Showing all 16 ascents.
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Sat 4th Nov 2023 - Mt Beerwah | |||||||
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21 ~17 | Soiled Plans - with Ash Newton | 90m, 30 | Average | ||||
Wouldn’t recommend. Contrived route with unnecessary and unprofessional bolting. Not sure where the three stars has come from…
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Sun 24th Sep 2023 - Mt Beerwah | |||||||
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18 | ★ Quandary - with Mel | 85m, 22 | Average | ||||
Climb 38 of 50. Not really a route in it's own right, but that sums up a lot of climbs at this crag.
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Sun 17th Sep 2023 - Mt Beerwah | |||||||
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17 | ★ Holey Frog - with Mel | 87m, 20 | Average | ||||
Again, one of my biggest criticisms of this crag is the contrived nature of many of the routes. Sometimes you literally find yourself looking at two bolts separated horizontally by just over one meter, because 2 or more routes climb so close to each other. Ridiculous. Just pick a line and develop that. No need to develop another route right beside unless it's clearly an independent route in it's own right. Think about the logistics of all those shared anchors and weird offshoot routes when the crag is busy. Sometimes less is more. Just my opinion.
Climb 37 of 50
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Maiden Voyage
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Mel
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lead by
Bruce Schneider
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lead by
Bruce Schneider
| 36m, 7 | Average | ||||
Really the only climb that should have been bolted in this particular section. Most of the other little offshoots are contrived and unnecessary, in my opinion.
Climb 36 of 50.
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Sat 1st Apr 2023 - Mt Beerwah | |||||||
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21 ~18 ~18 | Warrior Princess | 41m, 10 | |||||
Good climb. A bit hard to clean. Best to top belay and rap down.
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Sat 15th Jan 2022 - Mt Beerwah | |||||||
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16 | ★ Needles | 39m, 10 | ★ Good | ||||
I don't think this was 39m tho (:
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Wed 12th Jan 2022 - Mt Beerwah | |||||||
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17 | ★★ Panic Attack - with Rod Roddler | 40m, 10 | |||||
A little cross still, broke some holds up top, probably made it easier.
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20 | ★ Goanna Piss - with Rod Roddler | 15m, 7 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Great slav climb. Once the rock is a bit more trustworthy this would be a hidden slab gem
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Sun 7th Feb 2021 - Mt Beerwah | |||||||
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16 | Maiden Voyage - with Mel, Georgy, Nick | 36m, 7 | Average | ||||
Mostly scrambling with a few moves that felt like actual climbing towards the top. Just be aware that if there's a party on this climb already, then they've pretty much taken up 6 climbs (because there are 6 climbs that all start on this one and branch off either left or right). In one case the bolt for one climb is only a meter away from the bolt for another climb. I'm not convinced that's the best approach for route development at a place like Beerwah, but that's just my opinion.
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18 | ★ Blow Harder - with Mel, Georgy, Nick | 32m, 10 | ★ Good | ||||
Actually didn't mind this climb, but I must have done it the easy way because it felt like a 14 or 15.
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17 | ★ Pass the Brush - with Mel, Georgy, Nick | 33m, 10 | Average | ||||
More of the same - i.e. mostly scrambling with a few climbing moves. The better pitch to do as pitch 1 of Quandary, in my opinion. Very easy for a 17.
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18 | ★ Quandary - with Nick | 85m, 22 | Average | ||||
I'm not sure why this climb has it's own separate name, as it's just an extension of Pass the Brush (or Blow Harder, depending how you want to do it). In parts it climbs very close to "Soiled Plans", so you have to make a conscious effort to stay on the route. The Left/Right variant thing on pitch 3 seems a bit contrived. Seems to be a bit of a thing at this crag that many climbs are very close together. I guess they were trying to squeeze as many separate lines out of the area as they could, but in my humble opinion they've over cooked it.
And yes, be very careful not to dislodge the loose rock on pitch 3 as it will no doubt rain down onto anyone climbing "Blow Harder" ", "Pass the Brush" or perhaps even "Soiled Plans". There's also a very hollow sounding thin flake of rock about a meter in length towards the very top that should be avoided too.
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Sat 6th Feb 2021 - Mt Beerwah | |||||||
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17 | ★ Pass the Brush | 33m, 10 | Average | ||||
Fun thin area after half way. Not worthy of stars like anything on this crag but good to climb something different.
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16 18 | ★ Blow Harder | 32m, 10 | Average | ||||
Fun thin section, otherwise chill slab section
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14 16 | Just Enough | 30m, 8 | Average | ||||
Very easy slab, 12 if you use the sides
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12 14 | Round the Bend | 28m, 8 | Average | ||||
Super easy slab
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