Ascents as Tick, Solo, First ascent, First free ascent or Lead as trad by Ashley Felton

Has to be one of the best cracks in Perth, well worth the bush-bash. Got part-way on lead, but the crux is a hard one to be placing gear through. Pure pleasure on toprope. Left some skin behind, plus an unrecoverable stopper above the first move (it should be bomber, forever).

A properly good slab route, this. Will come back for the lead one day.

Hilariously good fun, on lead. Would be an awful lot more committing to climb it trad.

A short but satisfying trad problem. Two straightforward nut placements.

Saved the best line for very last. Superb moves on an amazing line. Well-deserved mega classic.

An excellent line, but: sandbagged, much? The first pitch is much harder than the grade suggests. Second pitch is very pleasant, and much easier.

Couple of neat moves.

The iconic Arapiles route. An amazing line with some commitment required on the upper two pitches. Beta: take two bolt plates and some large cams.

Good route. Protection is pretty sketchy for the top third.

Great fun. First pitch is the harder, more insecure one with some non-obvious moves. Second pitch is a classy box chimney and much more straightforward.

A completely superb lineup for these two routes. Second pitch had a surprisingly bouldery start, and that overhang on the third!

Found it a bit hard to protect.

Good warmup route. Easily protected with several small cams.

A lovely line of mild trad. Second pitch is the best, but it's all a good time.

Good climbing. A bit thin up top, but protectable.

Some tasty exposed bulges to pull through on the second pitch. Shame that it wasn't a little more like that all the way.

Exposure, much? You're going into space if you fall off the second pitch. And that roof chimney on the third! Fantastic route.

Found this an awful lot harder than the 14 grade would suggest, more like a 17/18. Mainly due to the difficulty in setting protection, much of the climb was run-out to an unsettling degree. White-knuckle trad climbing at its finest. Lots of loose rock, as you'd expect. Our progress up the face was too slow, so we had to traverse out at the top of pitch two via the Prickle Traverse (this was mercifully a safe and straightforward walk back to the tourist trail). Next time.

You don't get many long multi-pitch routes in WA, but this is serious fun and a great day out. It packs a lot of variety into six pitches, and despite some decent runouts it's good holds all the way. Take a friend or two, a full rack of trad gear, and have an adventure. Expect 1.5h walk in, 7/8h climbing, and 1h walk down,

Such a fun adventure, this route. Not many like it in WA.

Hell of a pitch to start the trip with. Classically good moves all the way.

A short step on the way to Blockbuster. Surprisingly technical. I really should have left my pack behind.

A fine start to our day. Easy start up the crack, then a gripping bouldery exposed move out onto the face, then lovely moves up the face to finish. You Victorians are keeping all the good stuff for yourselves.

A lovely route with nice, straightforward protection.

A technical, unique mega-classic. First pitch was my pitch of the day.

Classic route. Doing it multi-pitch only feels slightly silly.

Good fun. Sorting out the kinks in my anchor building

Good way to practice placing gear.

Totally classy. Every pitch a joy to climb.