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| Grade | Route | Gear style | Crag | Quality | Climber | Date | |||
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| 23 |
★★ Pumping Velvet
| 9m, 2 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★★ Classic |  | Tue 7th Jan 2014 | |||
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so close
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| 21 |
★ Art for Art's Sake
| 15m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Tue 7th Jan 2014 | |||
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so fucked to much climbing for one day
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| 15 |
★ Stainless Sproutings
| 15m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock |  | Sat 16th Mar 2024 | ||||
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Sock n Birk assent
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| 18 |
★ Zombie Fodder
| 17m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | Crap | | Thu 21st Mar 2024 | |||
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Sooo bad, so much moss. Might be in contention for the worst climb I've done
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| 18 |
★ Nanny State
| 20m, 6 | Lyttelton Rock |  | Sun 24th Dec 2023 | ||||
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Could only find 4 bolts. Assume the top half follows the trad line? Made more sense to clip 4th bolt on Wiki and finish up that.
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| 23 |
★★ Pumping Velvet
| 9m, 2 | Lyttelton Rock |  | Tue 13th Apr 2010 | ||||
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fingery test piece, non stop crimping
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| 23 Hard |
★★ Pumping Velvet
— 2 attempts
| 9m, 2 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good |  | Fri 16th Feb 2024 | |||
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Second go. Tricky to read on the onsight, pretty chill when you know where the holds are
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| 20 19/20 |
★ Out On A Limb
| 18m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good |  | Thu 1st Nov 2007 | |||
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ok
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| 27 |
★★★ Gone Bimbo
| 12m, 7 | Lyttelton Rock |  | Tue 7th Feb 2023 | ||||
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2nd shot… must be soft haha
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| 24 |
★★ Red Wall
| 15m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good |  | Mon 18th Jan 2021 | |||
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Super cool crux sequence between 3rd and 4th bolts. Perfect bolting. #2ndGo
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| 19 19/20 |
★ Out On A Limb
| 18m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | Average | | Mon 18th Jan 2021 | |||
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Unpleasantly polished and unnecessarily runout.
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| 23 |
★ Red Herring
| 15m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Tue 19th Jan 2021 | |||
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Grade is consistent with route to the right. #2ndGo
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| 19 |
Dumping Velvet
| 14m, 2 | Lyttelton Rock | Don't Bother | | Tue 19th Jan 2021 | |||
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No gear so it’s an 8-meter runout to the anchor. Not soft for the grade either. Chickened out and chose the moderate fall over the potential for a very serious whipper.
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| 21 |
Velvet Prescribed
| 14m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | Don't Bother | | Tue 19th Jan 2021 | |||
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Dirty and hard for the grade.
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| 23 |
★★ Retrobolitix
— 3 attempts
- with
Richard Flinn
| 20m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Sun 19th Feb 2023 | |||
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Felt quite hard for the grade, but good fun. #3rdGo
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| 19 |
★ Carbon Neutral
- with
Richard Flinn
| 20m, 7 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Sun 19th Feb 2023 | |||
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Repeat
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| 23 |
Frank's In A Frenzy
— 2 attempts
- with
Richard Flinn
| 10m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | Average | | Sun 19th Mar 2023 | |||
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Cleaning the gear.
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| 22 Hard |
★★ Colonel Malone
— 2 attempts
| 18m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★★ Classic | | Wed 31st Jan 2024 | |||
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A worthy opponent, in my current form. Hopefully she’ll go next time.
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| 23 |
★★ Salome Maloney
| 16m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | | Sun 4th Feb 2024 | ||||
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Bailed on Disillusions
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| 17 17/18 |
★ The Promised Land
| 16m, 1 | Lyttelton Rock |  | Thu 21st Jan 2021 | ||||
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Got scared/pumped trying to get gear in above bolt, so retreated to the corner to the right.
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| 17 |
★ Wiki Leaks
| 20m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | | Sun 12th Sep 2021 | ||||
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Corner is awkward
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| 19 Hard |
★ Dream of White Elephants
| 22m, 6 | Lyttelton Rock | | Sun 12th Sep 2021 | ||||
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I don't know why this is given 19, shown as 21 on climbnz. Grade 20 would be reasonable IMO
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| 20 |
★ A Futile Campaign
| 24m, 7 | Lyttelton Rock | | Sun 12th Sep 2021 | ||||
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Confusing trying to work out which route is which, with differences between climbnz and Tony's guide. Felt like 21 to me.
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| 21 |
Easy Action
| 20m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | | Thu 25th Nov 2021 | ||||
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Tricky at the start. Trad section is about grade 17 or 18
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| 21 |
★★ Buddies
| 20m, 8 | Lyttelton Rock | | Sat 22nd Jan 2022 | ||||
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Fell at the top crux
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| 19 |
★ Dream of White Elephants
| 22m, 6 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Sat 11th Jun 2022 | |||
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Hard with very cold fingers!
