Showing all 19 ascents.
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New South Wales and ACT Central Tablelands Blue Mountains Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd The Dam Cliffs The Dam Cliff DWS | |||||||
17 | ★★ The Line of Least Resistance | 20m | ★★ Very Good | Sun 9th Dec 2018 | |||
Great option for a hot day!! I'll claim this, but I didn't do the whole traverse, I went up where the 22 goes up I think, avoiding the crux of that one I guess...
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New South Wales and ACT Central Tablelands Blue Mountains Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd Pierces Pass Bunny Bucket Buttress and Hotel California Area | |||||||
20 |
★★ Randy Rabbit Ridge
- with
Ross Paynter, Charlie Catt
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20
20
lead by
Charlie Catt
Awesome lead by Charlie — this in my opinion is definitely the hardest pitch of the day!
3
20
25
lead by
Ross Paynter
great onsight of the cruxy start by Ross! I'll log a dog cause I came off early, but the rope stretch almost got me back to the belay, so I still felt like a full clean ascent on second. The old man lets the team down I guess it was never going to be a team onsight cause I'd been on this before.
4
18
40
lead by
Bruno Alves Buzatto
Bouldery move from the belay, then getting easier and into a stroll... At the end of this is where you can easily end up on the wrong anchors on the left (BBB I think), but if you go around the right of the tree and climb the last bolted block you are heading the right way.
7
18
15
lead by
Charlie Catt
we asked Charlie to link 5 and 6 and he thought it was a buy 2 get 1 free and linked this one too What a beast – I don't recommend it cause when the leader is doing harder moves in pitch 7 the belayer is super far away managing a lot of rope drag (maybe the drag would have caught a fall?)
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30
lead by
Bruno Alves Buzatto
yes, finally, this is the shit!! The traverse is amazing and looks so intimidating. But it's all juggy and with a cave you can rest in at the end (or at least knee bar), so it's pretty easy actually. Moving onto the arete on jugs is also easy if you use the rest well — the boys with me probably considered that aid!
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20
30
lead by
Charlie Catt
Better than I remembered with a bouldery move at the start of the wall (after the easy slab/scramble) and a fun delicate finish. | 280m, 99 | Fri 1st Dec 2023 | ||||
Coming back with 2 young guns to do a repeat and get my lead on pitch 8, finally! Was worried about weather but we were super lucky with better than the forecast conditions. Felt way more relaxed on every pitch, but came off while seconding the start of P3 — funnily that went clean first try with Tim years ago, even though I was definitely weaker then. Realized I never led that pitch either, so that's the reason to get back on it!
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18 |
★★★ Bunny Bucket Buttress
- with
Daniel Bush
| 270m | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sat 29th Jun 2019 | |||
Finally worked out to do this with Daniel — what a day out. Left Schofields at ~4:20am, carpark at 5:20am, walking in from about 5:40am, starting climbing just after 8am, out of the wall by 2pm, back to car at 3pm, or something like that. This time I found the third pitch trickier than I remembered and the 7th pitch not so bad, just long... It was awesome to lead pitch 6th this time though, what a pitch. What a climb! Perfect weather too, chilly but sunny and no wind
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New South Wales and ACT Central Tablelands Blue Mountains Mount Victoria Area Mount Piddington Flake Crack Area | |||||||
21 | ★★ Traverse of the Gods Direct Start - with Daniel Bush | 25m, 5 | ★★ Very Good | Sun 26th Jan 2020 | |||
Sensational!!! Hard start, so stick-clipping is a good idea! A couple of goes before first clip.
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New South Wales and ACT Central Tablelands Blue Mountains Blackheath Area Mt Boyce Afghan/Girl in the Mirror wall | |||||||
22 |
★★★ Girl in the Mirror - Mean Streak Linkup
- with
Andrew Dolan
1
lead by
Andrew Dolan
2
lead by
Bruno Alves Buzatto
| 45m, 13 | ★★ Very Good | Mon 8th Apr 2024 | |||
Not what we had planned for today, but the NP tracks closure (due to 150mm of rain the other day) and the 4 stars of this route in the book got us here. Pretty tricky first pitch, and the belay at the top of it is awkward with the 2 old carrots of TGITM and one new ring 1.5m to the right of it. In my opinion the second pitch made it up for it as it is beautiful, long, and can be made easy with some technique. Great scenery too. Well worth it for the second pitch, but I can see how the first one can be loved or hated... I suspect some people move into The End of the Affair too early — you unavoidable get onto this route at the end by following the most obvious line of new ring bolts after P1, so I suggest not moving right too early if you don't have gear!
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New South Wales and ACT Central Tablelands Blue Mountains Blackheath Area Shipley Upper Hot Flyer Wall | |||||||
19 | ★★ Flaming Flamingo pitch 1 - with Daniel Bush | 18m | ★★ Very Good | Sun 9th Dec 2018 | |||
That start, damn!!
