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	Grade	Route	Gear style	Crag	Quality	Climber	Date
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	25	★★ I'll Stick Around	Unknown 12m, 3	Mt Alexander	★★ Very Good	Alister Robertson	Sun 4th Sep 2005
The hordes have finally arrived, laying witness to a many a great KP route to be sent on this glorious day of discovery, and the birth of the well bolted slab
	14	Weapons Inspector	Unknown 8m, 2	The You Yangs	Average	jamief	Sun 25th Sep 2005
very easy after initial moves
	22	★ Kula Shaker	Unknown 10m, 2	Mt Alexander	★ Good	Alister Robertson	Sun 5th Jun 2005
the shakes are contageous, like malaria
	22	★ Kula Shaker	Unknown 10m, 2	Mt Alexander		Zach Azeez	Fri 31st Mar 2023
Incredibly sharp and sandbagged. Good times!
	21	★★ Squish Band	Unknown 22m	The You Yangs	★ Good	Tim Storey	2003
scary clip
	21	★★ Squish Band	Unknown 22m	The You Yangs	★★ Very Good	jono schmidt	Sun 6th Jun 2004
2/5/4 - just lovely!! looks like a tough slab climb but look out for the good crimps. a fairly commiting lead i think but neil had the balls for it. 6/6/4 - painful slow and nervous climbing which i blame on my indulgent activities the night before. each bolt plate took no less than three or four fumbles to place as i crimped to the rock with all my life. happy to have got this one outta the way.
	21	★★ Squish Band	Unknown 22m	The You Yangs	★★ Very Good	Alister Robertson	Mon 9th Aug 2004
Blew onsight when crystal fractured and i lost it at the first bolt. the traverse in the scoop is a little hairy, but the final run out isn't too bad.
	21	★★ Squish Band	Unknown 22m	The You Yangs	★ Good	Fil Kindblad	Sat 3rd Dec 2011
I've top roped this a couple of times, never quite got up the courage to lead it.
	21	★★ Squish Band	Unknown 22m	The You Yangs	★ Good	Andreas Aachen	Mon 21st Sep 2015
Good fun
	21	★★ Squish Band	Unknown 22m	The You Yangs	★★ Very Good	Fil Kindblad	Tue 31st May 2016
Bold and exciting.
	15	★★ Granite Tourismo	Unknown 24m	The You Yangs	★ Good	jamief	Sun 25th Sep 2005
Maybe 17 along initial crack
	3	Lemonade	Unknown 7m	Mt Alexander	Don't Bother	Andrea	Sat 30th Jul 2005
i think it was lemonade?
	17	Action Attraction	Unknown 15m	The You Yangs	Crap	brad overgaauw	Wed 12th Jan 2005
i kept pulling rock off
	21	★★ European Tour	Unknown 15m	The You Yangs	★★ Very Good	Alister Robertson	Tue 10th Aug 2004
Great face climbing. fell off the start a couple of times getting to the first bolt. very thin start, and great edging to steep finish.
	17	Lethal Dose	Unknown 11m	The You Yangs	Don't Bother	David Taylor	Sun 21st Nov 2004
quite loose!!
	16	This'll Do	Unknown 12m	The You Yangs	★ Good	Cam McKenzie	Sun 26th Jun 2005
With Anita
	17	Action Attraction	Unknown 15m	The You Yangs	★ Good	jamief	Fri 9th Dec 2005
a little crumbly
	14	★ The Crunge Traverse	Unknown 12m	The Cathedral Range	★★ Very Good	Alanna	Sat 13th Sep 2008
Fun traversing.
	12	★ Seamy Side of Life	Unknown 14m	The You Yangs	★ Good	DOT	Sun 10th Sep 2006
Onsite in approach shoes. Fun climbing with a brief grade 14 exit.
	15	★★ Mosquito	Unknown 17m	Mt Alexander	★ Good	Andrea	Sun 31st Jul 2005
scary jams
	12	★ Link Up	Unknown 16m	Mt Alexander	★ Good	Jared McClelland	Sun 17th May 2009
a bit of everything
	15	Pilón Numero Uno	Unknown 8m	Inner Melbourne	Average	James Hammond	Tue 13th Apr 2010
First Tick On this site... how lame lol.