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| 23 |
★ Rock Shock
| 18m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | | Sat 11th Jun 2022 | ||||
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Seems doable. Quite pumpy. I wasn't sure which corner to take at the top
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| 22 ~23 |
★★★ Victim Of Ravishment
| 23m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | | Tue 1st Nov 2022 | ||||
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A bit of a pathetic attempt on top rope. Man this is pumpy and sustained, felt more like 23 to me, as per Tony Burnells guide.
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| 21 Easy |
★★ Buddies
| 20m, 8 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Tue 1st Nov 2022 | |||
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Stoked to get this one clean finally.
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| 17 |
★ Wiki Leaks
| 20m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | | Tue 1st Nov 2022 | ||||
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The bottom was as awkward as ever this time.
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| 23 Easy |
★ Rock Shock
| 18m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Mon 28th Nov 2022 | |||
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I think it'll go next time...
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| 23 Hard |
★★ Salome Maloney
— 2 attempts
| 16m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Mon 28th Nov 2022 | |||
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Super sustained from bottom to top, with a crimpy powerful crux near the top with poor feet. This one feel feels a long way off for me.
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| 19 |
★ Carbon Neutral
| 20m, 7 | Lyttelton Rock | | Sun 11th Dec 2022 | ||||
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Warm up
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| 21 Hard |
★ Art for Art's Sake
| 15m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Sun 11th Dec 2022 | |||
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Good moves but chossy rock. Pulled at hold off, fell and flipped upside down just after clipping the 3rd bolt. Then just went bolt to bolt. Took a good fall pulling the slopey lip while level with the last bolt. Tricky.
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| 21 Hard |
★ Art for Art's Sake
| 15m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Sun 11th Dec 2022 | |||
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Another attempt on top rope, got too pumped near the top of the overhang.
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| 23 Easy |
★ Rock Shock
— 2 attempts
| 18m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Sun 11th Dec 2022 | |||
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First attempt came off once at the crux then got the rest clean. Second attempt got through the crux clean and fell off on the slopers at the last bolt. So close! Heartbreaking.
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| 19 |
★ A Sport Route
| 22m, 6 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Wed 21st Dec 2022 | |||
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Warm up. As awkward as ever
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| 19 Hard |
★ Dream of White Elephants
| 22m, 6 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Wed 21st Dec 2022 | |||
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Warm up
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| 23 Easy |
★ Rock Shock
| 18m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Wed 21st Dec 2022 | |||
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Got it
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| 19/20 ~20 |
★ Out On A Limb
| 18m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | | Thu 26th Jan 2023 | ||||
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Fun climb now it's got more bolts! Got flash pumped, a tricky warm up
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| 19 |
★ Carbon Neutral
| 20m, 7 | Lyttelton Rock | | Thu 26th Jan 2023 | ||||
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Was not on form today. The most desperate I've ever climbed this!
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| 22 Hard |
★★★ Bodies
| 23m, 7 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★★ Classic | | Thu 26th Jan 2023 | |||
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Sustained as! A total flail.
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| 19 Hard |
★ Susie's Slab
— 2 attempts
| 9m, 1 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Sat 4th Feb 2023 | |||
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Awesome moves, so delicate. Could do with another bolt though haha
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| 19 |
★ An Alpinist Answers
| 16m, 2 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Sat 4th Feb 2023 | |||
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I'm pretty sure I've done this years ago, but it felt like an onsight...
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| 19 |
★ Restless
| 16m, 2 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Sat 4th Feb 2023 | |||
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A bit of a faff getting to the bottom. Nice moves, had a take at the second bolt having trouble committing to the top
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| 24 |
★ Restless Direct
| 16m, 3 | Lyttelton Rock | | Sat 4th Feb 2023 | ||||
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Damn hard moves!
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| 20 |
★ Minimal Disturbance
| 23m, 6 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Tue 21st Feb 2023 | |||
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Fun moves
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| 17 |
★ Wiki Leaks
| 20m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | | Tue 21st Feb 2023 | ||||
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Managed to find a slightly less awkward way to do the start this time
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| 21 |
★★ Leaning Wall
| 20m, 7 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Tue 21st Feb 2023 | |||
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Felt good to climb this clean again.
