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Fri 3rd Nov 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with Sean Peters | 45m | |||||
not only fingerlocks, but an offwidth!
Maybe the first time I've used a double hands stack for reals?
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20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Was also really fun climbing
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Sun 15th Oct 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
TR Solo lap on aid
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Sat 26th Aug 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with wilson dowling | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Amazing blue mountains feeling climbing
in my humble opinion:)
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Sun 18th Jun 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with Mungo Skyring | 45m | ★ Good | ||||
Didn't find the walk in track at the top and did some bush bashing and an extra rap to get in (needed to walk further north along the well-maintained walking track after coming down from the parking spot). After that was over with, it was a nice climbing experience. Mostly good gear. The crack is pretty vegetated and dirty though.
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Thu 30th Mar 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with Michael Houghton | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Left my climbing shoes in the car, climbed in TX4s
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Sun 22nd Jan 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Sun 18th Dec 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with Daniel Butler | 45m | |||||
What an incredible line, although I'm regretting leaving my gardening tools at home. She clearly hasn't seen any action in a little while.
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Sun 30th Oct 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with james ritchie | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Fun climb but needs more traffic to clean up the weeds.
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Thu 30th Jun 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with alyssa smirnov | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Fri 31st Dec 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Mega, epic long pitch with variety and lots of mini cruxes to keep you engaged.
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Sun 10th Oct 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | |||||
bottom section was a bit dirty and slippery. had a decent fall on my first piece of gear (green cam), did the rest clean. finger crack sections are cool but short, rest of the climb is not that remarkable. overall nice adventure including approach
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Wed 15th Sep 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with Hugh Sutton | 45m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
I don't know if it was just the way I was feeling or the extremely spoogey conditions, but this thing felt absolutely desperate today. The entire crack and wall was damp, muddy, and coated in dirt, despite that I thought it barely rained the last few days. I rapped down this thinking, this is gonna be amazing and was astounded at how slippery and insecure the entire climb felt. I know it's grade 20, but it literally felt every bit of grade 23 at least in today's conditions. It would be interesting to revisit this when it is totally dry, but it felt like a joke at grade 20 today. I got the onsight in the end, but not really sure how.
As far as gear goes, I didn't have a 5, but that would have been nice. Instead, I had 2 4's,a 3, doubles of 2-.75, 3 .5s, 4 .4s, 3 .3s, and a red and green C3. I also had a random offset alien that may have been close to a .2. I probably could have left the nuts at home but did manage to place 2 overall. I had 19 draws which seemed crazy, but I used them all in the end. This thing was epic and would be worth a revisit when dry to see if I was smoking crack today or not.
All in all, a great arvo!
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Sun 2nd May 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Showing Roxy my personal pick for 2nd best crack in the mountains under 20.
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Tue 19th Jan 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Excellent for a Blue Mountains crack climb. Some wider sections and a plant here and there, but there aren't that many clean fingers sections around so they are to be savoured when you find them.
Worth the walk over there and not too hard to find. Definitely climb as a single pitch. I didn't regret taking the 5 but it certainly isn't necessary if you don't have one. |
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Sat 14th Nov 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with Natalie - deleting acc | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
See below... if you don't find an obvious trail turn off, do not go bashing down a gully (that turns out to be one gully to the south, and a jungle) 😅 The actual route is quite clear and we saw all the fixed ropes except the first one mentioned.
Great climbing, because it's a few degrees short of vertical it has some proper finger and toe jamming while still at a moderate grade, which seems rare in the Bluies. And I like hard sections with good stances in between. Thought I was going to lose it a few times with slipping feet, and one stuck cam to clean, but all just worked out somehow. Think we took single 3-5, double 1-2, triple 0.3 - 0.75. |
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Sat 29th Aug 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
What a stellar route! Loved it so much. Footers everywhere until the crux. We took doubles 0.3-2, singles 3-5 an assortment of microcams for the top, nuts, and triple 1s and 4 0.75s. Now for the recommendations of a fellow stitcher-uperer... Bring like 3 or 4 0.4s, 3 or 4 0.5s and doubles 0.3-2, nuts, micros and singles 3-5. Save your 5 for after the tree (much excitement was generated from placing it early). Gear management was good all things considered but wouldve loved to have traded my 0.75s for 0.5s.
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Sat 1st Aug 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Roped solo after an earlier appointment to the soothing sounds of INXS. This is going to be a scary lead for me. Will need to come back with a fist full of green cams. The walk in is well trodden until right at the end (although I didn't find the first blue rope), it would have been easier in crampons. A very daunting approach, but the climb seems less exposed after the abseil. Definitely give this one a go. The key is to not get tunnel vision for the crack.
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Sun 17th May 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Good climb, a little dirty in the crack lower down.
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Fri 29th Mar 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | |||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | |||||
Sun 16th Sep 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
19 20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Fri 8th Jun 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with Will Vidler | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
A fine morning out!! In saying that, it took me 1:35 to onsight this thing. After Will topped out, the total time was slower than The Nose speed record.