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New South Wales and ACT Central Tablelands Blue Mountains Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Rhum Dhu | |||||||
19 |
★★ Dirty Rotten Pig
- with
Emily Hoffmann
| 130m | ★★★ Classic | Sat 27th Apr 2019 | |||
Came back to do this beauty clean with Em; and also with Jorge and Patricia as a second party just below us It was fantastic this time around, and Em got a big exposure experience, with hang belays and all. The bad bit is that I screwed up the approach — remember to walk DOWN the gully after the first abseil, rather than traverse high (which is actually the walk out after the first 3 real pitches). Also it was cold as hell in the beginning and the fingers were VERY numb. Not again in a cold day in the shade...
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New South Wales and ACT Central Tablelands Blue Mountains Leura Sublime Point West Face (Main Area) Middle Cliffs Sweet Dreams Walls | |||||||
17 |
★★★ Sweet Nightmare (Link-Up)
- with
Che, Vicki
1
14
20m
lead by
Che
3
12
30m
lead by
Che
5
15
10m
lead by
Che
| 130m, 12 | ★★★ Classic | Sat 23rd Mar 2019 | |||
Man that pitch 4 is sensational and quite sustained for the grade! Easier this time with a smaller backpack!! Vicki's first ever multi-pitch!
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New South Wales and ACT Sydney Metropolitan Eastern Suburbs Vaucluse Diamond Bay Diamond Bay Southside | |||||||
18 | ★ Honeycomb Arete - with Cameron | 15m, 5 | ★ Good | Sat 15th Sep 2018 | |||
Getting Cam into Sydney cliff climbing! Nice warm up!
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18 | ★ Honeycomb Arete - with Zoe | 15m, 5 | ★ Good | Fri 21st Jun 2019 | |||
Setting this up and then cleaning for Zoe. Still a fun little one.
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New South Wales and ACT Sydney Metropolitan Eastern Suburbs Vaucluse Diamond Bay Northern Wall | |||||||
16 | ★ The Corner - with Emily Hoffmann | 18m | ★★ Very Good | Sat 21st Jul 2018 | |||
Awesome way to get out of the crag!
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New South Wales and ACT Sydney Metropolitan Eastern Suburbs Vaucluse Rosa Gully Rosa Gully North Side | |||||||
20 | ★★ The Last Wave - with Robin | 50m, 11 | ★★★ Classic | Mon 12th Nov 2018 | |||
Climbed this again to show it to Robin. He wasn't impressed with the rock quality and mantles, but we had fun, and we did it in less than 1h I think!
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New South Wales and ACT Sydney Metropolitan Northern Beaches Narrabeen Slabs | |||||||
20 | ★ Dunning Kruger Wall - with Emily Hoffmann | 7m, 3 | ★ Good | Sun 14th Apr 2019 | |||
Second go — tricky, I liked the challenge!
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New South Wales and ACT Sydney Metropolitan Northern Beaches Barrenjoey Southwest | |||||||
21 | ★ Super Exciting Xylophone - with Emily Hoffmann | 25m | ★ Good | Sun 22nd Jul 2018 | |||
Incredible desperate ultra delicate start on minuscule crimps. A couple of falls on the first bolt before cruising up on the third try... The pillar is sensational, I think this would deserve more starts if it wasn't so hard to protect in the middle. Scary, make sure to have mid-size cams and little consideration for your own safety.
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New South Wales and ACT Sydney Metropolitan Sutherland The Cathedral Main Crag | |||||||
21 | ★★ Medieval Remedies - with Daniel Bush | 25m, 4 | ★★ Very Good | Sun 24th Nov 2019 | |||
Real nice, but a bit contrived at the crux as there are too many lines up there. I'm not that sure I did the crux without cheating on a neighbour line... I started at GOOT, which was nice.
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20 | ★★ Get Out of Town - with Daniel Bush | 25m, 3 | ★★ Very Good | Sun 24th Nov 2019 | |||
Scary start I thought... really nice, just need to start trusting small nuts!
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New South Wales and ACT Sydney Metropolitan Hornsby and the North Mt Ku-ring-gai Moto Cross wall | |||||||
20 | ★ Life On Hold - with Emily Hoffmann | 10m, 4 | ★ Good | Sun 14th Jul 2019 | |||
Ok, the start of this is f*&^ off hard for 20!! Or has a jug gone missing or something?! Really good challenge, but feels harder than Do you Dino (23).
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New South Wales and ACT Sydney Metropolitan Hornsby and the North Berowra Blackboard Wall | |||||||
17 | ★★ Yesterday's Heroes - with Desiree | 12m, 4 | ★★ Very Good | Sat 7th Jul 2018 | |||
Damn it, I thought I was onsighting a 21, but it turns out it was a 17. PLUS I had already done it, haha... awesome route though, but that start ain't a 17...
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New South Wales and ACT Central Coast Joll's Bridge Lower cliffline | |||||||
19 | ★★ Bad Luck Silverback - with Emily Hoffmann | 12m, 1 | ★★ Very Good | Tue 3rd Dec 2019 | |||
This is pretty cool! Lost the onsight because I didn't quite commit to the lip of the flake. Good mental test. The top is cool as well. Well worth doing!
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