Ascents in Mount Buffalo as various tick types by Elias

Cool! Never climbed such a tall slab before. We had a lot of fun. Got along quite quickly, once we were on the right route (tipp: start as it says in the description at the left leaning bushy crack and not the right leaning one 20m left of it! This is Good luck and Managment and a bit harder and longer).

Took us about 35min to get from the car to the start of the climb. Yellow tape and a few cairns help. Stash a bike at the top or walk for a bit over 1h back to the car.

You could basically leave your complete rack at the car and just take a hand full of draws and some slings with you. There are fixed hangers (no carrots!), but not too many of them. One or two per pitch, if even. I oftentimes thought I might as well have left the rope in the car. So if you don't feel very confident going up easy (but still exposed and serious) slabs without having anything to hold on to, don't do it. Take comfortable climbing shoes (I climbed with runners, which I would NOT do again). The route finding is pretty ovious and straight forward, if you read the description. Sun-exposure is quite high (it was at least when we did it before midday). What else is there to say? It's good fun and you make many climbing metres very quickly. Enjoy and take care!

found the roofy bit awkward and quite hard for a 17, but maybe that was just me climbing it wrong. The finger-/handcrack afterwards is awesome!!

something special! Very nice!!

That one looked really daunting and intimidating to me on the rappel. I almost wanted to ascend back up on the rope. Glad I didn't, because once I started climbing it was perfectly fine and much easier than excpected (not easy though!). Dirty and mossy. An adventure

Great climb and the first one in 2018! You get down with a single fixed 60m rope. We linked the first two pitches together. Interesting and fun 3rd pitch. Very enjoyable jamming in pitch 4, unfortunately only a few meters.

nice! Broke off a foothold at the top though, very unexpected

Really good and quite tricky up there

'21 to 23' is indeed true I guess. For me (180cm on a good day) it was a 21, but I wouldn't know how to climb it if I was shorter.

rapped down with a fixed 60m rope. Did the left hand variant and instead of pitch 3 Peroxide Blonde.

Great!

Awesome! Tricky in parts. Great rock formation

Awesome fun!! A bit balancy in parts. The dyke is a great feature. Bolt plates and you might want to take some small (0.5ish) cams.

very nice little climb