Ascents in Oceania by Scott Godwin

Slippery and tough for the grade, but really nice. Like a mini slippery Yosemite granite fingercrack. Revealed my lack of fitness from lack of climbing in the last year or so. Replaced the dodgy cord on the rap 'anchor'.

Pretty good. Trickier than it looks down low, then easier than it looks up high.

Awesome pinnacle.

Really good.

Holy crap the middle pitch of this is amazing. Unfortunately the crag was quite wet. We skipped the approach pitch. Ultra classic 2nd pitch. Endless steep perfect hand crack forvever. Didn't do it very good style though. Ended up making a semi hanging belay at about 30m when I realized I was going to run out of gear. Second half of the pitch was very wet. Pulling the steep crux with both hands and both feet covered in wet slime wasn't going to happen. Pulled through on the gear. Rapped sideways from the belay ledge to get back to our fixed rope and jumared out to avoid the dripping wet and vegetated upper section.

With Graham and Kristin. Camped at pool of memories. 5am start gave us plenty of time to soak in the views and the exposure. The sunrise on the way up onto the ridge was incredible. I was anxious about the climbing out of the col onto the south peak, but it was surprisingly good, on mostly excellent rock. We traversed below the south spur and decended the scree slope to Cephissis creek, which took ages in the blazing hot afternoon sun. If I was to do it again I'd reverse the traverse and walk down the north peak track, or keep going over the acropolis.

Roped up for one short section of exposed traversing just before the fallen pillar bridge. Walked back via Marion's lookout. A fantastic day out. Tassie is awesome.

A really fun mission and a great day out. Did it in about ten pitches. Took a long time (12 hours from the base back to the base) then walked back to the car in the dark. Fantastic views from the upper pitches. Would probably be more enjoyable if simulclimbed or soloed. Almost every pitch ends with horrendous rope drag.

Repeat. With Nate. Climbed in about 6 or 7 hours as 9 (or maybe 11? We lost count.) pitches at a very casual pace. Still a great scramble with some really cool exposed climbing interspersed with a lot of scrambly bits. Would probably have worked well to simul with 30 m of rope between us, but it was nice to take our time on it.

Ripper of a line. Kind of jealous that Nate scored the lead.

With Laura. Excellent climbing. Probably worth 18, not the 17 it gets in the guide.

Couldn't resist the temptation to slither into the offwidth where I felt much more at home than laybacking on the outside where the bolts are.

Harder (and sharper and more painful) than in looks. Might be easier than 25, but it hurts at least that much.

Seconding Isaac. Better climbing and gear than it looks. Did all the climbing without any falls but had a couple of sits to fiddle the wires out. Might come back to lead this one.

With Laura. Really nice, varied crack and face climbing.

With Laura. Pretty good.

Seconding Laura.

With Laura. Stuffed up the crux and fell off. Great route though.

First move felt more like 22 ?!? Pretty easy after that. The top crack takes a big cam (BD #5), but doesn't require any offwidthing.

Really good. Struggled with the tricky start which was made considerably more tricky by being completely saturated and slimy with seepage.

Good fun. Lots of jugs.

Gets 19 in the old guide, which seems fair enough.Cool little route.

Following Baz and Phil. Great moves. Easier than it looks. Should have led it.

Nice.

Had struggled with this one previously. Felt great today. Seems to go much better if you get the sequence of locks right from the start.

With Baz and Phil. Struggled with an elusive fingerlock at about 1/3 height, pumped out came down for a rest. Swapped yo-yo style with Baz, who came down after doing all the hard moves. Clean to top on second go. Should get it next time. Awesome little route.

Excellent. Sustained, varied and interesting the whole way Definitely deserves more stars, and probably an extra grade or two for the start.

Classic, but not as hard or sustained as Mills Route.

Excellent route. Climbed clean all the way to the jug at the second last bolt on the arete and with a bit of a pump building I couldn't bring myself to commit to the insecure, barn dooring, smearing layback moves up to the next bolt. Did it ok after a rest on the rope. Disappointing to blow the onsight, but happy to climb such an awesome route.

Made a mess of this one.

Really good climbing, very well protected despite appearances. Feels a bit loose at the top. Calling this one a flash because I watched John and Mike sussing the gear on it.

Screwed myself by stopping to place gear mid crux. Cool little route.

Really good. Worth coming back for.

Hard. Fell off at the second bolt, and the third. Running out of daylight so I used a devious brass nut to aid through to last bolt.

Really good. Tough at the bottom.

Fell off pretty promptly at first bolt. Couldn't figure it out and pulled through to last bolt. Seems pretty tricky.

Soft tick, but nice climbing.

One fall at the second bolt. Worked out it pretty quickly after. Really cool thin, balancy face climbing.

Definitely not 22 as the old guide suggests, but 19 seems a bit stingy. 20 seems fair. Probably harder if you have fat fingers.

Seconding Laura. Great little route.

Nails. Couldn't stick the barndoor to the mingen sloping crimp at the bottom, then couldn't figure out how to move off said mingen sloping crimp once I got there.

Tricky crux. Spooged out of a damp, mossy ringlock before getting it right.

Really nice climbing.

Tricky balancy slappy weirdness.

That crux is still tough.

Again to retrieve the stuck rope.