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	Grade	Route	Gear style	Quality	Climber
Fri 10th Mar 2023 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m		Meredith Apple
got lost for 2hrs bush bashing. So good
Sat 30th Apr 2022 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	22	★ Tramontane	Sport 10m		jack hatton
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m		jack hatton
Fri 7th Jan 2022 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	26	Mum's the Word - with Luke Hef	Sport 10m		Ben
Pretty cool moves
	22	★ Tramontane - with Luke Hef	Sport 10m		Ben
Sat 11th Dec 2021 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m		Anton Korsun
Sun 14th Nov 2021 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m	★★ Very Good	Zac Lazatin
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m	★★ Very Good	Zac Lazatin
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m	★★ Very Good	Zac Lazatin
	23	★★ Vascularity - with Zac Lazatin	Sport 14m		Anton Korsun
Sat 27th Feb 2021 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	22	★ Numerical Fever	Sport 14m		Maxwell Cullen
Getting warm
	22	★ Numerical Fever	Sport 14m		Maxwell Cullen
Punchy to the anchors alright bloody hell
Sun 3rd Jan 2021 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	22	★ Numerical Fever	Sport 14m	★ Good	Jarrod
Really fun climbing up the flake
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m	★★ Very Good	Jarrod
Really fun climbing and very different for the bluies. Onsight and then lap at the end of the day to clean.
	22	★ Tramontane	Sport 10m	★ Good	Jarrod
Had to fight hard for this, some hard moves all the way to the end. Probably harder than the 23.
	24	★★ Flatulence	Sport 15m	★★ Very Good	Jarrod
1 burn at the end of the day to clean coming off at the crux. Really rad climbing.
	24	★★ Melancholic	Sport 16m	★★ Very Good	Jarrod
Thought this was the 22. Couldn't latch the dyno on the onsight attempt. Quite fun punchy climbing in the upper half.
	24	★★ Flatulence	Sport 15m		Meredith Apple
tried many many ways to statically reach the mid slopper. Tried to dyno to slopper which wad rad, managed 2-3 seconds hang time but no dice. Cool moves.
	22	★ Tramontane	Sport 10m		Meredith Apple
hard start crux! never again will I go to a new crag thinking I can tick off all the "easy stuff" Old school grades for sure
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m		Meredith Apple
really cool climb! Only one attempt EOD. would come back for
Thu 29th Oct 2020 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	22	★ Tramontane	Sport 10m	Average	Sam May
A hard one, more difficult than Vascularity I felt (most comments here agree), and a bit all over the place, though there's a couple cool moves at the start. Bring a very long draw or sling for the bolt above the first mantleshelf.
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m	★★★ Classic	Sam May
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m	★★★ Classic	Sam May
I try to hold my star ratings close to my chest but I must call this a classic. I'm glad we made the trip. A special, powerful location that left me a bit speechless when we finally found it in the rain and rolling thunder.
Fri 23rd Oct 2020 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m	★★★ Classic	Maxwell Cullen
Sussing moves again + warming up.
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m	★★★ Classic	Maxwell Cullen
Really really nice climbing. Felt easy on the send.
Sat 10th Oct 2020 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m	★★ Very Good	Ryan Armstrong
	22	★ Tramontane	Sport 10m	★ Good	Ryan Armstrong
	22	★ Dreamin' Head-Jams	Sport 10m	★ Good	Ryan Armstrong
Wed 7th Oct 2020 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	22	★ Numerical Fever - with Ben Taylor, Jenny Gao, Ryan Armstrong	Sport 14m	★ Good	james ritchie
	23	★★ Vascularity - with Ben Taylor, Jenny Gao, Ryan Armstrong	Sport 14m	★★ Very Good	james ritchie
	22	★ Tramontane - with Ben Taylor, Jenny Gao, Ryan Armstrong	Sport 10m	★ Good	james ritchie
	22	★ Dreamin' Head-Jams - with Ben Taylor, Jenny Gao, Ryan Armstrong	Sport 10m	★ Good	james ritchie
Wed 30th Sep 2020 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m		Maxwell Cullen
Pretty sick. I'll be back for it. Trying it straight after the other two perhaps wasn't smart. Pump city, population me
	22	★ Tramontane	Sport 10m		Maxwell Cullen
Nice climbing despite some gluey holds
	22	★ Dreamin' Head-Jams	Sport 10m		Maxwell Cullen
Very traddy
Mon 8th Jun 2020 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m	★★★ Classic	Paul Frothy Thomson
Clean repeat. A great warmup, and a bloody great route. Never gets old
Sun 7th Jun 2020 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m	★★ Very Good	Rob Medlicott
2 shots
	22	★ Tramontane	Sport 10m	★★ Very Good	Rob Medlicott
2 shots. Harder moves than the 23...
