Ascents in Tasmania

One of those climbs where you have a go cos the rope is there and proceed to think WTF how is this featureless shit possible. Wonder if it has had a second accent, doubt it.

First try of alpine climbing! What an epic/challenging day! Brittle rock, lots of soloing, but so grateful to have done it. 7hours to get 3/4 of the way along, 3 to get back to Barron pass via a 70m rapp of the needle

got a bit lost on the rap down and made an ammeter mistake leaving our ropes unable to be pulled. thankfully we could climb out on the bits of tail remaining. missed the first 3-4 pitches but had a great time on everything else and only had to take two rests and pull on one draw

A serious undertaking. We went up the night before to stash gear and locate abseil points using gps cords on thesarvo. Came back the next day but couldn’t thrown the rope down due to high winds….literally when we threw the rope over it flew up in the air. So stashed the rest of the gear and then came back the THIRD day! We fixed the first two raps as suggested. Third rap to deanos ledge is fine but has a bit of a traverse in it. The rap Off deanos ledge requires the first person to clip in a directional, and the second person to take it out. The fourth rap takes you to three hangers with a bull ring and they are all connected by tat (unless we got the wrong anchors). Here our ropes got stuck and we couldn’t pull them. We climbed up two pitches using the end of one of our doubles, untangled at deanos ledge then climbed out from there. We basically only climbed half the route and it took 7.5 hours with a lunch break. The pitches are solid at the grade and rock quality is suspect. Serious adventure climbing. Make sure you know your rope skills and are confident making decisions if things go wrong.

Rest at final bolt before anchors. Amazing place to be.

Lead the easy first pitch with minimal pro. Then waited at the base for the other party to finish for ages. Got very cold as the winds built up and eventually decided to bail and very glad we did.

Amazing, but I didn’t get it clean. Extreme wind added to the exposure! Need more pole dancing classes. Was really late when we finally got there. Just happy to not get benighted

Onsight!! Oh no sorry i mean sight! :o sorry for the confusion, we just saw it from the west side of the wedding cake. The most enjoyable bail ever. A 28hr adventure with 3 mateys in an insane landscape. Nap at carpark followed by one of the best day hikes there is. PB and rang for dinner to calorie load the night before at seal lookout. 3 tablespoons of PB is too much. Watch out PBrang cult of UQMC.. know your limits. Stunning sunset over the pillars before 5 hrs of shuteye. We squished into the tent and slept like sardines before ruth sprang out of the tent at 415 to put water on the boil. Ate in sleepingbags. A bold path taken on the way down. Well.. we took the wrong turn. Twice. A shit 18 followed by a great airy 18 to the wedding cake. Great southern land was on the mental radio today. I dont make these decisions. Got shutdown by the stegosaurus traverse.. couldnt make the rope not stick to rock and ended up turning the team around via a movie-like dialogue with jarred over walkie talkie. Tom and I had a sunburnt nap at the beginning of the wedding cake reascent. Following this was a nice lunch up top, some airy raps and a canyon ascent out that was the worst (and for jarred also somehow the best) part of the day, nonetheless, adding some flavour to a buffet of ramblings that was our cape raoul trip. Sundown at the shippies lookout and a delirious drive back to fortie bay where we were greeted by the rest of the gang. A truly unforgettable adventure. Sorry if you came here to read about pole dancer. I dont have a lot to say about that

Almost, perhaps not warm up on a 24 next time. Amazing climbing.

Belayed Paul on this for a couple of days so I jumped on to have a go. Powerful moves on 'Taipan' style slopers up to a good rest before the angle kicks back. Steep climbing on mostly good holds up to the start of the off-width. Bailed from the last bolt as my shoulder was feeling sore. Would be keen to try this when feeling fresh and see how it would come together.

