Ascents in Launceston (Cataract) Gorge by topher

Pleasant. Good variety of sizes.

Great committing starting moves followed by pleasant moves. Finished up arete instead of super easy chimney.

Wasn't totally sure which crack it was meant to be, so I did a lap on each. Both easier than 21. LH narrowing crack climbs harder at top, RH crack easier but more consistent with perfect chicken wings.

Note to self: 'bouldery' means minging crimps. Painful start, then a couple of ok moves and easy top-out.

More moss than rock, but a few nice moves while joining Missing Josiah

Great little crack, wish it was longer and a bit further from other features.

A few fun moves, but would need to be careful with gear as the rock on the LH side of the crack at half height is about ready to come out.

Great jamming, even with very raw hands.

Actually better than it looks.

Not that inspirational, just a few long moves to a few crimps.

Excellent, but my thin fingers couldn't quite handle the start move.

Good finger locks.

2nd shot. Need to have feet sorted at crux, but otherwise a great little route.

Crux definitely the start.

Very difficult crux for 21, unless I totally screwed the sequence. Went out right.

Not hard, but definitely aware of the ledge.

2 moves to a ledge, then a couple more moves.

Awesome! Probable, yet improbable. Packs in a lot of really good moves for such a short climb.

2nd shot. Buggered it up trying to stay off Ng Man holds at halfway. Much harder without them!

Did the direct start. Didn't feel super hard, but that could be because the moves were obvious. Still had some fun moves.

Tried on lead first, wasn't game to layback the start. Reached high for small purple wire near too of crux. Couple of really nice moves above crux.

Great and slightly improbable moves on the bolted section. Eases off quickly after reaching the crack.

Fun last move.

Fun enough, but currently a death route for the belayer, with a block on the LH side of the offwidth about 5m below the anchor only just held in.

A couple of burns with Deano. Will definitely put draws on before redpointing, and use a cam in the lower horizontal. Need to save fingers for the super thin layaway holds below roof.

Some fun moves, with a couple of hards bits. Took a couple of attempts to sort out the crux sequence. Would clean up very nicely.

Found it quite nice overall, with a slightly tenuous crux reaching the overlap.

Pretty cruisey. Either go straight up or move L at the top.

Just stayed in the L crack to practice more wide stuff.

Totally contrived, just ended up pulling myself up half the route. The rock pushes you into Sitting Bull the whole way, with the exception of the last move. Don't waste your time or skin.

Perfect hand stacks!

Really wish this was much longer. Would be a nice lead, with good l9cks just after the crux.

The traverse into the second crack is defin8tely the highlight.

Awesome moves! Good rests, but makes unfit people like me work for it. Stepping of the slab and avoiding the barndoor is great fun.

Spat off Lethal Injection, but more than happy to do this again. Definitely easier second time around, but still not easy.

Fingers not strong enough for that start. Looks pretty easy from a couple of holds higher.

If it was even just twice as long, it'd be 'mega classic'. Figured out the crux moves for Alex to send, but ran out of time for me to have another go. Next time I hope...

fun little flaring chimney, produced lots of entertainment

really nice sequences

start is more like 22 or 3. enjoyable

still a real grunt of a climb

cruisy start then solid top half

the start ripped my hands up, but the rest was fine. good value for the grade

got some good comments from the peanut gallery and the bogans

climbs pretty well, a bit akward at top

hard and thin! someone led this???

the start is easy, but if you're not 6 feet plus, watch out for the finish

great fun