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18 | ★★★ Innocence | 25m, 5 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★★ Classic | Sun 28th May 2006 | |||
18 | ★★★ Innocence - with Hamish Caddy | 25m, 5 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★★ Classic | Sat 2nd May 2009 | |||
18 | ★★★ Innocence - with Blue Mountains Orangutan | 25m, 5 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★★ Classic | Sun 16th Jul 2023 | |||
So good, a couple spicy moves still but its all there
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20 |
★★ Rites Of Passage
- with
Michael Moore
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Rapped in and scrubbed what I thought was the line. Got to second bolt and ventured right into nothing, footer broke and fell. Jugged up the rap line and did some lichen archaeology and found the real line and then resumed from the second bolt clean to the top. The crux is start of the arete at the 4th bolt and pretty happy to flash the real line. Honestly tempted to log the whole route as a flash just to see if @best_of_thecrag pulls me up on it
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Kept going up this stellar hand crack as a single pitch. | 45m, 5 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★★ Classic | Sat 23rd Mar 2024 | |||
This one has been on the list for ages and I should have done it years ago, its one of the best routes in the gorge! It climbs well and it's in a top spot
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17 | ★ Modern Electrics | 15m, 4 | Ebor Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
17 | ★ Modern Electrics - with Hannah Smart, Nari | 15m, 4 | Ebor Gorge | Sat 29th Jul 2017 | ||||
21 | ★★ Headbanger - with Ben Vincent | 15m, 4 | Ebor Gorge | ★★★ Classic | Mon 4th Jun 2018 | |||
I'm gonna make the bold call that this is one of the best routes I've done at Ebor. Feel like a sports route relocated from a completely different crag. Worlds apart from Tough customer in grade and style
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26 | The Proverbial - with Ben Vincent | 15m, 4 | Ebor Gorge | Fri 28th Jun 2019 | ||||
Belayed Ben on this and we bailed on second bolt
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21 | Leaving on your Mind | 20m, 4 | Upper Gara Gorge | Wed 30th Dec 2020 | ||||
17 | ★ Modern Electrics - with Benji Dutaillis, Todd Free, Katrina | 15m, 4 | Ebor Gorge | ★ Good | Sat 10th Apr 2021 | |||
The spicy finish never gets old
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16 | ★★ A Dash of Loneliness - with Michael Moore | 20m, 4 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Sun 10th Sep 2023 | |||
Cruisy and flowly and a delight, just like impunity but more consistent. A #3 works in the first horizontal but a #4 is better
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20 | ★★ Ilean | 15m, 3 | Ebor Gorge | Tue 11th Jul 2006 | ||||
20 | ★★ Sucking Faces | 15m, 3 | Ebor Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
17 | ★ Yuppie | 18m, 3 | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
16 | ★ Svea | 10m, 3 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Sat 8th Jun 2002 | |||
19 | ★ Unknown face - with Ben Vincent, Richard Curtis, Alex, Carol, Iliane Beuke, Narelle | 12m, 3 | Ebor Gorge | Sun 26th Jul 2015 | ||||
Mostly onsight with a few stops to do some gardening. Face moves are nice once clean
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20 | ★★ Sucking Faces - with Amy O'Toole | 15m, 3 | Ebor Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Sat 5th Sep 2015 | |||
Love this classic
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25 | ★★★ Picnic at Hanging Rock - with Ben Vincent, Alan Ezzy | 10m, 3 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★★ Classic | Sat 31st Oct 2015 | |||
Utterly frothing over this! Tried this a bunch over the years - the last time was at least a decade ago. Alan Ezzy worked it out, then Ben Vincent did it smoothly, then I went up with no (or low?) expectations, pulled on easily, forgot to unclip, unclipped mid crux statically, chilled out then moved smoothly through the awkward bit to the top rope. I've been so shut down on this before and I couldn't be happier. Probably should have done it again on lead like the others but stoked regardless.
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20 | ★★ Ilean - with Hannah Smart, Nari | 15m, 3 | Ebor Gorge | ★★★ Classic | Sat 29th Jul 2017 | |||
Really dig this
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16 | ★ Svea - with Scott Camps, Vaschka Koboroff | 10m, 3 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Sun 16th Jun 2019 | |||
Love this, but the start is nails for a 16
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20 | ★★ Ilean - with Benji Dutaillis, Todd Free, Katrina | 15m, 3 | Ebor Gorge | ★★★ Classic | Sat 10th Apr 2021 | |||
I really love this route, flows well
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25 | ★★★ Picnic at Hanging Rock - with Michael Moore | 10m, 3 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★★ Classic | Fri 29th Apr 2022 | |||
Glad Michael made me get back on this, super stoked to get the 3rd bolt on the first go. Worked the top a bit and got the second crux, didn't do the top slab.