Made it to to the 3rd bolt (incl. the cock-around trad start) on Onsight, then dogfest to the 2nd last bolt on the route. Couldn't stick the moves to the last bolt and couldn't pull/cheat past them to investigate the upper crux sequence. Eventually got tired of whipping trying to figure it out, and bailed. Probably better to climb Long Knife and rap-inspect this climb, as despite being utterly spectacular to behold (and feat. some rad climbing) it's rather dirty (yellow moss) and not dog-able.

Gave it a fair whirl but couldn't last the top crux moves. Felt tricky for the grade. Great climb & position.

Had to bail around 2-3 bolts from the top. Fantastic climbing till then. Didn't have enough left in my fingers to clip on the arete from a tricky position with bad feet and slopers! Took a few whippers which was fun. Will get this next time and maybe could have stuck some gear in to help me dog up to clip. Next time will be more careful to pull the rope too so I don't get the end wet!

Yikes, fucking stunning

had a crack on TR while Cam was geeing up for it. Think I got to 2/3 height where the serious business starts. Happy with that

What is this bullshit, hardest 22 ever. Took a very large whip at the Crux and couldn't get past it, got absolutely flogged

Nailed the first pitch and fell apart at the crux - thank god for stronger people at the crag to rescue your gear

Led on pre-placed gears. Couldn’t figure out my beta for the top crux. Took some falls and came down feeling destroyed.

Climbed to 2nd bolt after the crack before my belayer had to leave. Left my gear on it so I can have another look tomorrow. Probably solid trad 25 to the 1st bolt after the crack, then it gets thin, fingery and powerful. The rack listed in the ClimbTas guide might be great if youre dogging the gear in, but is fucking stupid if youre trying to push yourself on the onsight burn (bring cams 0.3-3 if you want to try onsight, and swap for wires on loweroff... the wires recommended are hard to place!

Didnt get past the 25 crack start. Way too tired. Super cool movements.

Went to warm up on the candlestick but the swim looked a bit deadly so we jumped on the tote instead. Struggled after the bolts ran out about 2/3 height on the first pitch. By that stage Pete was very wet and cold so we aborted!

Forgot the nuts (just had a single set of cams), rapped to the bottom, looked at the climb, decided I didn't want to climb without nuts and chickened out.

Jugged back up, and watched a couple climb it (I have photos, pm me if you climbed it on the 21st Jan 2018, and want them)

Don't think this ones meant to be done as DWS...

had a run at the lower half on tr, might add this to the list. super cool slab moves on amazing white granite. wonder what tricks the crux is going to bring

Clean to the crux and then I started leaking blood from my finger all over the wall and could not use the imaginary holds with bloody hands. Super keen to have another crack at this

First attempt at doing the Tote, not a good day for it as it turned out to be drizzling, but it really got bad when the swell got big and absolutely slammed me on the belay. Waves crashing above my head, soaking every part of me, 1/3 of the pitch, and all of my gear, including the rope, made us wisely reconsider our choice for the day.. we bailed, swung back across and jumared out to try our luck on a better day. Great adventure experience but I wouldn't do it again in swell over about 1m I think.

Nails !! Exactly what you would expect from a 27 slab

Conditions were worse than the last time I tried this and I couldn't even get to the crux.

This climb is spectacular! So steep and the belay stance is epic. Traverse moves around the arete on slopers is one of the best sequences of climbing I've done. Really keen to try this when the low crux isn't a waterfall. Might have a chance at pulling the moves then.

Feels good to 4th bolt lol. Everything becomes impossible after that

Had a play on top rope after Isaac cruised the lead. I can see how it goes, but the shoulder didn't like the gaston at the crux.

Had a play on top rope again. Too tired to make that bouldery crux move.

Fingers not strong enough for that start. Looks pretty easy from a couple of holds higher.

Just a fondle

Feels close, just 15cm to go

Found some new terrible feet and mingin crimps. Feels very doable

Awesome line, good fun, onsight attempt, got all the moves up to death row and lowered

Sick short person beta.

Still can't work out the one move between me and glory...

Damn hard. But all quality. Will be back for this one.

bailed after a foot slip after the crux, ill come back for a redpoint