Ascents in Hunter Valley by Luke Yerbury having sport-cpr or ascent-date

Enjoyed the warmup and thought why not. Stoked

A very fun route! Hard to grade. Could be a 25, but its definitely harder than other 25s in the hunter.

Thanks Nathan for hanging the draws and spitting beta. Chuffed!

Always feels easy when they finally go. Felt strong! The improved beta and nice conditions really helped too!

Good to put this one to bed. Cracker of a line with some stellar climbing above the anchors of toast. I cut about 3 or 4 times during toast. Wouldn't worry about it.

Nice

First go of the day, 7th overall. Pretty proud of this one!

Well there ya go. Crimped the living daylights out of the rail, used the new foot beta and a bit of thrutch combined to make it happen. Beyond stoked.

Hail Mary in the dark. Such a fuckin cool crux. Bit sharp but if you've climbed in the cave you're used to it.

Thanks Matt for beta! On the soft side of 24, really good fun.

Nice. Extended the 4th bolt of prime time with a 120cm sling and put a 60cm sling on the third bolt of bed swerver, then double draw on fourth. Love a clean rope line!

Last go best go. A harder finish than risky business but the jugs give enough of a reset that it just feels like a solid 25.

Got the start boulder sorted. Draws were on, surprise send.

Really nice climbing on the arete to start, then a 'choose your own difficulty' type ting after the 3rd draw. Easier or harder depending on where you draw the line. Felt like soft 25 with what I used.

False start falling at the big move. Lowered off then got it done! Very excited about this one as it felt like my anti-style after a winter in the cave. In your face from the ground to the anchors!

Glad to see the other guys go first and have the draws hung already. Cool position!

Such good fun! Again, very consistent until the jugs. Lowered off yellow box and hung draws and inspected holds. Flash?

Repeat

Pumpy, good fun. Much more consistent than toast and some tasty kneebar action.

Chuffed to repeat. Lucky Matt yelled some timely beta.

Couple goes trying for a send with bad beta, then bagged him. The nicest 25 sport route in the bay.

Redeemed itself. One of those routes you need to push through the initial pain/confusion stage to begin to enjoy. Quite a pumpy little number up to the mantle, then some fun but not too hard final moves. Solid at the grade! Sent with 'Dracula - The Beginning' playing and timed the rest with the lull in the middle and the cruxes with the crescendos. Epic.

First go today. Just tell your fingers to hold on

Shortened my rests, flew through it. Really enjoyed this route without the pressure of "getting it."

Epic drop knee beta does the trick and gets the tick!

First go today! Hands were burning when I lowered off.

FFA. Surprised myself with this one - 5 attempts. Balancy and crimpy!

First go today. Super chuffed!

Nice and technical crux then fight the pump to the finish! Likely would have spent longer getting this without Michaels beta!

Consistent moves until the jugs. Not too hard for the grade, a couple clips to be careful with. Very good fun!

Came together without any real dramas, nice climbing.

Fell at start, lowered and went again. Lots of fun and all independent climbing! Get on it!

This makes the route feel a bit closer to 24. And with that I have ticked everything listed on the crag at middle earth 😃

Was leaving this to do after the dragon. It's been a long wait. Out to hobbits and back to the grimy anchors clean.

Warm-up sends to send off 24.

First go today! Whoop whoop! Had the oomph to do the crux that I'd run out of last time from trying the wrong beta. Which hand you grab the jug with probably makes a couple grades difference. Will need some further ascents to confirm the grade, but the moves at the lip probably make for a V3ish boulder.

Tried once a couple years ago. First go today, felt strong through the crux! First 24 post injury! Whoop whoop!

23 is fair, nice boulder into relieving jug run.

End of day cleaning lap.

Got im.

This is super fun! Dropped the onsight moving from mono, next go.

Surprising cruise at end of day. Really like the moves at the start!

Second go today. Holds really needed a brush, sea spray or humidity making them feel slick since I was last here?

Third attempt today, 5th overall. Soft for 25

EOD hail mary and wanted it enough that it happened. Felt like the hardest route I did all day.

One I've been meaning to get back to for a long time now. Really fun climbing up to a funky crux.