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15 | ★★★ Impunity - with Blue Mountains Orangutan | 20m, 3 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★★ Classic | Sun 16th Jul 2023 | |||
Fun and flowy, fairly consistent and a great warm up for Innocence in a similar style
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17 | ★ Keystone corruption - with Noah Craven | 15m, 3 | Upper Gara Gorge | Average | Sat 23rd Sep 2023 | |||
I was originally going to do the real easy far right zig zag but got a bit sketched by the levitating arch. It seems solid but I definitely won't be putting gear near it. The move onto the slab is interesting but it's over too quick and the grassy ledge section at the top out is not ideal.
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19 | ★★ Springer - with Noah Craven | 15m, 3 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Sat 23rd Sep 2023 | |||
The boulder start to this is really cool
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21 Easy | ★★ Capstone Project - with Noah Craven | 15m, 3 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★★ Classic | Sat 23rd Sep 2023 | |||
Working and aided the moves
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21 Easy | ★★ Capstone Project - with Simon Porter | 15m, 3 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Sun 15th Oct 2023 | |||
Route was naturally a bit dirty again, takes slight bit of shine off. Progress was made. Route is in shade until 10am
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21 Easy | ★★ Capstone Project - with Simon Porter, Ben Vincent | 15m, 3 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Fri 24th Nov 2023 | |||
Lots of mental rehearsal. Once you commit and get into it it’s not too bad, holds are pretty juggy and the mantle is probably technically the crux.
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21 Easy | ★★ Capstone Project - with Ben Vincent | 15m, 3 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Fri 1st Dec 2023 | |||
Did the traverse fine and then gassed myself on the mantle. Needed to just get much deeper and palm up and fight a bit more. Don't think my commitment level was the same with time limit and heat. I think I was expecting it to feel a lot easier the second time round.
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21 | ★★ Wired World of Sport | 10m, 2 | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
21 | ★ Faith | 20m, 2 | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
21 | Funky Homo Aretus | 10m, 2 | Upper Gara Gorge | Sat 8th Jun 2002 | ||||
24 | ★★ New Blue Dress - with Nari | 10m, 2 | Ebor Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Sat 29th Jul 2017 | |||
Made some quality grunting noises
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24 | ★★ New Blue Dress - with carol lee | 10m, 2 | Ebor Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Sat 29th Jul 2017 | |||
No grunting, clean. Was keen to have a red point attempt but got distracted
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24 | ★★ Roof crack project - with Ben Vincent | 15m, 2 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Sat 21st Jul 2018 | |||
Wow! The chossy start is a little off-putting but this thing is great quality after that. The traverse is good, the roof crack is great, pulling the lip is an utterly sick move getting almost inverted, and the sustained offwidth after that is just plain sickening I laybacked most of the offwidth cause that's how I roll, but it burnt me out, when I finally dragged my arse over top I wanted to chuck. Rope drag was bad, needs lots of long slings.
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24 | ★★ Heaving Falcons - with Ben Vincent | 15m, 2 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Wed 1st Aug 2018 | |||
Utterly stoked to second this clean, one of the hardest brawls I've had with a route. The first layback gets you warm quickly. Was able to rest properly this time in the first roof, busted across and then managed to find an almost comfortable full lie down rest with a knee bar holding me in. Pulled the lip expecting to pop and just held on breathing hard and trying to slow down for the rest. Just lay down for 5 mins at the top trying to breath and not dry retch
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17 | ★★ Bovine | 12m, 2 | Upper Gara Gorge | 2005 | ||||
23 | ★★★ Lean Cuisine - with Benji Dutaillis | 7m, 2 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★★ Classic | Mon 8th Jun 2020 | |||
I'd forgotten how good this route is, perfect rock, big dyno move (couldn't make it) or alternate left sequence
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24 | ★★ New Blue Dress - with Benji Dutaillis, Todd Free | 10m, 2 | Ebor Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Sat 10th Apr 2021 | |||
Had a dangle on top rope, always feels crazy hard and takes a few goes to re-figure out the sequence
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24 | ★★ Heaving Falcons - with Benji Dutaillis, Ben Vincent | 15m, 2 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Mon 24th Jan 2022 | |||
Arvo mission mostly doing support. Bloody hot so mostly hunkered in the shade until dusk when I wasn't belaying. Yoyo lead the first section ok but a bit flash pumped. Traverse wore me down, and the roof just felt totally impossible. Jumared out and then ruined myself hauling gear and belaying Ben up on horrendous drag
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21 | ★★ Wired World of Sport - with Todd Free, Denni Heywood, Mark, Alex, Peter, Jonas, a ton of kids | 10m, 2 | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 11th Jun 2023 | ||||
Really dogged this and had to aid to the last bolt. Surely something has ripped off, the start is great but then getting to the sloper ledge is either a big dyno, or a massive ape span, or off super minging sharp crimps. Second bolt isn't in the best position.
