Ascents in Australian Capital Territory

Topped out of hermes and saw a super fun looking line in the shade so jumped on not knowing what it was. Got past first crux and above lip but then chickened out as only had a few draws with me. A fall there could be bad withought some pro between 3rd and 4th bolt! (#2/3cam?). Careful of bad swing back when going for dyno move if you miss! This deserves more than one star.. It's a super good and intimidating route to work! Will be back for this one 100%

Thought we'd jump on this to try hard! Pretty cruisy 22ish pumpy juggy climbing in the cave, then massive dyno out to the biggest bucket you will ever touch while climbing. Got it second shot, shoved the cam in and mantled onto the bucket, wigged out after that. I think the crimps should be climbed through rather than mantling onto the the bucket, you can't stand up because the wall just pushes you out. Sick climb needs more attention. Also, the 26 crack down the hill is the sickest crack I've seen, would love to try someday

wasnt going to get on this one but Dyl convinced me with his pshyc to climb hard!! think this deserves more than one star even though I didnt finish it. great moves up through the roof up to the dyno. tried the dyno a few times and was close but didnt land it, then bailed off bolt. headwall above prob gives this climb the grade, looks techy AF. ill come back another time.

1 cam is definitely necessary, but could be changed to a sport climb.

this climb was bolted by a wanker. the bolts are placed just in a way where they arent doing their job properly like cmon guys how hard is it to move a bolt 30 cm higher so that you DONT smash your ankles on a ledge. this has a stupid bolting job which makes the climb bolder for no reason. i love this crag but some of the ethics demonstraited amazingly here are utter nonsense. probably 22

Very nice but my head really wasn't in it.

Dammit I should have stuck with it. I got through the crux fairly comfortably but did not want to commit to getting up to the break to place the cam. Next time I will do it placing the cam on rap after a run on vomit.

It's pretty wide, and narrows sharply ... got to the last bolt, got stuck, sat there, rethought my choices and down-climbed.

Looking from the bottom it looks like I only had to make another 20cm and it would have got nicer again

Rapped down and had a look. I think it'll be easy enough - hard past second bolt, but may be less balancey in sub 30km/h winds

Bloody hard between the third and fourth bolt. Gave up after a few whips each. Free biner on the third bolt if anyone wants it.

Only did the last bolt up. Felt quite reasonable. Glad the FA stopped at the crack, because the bolt and line above it is stupid hard. Definitely possible though

Hard, rope got stuck in anchors turning a chill arvo session into an unplanned benighting

also hard ugh

from sometime last month. really nice gr22 crimping until the last bolt which is a horrendous v6 ish move

Climbed over to final drive to finish!

I wasn't terrified exactly...I followed the seam out left instead of going through the overlap at the third bolt - because there was gear. I piked, but I'm not unhappy with my decision.

OS through the crack, would claim it, as the TR solo rig was more effort than placing gear would have been. Mantle needs a clean, and I need to actually get the IL part first go for once.

Clean to the crux. All the chalk had washed off and I missed the move to the top flake. 4 and 3 cams in the bottom

Goddamn it. Another 2 shots. Still easy though the bottom. Slab is hard. First time failed beta, second time failed finger strength

Some fun moves down low, too low on juice to finish today

Made it to 3rd bolt but didn't quite make it to crack

Rebolted. And largely brushed. Needs a bit more, and if anyone else gets on it before I get back to it (hahahaha) then you need a thinner diameter crab or two for the last bolt

Had another look at this, looks doable coming in from the left to start

Checked it out on top rope, worked the moves to half height. Awkward to top rope though with the roof, will come back better prepared! My new Snake Rock project

Committing

So close

Usual dogtown at that upper crux, looks like Danny has the beta now.

Such a fun problem, so pumped and tired after getting to the rest before the top sequence.

Nice find. Wasn’t game to pull the hard move below the mantle with no rope or pads

working on lead and trad climbing

Climbed up placing Cams and working the climb out. When attempting to redpoint blew two cams out on a fall and hit the deck. Unlucky

Attempted this on top rope hung off some bolts at the top after jw lead on gear. Was pretty tired/pumped by the time I tried this, but figured I may as well give it a go since the rope was already up. Struggled a bit at the bottom, wanted to just fully lay back and hand over hand the crack, but didn't have the strength for it. Eventually figured my way up the crack, basically had to trust my feet on tiny things I hated on the left wall, as well as some grips that didn't feel fully secure to my tired hands. I hung around on the rope resting a fair bit, trying to inspect but not loving anything I saw, and then just going for it on tiny things and realising they actually seemed to hold. Eventually got up to about 80-90% done, but was way too tired and pumped to be able to hold what I needed to finish. Was on the wall for a good 50min or so. I could probably finish this when less tired + if I remember to trust my feet/hands on the tiny things more and just go for it rather than going too slow and getting pumped.

Got up to pitch 2 and got smashed by the only rain cloud within a 5000km radius! Pretty grim sitting there in a soaking wet puffy trying to setup raps to get down to the ground. 5km walk back to camp after this. Was surprised to see another crew out there, and lining up for the same climb