Ascents in Ambers Gully

imo a bit higher than V1 but I hate slab so wtf do I know

Interesting crack problem. Needs some more work before the send.

Solid V3. And with the claimed lower start it feels like a V4. Strong moves up a great arete.

Nice line with an even better sit start. Give the sit a go for a bit more of a challenge.

Blank line with minimal decent holds.

high quality line with a nice right hand variant going at around V2.

Repeat. Always a fun little compression gem tucked away in Black Hill!

Nice little crack. Much better now that a nice little ring lock is required to pull off the ground. Hold improvements are just one of the benefits to being fat!

Repeat. Fun crack climb. I re-sent this, Pete tried and broke the good edge of the start hold, and we both climbed it with the new start hold which looks way more solid now. The new start improves the climb, hard to tell if it made it any harder, but climbs differently and the start move is now also jam which is nice (a weird semi finger-lock)

Repeat. Excellent climb. As hard as I remember; fairly convinced this is V4 (in comparison to almost anything except maybe Pauls Roof warped grades)

Done starting with left-hand on decentish hold in crack, right-hand jam below. One slightly powerful move to get up, then a series of jams to get feet up for the top. Feels similar grade-wise to the non-eliminate route. Actually quite nice climb, and doesn't feel too contrived for an eliminate (given the start holds, would be quite hard to climb back into the regular line)

Really nice climb. Couldn't do this when I was last here in Aug 2017 with Pete/Carl/etc, but done today after a couple of attempts once I remembered sequence. Definitely much harder than V2 - given the last 2 commented ticks on here, and it felt harder to me than most of the V4's I've done at Grampians recently, I'll bump it. Feels V4'y to me, but is quite shouldery which I'm weak at, so I'll err on the side of sandbagging, and nudge this to V3

A nice V0. Most trustworthy holds on this face also

This felt far more committing than I recall it from last time - rock is pretty friable, and crux was last move to the top, standing on almost nothing, popping from a not-great crimp. It's possible a hold has come of at about 3/4 height, as there is a clear patch of rock there. Nicer of the three slab lines here, just shame the rock quality is slightly sketchy

Felt harder than Unnamed 3 on the left of the slab, crux also at the top.

Great climbing, feels harder than a V2

Sketchy top out

Easy climb but a little tricky at the top...

Cool line, classic slab.

Nice warm up line.

Cool, classic slab with lovely little crimps. Committing last move!

Really cool line. Powerful for the grade.