Ascents of Cosmed

Depressingly Bluies: Easy once you abandon the pure crack ascent

nice jams, couple of sits in first half

took a while to work out sequence and placements to mini-rooflet (my 3rd piece) then retreated as the sun was basically at the horizon

Perfect clean 30-35mm crack too small for hands and too big for finger locks with clean edges aplenty. Way out of my current leagues so dogged it via edges with occasional jam as the new breed will no doubt do.

Got too pumped, crimps much worse than remembered and still can't work out how to jam it

Just annoyed now

After Cedric sent on my gear, too hot to lead it again

Some more 0.75s and the ability to jam that size would have been nice... eventually realised you can just about do it all by pulling between crimps and thin hands pods but had already fallen off by then 😆

Pool your green cams for this one. Small hands were also definitely an advantage. The crack is a bit dirty in some places but overall a nice, compact route

This was awesome! Liked it a lot. My hardest trad onsight to date. Ringlocks were quite bomber! Used many a green cam (in the realm of 4) could almost be climbed without any other colour.

Good moderate trad climbing for the Blue mountains. Too bad it's so short.

nicola went first and perfected the gear beta, and then i got to climb w the lightest rack of my life thus far

Hard ring locks if you ignore the face holds

Reasonably straightforward narrow hands with feet everywhere

Very cool route! Had to sit on the rope as couldn't quite hold the thin jams to place gear. Once rested, found a better sequence up and the climbing eases off towards the top.

Great short splitter, well worth the walk around from interstate 31 (which is why you came to cosmic today)

3rd shot. First shot was a mistake about 3m up. Second shot I broke a footer off and took the fall. Not many fingerlocks, but a few obscure hand jams. 2 moves to the grade, but the climb is so short that by the time you're 6 metres up all the hard work is over. Worth a lap if you're in this part of cosmic, but don't make the trip over here just for this. Only takes 0.5, 0.75 and 1 cams.

A quick little send with Paul's shoes. A couple of thumb locks and crimps and it's over. It's not 20 if you face climb the sh*t out of it.

hard first 3m for big hands. 2nd shot with gear in first 2m

Yeah... great warm-up climb... grade 20, off-fingers crack.

Big day out with Dude