Ascensiones en Wolgan Valley

Tried P1 of sizzler and absolutely sizzled in the sun. Eventually used some sport climber beta to overcome the overhang and sweated my way up through the jams. Condiiis!

Another awesome hand crack, Wolgan does not disappoint. Just did P1

I led pitch one and how good! Fun stemming and jamming, had to push myself on this one. Ange led P2 which had a cruxy bit at the start and then felt much easier

An awesome finger crack with good feet and face holds. Just did P1

An absolutely epic line! Mental crux was definitely the cavey bit at the top of P1, which ange crushed through on lead. Had my own little spicy moment on one of the overhangs later on. So good watching the sunset from the top, managed to make our way down the overgrown gully without having the cops called 😛

An epic climb, super fun going around the rooflet when starting P2

What an awesome crack! Lovely jams and awesome laybacking

First climb in the Wolgan! Fun going up through the scoops, felt rather easy

Amazing first pitch. Lower off rings, top pitch is choss anyways

So good I forgot to place gear for half the pitch.

Awwweeeesome. Keen to come back for the full route but ran out of day.

Superb. The overhanging changing corners weirdness on pitch 2 is stupidly good. Linked p1 and p2 together.

Astoundingly good trad slabbing.

Increasingly thin. Awesome long pitch.

Soaking wet in the crack.

Quality climbing with good gear. Clean and dry when everything else at the crag were very dirty.

Great movement in a spectcular position. Access via the western gully was an adventure in itself.

Such an awesome route and position. Charging to the top of old baldy blind had a feeling of old school adventure with the benefits of modern protection. The overhung crack and dihedral sections were great.

All the stemming and lots of finger crack.

Linked P1-2 and P3-4.

Topped out because I missed the final ring bolts (they're left around an arete and not visible when following the crack). Even though the last 10m is pretty average pro/climbing, just finishing at the bolts seems anti-climactic anyway.

Gear: triples to 3 and wires when linking; preserve small cams.

Oops. Slipped out of the thin hands above the overhang. Stiff warmup!

Also RIP one of the footholds below the overhang.

Got some better hand jams at the overhang and then a very high left foot.

The fist jam section felt hard!

Some serious exertion between the rest positions on this one - felt a little sick by the end and struggled to even lift the rope to clip the anchors. Cool crack moves throughout - even used hand stacks in the final offwidth.

(Maybe questionable RP ethics here: I didn't clean the pieces I fell on and started above the first juggy moves).

Gear: crack gets continually wider... singles .3-.75,3x1,3x2,2x3,2x4, bolt plate

one of the best lines on Cook Ovens which surprisingly does not get that many ascents. Definitely can and should be done as a single pitch. First part will consume all your big gear (not bigger than 4) while the second part will go on small cams and medium nuts. on the softer side of 21 70m rope JUST reaches the ground on the stretch on the abseil

one of my favourites in Wolgan. really cool move through the roof followed by sustained and super good finger-locking sequences. Didn't do well on the onsight but was able to send it on my second trip no probs. foot slipped a few times and I was hanging just on my fingerlocks - that's how good they are!