Ascents in Sydney Metropolitan as various tick types by Tim Clarkson

Really nice and varied. Good holds all the way.

Good, just with a slightly goey crux, especially if the humidity is high!

Great! Few thin holds on the way with good feet.

Quite good and interesting. Just more bouldery, reachy and tenuous than its 17 neighbour. A few friable holds, but quite manageable.

Quite good and interesting. Just more bouldery, reachy and tenuous than its 17 neighbour. A few friable holds, but quite manageable.

Phew! Kept my head at the top, despite breaking a hold about to clip! Really good! Heady up top.

So good! As per last time, balancy and specific getting past 1st draw, balancy and thin up high. But quality!

Great moves!

No one was more surprised than me! Maybe soft for V4?

Genuine slabbing, and good quality! Better and cleaner rock than some of the others nearby, great movement with small feet. Just wish it was longer:-)

Good movement, just some friable edges and not amazing fall zones.... though if you're going to climb gr12 slab, I guess that's going to happen! Worthwhile, just watch what you step on. 2 ways to do the start, one is better for shorties.

If you're under 170cm, 1st move is harder than 13, but doable. Otherise just mildly bouldery for 13, then easier. Great movement and interesting climbing. Bit dirty but manageable.

I really rate this route, definitely AFTER I figured out the crux at 2nd bolt. Went from pulling on the bolt and utterly perplexed to not-pumped-at-the-anchors in 4 shots. Crux requires just the right beta to take out 50% of the effort, and big pulls between jugs up top are fun and glorious.

Was good! Pumpy but good warmup.

Lovely moves, fair for the grade:-)

Quality climbing with a bouldery technical crux straight off the ground, and interesting moves all the way to the top. Couple of not so obvious sequences. Fair for 22 if you consider that crux is the first 5 moves. Great climb.

Little bit of everything with balancy slab crux and overhung jugs to finish. Really nice climb!

A little feisty as a warmup for 19 on the fingers, but good climbing!

Some tenuous mantling on water polished rock. Some cool moves but anchor placement is weird and arkward.

Lovely moves! Really enjoyable!

This flows really well once you figure out which alternate middle or finish you're doing. Left most start, traverse, right most finish up crimps with good feet

Nothing wrong with it and decent warmup, just a bit arkward and "oh, is that where I'm going?"

4th shot! Really quality climbing and a powerful 23, but good beta and knowing when to stop and when to go really helps. Good movement even when having to climb around the seepage (but embrace 1 wet jug). Wiping my hand was the crux! Highly rate this one.

Lovely find-the-crimp problem with good feet. Runout a bit unnecessary, but is easy if balancy climbing. If 17 is an challenge maybe just toprope 1st.

Lovely, and only crimpy for a coupe of moves of the ground.

Quite nice for the grade, just a little steeper than your average 15 and need to use your feet

It ain't the top that's thin, it's the start. Plenty of decent holds up top. Bottom is manageable, just quite bouldery to make good use of the holds that are gradually disappearing... 18s on Bullet Hole wall or the 15, 16, 18 on Pimple Buttress are better warmups.

2nd shot! Yeah baby!!

Powerful bouldery (but fun) moves through roof, then lovely cruisy fun. I feel that's more 23 than 22. I've done 23 roof climbs that required less power than this one. Great climb though.

Great route, another one with not-so-obvious moves, lovely moves, overhung start fairly straightforward. Bolting it a bit shoddy, with a sideways ringbolt (not u-bolt) and chain. Rap link on chain could use replacing. Otherwise great fun!

Excellent climb with a few not-so-obvious sequences.

Thin and crispy but great moves. Very reminiscent of many grade 21 thin vertical blue mountain climbs. Thought provoking but in keeping with bluies 21s.

Fair for the grade, another nice enough warm up.

Nice enough for a warm up.

Followed Jara as a sit start, grovelling offwidth. New for me. Grimy fun.

Soft V2. Fun moves, decent rock

Passable warmups along this section