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| Grade | Route | Gear style | Quality | |||
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| Sun 29th Nov 2020 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd Oronga Crags Banksy Wall | ||||||
| 26 |
★★★ Sanctum Emptor (Linkup) (Linkup - Sanction into Caveat Emptor)
- with
Tom Collins, Ludek Sykora, Martin Cankov
| 35m, 19 | ★★★ Classic | |||
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Clean repeat. The headwall on this is bloody brilliant steep, powerful climbing in an inspiriting position. Coming into it from Sanction just makes the whole affair scrumptious.
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| Sun 18th Oct 2020 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd Bell Supercrag Departures (Upper) | ||||||
| 23 |
★★ Destined for Grayness
- with
Rob Medlicott
| 12m, 5 | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Clean repeat. Always brilliant for a short route.
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| Sun 11th Oct 2020 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Leura Sublime Point West Face (Main Area) Middle Cliffs Ben Trovato Wall | ||||||
| 25 |
★★★ Microdermabrasia
- with
Rob Medlicott
| 85m | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Decided to do the full Multi (since its the only one I haven't done on this wall). As a "multi" its probably a 1-star experience (most of the value being from the first pitch), and I definitely don't recommend doing the "mantle top-out walkoff" nightmare.
P1 - Clean Repeat (originally onsight). P2 - 2nd shot. 1 move from the onsight! I tried so bloody hard. Not a drop of chalk on this thing. The last 5m before the ledge is extremely intense techo crimping, but otherwise its fairly easy. P3 - Clean Repeat (originally onsight) - Sections of good climbing, but lots of crap rock to degrade the experience. The crux on this is a proper hard reach. Would be interesting to see a shorty on it. |
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| Sat 3rd Oct 2020 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Blackheath Area Mt Boyce Walk-Down Gully | ||||||
| 16 |
★★★ The Gates of Janus
- with
Heath Black
| 50m | ★★★ Classic | |||
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Seconding Monty. Pretty good for a shortish Blueys easy trad route. Kinda hard at the grade. Bring oodles of #1 's.
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| Sat 5th Sep 2020 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd Mount Banks Banks Gully Amphitheater | ||||||
| 27 |
★★ Two Nobodies in the Middle of Nowhere (Arguing over Nothing)
- with
Jared Anderson
1
27
25m
2
26
20m
3
| 45m | ★★★ Classic | |||
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3 x Repeat laps as a part of the mega two-rope link project. Managed P1 clean on the 2nd lap even with the extra weight/screw-around of managing two ropes, but bungled the 1st crux of P2 on the link. Very draining. On an aborted 4th lap I could barely bolt-to-bolt the route, and then struggled to jumaar out afterwards.
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| Sun 30th Aug 2020 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd Mount Banks Banks Gully Amphitheater | ||||||
| 23 |
★★ Lulu
- with
Heath Black
| 30m, 14 | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Repeat. Seconding Monty at EOD. Better than I remember it, and surprisingly hard for an arete that looks comically easy. Very worthwhile.
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| Sun 16th Aug 2020 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Blackheath Area Porters Pass The Birdcage Area | ||||||
| 23 |
★★ Pitch Blank
- with
Heath Black
| 25m | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Seconding Monty. Good steepish crimping in an exposed position, and not too hard for the grade... But difficult to enjoy it when I couldn't feel my fingers at all. Alas, I forgot my down suit and ice axes.
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| Sun 19th Jul 2020 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd Mount Banks Banks Gully Amphitheater | ||||||
| 25 |
★★ Strength is Weakness
- with
Heath Black
| 110m, 7 | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Seconding Monty. Pitches 2 and 3 in particular are awesome, though 1 and 4 are relatively inoffensive
The grade of P2 (my favourite pitch) is somewhat disputed. I broke most of a key hold off at the crux, and had to power-scream my way through the new sequence to get it clean on Second. But whatever |
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