Super happy with myself to get this done though, had a super sketchy moment right at the start with a horribly placed 0.5... (There was a good piece below it at least) Took some commitment to start the finger crack section, but went through it relatively smoothly once I did! Took a while to figure out the upper crux but ended up lay-backing to get it done (and I hate lay-backing)! Super stoked! 17 pieces of gear. (Most were in the top third when I realised my gear management wasn't too bad!!) |
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Mon 2nd Apr 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with Enmoore | 45m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Tue 30th Jan 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with Harry Kadi | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Great to climb this with Harry for his birthday. Awesome varied and consistently engaging route for the full 45m and probably not too difficult for the grade, if a bit insecure and gripping at times. The walk in is a super highway at the moment until you get to the fixed ropes but then they are easy to follow down to the cliff. Get on it.
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20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with Will Vidler | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
A great adventure to do on my birthday! A grade 20 crack for my 20th year! The finger locks are so bomber, and the gear is so good, plenty of footholds so there was no akward thin crack foot jamming. Just an excellent morning all round!
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Sat 28th Jan 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with Nicole Kelly | 45m | ★ Good | ||||
It climbed better than it looked. Good moves in sections with some thought provoking sections of rock.
Well led by Nic.
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Sun 6th Nov 2016 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Sun 28th Aug 2016 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with Andrew Stevenson | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Awesome climb. It was a bit of an adventure to get to, thanks for all of the fixed ropes. Once you get there and look down the climb you know that you are in for some fun.
A great continuous crackline that just eats gear. There were 2 tricky section but nothing too hard, would have helped if my fingers were a bit fatter. |
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Sun 14th Aug 2016 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with Zac | 45m | ★ Good | ||||
Bit short on small gear but managed it, just ... Some lovely finger crack sections .. Interesting finish ..
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Fri 21st Aug 2015 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with Rene Provis | 45m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Mega. 2nding Rene (great onsight buddy). Long, sustained and varied. Literally a finger crack route with an offwidth section.
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Fri 10th Oct 2014 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Spent about 20mins cleaning this route. Would be mega classic if it got an even bigger clean, including chopping out the tree. Awesome long route with some amazing finger crack sections. I found this much easier than Janicepts. Track in and out was a bit of a battle, I would suggest rap down Archae... Instead of bashing through the jungle in the gully. If you trade climb you should get on this now!
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Sat 20th Sep 2014 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Run out of gear on first and only try...went in through old overgrown track...next time!
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Thu 12th Dec 2013 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
one the better climbs at the grade in the blue mountains.
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Sun 7th Jul 2013 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Another repeat. A speedy lead ascent (25min) to escape the crag as the sun went down. To save time, I simply ran it out as much as possible. Still nothing less than CLASSIC. It's good to see that EVERYONE I've taken out to this climb has reached the top singing its praises. GET ON IT!
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Mon 10th Jun 2013 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Another repeat. Top rope solo lap to escape the bottom of the crag as the rain set in. Some vegetation has started to return since I cleaned it last year (I pulled it all out as I climbed), but its still in damn good nick, and is one of the best cracks in the Blue Mountains. Get on it!
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Sat 10th Nov 2012 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix (Phoenix ) | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
One lap lead, and another on rope-solo to get No-Chalk Rob's gear back. Great lead, spicey finish, loved every second of it. An absolutely brilliant climb. Amazingly sustained PROPER finger-crack, accompanied by every other style of crack climbing, mostly great rock, bomber gear, and epically long. As I've said before, there is NO other crack climb quite like it in the Blue Mountains. Crack-lovers get on it!
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Thu 8th Nov 2012 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ Phoenix | 45m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Rope solo. 2 laps to see how the 10 hours I've spent cleaning this crack turned out. The result: amazing. There is NO other crack climb like this in the Blue Mountains, what with such a long sustained section of pure fingercrack and numerous other styles in the mix. Probably only 20 if you do the entire 45m climb as 1 giant pitch (gear management critical), with the crux right at the top. With the new access route I've pioneered, this firebird has no excuse not to be more popular!
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Tue 27th Dec 2011 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with Paul Frothy Thomson | 45m | |||||
20 | ★★★ Phoenix | 45m | Don't Bother | ||||
Decided to aid climb it for a laugh (and some practice). 30min bush-bash walk in/out, and at least 60% of the crack is now covered in dense vegetation, which -over a 50m climb- is a lot of gardening. If the crack was clean, and a better way of accessing the crag found (the first ascentionist told me it's possible to walk to the top of the cliff), it would probably be a "very good" 2-star sort of climb. But as it stands NOW, you couldn't pay me to go back and free climb it.
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Mon 29th Dec 2008 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix (Phoenix ) | 45m | ★ Good | ||||
I am not sure when I climbed this but I do remember it was a bit of an epic and lots of fun. We started up the finger crack to the left.
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Sat 20th Dec 2008 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ Phoenix | 45m | ★ Good | ||||
Hmmm. Revegetated, dirty, loose blocks, and some nice climbing inbetween
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20 | ★★★ The Phoenix (Phoenix ) | 45m | ★ Good | ||||
Great finger locks, dirty veggie offwidth, take plenty 1/2" to 1" cams and maybe a #5 of the wide bit. EXCITING!
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Fri 29th Jan 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix - with Josephine Roper | 45m | |||||
2020 Nov - took 3 hours of bush bashing in the wrong direction to find this climb
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Thu 3rd Dec 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | |||||
Mon 18th Mar 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m | |||||
Tue 11th Jul 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags The Phoenix | |||||||
20 | ★★★ The Phoenix | 45m |
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