Ascents in Ebor Gorge as Hang dog

An absolute brute of a battle getting aquainted with this line. I certainly drew some blood.

Handy large tree for T.R, use rock slot to direct rope over line. Nice hand jamming with fun top out. Heaps tough for a non-jamming climber.

Okay for tuning some hand jams.

Super dirty, slipped out and had to brush. Would be a bit tenuous to lead.

Had a crack at the direct start, really fingery layback. The gear was in the way. This time actually finished it up the fun original route which has bomber knee jams to the pillar.

After Volo and Soph, and then Ben, I too had to get a taste of climbing while being intermittently hosed when the wind diverted the adjacent waterfall onto the route. Refreshing! I won't say I dogged it, more like an eel. The route is great and keen to repeat when dry.

surprise off width move gets thrown in the mix - won't tell ya where

fine until the red belly black snake on top - after the trauma honestly couldn't tell ya a thing about the climb. but sure, two stars seems right

had the spice factor of an aid climb hangdogging off some real dodgy shifting nuts

Would be a great climb with more traffic to clean it up. Had fun playing with different jams.

Starting to explore leading trad. Gear pre placed

An interesting route, very different style of movement. Last route of the day.

So good. This route is bit of an Ebor yardstick for me, so was pretty keen to see how it'd go down. Things were all going so well, plugged the rooflet and cruised under teh hanging pillar to get established in the vertical section. Thought I had plenty of juice left but got quickly pumped trying to clip my pro and was happy to have a little breather before finishing it off. Al tried the impressive undercling style variant through the rooflet and was making it look pretty good before getting a little tied up in my slings.

This thing is amazing. Fell on the low crux, figured out the sequence and it was great. Perfect jamming and good rests all the way to the top. And then it turns into a complete grovel after the roof

Lead this on Carol's gear. Super happy with everything, did basically the whole climb and then just slumped at literally the last hold.

Usual story, flash pump and then had a rest, then clean to top after I was warm

Great climbing, bolts are a little spaced though

At another time this experience should have left me despondent, but somehow after humping and aiding the crap out of a vegetated offwidth crack full of lomandra I got to the top happy. Closer to type 1 fun than type 2 fun.

Looks like good hands but thinner once you get on it, good finger workout

Not sure why I chose an offwidth fist crack as a warm up, totally shut down as the crack widened

Nails. Got up it with one rest and was spent. My hands are still cramping.

Nice to get back on this. All the moves but not the time to link them.

Strenous jamming, nice line!

carol lee That is the biggest sandbag I've ever climbed. Tried to climb, actually. It is at least a very stiff 23, to me it felt even more like a solid 24! Then again, it was my first and only day of climbing here at Ebor and maybe I was just spoiled by the 'easy grading' at Frog

Anyway, this place is certainky worth visiting!

This had Alan's gear and a top rope still on, so after a bit of creative fishing to reach down to the rope I rapped off and did a lap. Sat on the rope to get the crux nut out.

Made some quality grunting noises

carol lee had a few cracks at this but was defeated by the wet spooge gushing out of the first meter of the crack. Jumped on and was pretty happy to power through this and up to half way to the last good stance before the hand crack widens to not-quite-fists and then I regressed into the worse pumped out dogging / aiding / grunting. Finally got to the head wall and then went right for a subterranean burrow (after being warned by Ben Vincent not to go this way)

One rest at crux

Start shut me down, my hand jams are solid but this was thinner and fingers / cups aren't solid at all. After Ben fought his way up I aided up as the sun set