Ascents in Illawarra and Shoalhaven by Rob Medlicott

This route is rad! Just wish i had some fitness to have sent the thing. I'll go back for it. 2 goes.

Hard start at the grade, then a doddle. But cool double crack features.

Fun climbing to a hardish move near the top. Good fun.

Repeat. Great long climbs at this grade.

This reminded me of just how badly i need to train on slopers. My wrists were hurting p te top

Really cool climb at the grade and a nice view from the top.

Fun and quite pumpy.

Pumpy and quite fun style. Solid at the grade.

Hard move for the grade!

In the dark, with a head torch.

Yuck!

Flashed this a couple years ago in cold winter conditions, had to battle hard in the spooge today but didn't wanna let go!

EOD for draw retrieval. Why not?

Haha! Tough, fingery warm up! Especially in the hot and humid conditions.

Hardest moves ever for a 14 or 15, getting onto the wall to clip the 3rd bolt. Unless you're a giant, but the bolt is nowhere near any good holds...

Great climbing but loose rock lets it down. Looked tough on lead too. An epic way to finish the trip. Paul almost had a heart attack....

The climb of the trip for sure! Great climbing in an waesome position, high on the arete! Not sure i can reach anything good enough at the high crux but flashed to there. FUN!

I think it was this that i got on. Broke 3 holds in my hands at the start, got annoyed and scared and bailed.

It was pretty fun until the stupid fist jamming finale. I hate cracks

Was enjoying myself and thought i might onsight, then i was stopped dead by the reachy heartbreaker at the end....

Hard and reachy but the spooge was bad on this.

Great line, minus the chossy start. The position on the arete was amazing!

Great little route, with nice features the whole way. Not 21 though, its 2 grades easier than just Technical.

Good, fun way to start the weekend.

Had a play on the bottom but hurt my wrist.

23? Couldn't do the move again.

Another one i couldn't work out the move on.

5 goes up this at the end of the day, with minimal rest and without sending it but it was good training

Could not work out the beta for the flake/arete near the top.

Pretty annoyed i didn't get this today but the conditions weren't so great on the red point burn. The individual moves felt real easy though, the moon board is doing its job.

Felt pretty solid at the grade but the conditions were pretty humid today. Really punchy,fun climbing! Second shot.

Tried for the onsight but couldn't work out the top. Might have been the slime.

Warm up

Second shot. Love the crux sequence on this and the finish on those rad jugs, is great fun! Better than BBBB.

Warm up. Forgot the crux beta and came off.

Just up to the crux, for a play. Crux was a bit shouldery and my left shoulder didn't want me to keep going. Another time

Not the best warm up but pretty fun.

Awesome route and harder than Trigga. I am unfit and thought i had no chance, as my wrist hurt on all the open hand holds but i milked the rests and managed it on the third go. Vanessa also got it in 3.

I'm still not out of the woods, as far as the wrist goes and i'm still coughing and spluttering from the cold I've had since Wednesday, but i had heaps of fun on this!

3 goes and made it halfway through the crux on the last 2. Should go easy next time, as i will be able to breathe...

End of day repeat lap. Another easier route that is always fun.

So after failing on this last time, i managed it this time but its not 18! The crux has some small holds!

Always nice to repeat.

Painful undercling at the start hurt my wrist, so i ditched it.

Still not good after the undercling on the 26, so i bailed at the second bolt

Yep, its a classic. Misread the crux on the onsight and ticked on the second shot. Glad to get this done before retiring the wrist.

Thought i'd have a look but i couldn't hold many of the holds, so i dogged past a lot of it. Will come back when my wrist is better.

Managed to repeat this after failing at Slut Whipping and while Vanessa had draws on. Lots of pain but i got there, just...

Really quite good but i had to improvise a little and climb it differently to how i wanted to, as some holds hurt a lot.

Always good fun. Warm up to test the wrist. Only one hold actually hurt on this.