Ascents: Ascents of Here be Dragons as Tick

	Grade	Route	Gear style	Quality	Climber
Sat 20th May 2023 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
	18	★★ Here be Dragons	Sport 52m, 32		Knoll Louis
Wed 10th May 2023 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
	18	★★ Here be Dragons - with jw 1 15 Sport lead by Glenn This one was pretty straight forward, and don't really remember much about it. Still fun though, and a nice way to ease into things. If you didn't want to climb this pitch, there's a pretty easy walk around to the right of it to get on top. 2 17 Second lead by jw At the start of this, I really wanted to take a harder more direct route further to the right, using a decent left hand jug as a side pull; but even though I could get up that first move, I very quickly ran out of holds I could use to finish it off. Ended up just going to the left, using the tree as a bit of a foot, and basically just reaching straight up to the ledge above and pulling up onto it, which almost felt like cheating. After the short walk, the step across to the 'main' part of this pitch made me have to think for a second, as it was a little intimidating stepping across the drop. Was pretty fun though, some cool moves, and fairly decent features to work with. From what I remember, this definitely felt like the easier of the two 17's on this climb. 3 17 Sport lead by Glenn This was a pretty cool pitch. It looks deceptively flatter/easier from the base of it than it does once you get on the wall. I don't remember a lot about the start of this, I think I started off trying something more to the right, but then came back and approached it from the left in the end. I remember there was one particularly tough part (crux) near'ish to the beginning where I had to trust some little crimpers/tiny toes to get through, definitely made some noise through that. Eases up again as the climb goes on, and the end of it was fairly clean/easy climbing. 4 18 Second lead by jw The first 80-90% of this pitch is basically like a walk/rock scramble, WAY easier than an 18.. right up until that final boulder, which just looked impossible in comparison. Spent a bit of time looking it over, but in the end I decided that I wouldn't be able to hold strong enough on the crimps and tiny toes that I could reach. Ended up working my way up it by hanging on the rope/setting my position, pulling up on the crimps/feet that I had, then sitting back on the rope to do it all again. I think it took maybe 2-3 of those moves till I got to a position where I could properly climb the rest of the way up. I never really expected I was going to get this one clean, but I'm pretty happy that I managed to get up it (albeit hang dog) without having to be pulled up/assisted/rescued.	Sport 52m, 32	★★ Very Good	Glenn
	18	★★ Here be Dragons 1 15 Second 2 17 Sport Tried to go up at the start a bit of a hard way, had to try again using the tree. 3 17 Second 4 18 Sport Cool little powerful move right at the end!	Sport 52m, 32		jw
Sun 28th Aug 2022 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
	18	★★ Here be Dragons	Sport 52m, 32	★★ Very Good	SiGuy86
Wed 26th Jan 2022 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
	18	★★ Here be Dragons - with Naomi, Demetrius, JeremyPerier 1 15 52m lead by Naomi 2 17 lead by Demetrius 3 17 lead by JeremyPerier 4 18 lead by Demetrius	Sport 52m, 32		Demetrius
Nice way to end the day
Sun 10th Oct 2021 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
	18	★★ Here be Dragons	Sport 52m, 32	★★ Very Good	Philip Barker
Sat 22nd May 2021 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
	18	★★ Here be Dragons 1 15 52m 2 17 3 17 4 18	Sport 52m, 32		Nuwan Munasinghe
Didn't do the first pitch. Didn't do the last move in the last pitch. Went around the boulder instead.
Mon 3rd May 2021 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
	18	★★ Here be Dragons - with Peta, Sam 1 15 12m 2 17 10m 3 17 15m 4 18 15m	Sport 52m, 32	★★ Very Good	Nicolas Di Campli
Great climb - P2 now has an optional boulder problem to start below the bolt due to breaking holds (V2, very fun!), but you can scramble up left to avoid. Great little final overhang, some broken footers make it quite tricky - went up the left on some nice crimps.
Thu 22nd Apr 2021 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
	18	★★ Here be Dragons 1 15 52m 2 17 3 17 20 4 18 15	Sport 87m, 32	★★★ Classic	Max
Fri 9th Apr 2021 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
	18	★★ Here be Dragons	Sport 52m, 32		Ryan Hill
Sat 3rd Apr 2021 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
	18	★★ Here be Dragons	Sport 52m, 32		Macca Hill
Tue 1st Dec 2020 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
	18	★★ Here be Dragons - with Keith Davison	Sport 52m, 32	★★ Very Good	Charity Maj
Fun climb. Had a few hard starts at pitch 2 and 3. On the last pitch we went to the 17 on the left to exit out as fast as we can as it was super hot and it was the last climb of the day. Had no energy.
	18	★★ Here be Dragons - with Charity Maj	Sport 52m, 32	★★ Very Good	Keith Davison
nice slab moves throughout. start move on p2 & p3 very stiff for 17.
Sat 3rd Oct 2020 - Mt Gibraltar
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	18	★★ Here be Dragons - with Chloe Fu	Sport 52m, 32		Brandon
Fri 2nd Oct 2020 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
	18	★★ Here be Dragons 1 15 52m 2 17 3 17 4 18	Sport 52m, 32	★★★ Classic	Max
Thu 9th Jul 2020 - Mt Gibraltar
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	18	★★ Here be Dragons - with Patrick Chambers 1 15 52m lead by Patrick Chambers 2 17 lead by Stephen Roche 3 17 lead by Patrick Chambers 4 18 lead by Stephen Roche	Sport 52m, 32		Stephen Roche
Sun 5th Jul 2020 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
	18	★★ Here be Dragons - with Stephen Roche	Sport 52m, 32	★ Good	Patrick Chambers
Thu 4th Jun 2020 - Mt Gibraltar
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	18	★★ Here be Dragons	Sport 52m, 32		Luis M
Sun 29th Dec 2019 - Mt Gibraltar
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	18	★★ Here be Dragons - with Hamish Reid 1 15 52m lead by Lachlan McDermid 2 17 lead by Hamish Reid 3 17 lead by Lachlan McDermid 4 18 lead by Hamish Reid	Sport 52m, 32		Lachlan McDermid
	18	★★ Here be Dragons - with Lachlan McDermid 1 15 52m lead by Lachlan McDermid 2 17 lead by Hamish Reid 3 17 lead by Lachlan McDermid 4 18 lead by Hamish Reid	Sport 52m, 32		Hamish Reid
Fri 18th Oct 2019 - Mt Gibraltar
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	18	★★ Here be Dragons	Sport 52m, 32	★★ Very Good	Derek Lai
Mon 10th Jun 2019 - Mt Gibraltar
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	18	★★ Here be Dragons - with Jack Gaggin	Sport 52m, 32	★ Good	Martin S
Mon 13th May 2019 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
	18	★★ Here be Dragons - with Jake R 1 15 52m 2 17 3 17 4 18	Sport 52m, 32	★ Good	Bodhizifer
Sun 30th Sep 2018 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
	18	★★ Here be Dragons - with Adam Rabjohns, Glenn Zucchetto	Sport 52m, 32	★ Good	Paul zucchetto
Last pitch only
Sat 22nd Sep 2018 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
	17	★★ Here be Dragons - with Nicholas Crawford 1 15 10 lead by Nicholas Crawford 2 17 20 lead by Adam Rabjohns 3 17 20 lead by Nicholas Crawford	Sport 50m, 32	★★ Very Good	Adam Rabjohns
Great new addition to the slabs. Pitch 2 is still pretty mossy, but i scrubbed back most of the key holds. Jump on it, you will be pleasantly surprised!
Tue 28th Aug 2018 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
	18	★★ Here be Dragons (Project MT - Here be Dragons)	Sport 52m, 32		Matthew Budd
Picked a line of bolts and didnt realise it was an unfinished line. First pitch is nice.
Tue 12th Dec 2017 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
	18	★★ Here be Dragons	Sport 52m, 32		Matthew Budd
Got to do the whole route now, nice climb with a fun problem at the top.

