Ascents in Victoria by Wendy Eden

The first pitch of this route was filthy and loose which somewhat detracted from the rest of the route but it seemed ok overall in hindsight. The original finish seemed rather pointless and we took the direct. Nice corner in second pitch and DF.

The second pitch of this route is awesome. Slightly burly, old school funky crack. Sadly the first and last pitch are scrappy. Would be 2 stars without that. I might put an anchor above the good climbing.

more fun steep climbing, sad lack of gear.

At least we did the first pitch of Marmite ... On reviewing the description, maybe we did the DF. Maybe we did a new route. All 3 of us failed to work out what the "obvious direct finish" was. What we did was good climbing marred by sufficient dodgy rock to make it, um, exhilarating.

After Douglas tore out a shrub or 2, this was a nice clean line on good rock. Might be a little tricky for 13, but good climbing

This was going to be a mega classic straightening up a wandery old route. Well, it does go in a lovely straight line but sadly passes some exciting hollow rock. I didn't expect the cool arete finish - funky moves in a great position, gear might leave a little to be desired though.

Quite fun flared slippery jams to start. Lou tells me my perpsective is warped. A bit goey then easier but still ok climbing to top.

Climbing is quite good but it is disconcerting to see through the crack in the roof. Not sure how connected it is, but it didn't seem to be going anywhere.

The route wanders a lot, but has potential to be really quite good. Going back tomorrow to try a more direct version. And it's the same height as the other routes on the wall. Not sure where the enthusiastic 48m came from. Lou led as one pitch.

This route was kinda dissapointing. It's only hard in 2 places and has some grotty, iffy rock. Barely a 1 star route. The start would be really dangerous on lead - if you fell off the crux, you are going to crater into the white slabby corner or the ground. If you get through the crux, there's still no gear anyway. The top bit that the guide says is run out is at least safe.

This is actually a pretty good direct line, moss free, fun steep moves down low and a few more up high, although it eased disappointingly quickly at the top.

Adam the giant failed to mention that it is at least 22 for midgets. I might have to stop climbing with Adam, it's too disappointing to see him check my 5th piece of gear without leaving the ground and reach straight past the 2 desperate bits. There's also some dodgy rock, but it did survive all of us hauling on it.

I really wanted a control minus function to move everything a bit closer together. Moves are pretty cool, but a little like 27 for midgets. I didn't think the ending was as bad as Douglas did.