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24 | ★★ Heaving Falcons - with Michael Moore, Matt | 15m, 2 | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Wed 22nd May 2024 | |||
Footer blew on scrittle at the start, then got up the flake and traversed to the roof crack and rested. Half did the move through the lip. Pumped silly
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19 | ★ Going Steady | 15m, 1 | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
21 | ★ Poetic Justice | 10m, 1 | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
23 | ★★ Chocolate Barbarian | 15m, 1 | Ebor Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
18 | ★★ Layabout/Going Steady Connection | 18m, 1 | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
21 | ★ Don't Get Cute | 18m, 1 | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
15 | ★ Swinebeater | 10m, 1 | Upper Gara Gorge | 2005 | ||||
14 | ★★ Zip wire | 5m, 1 | Upper Gara Gorge | Thu 1st Sep 2022 | ||||
Really cool rock features
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14 | ★★ Zip wire - with Andrew Woolley, Georgie, Callum, Simon Porter | 5m, 1 | Upper Gara Gorge | Sat 5th Nov 2022 | ||||
21 | ★★ Chewin Fat With The Paleo Brat - with Ben Vincent, carol lee | 20m | Ebor Gorge | Fri 28th Jun 2019 | ||||
Gave Ben a catch on this. Jeez this is nail biting even as the belayer, marginal gear, technical, loose in parts. Ben fought it valiantly for maybe 45 mins and then unzipped from the top then we bailed.
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22 | ★★ Inertia | 10m | Upper Gara Gorge | Wed 30th Dec 2020 | ||||
I've been on this a couple times on top rope and lead but I don't think it was prior to the route changing. I have a feeling there is two distinct routes, the original where the bolts are and the obvious crack a few meters left
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22 | ★★ Inertia - with Volodymyr K, Michael Moore, Laura Price, Bryn Norris | 10m | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Sat 30th Apr 2022 | |||
First time I've been on the 'real' inertia, always been confused by the bolts. This route is quality. Take care to extend gear over the sharper lips to save your rope. Was lightly raining, the cross through move at the lip shut me down and was a bit rushed to spend time working it.
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16 | ★★ Hope | 25m | Upper Gara Gorge | ★ Good | Sat 11th Jul 1998 | |||
22 | ★★ Savage Amusement | 15m | Upper Gara Gorge | ★ Good | Mon 11th Jul 2005 | |||
15 | ★ And So It Goes | 20m | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
14 | ★★ Action - with Gretta Axelsen | 150m | Dangars Gorge | ★★★ Classic | Sun 28th May 2006 | |||
Sam tooks photos, on flickr
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15 | ★ Seizure | 14m | Ebor Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
17 | ★ The Joker | 12m | Ebor Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
8 | Pink Freud | 10m | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
13 | ★ Illusion | 15m | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
14 | ★★ Charity | 20m | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
16 | ★★ Reunion Alternate Finish | 20m | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
3 | ★ Epileptic Chimney | 10m | Ebor Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
22 | ★★ Fury | 8m | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
14 | Interlude | 10m | Ebor Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
15 | ★★ All the Young Punks | 25m | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
6 | ★ Staircase Chimney | 15m | Ebor Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
14 | Layabout Variant | 25m | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
14 | Jail Bait | 30m | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
17 | ★★ Submission | 15m | Ebor Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
13 | ★ Shooting Star | 8m | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
18 | ★ Anticipation | 20m | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
13 | ★ Snakes and Ladders | 15m | Ebor Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
12 | ★ Expiry Date | 10m | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
15 | ★ The Removalist | 15m | Ebor Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