Wed 27th Nov 2019 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	24	★★ Flatulence	Sport 15m		Mattia Fornari
	24	★★ The Saint Andrews Cross	Sport 16m		Mattia Fornari
Wed 9th Oct 2019 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m	★★★ Classic	Mike croker
2nd shot after being stumped at the crux first go. Awesome, unusual climbing!
Sun 17th Mar 2019 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m		Levi Worden
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m		Levi Worden
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m		Levi Worden
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m		Levi Worden
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m		Levi Worden
Mon 28th Jan 2019 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	22	★ Dreamin' Head-Jams - with Nat	Sport 10m		Match
Soooo spoogy and humid. I had no chance
	23	★★ Vascularity - with Nat	Sport 14m		Match
I really enjoyed this route however I did not enjoy slipping out of the underclings
	22	★ Dreamin' Head-Jams - with Nat	Sport 10m		Match
Getting the draws on and working out the moves.
Sat 13th Oct 2018 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	24	★★ Flatulence - with Kerry xu	Sport 15m	★★ Very Good	Chris
a difficult sequence to gain the top half of the route with birdshit covering a few of the final jugs
	23	★★ Vascularity - with Kerry xu	Sport 14m	★★ Very Good	Chris
	22	★ Tramontane - with Kerry xu	Sport 10m		Chris
punchy with a pump refreshing no hands knee bar just before the anchor
Tue 26th Dec 2017 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	24	★★ Melancholic	Sport 16m	★★ Very Good	Paul Frothy Thomson
2nd shot. Didnt lock in the crux dyno on the flash. A punchy first half (22) and a gnarly 2nd half with a crazy dyno off rather tiny holds, and a tough pocketed finish. Crumbly rock, but brilliant powerful climbing.
	24	★★ Flatulence	Sport 15m	★★ Very Good	Paul Frothy Thomson
3rd shot. On both my onsight and 2nd shot I blew the main crux boulder just below gaining the roof traverse. I enjoyed the moves up to the roof immensely (though only briefly tough), but the traverse is just sharp and chossy and doesnt add difficulty. As Ro said, this COULD be extended to the lip of the roof for another grade or two, which would also then justify the current part of the traverse.
	24	★★ The Saint Andrews Cross	Sport 16m	★★ Very Good	Paul Frothy Thomson
2nd ahot. Bungled a move at the 2nd last bolt tackling this as a warmup today. Cruised it 2nd shot. Great pumpy, traddy climbing, though rather sharp.
	22	★ Tramontane - with Paul Frothy Thomson	Sport 10m	★ Good	Will Vidler
Quite a few very hard and punchy moves but then its all over. Just pull hard and then pull a bit harder
	22	★ Dreamin' Head-Jams - with Paul Frothy Thomson	Sport 10m	★★★ Classic	Will Vidler
Had an absolute ball on this. How completely ridiculous. Never before have i been so terrified despite having clipped so many bolts. Took two shots and even then i was battling for sure.
	23	★★ Vascularity - with Paul Frothy Thomson	Sport 14m	★★★ Classic	Will Vidler
Awesome route and feature. First climb since axing myself the other day and although my head felt all over the place i seemed to climb it solidly and cruised through to the anchors.
	24	★★ Melancholic - with Paul Frothy Thomson	Sport 16m	★★ Very Good	Will Vidler
Had a bit of a play on this believing it to be the Ethics Police but never before have i had to deadpoint to a non-hold sloper off of two one pad two finger pockets on a 22, nor have i had to do a full cut loose dyno! Super rad though, if a bit gritty and snappy.
