypants	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Geoff Cooper	Fri 15th Apr 2022
Seconded this but didn't feel like more gear was needed than just the bolts. Cruxy start and a reachy arete midway but the rest is very straightforward
	18	★★ Turkish Delight	Trad 60m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Noora Adam	Sat 18th Feb 2006
	18	★★ Turkish Delight	Trad 60m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Tony Williams	Fri 1st Dec 2006
@nded Nick Kaz after he got himself unstucked from chimney
	18	★★ Turkish Delight	Trad 60m	Blue Mountains		Emma Spencer	Sat 18th Jan 2014
Great crack climbing if you force the crack (and avoid using the face). Should have led it.
	18	★★ Turkish Delight	Trad 60m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Phillip Booth	Sat 26th Aug 2017
Great fun and well worth a lap! Only went to the top of the chimney then rappelled off the sling tree. Fun corner climbing into chimney (but not really any chimney thrutching needed). Rock early seemed a little fragile.
	18	★★ Turkish Delight - with thara	Trad 60m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Hywel Rowlands	Mon 29th Jan 2018
Nice corner
	14	Rainy Day Saturday	Sport 60m	Blue Mountains	Don't Bother	Thomas Jones	Sun 21st Jul 2019
	9	Fandooglie	Trad 45m	Blue Mountains		Chameleon	Mon 16th Nov 2020
	23	★★ Bad Moon Rising	Trad 50m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Paul Frothy Thomson	Sat 18th Jan 2014
Intimidating! Monstrously steep. Clean to the crux move (turning the lip) and then I got scared! A few rests to figure out the crux move, then clean to the top. The lower section is scary rock and gear, but as the climb improves so does the gear. Delicate technical climbing under the roof and arete to the waco, then exposed strenuous crux. The vegetation isn't as bad as it looks. You can thank me for the chalk on the hard-to-spot crucual hold to gain the crux. I WILL be back for the send!
	23	★★ Bad Moon Rising	Trad 50m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Paul Frothy Thomson	Sat 1st Jul 2017
Alright, so maybe it was a bit ambitious to try and tick this in the afternoon after ticking Grasshopper. With 3 hours daylight left I launched up this. Fell off at the main crux (and chucked a spaz after a particularly painful, gear-ripping fall which damaged my glasses). Found my sequence and went to the top. The roof of this is WAY more vegetated than when I tried this last 4 years ago (and I pulled out mountains of shrubbery back then too!), and I managed to rip out a tonne of vegetation on lead (got pretty pumped too!) mid-roof. This is a great, intimidating route with a hard and committing crux, but the first 6m of death shale is bloody horrible.
	23	★★ Bad Moon Rising	Trad 50m	Blue Mountains	Average	Jake Griffiths	Sat 26th Aug 2017
BETA SPOILERS AHEAD -> You've seen the photos, you've heard the stories: this line looks amazing. The moment you see that corner leading into an exposed roof traversing into the abyss you are left with mixed feelings of intimidation and excitement. The next moment, when you are tied in at the bottom staring at the first 3m of choss, that has no doubt changed forms since the first ascent, it leaves you with second thoughts, and third thoughts. Once I built up the courage (read: stupidity) to swim through to the first solid hold, the corner and roof are pleasant, besides the jungle feel of reaching around ferns to place gear and to dig out holds. It just adds to the climb's uniqueness, I suppose. I reach the end of the roof (gr 21-22 till here, minus the choss start), place two bomber pieces, and reach round for what I was always hoping to be a jug. To my surprise it was huge. But, a jug to no where. Without the crucial pieces to protect the next section (#0.5 BD) and the prospect of my rope running over the arete and slicing in two (https://tinyurl.com/ycues8g3), I embraced defeat...I lowered down, to then jumar back up and aid past the crux to free (read: flail) to the top in approach shoes with entries catching on the shale ledges. I suppose if you worked out the crux, heightened your risk tolerance to welcome choss piles of death and don't mind jungle fever, then give it a go!
	23	★★ Bad Moon Rising - with zachary vertrees, Vince	Trad 50m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Macciza a.k.a. Macca	Wed 15th May 2019
Had been saving this one for far too long , and Vinnie was psyched for it so I joined in, somebody had to clean it after all ... Enjoyable climbing up to the roof that lulls you into a false sense of difficulty before suddenly turning up a notch at the lip ... bit of flash/cleaning pump and bad hand placement caught me out on the first shot but then climbed through ... Great route, will be back for the full tick soon ..
	22	★★ Cheap Dive - with John Croker	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains		Adrian Kladnig	Tue 31st Dec 1996

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