Ascents in Gardens of Stone National Park

Good positions. Felt a bit stiffer than 19. Need rings or rap chain at top.

unsure if we got the right crag

Not bad.

Great sustained moves all the way. Felt easier than 22.

awesome - burly !!

Fell into space on the crux

Takes 7 yellow camalots

Harsh warmup...somehow I picked the first pitch and Zac let me, might have been easier if we did it the other way... Might have been easier if we had a look at route description, rather then me writing one afterwards. Having discussed the idea of a double rack we still ended up there with just singles and wires...

Ended up bogged just a few body lengths short of the belay, stuck on a ledge with no suitable gear, had to back clean and still could not make the belay for fear of not having gear...

Psyched for the onsight! A burly, perfect #2 cam roof-crack, that overhangs about 9m. Juggy jams, bomber rock, oodles of gear. Super streno with outrageous moves. Kinda intimidating, but not too hard at the grade. We skipped P1 (you can walk around it), P2 - Clean 2nd - intimidating without big gear, awesome steep stemming/chimneying; P3 - Onsight!

Repeat. Another lap clean on lead to get up the route so I could backjump to clean the gear. Hands starting to hurt now.

Skipped P1 by walking to base of P2, onsighted P2, belayed Paul on his onsight of P3 crux pitch, then he lowered off and I flashed it on his gear, was either that or clean it on second but I'm stoked to get it clean even if the gear was pre-placed.

P1 - Onsight (low angle slab following an incipient seam with lots of wires, but not so good rock); P2 (Linked with P1) - Pink Point (2nd shot - Gnarly steep crack that overhangs 8m to the pea pod. The crux section is devious and intimidating and super old-school. I had a loooong onsight attempt with probably 20min in the crux steepness before bungling it (the credit goes to Steve for unlocking the beta, after I whipped and came down). The send (with gear in situ) was solid and fun); P3 - 2nd Clean (17ish? Mixed rock quality but fun and continuous wide climbing).

Yep... another same day lap to do it in good style, placing all gear on lead. Rad!

Epic route. Ended up doing 3 laps all up, as did Paul, linking it all bottom to top clean on the 3rd push. I pink point the 1 & 2 pitch after a lap working out the beta, then Paul got the red point and I followed it up clean on my 3rd lap, then continued on to onsight the final pitch, parched and glycogen depleted. Good solid day out.

FFA. Exceptional climb, hard to put a grade on this but it really doesn't matter, def felt harder than 25. The FFA was pink point. Zac Vertees subsequently sent it placing gear

Just the short version today... cleaning after Zac's onsight ... enjoyable climbing up to where it steps up a little ... pealed out off an off-hands section trying to milk a poor jam to get my other failing jam a bit better ... then continued ... will be back for further attempts and beyond ... Great climbing and quite novel looking route ...

Onsight First ascent(?) by Zac and cleanly seconded by Jamie and myself. Almost came off in offwidthy thrutch section just before cave but kept it together. Strange how sometimes one can seemingly completely forget , or at least not remember, or perhaps ignore, sequences you've just watched others do...

Good fun old fashioned climbing, done in fine style by all...

Absolutely wild. Climbed about a third of it in an epic dog session and did most of those moves. From where we got to, the rest of the crack needs a pretty good clean to de-crozzle and remove a chunk of choss but after that it will be good to go. Possibly the hardest route I've ever tried. Go get on it people!!

First ascent ... An awesome line that seems to dare/demand that you to give it a try despite your 'better judgement' ....

Regardless of the chance of failure and obvious ensuing difficulties we gave it a shot, though the unknowns of getting a decent belay and getting through the roof held the keys to success... fortunately we were pleasantly surprised....

An awesome, engaging, full value climb ...

Fourth day on. Sorted out the last moves of the first tier just before the Spinning Blades Traverse, using a pocket jug on the right then easy move left on the first blade. Much easier than the Vidlers crimp fest. There's still a move in the first tier I cannot repeat Did most of the moves of the tier 2 which is chugging along the blades then go back to the ceiling crack in the coolest sequence of the climb so far. Now I stopped at the last blade available for footwork where I believe the crux of the climb is to turn around with last available bad finger jam in the crack and face the truth, I can't see any holds for about a body length before the Ironstone Traverse starts. To be continued...

Good progress today, found a new crimp towards the end of First Tier, linked from the last move of the lower crux to the middle of the Spinning Blades, did lots of subtle cleaning and blunting the blades to keep the rope reasonably safe. Checked out the transition move to the Iron Stone Traverse and found few spots where my fingers fit but this will be ridiculously hard, there's hope at least.

6th day on. Started trying to pink point lower crux up to end of Spinning Blades. Sequence at lower crux is getting there, need to tape first knuckle of left index finger and both pinkies. Worked a bit on the climbs crux to gain Ironstone Traverse, it's real hard. I managed to stem from last good jam reaching just the bad part of Ironstone, seems like I'll need to reset in the two next bad jams to gain control on the transition. Explored the Ironstone Traverse to the alcove which is awesome fun climbing, felt totally unmotivated to go further after pulling on bad rock in the alcove and thought the climb should stop here.

FFA. Tried ground up first free ascent but figured out real quick it was safer to clean up few loose chockstones and dirt. Subsequent ascent was FFA of the short version to where a dramatic increasing angle, width and associated difficulty appeared. Again, I always thought Disbelief should not be a proper climb and recorded as such but it's obvious now with increased popularity that the short version of Beyond Belief lives.

Just the 23 bit to the stance with one fall working it out. Outstanding line and climbing but the rock is a bit crunchy. Psyched to come back for the business at some point.

Could prob get 2nd clean but needed two hands to free several of the cams

This one is monster ! Such an adventure. Fought hard and had a few rests but great to get on it.

A good first pitch. Protects well. Very sharp. Not exactly the spiltter finger crack I was expecting. Rather a right leaning, slightly overhanging, offset finger crack with quite a few larger pods. The second pitch is pretty average.

Access isn't too bad if you follow the fire road. GPS coordinates are spot on.

had a go on lead and got so confused i had to give it to jim! realy fun climb once i figure it out. need to upskill on the oldschool clinmbing

Once you climb crack, you never go back!

Didn't live up to it's name. The real Supercrack is in Indian Creek. I didn't bother looking at the 2 first pitches. The third pitch was a pleasant 22 up to the two last jams then I had to shift gears a bit so I guess the gr24 is fair. I was quite frankly disappointed to find jugs as I was hoping for a pure crack. I also regret I used some footwork; I should really have kept my feet in the crack all the way, it felt magical when I did. I didn't top out the chimney, just downclimbed when I saw my last cam walking towards an old stuck cam. Overall a good little climb.

to strip gear and take a shower at the same time :p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyaKl6Qy3Zk footy of the send! amazing. zero jugs, just stemming and jamming. trad bliss. will come back equipped for beyond belief

Last time I thought Supercrack was better and wasn't in a hurry to return. Happy I did - this actually ROCKS!!