18

★★ Here be Dragons

Sport 52m, 32

Knoll Louis

18

★★ Here be Dragons

- with jw

1 15 Sport lead by Glenn

This one was pretty straight forward, and don't really remember much about it. Still fun though, and a nice way to ease into things.

If you didn't want to climb this pitch, there's a pretty easy walk around to the right of it to get on top.

2 17 Second lead by jw

At the start of this, I really wanted to take a harder more direct route further to the right, using a decent left hand jug as a side pull; but even though I could get up that first move, I very quickly ran out of holds I could use to finish it off. Ended up just going to the left, using the tree as a bit of a foot, and basically just reaching straight up to the ledge above and pulling up onto it, which almost felt like cheating.

After the short walk, the step across to the 'main' part of this pitch made me have to think for a second, as it was a little intimidating stepping across the drop.

Was pretty fun though, some cool moves, and fairly decent features to work with.

From what I remember, this definitely felt like the easier of the two 17's on this climb.

3 17 Sport lead by Glenn

This was a pretty cool pitch. It looks deceptively flatter/easier from the base of it than it does once you get on the wall.

I don't remember a lot about the start of this, I think I started off trying something more to the right, but then came back and approached it from the left in the end.

I remember there was one particularly tough part (crux) near'ish to the beginning where I had to trust some little crimpers/tiny toes to get through, definitely made some noise through that. Eases up again as the climb goes on, and the end of it was fairly clean/easy climbing.

4 18 Second lead by jw

The first 80-90% of this pitch is basically like a walk/rock scramble, WAY easier than an 18.. right up until that final boulder, which just looked impossible in comparison.

Spent a bit of time looking it over, but in the end I decided that I wouldn't be able to hold strong enough on the crimps and tiny toes that I could reach.

Ended up working my way up it by hanging on the rope/setting my position, pulling up on the crimps/feet that I had, then sitting back on the rope to do it all again. I think it took maybe 2-3 of those moves till I got to a position where I could properly climb the rest of the way up.

I never really expected I was going to get this one clean, but I'm pretty happy that I managed to get up it (albeit hang dog) without having to be pulled up/assisted/rescued.

Sport 52m, 32

★★ Very Good