Tue 6th Dec 2016 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	24	★★ Flatulence - with che	Sport 15m	★★ Very Good	Ro-boat
Ridiculously cruxy - but in a cool way. The end jug haul is fun - and could potentially be extended all the way out the roof which would be bloody awesome. Would be very "Eye of the Tiger" esk if possible.
	22	★ Dreamin' Head-Jams - with che	Sport 10m	Average	Ro-boat
The first route of a very high gravity day. More than a bit thrutchy and awkward with just enough spooge thrown in to make it unpleasant as well.
	22	★ Tramontane - with che	Sport 10m	★ Good	Ro-boat
You need to try quite hard to make any upwards progress on this one. Lots of moves that should be easy - but suddenly quite hard when you actually try to do them. Quite enjoyable in a short bouldery sense. The anchor clips were stupidly hard to get on. Haven't punted a chain clip in a long time...
	23	★★ Vascularity - with che	Sport 14m	★★ Very Good	Ro-boat
Probably the easiest climb at the cliff - quite a cool feature as well.
Sat 4th Jun 2016 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	22	★ Tramontane	Sport 10m	★ Good	Tom Collins
Hard
Tue 21st Oct 2014 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	24	★★ Flatulence (Flatulance)	Sport 15m	★★ Very Good	Jason McCarthy
What a crazy route. The most steep route I've ever climbed at the grade. Didn't get the hard big move down low. Had fun hanging from the roof like a bat.
	23	★★ Vascularity 1	Sport 14m	★★★ Classic	Jason McCarthy
3rd shot. Had a silly foot slip in the exact same spot twice in a row. Amazing line. Never climbed anything like it. Classic!!
	22	★ Numerical Fever	Sport 14m	★★ Very Good	Jason McCarthy
Fun little rout . Flake sounds a bit hollow.
Thu 30th Jan 2014 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	22	★ Numerical Fever - with Chris Robson	Sport 14m	★ Good	Dave
Sun 26th Jan 2014 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	24	★★ Flatulence	Sport 15m		luke
	23	★★ Vascularity - with Luke & Tonks	Sport 14m	★★ Very Good	Dave
Sun 3rd Mar 2013 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m	★★★ Classic	Ryan Whelan
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m	★★★ Classic	Ryan Whelan
Mon 28th Jan 2013 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	22	★ Tramontane	Sport 10m	★ Good	Jason Nguyen
Bouldery, requires some precise footwork. No steam left to do the mantle, it was tough. Tried it about 4 times, then lowered off so Gene could clean. Perhaps, I'd be able to do this route next time, but definitely not an end of dayer... Best to rappel to clean this route, long draws on the anchor helps when lowering off too!
	22	★ Dreamin' Head-Jams	Sport 10m	Average	Jason Nguyen
Possibly the weirdest route I have ever done. This climb was quite an experience for me. Climbed perfectly by Gene, thought I'd be able to repeat it pretty easily, I was wrong. The climb is off-widthy, laybacky, body-tensiony and slimey; although there are some crappy face holds you can use... kind of.
	23	★★ Vascularity — 4 attempts	Sport 14m	★★★ Classic	Jason Nguyen
Boy, I got strong off this one. Fourth shot. First half of the climb follows this odd flake system, with some funky, technical moves, really awesome. It's hard to remember your sequence through this section. Then a pumper to the end! Awesome climbing! Fought so hard to get this one, super stoked I got it!
	24	★★ The Saint Andrews Cross	Sport 16m	★★ Very Good	Paul Frothy Thomson
2 shots today. On 2nd shot I HAD it... and I lost it. Passed all the hard moves, 2 bolts from the end, and in my desparation I missed the crucial footer and lost my cool trying to sort it out... SO CLOSE! Brilliant line. Bouldery start, to a funky bouldery move to gain the crack proper, than laybacking, jamming, and general funkiness (with added terror) all the long way to the anchors. Genuinely awesome. Now I have to come back to Rain Cave for this one!