	13	Sexploitation	Unknown 12m	The You Yangs	★ Good	DOT	Sun 10th Sep 2006
Onsite. Fun but probably missing some holds as the started seem far more technical than Stud.
	19	★ Tumbleweed Connection	Unknown 10m	The You Yangs	★ Good	jamief	Tue 13th Apr 2010
good, but v. short
	12	★ Link Up	Unknown 16m	Mt Alexander	★ Good	terry tynan	Sun 22nd Feb 2004
lots of fun
	13	Sexploitation	Unknown 12m	The You Yangs	Average	Jenna Rohr	Sun 10th Sep 2006
learning to smear properly
	18	★ Lust We Forget	Unknown 15m	The You Yangs	★★ Very Good	jamief	Sat 12th Aug 2006
balanced across rather than hand-traverse. this makes it very hard to protect!
	19	★★ Green Thumb	Unknown 20m	The Cathedral Range	★★ Very Good	Alanna	Sat 10th Feb 2007
Unusual angles, a bit pumpy. I would not mind doing this again.
	15	Stud	Unknown 14m	The You Yangs	Average	DOT	Sun 10th Sep 2006
Onsite. Brittle rock, not that exciting.
	17	Hypocrite	Unknown 13m	The You Yangs	Don't Bother	brad overgaauw	Wed 12th Jan 2005
i kept pulling rock off
	15	Tampa Tantrum	Unknown 8m	The You Yangs	Average	jamief	Sun 25th Sep 2005
very easy after initial moves
	18	★★ Climb A A Sting in the Tail	Unknown 7m	Mt Alexander	★★ Very Good	Alister Robertson	Sun 5th Jun 2005
bit of a workout
	23	★★ Dream Deceit	Unknown 10m	The You Yangs	Average	Andrea	Sun 24th Jul 2005
jst made me really angry..
	9	Eroticism	Unknown 11m	The You Yangs	Average	DOT	Sun 10th Sep 2006
Onsite in approach shoes. Fun, but some brittle rock.
	7	★ Viagre Falls	Unknown 10m	The You Yangs	★ Good	DOT	Sun 10th Sep 2006
Onsite.
	29	★★ The Arete (open project)	Unknown 10m	Mt Alexander	★★ Very Good	Alister Robertson	Sun 5th Jun 2005
just fell off to make kent feel better. more like hard 23
	18	★ Joker	Unknown 7m	The You Yangs	★ Good	Jamie Armitage	1998
climb directly up the face 2m left of at magoo, Thin climbing with natural pro in the last 2m
	21	★ In Lust We Trust	Unknown 13m	The You Yangs	★★ Very Good	jamief	Sat 12th Aug 2006
stuffed up the mantle on the first go. grat bouldery start
	12	★ Gigolo	Unknown 10m	The You Yangs	Average	DOT	Sun 10th Sep 2006
Onsite. Brittle rock that tends to crumble off under foot.
	10	Vallum	Unknown 12m	The You Yangs	★ Good	Richard West	Mon 20th Apr 2015
Can use off-width but just went with face holds
	5	★★ Bridge of Sighs	Unknown 60m	Hanging Rock	★★ Very Good	Neil Barr	1978
Glad I got there in time.
	28	★ Pain and Frequency - with Alister Robertson, Kent Paterson	Unknown 18m	The You Yangs	★★ Very Good	Douglas Hockly	Mon 14th Jun 2004
Thanks to Neil for the rebolting! I think this took me 7 days in the end. Clearly a sandbag at 28 ; ) (I did actually do about four other 28's in 2004, all in 2-4 days, but this one is an unusual style) Actually a very good route if you live in Melb and like crimping, aretes and slabbing.
	18	★ No Pedestrians	Unknown 10m	The You Yangs	★ Good	Fil Kindblad	Tue 31st May 2016
Good fun.
	23	★ Go the Hack	Unknown 10m	The You Yangs	★ Good	Vanessa Wills	Sat 18th Feb 2017
One bolt? 2nd route from left?
