Ascents of Roarke's Rift

In one pitch. One of two great days out climbing with Scott, Shawn, Sandra, Toby, Kyle, and Dan! Did this route as a re-introduction, as well as a handful of other slabs, cracks, and faces around the second pyramid. A great couple days out!

Just as good second time round. Led as one long pitch which is the way to go

Had a lot of fun on this one. 1st pitch a bit thin on gear but manageable, 2nd pitch way more comfortable (at least if one follows the flake instead of going straight up ) Takes a lot of small gear.

First time seconding on trad gear.slid down half the rock trying to get to the start. First pitch was nice, second pitch I followed Yim’s sketchy runout and ended up laying flat for a minute before finding feet again. Great fun!

First time seconding on trad gear.slid down half the rock trying to get to the start. First pitch was nice, second pitch I followed Yim’s sketchy runout and ended up laying flat for a minute before finding feet again. Great fun!

I was very nearly filling my pants on this. Largely my fault for doing it in a single pitch with a single rack, but also very committing.

Great fun!! Slab at the start gets a bit run out. Would have been pretty insane without the v small micro cam (green dmm). Really nice 2nd pyramid style smearing small footers and hauling on the big flake through the first pitch. Good small gear in thin crack. Engaging climbing but not necessarily a pant-filler. Max led 2nd pitch up more stellar flakes. Better gear on this one. We both belayed at trees (youll know if you do the route) and we found this is probably the way to go. I think best 14 in QLD is probably accurate, this was an absolute stellar climb, and no harder than 14. In saying that I would recommend being solid on slab at higher grades in order to lead the first pitch.

Solid climb. Unique start up the sloping slab of granite, felt like Spiderman!

classic slab

Very run out at times. I need to get quicker at placing gear. Linked both pitches. Took the slab on the last section rather than the crack - lots of lichen, no gear, prob would follow the crack next time.

Fun way to wrap up a couple of days of climbing!

It started sprinkling as I was racking up, but being the badass I am, I decide to do it anyway! Pro-tip: I’m not a badass, and granite friction slab is not fun when wet! The sprinkle turned into a downpour, and I bailed from the top of pitch 1. We came back the next day for the tick 😂

Set up a belay about 15m off the ground on easy slab. From there linked both pitches to the top. Anchor above the loose flakes in crack left. Easy solo to the summit from there. Really nice climbing.

after the daunting initial blank slab great fun with clean classy moves and sufficient protection

Had to bail ~10m from top as the weather was turning sour and time was tight. Started from the first obvious crack feature ~20m up from ground. First half quite run-out with a spicy, no gear, walk up the wall in the first 10m to kick things off. A confident lead needed as falls would be messy (it's so rampy) and it feels a little more demanding than 14. I'll be back in a fortnight to finish and collect bail gear!

Nice slab to the summit - spacious gear first pitch, crux thin seem 35-40mts! Second pitch was nice laybacking 40mts to top of flake, easy slab 100mts to the summit! Look forward to getting Scimitar next trip out with a little more smaller gear

Absolutely loved it! Makes me keen to go to yosemite one day.

Followed Blake's solid lead, after much shenanigans involving 3 of us on the slab cooperating to launch a small cam to him at one point! This felt like a completely different climb with comfy, soft shoes as opposed to the one new miura and one brand new agro bouldering shoe I had last time around.

I really enjoyed this, but would have enjoyed it more if I weren't wearing one decent slab shoes, and a brand new aggressive sport/boulder shoe. What fantastic climbing, though, with gear just spaced to make it engaging. Oh yeah, I did the most horrific and gut-wrenching move that I've ever experienced on this route ... ask me in person if you're interested.

Went up original route to the left to top off a good day out of adventure. Then had an interesting time figuring out how to scramble down

Scary stuff trying to run it out on small gear to get to the crack. Just managed to keep my head and commit to it. Set up anchor at second good vegetated ledge with loose flake in the crack.

Great morning on the Girra Granite. Managed to fumble my feet & punt on pitch one, in the process discovering my suspect 00 C3 placement was actually bomber... Then lead pitch two clean.

Party of 4! As good as I remembered

Another Girraween classic, and definitely deserves the title. Ignore the grade as far as fear factor and exposure goes!

As per other comments. 14? Not likely. Scary slab runout near the bottom and I made another for myself transferring to the left hand crack/flake system closer to the top. Blowing a gale.

What an adventure! this was my introduction to slab climbing. felt very hard for the grade. Leading this would have been scary. The second pitch is awesome!!! Interesting decent.

The hardest, scariest and best 14 I have ever done. Run out the slab, stop to reflect on your decision to lead this, then start up the beautiful corner. A brilliant line

Tested my long neglected slab skills. Loved it.

Calf pumper!!!

one of the best 14 in qld ??

very scary

Really enjoyed this climb. A little bit of crack, lots of smearing. Loved using palm of hand, some great advice from a local.

2nd up with Taib and Leanne. Very nice climbing

It was F*&^ COLD but sooo much fun!

Nice, well protected most of the way. Best to belay in the grass at the top of flakes, rather than trying to run it out up to the top. There's nothing to belay from up there.

interesting decent....

Lead p1. The second pyramids easiest route up is a lot more funer.