Ascents in The Fortress Area

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Great adventure route with little trauma.

aid in the roof

Take your nappies

typical grampians dinner plate holds, sandy and fragile. First pitch has heaps of exposure and relatively poor pro

Bloody serious route. The hint is where the description says to find a belay below the final pitch. A bolt or three here might save lives.

well done BJ on the lead!

The only time I ever had to hold Peter Treby while he was in a whinger. Don't believe his grade.

don't venture right!

partly aided the off-width pitch. freed all the moves for pitch 2! hands too painful for a proper redpoint attempt..

It was super windy, and we were slow so we had to turn around. We left our ropes because it was even too windy to pull them without them blowing away over the valley! Thanks Guillaume for taking photos!

nuts! got stuck in a lightining storm on the 2nd belay ledge...

Got to the top of the second pitch aiding on second and then bailed. An awesome but serious undertaking.

Best way to get there is on a Horseback with the #6 hanging at the saddle for fashion purposes (also handy for hunting wallabies).

Cleaned up the trashed ropes that were tangled all over the place. Also on 15.12.98

WOW!!!

WWith Simon & Kyle. Did the offwidth pitch!

Walked in from Vic Range Track - heavy packs. Barnsey aided half the first pitch that afternoon. Rapped down and we bivvied for the night about 30m downhill from the start. The next day we climbed to the top, rapped off and walked out.

1st pitch stellar offwidth, long! Barnsey did a few free moves, mostly aid. 2nd pitch - the best line in Australia! Totally epic. All aid. 3rd pitch - we ended up splitting into 2 pitches. Mostly free, a couple of aid moves.

But of trouble finding the rap off.

Onsight P1, aided the roof of P2.

Yay! got our ropes back and sent it. Taner cruised the first pitch this time.