	17	Squash Up, Tony	Unknown 8m	The You Yangs	★ Good	Vanessa Wills	Sat 18th Feb 2017
If this was the left route up the groove
	9	Cockroach - with Ben Wright, Heather, Meily	Unknown 9m	Mt Alexander		Jim Kane	Sun 25th Jun 2006
Ben also led a direct finish to this - up chimney behind flake then awkwardly out of this by leaning back and pulling up
	12	Cicada - with Ben Wright, Heather, Meily	Unknown 11m	Mt Alexander		Jim Kane	Sun 25th Jun 2006
not much pro before the horizontal
	17	Edward Wormwood Direct Finish - with Ben Wright	Unknown 15m	Mt Alexander		Jim Kane	Sun 25th Jun 2006
probably variant 2 in the VCC guide finishing up More Kang. Used holds in the corner above the ledge
	12	★ Link Up	Unknown 16m	Mt Alexander	★ Good	Fhqwhgads	Sat 9th Sep 2017
Nice jams on the second half. If you can't jam think twice about leading this.
	15	Line of 79	Unknown 14m	Meredith	Average	Steew	Tue 7th Nov 2017
Great
	19	★ K.Y. Jelly	Unknown 16m	The Cathedral Range	★ Good	Michael Hallang	Sun 23rd Dec 2018
Crazy angled crack climb
	16	Rockin' Ron	Unknown 25m	Leigh River		Jim Kane	Sun 17th Feb 2019
TR - Petzel Basic
	13	Blackberry Nip	Unknown 25m	Leigh River		Jim Kane	Sun 17th Feb 2019
TR - Petzel Basic
	26	★ View to the West	Unknown 12m	The You Yangs	Average	Enrico Seemann	Thu 26th Dec 2019
Thin and bad feet.
	12	Body Bits - with myself	Unknown 8m	Mount Erica Rocks	★★ Very Good	Ivan S	Thu 26th Dec 2019
Just a nice good old slab. Great friction.
	18	★★ A Sting in the Tail	Unknown 7m	Mt Alexander	★★ Very Good	Zach Azeez	Mon 19th Apr 2021
Fun. Tricky at the top.
	18	Jade	Unknown 10m	Mount Erica Rocks		Evan Tyson	Wed 22nd Dec 2021
A fairly straightforward slab with a carrot to protect the crux. Bring a fixed hanger.
	18	Nude Fencing	Unknown 12m	Mount Erica Rocks		Evan Tyson	Wed 22nd Dec 2021
Fun jamming into an interesting traverse, finishing with a couple metres of thigh jamming off-width.
	10	Pelaton	Unknown 8m	The You Yangs	Average	Poppy	Fri 19th May 2023
Did a large combination of direct lines and traverses following the various dikes, runnels, cracks and steepnesses. All pretty average climbing and rock. Must have ticked these routes somewhere in amongst it all.
	15	Pilón Numero Uno	Unknown 8m	Inner Melbourne		John Capretta	Sun 26th Nov 2023
Fun little number. Bring slings for the anchor.
Trad
	20	FA ★★★ Urinal Wall Mega Traverse - with Rory, Lachlan Milne	Mixed trad 9	The You Yangs	★★★ Mega Classic	Dick Lodge	Sat 15th Jan 2022
Done in one long pitch, such a fun piece of climbing. Completely contrived and pointless, but a heap of fun. Finishes all the way left at the highest leftest point of the wall.
