Ascents in Left Main Wall as Red point by Mark Gamble

Couldn't get my head around the start of Plunging For Mud Bunnies, so went for this one instead. Dave belayed.

Had another go at it today with Dave. Love it! The best 19 at KP in my books!

With Ron & Alastair. I wrestled with the crux again, a fall could be nasty.

Finally worked up the courage to do it. Has some nice moves on it, needs more protection below 2nd overhang to protect nasty run-out above dodgy gear. With Ron,Dan then Proude showed up.

With Ron. This feels more like a 16. Always a nice climb tho.

With Terry & Lillian. Once again, one of my absolute favorites at KP.

With Dave. Went better than Halva.

This is a lovely lead, with some bolts & some trad gear.

With Johan. I really like this one, great moves and good gear most of the way, pity about the bolts tho.

Had to have a lead on this one, one of my absolute favorites at KP. Hold above the last bolt was wet & slimey which made the move interesting.

With Ron & Alastair.

This is a pretty safe lead. Can't believe Darrin has downgraded it to an 18! In terms of effort, it's easily as hard as Juice or ATGR - both 20s. Thanks Terry for the belay.

What a terrific line, why on earth did someone put all those bolts right next to trad placements? Dan belayed.

With Dave = all good. Some question of that last tricam placement.

With Ron & Steve. The challenge this time was not to use a cam! Used the new Tricams & Slider Nuts a lot! Love 'em.

Finally got it. Unfortuately, very unfortunately, Ron couldn't get past the crux, so I grabbed Megan Randall to clean the gear. 18 peices of gear in and I wouldn't fall on one of them!

Really got my knickers in a twist at that 2nd crux, but after that was all good. Justin was very patient on belay

Well, compared to the last 2 trad leads at KP, this one is quite nice, good placements. Although I'd say it's more like an 8.

Always good gear, but forgot the extenders = not good.

First lead of this sucker. The broken crumbly rock at the top-out will stay vivid for a while. I'd say about 50% of the gear was OK.

Well I think it's good. Sarah belayed & 2nded.

Fair scared Grant with the gear :-0

With Ron. Aside from one C3 at the start, no cams used.

Thank God no one saw me thrashing & thrutching my way up this or my reputation as a whimp climber would be ruined! Always a pleasure to show Ron KP in its present day & get him back on the rock.

Not exactly confidence inspiring to see my second pull off the football size block that I'd used to step across on at the top out - a good 5m above my last gear!

Dave belayed. I like this route, the gear's thought provoking, the moves are nice.

After all the horror stories I've heard about this one, thought I'd give it a go. Pro's pretty damn good, & all the way to the top. Sarah belayed & 2nded.

Really got my knickers in a twist at that 2nd crux, but all good after that. Justin was very patient on belay

Bloody hell, hand wasn't complaining at all. Ruth liked it.

Woohoo!!! Finally got this sucker clean after 2 years. That does a lot for my confidence! Unfortunately Damien ripped a finger nail & had to bail.

With Geoff. Always a nice lead.

With Ron & Dan. Ron did very well, got up it 'onsight' on 2nd, no rests = well done!

Had to have a lead on this one again. Dave belayed & 2nded. The addition of RBs makes it a bit easier.

Bit of a struggle, given my weak condition, but made it in the end. Dave belayed then pink pointed it.

Well, a year after my comment, I finally nailed it! What a close to the day! After onsiting the other 3, I nailed the tricky start first go & knew I had it in the bag then & there. Daniel belayed, tried 2nding, but gave up, being too pumped. Yahoo! - what a day!!

Always a nice lead. David from Spain 2nded and got up it with a struggle. Good effort.

Spicy move 2m off the deck, the rest is straightforeward. Terry belayed & 2nded. The last climb of the morning & a bloody hot and sticky one too.

With Geoff. Still a nice lead, despite the Glandular putting me off form.

With Alli. This one went better after the initial shock on DA.

Slightly less pathetic, at least I made it this time. Ron 2nded.

With Geoff. Went well, getting to the 4th bolt is always a little tricky.

I like it. Nice moves. With Troy.

With Ron.

With Ron, Dan & Craig. Good to get revenge on this mother.

A few interesting & varying moves on this one make it a nice lead for the grade

With Alli. Much better after that initial shock.

My first lead on it = went well. Craig belayed.

Gotta get the 1st bolt on this one, after that it's a lot less stressful.

Very much a mindset thing clipping that 5th bolt. Dave belayed & 2nded.

With EFC. A very nice allround climb with some variant moves enough to make it interesting and challenging.

Had to jump over to this one after I bailed on The Beez Kneez crux. Dave 2nded.

Just managed to get up it clean. Dave 2nded.

With Justin. Better this time, once I was into it.

With Justin. Quite a bit of lose rock on it, but still nice moves. With some dedicated avoidance of the crux move, I thought it was more like a 14. The direct line would probably be a 17. A tad overdone with 8 FHs.

Thanks to Adam's encouragement, I made it thru the crux clean to end off a nice morning's climbing.

My 2nd ever lead. Went pretty smoothly. But then again, I knew little fear back then, ahh the cockyness of beginners!

My first ever lead! Craig belayed. It all went pretty well. I had a sense of intensity, but not freaking out or anything like that.

I had to practice the first bit on TR before I was confident to lead this one again. But then it was a breeze to clip the first bolt. David 2nded.

Probably my 2nd fravorite lead at KP. Jon belayed me.

With Terry & Lillian. This route is such a joy, never get tired of doing it - although it has been quite a while since I was on it, with Kachoong actually way back when...

Justin belayed me on this one and gave encouragement.

With Geoff. A bit tricky.