Ascents in Tidbinbilla area as Lead

Kinda desperate move in the middle! Finish up the route above (Scaled) to reduce rope drag for the second/TR

Absolutely freaking desperate … very very polished, finish up route above to feel normal again.

Good moves, a bit of a challenge to read beta as the rock was clean

Draws already hung, took a rest.

Super line and climbing with 2min access. Fun in the winter sun out of the wind, flocks of yellow tailed black cockatoo's, and the view from the top of the boulder in the late afternoon is sensational. The climbs at Pierces Creek really should be more popular than they are as they are total class!

Excellent climbing! Used a horizontal knee bar with my right leg across to the left arete below the fingers section to make the crux sequence less sketchy. While lowering off I tested how hard I could use the knee bar - it's possible to take both hands off but I reckon you'd want to use a knee bar pad if you were serious about a no hand rest! We accidentally took the double length sling from the top anchor when abseiling off - it's under a rock at the base of the route.

Excellent splitter offwidth into a wider layback. We tried it a couple of weeks ago but had no idea how to do hand/fist stacks nor knee locks, nor did we have gear big enough to make the wide second half a sane prospect. This time, after reading the 'hand/fist offwidth' section of Peter Whittaker's 'Crack Climbing', having bought back my two Valley Giants (VG) I'd previously sold, plus judicious taping of hands and left knee I was set and got it first go. Gear is big to humungous - #4, 2 x #5, #6, VG#9 and VG#12! A 240cm sling is also handy to loop the large block 3/4 way up. As granite goes, this is smooth sided and an excellent climb to learn offwidthing on. A top rope using a second rope to get the anchor over the edge can easily be setup using the ring bolts above 'Black Satin Lingerie'. The walk in is about 40 minutes.

Great line, good climbing and solid gear.

First climb back at it

Does what it says on the tin. Most pure handcrack I've ever done. Dreamy

Beautiful rock and quite interesting moves, just needs to be twice as long. I'm not convinced by the retrobolt of this one. The gear is pretty small but all good, and setting up a toprope is trivial.

I really like this one. Looks about gr18, and had a nagging feeling the whole time that there is a gr18 sequence which I was missing. One of these days I'll find the easy way to do it. Super glad that this avoided being retrobolted, would be a much less interesting experience as a sport route.

After a couple of years of not coming here, I'd forgotten how good these routes are. Short yet interesting the whole way and quite different to regular a.c.t. granite.

3-4th time up this - still very enjoyable each time

David's first lead.