	23	★★ Red Dawn - with Blake Fuller	Mixed trad 18m, 7	Camels Hump	★★ Very Good	Daniel Borsi	Sat 9th Jan 2021
Didn't really follow the line - wasn't feeling super brave and the last two bolts on the arete felt a little close to the ground, so instead piked off up to Into Oblivion (?) after the 5th bolt. Still a nice and pumpy line, but might be avoiding the final crux? Will take a few big gulps and suss out the proper finish next time
	23	★★ Red Dawn - with alex	Mixed trad 18m, 7	Camels Hump	★★ Very Good	Lean Listerine	Sun 26th Feb 2023
got through to last two bolts on flash burn, clipping positions felt a little droppable, so ended up sitting. i didnt really hang around much and still got pumped asf. felt chill enough once i took a sit; from the ground will be a bit dicey, with the redpoint crux right where you will deck out if you fumble. Clipping positions were a little off in general, maybe this was bolted by a 6"9 +7 ape behemoth; or maybe I just couldnt figure the beta; as it was: me on my tiptoes, arms full span, fingernails scraping the biner, hitting the draw so it hopefully pendulums back into my outstretched fingers, praying to the moss gods for mercy, hearing the long dead tree below, calling for me to join him. tldr: got pumped, nice line, would recommend
	23	★★ Red Dawn - with Alex Casar	Mixed trad 18m, 7	Camels Hump	★★★ Classic	Melissa	Sat 10th Feb 2024
Pumpy climb
	17 16	★ Blind Justice	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★ Good	Adrian Hoel	Mon 1st Dec 2008
Hmmn, wandered onto this one minus the guide book. Run out and bad pro and generally slabby. Appropriately named but kind cool.
	17 16	★ Blind Justice - with C. Sia	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	Average	Constantine Dritsas	Sun 9th Dec 2012
A bit to mossy in sections, a little spaced out on gear in sections. An ok little adventure you could say.
	17 16	★ Blind Justice - with Chris	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★★ Very Good	Mike Poore	Sat 12th Oct 2013
Great fun though very run out at the start.
	17 16	★ Blind Justice - with Chris	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★★ Very Good	Mike Poore	Sat 12th Oct 2013
Great fun though very run out at the start.
	16	★ Blind Justice	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	Average	Molly	Mon 9th Dec 2013
exciting slab at the second bolt!
	16	★ Blind Justice	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	Average	Molly	Sun 15th Dec 2013
bold lead
	17 16	★ Blind Justice - with Megan H	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★★ Very Good	Lewis	2014
Climbed this in the typical wet fog of camels hump. I was terrified for the first 10m of slipping on the wet rock and moss with inadequate pro. Turns out it would probably be a good climb normally though...
	17 16	★ Blind Justice	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★★ Very Good	Chris Ferre	Tue 23rd Jun 2015
Definitely an easy 16.
	16	★ Blind Justice - with Phil Sidaway	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★ Good	Bernd Schiffer	Wed 4th Nov 2015
Didn't have plates for the BR, so took the left side of the start to reach the slab. Misunderstood the guide, clipped the bolt and then went back under the first overhang. Made it very tricky with the rope. Worked out though. Despite that, was a great long climb.
	16	★ Blind Justice	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	Average	Tom Hodges	Tue 1st Nov 2016
The hard bit is way to short
	19	★ The Downward Spiral Into Oblivion	Mixed trad 24m, 5	Camels Hump	★ Good	Andreas Aachen	Sat 17th Dec 2016
Ended up clipping the forth draw of DS traversed left, clipped the 3rd of IO and the went back and unclipped the previous one....
	16	★ Blind Justice - with Jo B	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★★ Very Good	Porscia Lam	Sun 15th Jan 2017
Climbing isnt too hard but the pro is sketchy. First bolt is a carrot quite high up. There is also a ring bolt to protect the bouldery crux to pull through small roof. Other than those, I used a micro, a handful of small cams.
	16	★ Blind Justice	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★★ Very Good	Dave Scarlett	Mon 12th Mar 2018
Nice and long, with a slabby, bolt-protected crux passing the obvious roof. The only runout section is the grade 15 start shared with Blind Sox, after that there's plenty of pro.
	16	★ Blind Justice - with Cameron Hickling	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★ Good	Timmy Wong	Sat 17th Mar 2018
Deserves the R rating
	16	★ Blind Justice	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★★ Very Good	@dalai	Sun 14th Oct 2018
Enjoyable ramble. Given how mossy the cruisy top half is, I think most must traverse right to the anchor on State of Shock. Is worthwhile continuing to the top even if it eases considerably.
	16	★ Blind Justice - with Simon	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★★ Very Good	Steve Gretton	Mon 3rd Dec 2018
Great climbing on the aretes, really nice now with the new bolts.