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| 18 |
★ Funacation
| 22m, 7 | Lyttelton Rock | | Wed 20th Dec 2023 | ||||
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Awkward
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| 24 |
★★ Jug Jockey
| 12m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★★ Classic | | Wed 20th Dec 2023 | |||
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Cool steep climbing with some big moves. Feels very far away for me
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| 21 Hard |
★ Art for Art's Sake
| 15m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Wed 20th Dec 2023 | |||
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Didn't get the slopey top section
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| 22 ~23 |
★★★ Victim Of Ravishment
| 23m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★★ Classic | | Thu 21st Dec 2023 | |||
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Had a good flail. Sustained as.
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| 21 Easy |
★★ Buddies
| 20m, 8 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Thu 21st Dec 2023 | |||
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A bit stiff for a warm up
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| 24 |
★★ Jug Jockey
| 12m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★★ Classic | | Thu 21st Dec 2023 | |||
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Flailing
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| 22 Hard |
★★ Colonel Malone
| 18m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★★ Classic | | Wed 31st Jan 2024 | |||
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Made it to the last moves clean. Hard move to a pinch on the left at the very top for me
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| 21 |
★ Diablo
| 24m, 9 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Wed 31st Jan 2024 | |||
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Draw rescue
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| 17/18 |
★ Bush Tucker
| 10m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | Average | | Tue 13th Feb 2024 | |||
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Might clean up but a lot of loose stuff at the moment
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| 19 |
★ Hex Arête
| 12m | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Thu 29th Feb 2024 | |||
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A nice line, with chimney and arete. Glad it was bolted.
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| 20 |
★★ Afghan Bandit
| 13m | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Thu 29th Feb 2024 | |||
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Nice, with a tricky crux
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| 25 |
★★ Layer Cake
| 12m, 6 | Lyttelton Rock | | Thu 29th Feb 2024 | ||||
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Brutal. Kept falling off and hanging in space 😆
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| 21 Hard |
★ Art for Art's Sake
| 15m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Thu 29th Feb 2024 | |||
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Grabbed the last draw to clip, in a moment of weakness
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| 22 Hard |
★★ Colonel Malone
| 18m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★★ Classic | | Thu 29th Feb 2024 | |||
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Felt harder than last time!
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| 22 |
★★★ The Active Ingredient
| 23m, 6 | Lyttelton Rock |  | Mon 1st Oct 2001 | ||||
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with James Miller
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| 25 |
★★★ Rage Sur La Plage
| 20m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | | Mon 1st Oct 2001 | ||||
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with James Miller
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| 25 26 |
★★ Fillet of Arnold
| 19m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | | Mon 1st Oct 2001 | ||||
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with James Miller
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| 22 |
★★★ Victim Of Ravishment
| 23m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | | Mon 1st Oct 2001 | ||||
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with James Miller
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| 22 |
★★★ Citizen Kane
| 19m, 1 | Lyttelton Rock | | Mon 1st Oct 2001 | ||||
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with James Miller
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| 22 |
★★ Bombs Away
| 18m, 3 | Lyttelton Rock | | Mon 1st Oct 2001 | ||||
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with James Miller
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| 21 |
★★ Scratching Julius
| 18m | Lyttelton Rock | | Mon 1st Oct 2001 | ||||
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with James Miller
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| 17/18 ~16 |
★ Bush Tucker
- with
siâny, and the gang
| 10m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good |  | Sat 17th Feb 2024 | |||
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Super chill, some cool moves, like the inclusion of the crack, still shedding it’s skin
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★ Stainless Sproutings
- with
siâny, the gang
| 15m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | Average | | Sat 17th Feb 2024 | |||
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Nothing to write home about
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| 22 Hard |
★★ Colonel Malone
- with
siâny, the gang
| 18m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Sat 17th Feb 2024 | |||
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One fall right at the last moves on onsight attempt. Great climbing
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| 22 ~22 |
★ Bush Telegraph
— 3 attempts
- with
siâny, the gang
| 10m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Sat 17th Feb 2024 | |||
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Short but sustained, on the hard end of 22 in my opinion
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| 18 |
★ Funacation
- with
siâny, the gang
| 22m, 7 | Lyttelton Rock | | Sat 17th Feb 2024 | ||||
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Link up with Wikileaks post crux for a fun ramble
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| 21 |
Easy Action
— 2 attempts
- with
Jemima
| 20m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Tue 20th Feb 2024 | |||
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Intitially thought this was the 18, as I thought the 18 was the 17, took a tasty whip onto the second bolt sticking too far right on onsite, then top roped it and pulled straight through, gets really fun once in the trad realm, feel compelled to come back and lead it, but we’ll see
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| 17 ~18 |
★ Wiki Leaks
- with
Jemima
| 20m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | Average | | Tue 20th Feb 2024 | |||
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Really awkward stiff start with high bolt, then mellow to the top, forgot to grab my draws off Jem so skipped the top 2 bolts so I had anchor draws.