	22	★ Tramontane	Sport 10m	★★ Very Good	Paul Frothy Thomson
Ticked 2nd Shot today, 5th or 6th shot overall over about 2 years. Still tough, but worth it. As per my description below, this climb doesn't let up until the anchors, but is probably the most straightforward climb here (except for perhaps the desparate mantle). I really enjoyed it.
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m	★★★ Classic	Paul Frothy Thomson
Ticked 2nd Shot today, 7th shot overall over about 2 years. FINALLY! Amazingly weird climbing, with some interesting technical moves to a cruxy move, to a pumpy finale, all following a bizarre iron-stone seam protruding from the wall and running right up to the roof of the cave.
Sat 26th May 2012 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	22	★ Tramontane	Sport 10m	★ Good	Paul Frothy Thomson
Lap at the end of the day to get the draws back for my friends. Wasn't even trying for the tick. Sequency, thin start, cruxy mantle-thing, then steep jug-hauling finish. Probably not harder than 22, but quite a few moves at the grade. Should go easily next time I'm back out here.
	22	★ Numerical Fever	Sport 14m	★ Good	Paul Frothy Thomson
2nd shot. Hard-to-read crux sequence, and a spicy finish. Nothing like launching onto a semi-jug one handed, while both feet are bicycling in the air, above the bolt. Fun.
	22	★ Dreamin' Head-Jams	Sport 10m	★ Good	Paul Frothy Thomson
Weird, but really good. Hard to grade, because as far as offwidth-thrutchy climbing goes it's not too bad, but for a sports climb it's mind-boggling. Pretty psyched to flash it though.
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m	★★ Very Good	Paul Frothy Thomson
4 shots today... I have this climb as dialed as a climb can possibly be, but for whatever reason just couldn't link the only hard move into the rest of the climb. Probably would have gone if I'd given it another shot or 2, but I didn't want to have come all this way to just do 1 climb. Next time, gadget. Brilliant climbing, unlike anything in the Blue Mountains, and about right at the grade. Worth a trip to Rain Cave for this alone.
Sun 27th Nov 2011 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	22	★ Numerical Fever	Sport 14m		Nic
"warm up" .. easy start .. with punchy sharp moves at the top.. the flake was cool..
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m		Nic
stick clipped the crux (and got pulled thru haha)... awesome grippy rock for the feet... awesome moves.. pumpy but super fun!
Mon 13th Jun 2011 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	22	★ Tramontane	Sport 10m		Adam
	22	★ Dreamin' Head-Jams	Sport 10m		Adam
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m		Adam
Sun 8th Jun 2008 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	24	★★ The Saint Andrews Cross	Sport 16m	★★★ Mega Classic	David O'Donnell
it has everything from thailand tufas to tommy cardwell great roof akshon!
Sun 25th Nov 2007 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	22	★ Tramontane	Sport 10m	★ Good	Vanessa Wills
a brutal warm up (2)
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m	★★ Very Good	Vanessa Wills
fantastic route. (2)
	22	★ Numerical Fever	Sport 14m	★★ Very Good	Vanessa Wills
too tired after the brutal warm up
Sun 4th Nov 2007 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	22	★ Tramontane	Sport 10m	★ Good	Adam Bramwell
shocking
	22	★ Dreamin' Head-Jams	Sport 10m	★★★ Mega Classic	Adam Bramwell
great warm up
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m	★★★ Classic	Adam Bramwell
appealing
	24	★★ Flatulence (Flatulance)	Sport 15m	★★ Very Good	Adam Bramwell
upsetting
	24	★★ Melancholic	Sport 16m	★★★ Classic	Adam Bramwell
inspiring
Sat 3rd Nov 2007 - Blue Mountains
Newnes Plateau Gardens of Stone National Park The Rain Cave
	22	★ Tramontane	Sport 10m	Average	Nathan Bolton
it doesnt climb well
	22	★ Tramontane	Sport 10m	Average	Keith Hannan
An unsatisfying bitie brew of stout with an after tast of bear repellant
	22	★ Numerical Fever	Sport 14m	★ Good	Keith Hannan
Worthwhile but take care to the first bolt
	23	★★ Vascularity	Sport 14m		Steven Martin

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