Ascents in The Bluff having Beta

Very good if you like slab. Shame is so short!

Just on the rings, rapped in and i assume this means we linked Les Tois into Baudin - fun climb with a definite crux off the small ledge

Quick rope solo to suss out potential routes for later. Only found one carrot anchor, at the end of a ring bolted

Insanely cool, short two moves, had to be done for how cool the position/rock is

Greatest little 14 ever, was pretty wet so couldnt get on anything else unfortunately

Super fun climb, plenty of sharp holds!

Seconded Sarah who made it look way easier than it felt. Seeping holds didn’t help

Stoked!!! Especially for my first trad route after a few months off the injury. Glorious jamming the whole way up with a slopey top out for a bitta spice at the end

Repeat, classic little number, needs some love

So so good! Thought I was on the original but no complaints as the finish was great. Defs an Adelaide classic

Slipped off at the crux. Nice delicate slab climbing

Tried to follow the line of bolts but moved slightly right of the 4th bolt. Nice friction slab

Nice warm up lead. Plenty of good pro including a nice thread about gateway up, but look out for the loose pocket at the top.

Another great good route at the bluff. Glad I wasn’t leading it!

Awesome climbing on sustained great hand jams. Can’t work out the final moves out of the crack to top out

Surprisingly bold move to the window then it’s over before you know it! Couldn’t climb here without ticking this route. Slung a cordelette around the base of dome’s pillar for the first piece of pro before threading a sling through the window and up.

Top-roped first and pre-clipped the first bolt for the delicate crux start but will load up the crack with pro for my next attempt for the red point. Fun technical slab

Gritty

Not a sport route, take small pro for the last 6+ metres. A couple more bolts and this would be a great climb.

Patchy pro, hollow flakes

I'd remove 'pleasure' from the name.

Very appropriate name ! Unsure how much longer the holds/ rock features will last on this climb - lucky it seems to receive little traffic.

Realised I’ve been off-route in the past when I’ve ‘led’ this, followed the crack for protection until I reach a dropped static with alpine butterflies to protect the upper slab, so top roped the arete (pro looks scarce so I’m unlikely to lead it). Really nice climbing

Be very suspicious of the rock quality at The Bluff - station your belayer off to one side if you can

harder than 14? compared to a v similar climb 'Naturalists in a High Tech World' at Car Crash gr. 16, this feels harder. Definitely lost more skin on this one! bring the leather sleeves and some paw-paw for afterwards...

A real treat - used cams and tricams If you don’t want to expose your 2nd to your pro then set up a belay up top, pull the rope thru, drop it back down to them so they can tie in (just might have to flick the rope if it gets caught up on the knobbly bits mid climb)

Such a nice route.

A nice way to end the year. One of the most committing climbs you will ever lead in the Adelaide region. No second chances above the skyhooks!

tbh I can't believe I'm still here! Death route whether your soloing it or leading it!

Variety plus - Flake, chimney, slab (crux)! I clipped a preplaced rope with alpine butterflies to protect the slab (recommended if this is your lead grade and granite isn't your usual!) to supplement a couple of rocks placed in opposition in the shallow ~45deg crack.

Top slab an absolute leg breaker if you fall...

Top rope soloed up crack between Gulls and Baudin DF. Good reconnoiter.

Awkward

Sweet

Suprisingly fun

Pre placed gear. Good fun

Hung knotted rope down chimney section to provide more pro - in hindsight it probably wasn't necessary, but the psychological benefit can't be underestimated!

Weighted the rope 3 times on the double black streak trying to get going. Granita (n) - "a coarse grained sorbet" - why then was I thinking of crumbly biscuits?

P1. No harder than Shaft P1 but would need to be slabbing well to lead it.

Wow!

Short little hand crack! A Pleasant outing with crack gloves.

Surely climbed before but seems unrecorded (can't work out if it's possible to record climbs as FRA instead of FA on TheCrag?). Fairly straight forward as you can palm down on the loose chock-stone half-way up, would almost be worth the effort to clear it out (along with the empty beer cans and broken bottles wedged behind)

With Michael seeing if his arm was indeed strained after trying Shaolin, with some kind but probably-unhelpful-for-a-slab-fall crashpad shuffling below by Max. Also climbed loop up the start of Rule Brittia and back down the start of this which was good