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| 18 |
★ Nanny State
- with
Jemima
| 20m, 6 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Tue 20th Feb 2024 | |||
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Thought this was wiki leaks and chose as a warm up, real awkward and had frozen hands, took a whip on first bolt after foot slip, then got lowered and did it fine 2nd go.
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| 19/20 |
★ Out On A Limb
- with
Diego
| 18m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | | Wed 21st Feb 2024 | ||||
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Warm up
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| 21 |
★★ Leaning Wall
- with
Gem
| 20m, 7 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Wed 21st Feb 2024 | |||
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Committing and fun!!
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| 19 Easy |
★ Carbon Neutral
- with
Diego
| 20m, 7 | Lyttelton Rock | | Wed 21st Feb 2024 | ||||
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Super manky start
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| 20 |
★★ Disillusions of Grandeur
- with
Gem
| 18m, 7 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Wed 21st Feb 2024 | |||
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Super fun! some heavily glued holds out of the cave
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| 19 |
★ Dream of White Elephants
- with
leo, Diego
| 22m, 6 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Wed 6th Mar 2024 | |||
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Cool climbing, nice warm up. Remembered how to climb in the second half
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| 22 Hard |
★★ Colonel Malone
— 2 attempts
- with
leo, Diego
| 18m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Wed 6th Mar 2024 | |||
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Becoming a proper project . reckon it’ll go next time, I forgot all the beta
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| 19 |
★ Carbon Neutral (Nameless But Nice)
| 20m, 7 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good |  | Fri 9th Nov 2018 | |||
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I think its called "carbon neutral". Hard boulder start to the ledge for a 19.
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| 18 |
★ Nanny State
- with
Miles Mason Winther
| 20m, 6 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good |  | Wed 20th Feb 2019 | |||
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Pulled a big side pull hold off on lead and tried to race it in the air
 , take care between the 5th and 6th bolts.
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| 18 |
★★ The Environment Centre Bites The Dust
- with
Miles Mason Winther
| 18m | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Wed 20th Feb 2019 | |||
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Cleaning Miles gear, stiff start, easier but still pumpy in the vertical face.
Definitely not 17...
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| 21 |
★★ Leaning Wall
- with
Miles Mason Winther
| 20m, 7 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Wed 20th Feb 2019 | |||
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Training lap
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| 17 |
Calling All Sportclimbers
- with
Minke Unwin
| 16m, 2 | Lyttelton Rock | Average | | Wed 13th Mar 2019 | |||
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Cleaning Minke's gear.
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| 18 |
★ Nanny State
- with
Minke Uwin
| 20m, 6 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Wed 13th Mar 2019 | |||
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Cleaning Minke's gear. Interesting start.
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| 25 ~27 |
★★ Pulling on Pinches
| 20m, 8 | Lyttelton Rock |  | Mon 5th Feb 2024 | ||||
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Feels about right to take 26/27 without the arete under the roof and maybe 22/23 with it in
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| 24 |
★★ Red Wall
| 15m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good |  | Mon 25th Mar 2024 | |||
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One reachy move I struggled on
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| 18 |
Pimple On The Arse Of The Universe
| 15m, 3 | Lyttelton Rock | ★ Good | | Sun 7th Apr 2024 | |||
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Cool mantle
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| 23 |
★★ Prophet of Doom
| 12m, 5 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Sun 7th Apr 2024 | |||
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Got past what I'm pretty sure is the crux then couldnt reach the ledge past 2nd bolt, will have to do some beta breaking
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| 22 Easy |
★ Bush Telegraph
| 10m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good | | Thu 18th Apr 2024 | |||
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A little chossy but climbs well, easy ish 22 feels about right
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| 23 |
★★★ Getting Rid Of Mr Clean
| 19m, 3 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★★ Classic |  | Mon 27th Feb 2023 | |||
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Don't clip second low or you risk a ground fall
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| 21 |
★ Diablo
| 24m, 9 | Lyttelton Rock |  | Mon 29th Mar 2021 | ||||
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Cheated at the second bolt.
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| 23 |
★ Rock Shock
| 18m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | | Tue 6th Jul 2021 | ||||
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Climb up to second bolt, cheat to third bolt and failed to go forth bolt.
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| 24 ~23 |
★★ Arms Race
— 2 attempts
| 12m, 6 | Lyttelton Rock | ★★ Very Good |  | Fri 26th Jan 2024 | |||
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Basically a boulder problem with big holds
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| 23 |
★ Rock Shock
| 18m, 4 | Lyttelton Rock | Average |  | Mon 30th Oct 2017 | |||
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v. pumpy and difficult to find holds, not the most beautiful line but at least it's safe enough after the first bolt
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