20 | ★★ Bombay Duck | 15m | Ebor Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
20 | ★ Cheap Vendetta | 15m | Ebor Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
16 | ★★ Whale Oil Beef Hooked | 15m | Ebor Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
13 | Gung Ho | 15m | Ebor Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
17 | ★★ Layabout | 25m | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
15 | Hitman | 15m | Ebor Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
17 | ★ Fugue State | 10m | Upper Gara Gorge | Sun 28th May 2006 | ||||
18 | ★★ The Eye Crack (Sheep Shit Crack) | 15m | Beulah | Mon 7th Jun 2010 | ||||
19 | ★ Toby's Corner | 10m | Upper Gara Gorge | Sat 8th Jun 2002 | ||||
17 | Good Morning Little School Girl | 9m | Upper Gara Gorge | Sat 8th Jun 2002 | ||||
17 | I'll Go Slops | 12m | Upper Gara Gorge | Sat 8th Jun 2002 | ||||
23 | ★★ Psychosomatic | 15m | Upper Gara Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Thu 15th Dec 2011 | |||
A 10 year goal finally attempted! Aided, cleaned out some dirt, worked it and then got it clean on top rope with Ben. Red point will have to wait. Back when I was a bumbly I swore if I did this I'd have to leave, and now I'm leaving so I had to go do it! Was actually a much more interesting sequence than I thought.
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16 | ★★ Twist - with Ben Vincent, Richard Curtis, Alex, Carol, Iliane Beuke, Narelle | 15m | Ebor Gorge | Sun 26th Jul 2015 | ||||
Thrutching. Cracks! It's been a while
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16 | ★ Double Trouble - with Ben Vincent, Richard Curtis, Alex, Carol, Iliane Beuke, Narelle | 15m | Ebor Gorge | Sun 26th Jul 2015 | ||||
18 | ★★ Knuckleduster - with Ben Vincent, Richard Curtis, Alex, Carol, Iliane Beuke, Narelle | 15m | Ebor Gorge | Sun 26th Jul 2015 | ||||
19 | ★ Backdoor Man - with Ben Vincent, Richard Curtis, Alex, Carol, Iliane Beuke, Narelle | 15m | Ebor Gorge | Sun 26th Jul 2015 | ||||
By far the best route of the day, theoretically hard but I found it the easiest. Much cleaner jamming and then cool move through the roof
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15 | ★ Seizure - with Amy O'Toole | 14m | Ebor Gorge | Sat 5th Sep 2015 | ||||
Meh, dirty, stemmed
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15 | ★ The Removalist - with Alan Ezzy | 15m | Ebor Gorge | ★ Good | Sat 5th Sep 2015 | |||
Cruisy lead, loose block scared the hell out of me even though I knew it was there
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17 | ★★ Firestorm - with George | 15m | Ebor Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Sat 5th Sep 2015 | |||
Great varied route
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22 | ★★ Ben project - with Ben Vincent | 20m | Eastern Gara Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Sun 13th Sep 2015 | |||
Rapped off and scrubbed the top, not realising how overhung it was so didn't clean the bottom as much as I could have. Benny scrubbed the right line. Did the first half clean on second and then was pumped silly.
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22 | ★★ Ben project - with Ben Vincent | 20m | Eastern Gara Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Sun 13th Sep 2015 | |||
Second run, had to clean it and the bottom 4 wires needed a lot of tickling to get out. Rooted.
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20 | ★ Offwidthicus - with Ben Vincent, Alan Ezzy | 15m | Cathedral Rock National Park | ★ Good | Sat 17th Oct 2015 | |||
Ben Vincent was a trooper on this thing, a couple of anxious moments belaying him. Much easier on second when you can use the face for feet with right chicken wing. Very cool end to the day
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17 | ★★ Fidget - with Ben Vincent | 15m | Ebor Gorge | ★ Good | Sat 6th May 2017 | |||
Warmup, my jams are super rusty
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16 | ★★ Crooked Vision - with Ben Vincent | 15m | Ebor Gorge | ★★ Very Good | Sat 6th May 2017 | |||
Didn't really pay attention to the description and just launched ourselves at this and got shut down but it's tantalizingly doable. Realized the route bridges up the right offwidth first, but the direct start is definitely doable. Another day!
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