Ascents in Carss Park having Beta

A return to the proving grounds to finish some unfinished business.

Awesome problem.

Despite the first few moves being great, I'd give this a rating of -1★ if I could, just for how bad the top is.

Very cool starting move. Was only able to flash because I had beta.

The starting crimps are not really at head level, even for a real shorty like Nanami Kato... Once I found the start though the problem was sick.

Just like Tarana, only thicker and crustier lichen.

Just like Tarana, only sandstone.

Started on huge jug so this was probably it. Leaving the rest to people with lats, mats snd carbonate of magnesium.

Wierd crusty mantles, the kind of thing I'm supposed to like :-(

A few interesting non-slab moves

All easy slightly gritty slabs

Nice one

Bit sketchy

Cool climb

Hard fall, need to come back with a third mat and probably 2 spotters

A perplexing and interesting problem to which to return

Old-school grade 8

Got in a fist, foot, hand and arm jam.

Problem good of itself and for some chalk and mat free adrenalin

2.5m of super easy

Was the intention here to haul right hand off spider slot then flail left for top sloper? Brendon Flanagan please explain.

Interesting movements & balance

"wide feet just below the level of the hands"? Couldn't fathom the description, let alone the necessary anatomical contortions.

Grade 18 at most

Dipodium orchid, dipodium action.

Gritty and not that nice

Good problem with interesting feet and weight transfer

Lots of lichen on this boulder and not the best topouts

Interesting feet

Took me a while to find right feet placement

Started from the higher of the two flakes on the right, with feet just below the level of the hands.

Press your body upwards, and use the slopers and/or nub to top out.

V2 proposed grade, with a sit start adding ~2 grades (needs grade consensus)

That one gave me hard time haha. Maybe 15-20 attempts my skins says

route flaking off. possible missing start holds making this route harder than V1

Tricky top out on sloper

Felt nails, couldn’t get the reach from the sloper for the life of me.

Hard not to dab on that rock 😅

Mmmmmm so bulgy and prominent

Love it

Spend half an hour balancing on your big toes trying to find some more feet. Who doesn't love a downward trending slab traverse?

Feeling bunched on this one.

Will retry when fresh.

Good stemming and palming practice due to the lack of good holds over the top.

A much spicier (ie slopier) topout than I remember. Probably more of a v1

Great

Good short Trad climb. Small cams in the middle and some big ones for the anchor at the top. Topout is a bit exciting.

Those slopers in the middle took a while to get. Fun