Ascents in New South Wales and ACT as various tick types as trad by Damien Ayers

So much fun, until it gets thin up top and I forgot how to use my feet, or small holds, or just climb in general.

Awesome! Started up Wailing Cockatoo, then OS P3 and P4. P4 was one hard move, but easy in general. P3 was harder and more sustained.

A couple of reachy moves, but felt pretty easy.

Awesome. Plenty of great holds to rest on. Found a thread to lessen the excitement at the top.

Love the arretes!

Still brilliant. But much easier than I remembered. Had to use wires on a few carrots...

Great! Tricky for 21.

For some reason I expected this to be a doddle. It was both better and far more sustained than I expected.

Pitch 1 only. Soloed up to the tree, then led the lovely crack and short slab above. Brilliant weather, sunny and windy and cool, and super fun placing some good gear.

Great! Bit of down climbing and working out gear.

Slightly thin long reaches, but a very cool position.

great

Just Awesome

Tricky but fun

Had some trouble finding my trad head and calves, but super cool climbing.

Really good. Quite tricky. Better know how to jam.

Yikes! Hard crack. Lost some skin.

Not great, easily past some U bolts, then up the head wall past some more. Much easier and not as good as AHC.

Brilliant climbing. Little bit steep.

Brilliant climbing in a spectacular location. The orange upper section of the wall is superb. Rather pumpy also.

Rescuing some gear that was left behind after the incident with the tree.

Gob smacking line. Was a bit anxious beforehand, but I felt a lot more solid than last time, many moons ago.

oooof. Such a good climb, that just keeps going and going and going. I could really feel my lack of endurance, and got a little desperate in a couple of spots, but managed to hang in there and keep going.

Such good placements (5 cams and 10 wires), such good rock, such good movements.

Was made rather more epic by bringing the kids in. And there was still some small patches of snow on the track up to the top. Glorious sunny weather.

Great climb! Struggled with the granite+trad+crack combination at the start of the second pitch. It's been too long! Nice exposure and arete climbing.

Lots of fun, make sure you know how to jam

Amazing climbing, deserves more stars. Airy and exposed, improved with some wind.

Great!

Intense!

Nice

Bit of loose rock, great exposure and photos

Really cool and varied. Didn't go right from the bottom, didn't seem worthwhile.

As a sport climb.

Brilliant. Rock was a bit loose down low, but varied and awesome climbing.

Worth doing, but the rock is sandy and not that reassuring.

Great climbing, all bolted. Stung by wasps about 10 times on the second pitch!!

Awkward steep crack at the start, dubious to non-existent protection at the top. Glad Lazar was on the pointy end.

Really cool features and climbing. Did the second half in pouring rain, which didn't actually hit me or the climb.

Awesome

Felt hard, must be tired from yesterday.

Up the face. Not at all bad, but not memorable either.

Really good workout. Had me panting.

Trivial on second if you can foot jam.

Perfect winter weather for some perfect granite climbing. Definitely contains some do-not-fall territory.

Wonderful line

Great re-introduction to the point.

Great way to end the weekend.

Lovely crack up the corner, recommended

Good re-introduction to jamming. Didn't feel easy. Took a small amount of blood.

Dirty dirty dirty.

Easy runout slab

Got mixed up between the Fish-knife and the Butter-knife, so we ended up here and climbed this. It was great! Excellent rock, good moves, adequate gear.

Short steep fun in the middle

Brilliant feature, brilliant climb. Shared the leading with Shawn. Windy with intermittent clouds made it a bit chilly. Quite a few old rusty pins along the way. Got rained on at the last abseil, luckily camp was nearby.

Annoying walk in, I don't like it particularly much.