	16	★ Blind Justice	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★★ Very Good	Richard West	Sun 9th Dec 2018
Much better with shiny new bolts. Fun movement
	16	★ Blind Justice - with Josh Ring	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★★ Very Good	Poppy	Fri 1st Feb 2019
Did the start for blind sox so can't claim the OS. Actually a delightful climb and well protected.
	19	★ The Downward Spiral Into Oblivion - with Benham, Simon	Mixed trad 24m, 5	Camels Hump	★ Good	Steve Gretton	Wed 8th Jan 2020
Really nice climbing, with a nice balancy traverse thrown in for good measure.
	16	★ Blind Justice - with Bryce Kelly	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★ Good	Daniel White	Sun 9th Feb 2020
The Trad section was much longer than I had initially anticipated. There's a bunch of good features to sling so some alpine draws go a long way.
	16	★ Blind Justice - with Bryce Kelly	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★ Good	Daniel White	Sun 9th Feb 2020
Ran another lap to simplify cleaning after Bryce lead. Also did a silly traverse way off route to recover a dropped alpine draw from my first ascent.
	16	★ Blind Justice - with Adele Westgård	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump		Julius	Sun 1st Mar 2020
Accidently turned it into a 2 pitch climb, oh well aha
	16	★ Blind Justice	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★★ Very Good	Poppy	Tue 29th Dec 2020
Note to self: don't forget it finishes up high and takes gear.
	16	★ Blind Justice - with Blake Fuller	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★★ Very Good	Daniel Borsi	Sat 9th Jan 2021
Surprisingly nice 2nd half
	16	★ Blind Justice - with Erika Osawa	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★ Good	Chris Duffield	Thu 4th Feb 2021
Fun easy climbing, with only the crux over rooflet at the grade.
	16	★ Blind Justice	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★ Good	Zach Azeez	Mon 6th Dec 2021
Enjoyable. Def need some wires to compliment the bolts.
	16	★ Blind Justice	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump		Chris	Sat 18th Dec 2021
Skipped the anchor and belayed from the next ledge up for an easy walk out.
	16	★ Blind Justice - with ThorAss	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★ Good	Robert Lord	Tue 25th Jan 2022
Nice small technical bit for the crux; the 'funky move'.
	16	★ Blind Justice - with Robert Lord	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★ Good	ThorAss	Mon 7th Mar 2022
Stick-clipped first bolt as lower section was damp and desperate. Also did the route properly as the first time I missed the belay and started heading up the final pitch of One Hump or Two.
	16	★ Blind Justice	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★ Good	enji	Sun 9th Oct 2022
Whoopsy. Went up over the overhang and to the left, big runout for me with only a single jesus-wire protecting me. Don't make my mistake and keep your eyes on the anchors to the right, not the left! Fun climb.
	16	★ Blind Justice - with Brian Cruikshank	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★★ Very Good	ThorAss	Thu 20th Oct 2022
Always a good repeat. Walked off the top and did a second route up the lhs of the Omega Block.
	16	★ Blind Justice - with Samaneh	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★ Good	ThorAss	Sat 10th Dec 2022
Practicing Single Pitch Guiding for next week's assessment at Arapiles.
	16	★ Blind Justice - with larry and carl	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★★ Very Good	Slackaction	Thu 2nd Feb 2023
Had no guide book or phone and didn’t know what this route was, but liked the look of it, saw the bolts and didn’t realise it was a mixed route. Climbed past the bolts then went up and around the arete to the left, realised it must be mixed but continued looking for the anchor, (climbed way past it) then down-climbed to lower off the top bolt. Had some very nice moves.
	16	★ Blind Justice - with larry	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★★ Very Good	Slackaction	Thu 30th Mar 2023
Re-do with gear
	16	★ Blind Justice - with abe keane	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	★ Good	Matt Wilson	Sat 1st Apr 2023
difficult when wet
	16 ~15	★ Blind Justice	Mixed trad 40m, 5	Camels Hump	Average	Riley Smith	Sat 21st Oct 2023
A move or two of interest, pretty worthless otherwise