Ascents in Shellfish Area

Bit blocky but good fun!

Had to reverse the crux to retrieve a cam for an essential placement lol. Save a #4 for the top (after the traverse and thin section protected by the thread)

Hard crux up high. Glad I got it right

This whole wall is unreal

Rad upper section

This is awesome. Great rock and sick pockets

Some loose blocks but good climbing

I may have gone a bit more direct at the finish than shown in guide book, but climbed ok. With all the trees dead, finding a good anchor was tricky.

Rpt, Seconded Dave. It all seems unlikely, but we’ll protected, and some long moves.

Failed again. I have to Dyno past the last bolt. Got the height, just slipped off. Love the rightward traverse in the middle

Not worth the effort. A few metres of okay rock/climbing surrounded my lots of crud. Ending up off-route at the start didn't do much to add to the experience.

2nd shot. Went for the true onsight, had a bit of a battle putting on the crux draw, then fell off the only hard move on the route. Very flashable with a bit of beta for the crux. Would be 24 elsewhere, or probably gr23 for "the point" (based on the routes put up in the same era). Short, but punchy and awesomely exposed. Bring a few cams (0.3, 0.5) for the finale. Replaced the poxy belay sling.

probably can be 23.

DWS anyone? An epic experience starting with a 20 minute search for the carrot (we rapped off the boulders and only found it at the end of the day). This route is absolutely wild; an overhanging arete with a 50m drop to the crashing Tasman with southern right whales swimming below. Pat lead the way and cleaned up the holds, then I snuck in to get the flash. We finished up a flaring fingercrack on the right side of the arete, probably not the full tick.

Maybe even classic! The way this pushes you out onto seemingly blank rock is wild! Climbed on Pat's gear

Of our three ascents, no one found the secret pocket that makes this a 20! Felt like 23; harder, more laybacking, and better than Turbo-Curare

Pre-equipped the carrots

Should've read the guidebook! Wandered all over the place trying to find decent gear and easy moves. The finishing diagonal rail looked fun.

This well-named twin offwidth would be kinda cool of it wasn't a giant pile of sand.

Fun position. Done on 2nd shot but probably more like 24.

Dave didn't like this, but I thought it had some good moves, albeit crap rock in parts

Some really interesting sequences and awesome knee bar rest for the short which makes up for the moves being cruxier, must lead it, the bolts look ok

Holly exposure! And crazy run out at the end! Fantastic position. Have to head out and repeat it again soon! felt easy for 25. Blew the onsight at upper crux then cruzed it 2nd shot after 5min rest.

Nice route nice rock sweet location.

Struggled with the transition back right to the large pockets at 2/3 height. Quite pumpy, but good moves once you figure them out

TR solo the slab and lead the crack. Rock is terrible down low and sandy up high.

09 May 2011.

awesome!

One gnarly jam!

09 May 2011.

hard way out