Ascents in South Australia as Hang dog

amazing line. First time I went clean from the halfway rest to the end, but still need to dial the first half and link it all. One day!

Too pumped again to send. Fell getting the right slot after the 4th bolt

Going for a red point. Too pumped to make the move above the final undercling.

working on it, still lots of rests...

More unsending. Jks this was the my warm up for unsending Anzac

Always such a pleasure to climb.

Unsending day

Nah very tired and can never remember beta until after the perma

This is so good — first time I get that sequence after the first draw, avoiding the dead point move. Slab and roof went better this time, but all with lots of rests on the draws...

Turns out I had no beans left. Did the first crux okay and then felt too pumped to clip the first long sling and had sit.

Decided to continue to try top and took a good fall getting into the first rest and then took another rest before doing the slab into the roof.

At least managed the roof sequence to the top.

Never got the tick on this and now I remember why. Felt like a classic Summit over-chalked slopey mess of a route. Pumped out before going over the top. Spent too long down low searching for something good.

Another burn and marginal progress?

Still couldnt get through the first crux clean from the ground but again did it first try after a hang.

Made better progress through the next sequence matching the good U shaped undercling to help get my moves in the right order. Dropped moving up into the pinch. Clean to the top again after that.

(Two hangs - time to cut down how long I rest on them and or try take one hang out..... or both?)

Got to the TR chains and rested well before trying the first crux. Got the RH but couldnt get my feet up.

Pulled back on after a good hang and got the move first try and even made some progress getting the right kneebar and a hand sequence to move into next crux before the hand jam.

Took another hang and then blasted to the top. The jam sequence goes quite well now but I suspect when doing this clean it will feel a lot more pumpy.

Holy shit this felt hard. So glad Justin led this and I had the opportunity to second, but I can't imagine getting good enough to lead it. Did all moves clean, but needed a rest after the traverse and before the techy crux on the slab. Pretty runout and dangerous if you're not super solid. There are some serious no fall sections on this.

what an amazing route, the moves are awesome and the gear is adequate. but the climbing is hard for 23 in my opinion

couldn't make the last move to the anchor

Feels wrong to call this a send. Got all the way to the chains but whimped out clipping them or doing a final move by grabbing the chains. Nice to get back on this after a so long.

Climbed it properly in the dark. A loose block came off near a big pinch after the stem. A jug at the top of graffiti wall also came off along with tonnes of little chips along the way.

Definitely a little harder today in the dark and with so many holds coming off.

This is sensational. I can imagine trying to lead it in the future, but another few attempts on TR would be needed before I was game enough to try it! Probably a PP after that before considering a RP... serious stuff. Was nice to use a finger lock at some point there (although only possible after cleaning Justin's cam from the crack, so probably can't use that in the lead, haha)

very cool climb took me a while to figure out the crux, need to work on my crimps a bit, also I don't think worn-out shoes help for edging. but oh well, still a fun climb

All pitches onsighted by the leaders, but only Justin did the crux clean, and Will and I had sits on 2nd. That's a really hard crux for 21 BTW! Cool classy route.

Clean to the top of Trade Route and also the next bolt. So pumped.

Dropped the big move up maybe once or twice. Made the jam sequence much quicker but also did drop the move to the undercling once. Also need to figure out how I’m going to link the two cruxes as bumping along the underclings feels so hard

Played around with a kneebar on Trade Route on the way up. It’s decent for a rest but not sure it works for me to do the crux of that.

Pushed on and up into the first crux of camel. Went up from the wrong undercling. Got the move first try after that.

I also managed to get a better kneebar out right before going into the sequence into the hand jam. Was able to get the hand jam easy enough today but moving up to the pinch I kept dropping. Just need to hand jam 100% harder than what I was jamming.

Tried it again to see if I could do the moves clean. Still felt sustained for me but only one hang this time

This felt pretty hard as well but not as hard as RO. Sustained power crimping. All the moves went free. Took me a moment to recall some of the beta.

Such a fun final last move.

Tried to see if I could still do this. Turns out it’s still quite a hard move. Got the slot but felt nearly impossible to bring the feet up. I remembered that there was a left hand push to help but it didn’t seem to help today.

two unsending laps, but hard for me after having fought with little trundle street today!

Have to work out some more beta for the crux pretty bunched what others do

My proudest hang dog to date. Stoked to get to the top of this!!

Was pretty cooked after my last burn though and had to rest on the Trade Route part too.

Managed the first cruxy move of Camel into my RH gaston on my 2nd attempt this burn. Felt on my limit.

Also managed the next cruxy bit with the marginal kneebar in a few goes. Noticed that swapping my hand in the UC will be really hard when trying to link these sections too.

Once I got the large undercling after the jam the climbing backed off enough and I even found a bit of a no hands rest. Little did I know the chains were basically right there.

Time to start working and dialing it in. Feels like it'll be a crazy hard one to link.

Literally worse that Cheshire Cat

Proud to have dogged this classic to the top finally. I had watched so many people going through that epic roof, it was aswesome to get through the moves myself for the first time. Feels hard, so much to work on, but I can finally start trying

How many times can a man fall from the same spot — keep an eye on this space and I'll let you know!

For next time though: Andrew & Trang's mixed foot sequence through the crux, Mike's sick right drop knee at the top and Akira's gastone. Teamwork might put this together