Showing all 33 ascents.
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Mon 15th Aug 2016 - Frog Buttress | ||||||
East of the access track | ||||||
17 | ★ King Shits and Dead Shits | 20m | Average | |||
Decent alt start to LLL
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Mon 15th Aug 2016 - Frog Buttress | ||||||
West of the access track | ||||||
16 | ★ Illusion / Bad Blues Link Up | 22m | ★ Good | |||
19 | ★★ Hollywood Rattlesnake | 18m | ★ Good | |||
A bit graunchy but good.
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Fri 29th Jul 2016 - Frog Buttress | ||||||
East of the access track | ||||||
17 | ★ Liquid Laughter Layback | 38m | ★ Good | |||
I remember the V groove being desperate from 88... did it again last year and it was still desperate!
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18 | ★★ Borderline 29 | 15m | ★ Good | |||
Good for a few moves but worryingly hollow
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21 | ★ Plummeting Pineapple (Plummeting Pinapple) | 35m | Average | |||
Good for a bit at the start then a bit of a ramble. There are better routes.
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21 | ★ Bongos and Beached Whales | 10m | ★ Good | |||
Fun for a few moves
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17 16 | ★ Forked Tongue | 15m | Average | |||
Remember it being hard for the grade
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Mon 4th Jul 2016 - Frog Buttress | ||||||
West of the access track | ||||||
19 | ★★ Sorcerer's Apprentice | 30m | ★★ Very Good | |||
I think the start has cleaned up a bit by now but still take care.
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18 | ★★ Gladiator | 20m | ★ Good | |||
18 | ★★ Chocolate Watch Band | 17m | ★ Good | |||
I quite like this but it's very hard when you have rudimentary wide crack skills!
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19 | ★ Humility | 15m | Average | |||
Pretty poor gear. There's not much climbing either.
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18 | ★ Witches Covert - with Wendy Eden | 12m | Average | |||
The start is interesting (and a bit slick and desperate) but the chimney up the top is no fun. And no gear. And some loose bits.
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19 | ★★★ Infinity - with Wendy Eden | 40m | ★★★ Classic | |||
Awsm!
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14 | ★★ Electronic Flag | 40m | ★ Good | |||
I remember wobbling up this with anchor-like rope drag on one of my first leads at Frog
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Sat 2nd Jul 2016 - Frog Buttress | ||||||
East of the access track | ||||||
16 | ★ Winston Alley - with Wendy Eden | 10m | ★ Good | |||
Quite tough for the grade (how surprising) but good climbing and gear. I like this one.
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16 | ★ Horse-drawn Zeppelin | 12m | Average | |||
A bit greasy. I'm not that taken with this one.
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16 | ★ Century - with Wendy Eden | 15m | ★ Good | |||
Staunch like many 16s at Frog!
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14 | ★ Electric Lead | 26m | ★ Good | |||
16 | ★★ Materialistic Prostitution | 20m | ★★ Very Good | |||
A good and well protected route - unlike many of the 16's here!
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17 | ★ Erectile Kingpin - with Wendy Eden | 16m | Average | |||
Not bad, two shortish sections. The top bit seemed slippery and desperate, but that's what I expect for Frog 17s!
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Thu 2nd Jun 2016 - Arapiles | ||||||
Western Side Campbell's Kingdom | ||||||
13 | ★ Sundowner - with Wendy Eden, Andrew Clark | 30m | ★ Good | |||
The start's quite good, then the rock quality falls away a bit. Take a few big cams if you want to climb the LH corner, fortunately the RH corner has good normal sized gear and ok climbing.
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Thu 12th Nov 2015 - Arapiles | ||||||
The Pharos and Surrounds The Pharos Back Wall | ||||||
22 | ★★ The Second Coming | 57m | Don't Bother | |||
The only three star 22 at Arapiles? Really? Super greasy, wandery, contrived waste of time. Of all the routes on the back of the Pharos I've done this is the worst. A far better multipitch 22 nearby is the first pitch of Shivers and the second pitch of Trojan. And Squeakeasy is a far better candidate for the mount's only three star 22.
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Thu 12th Nov 2015 - Arapiles | ||||||
The Pharos and Surrounds The Pharos Uncle Charlie | ||||||
28 | ★★★ India - with Kate Dooley | 25m | ★★ Very Good | |||
TR'd it one day and led it placing the gear the next - it had 2 fixed wires so gear wasn't that hard to place. The bit up to the crux - about 24 - is really insecure and great climbing. The crux is interesting but the dyno for a gravelly fingerlock is not heaps of fun if you blow it. The top bit is easy (Gordy fell off it te he). Not a three star route though.
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Tue 10th Nov 2015 - Arapiles | ||||||
Bluffs Denim Wall | ||||||
26 | ★★★ Denim - with Brendan Emmerson | 45m, 2 | ★ Good | |||
TR'd it with a fall then led it placing the gear on another day. Hadn't really looked at the gear so it felt like a proper 'placing the gear' tick. While it has good history and a good line the climbing's not that much fun, worth one star but not two.
I led the second pitch about 2005 and thought it was well protected.. went back 2015 and jumped off a few times as there was a runout traverse and a mantle before gear. Backed off as if you fell off the mantle you'd hit your belayer/the ledge.??? |
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Mon 2nd Nov 2015 - Arapiles | ||||||
King Rat Area King Rat Gully Skydiver Wall | ||||||
24 23 | ★★ Dead Metaphor - with ben wiessner | 25m | ★★★ Classic | |||
Two red cams handy
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Sat 24th Oct 2015 - Arapiles | ||||||
Bluffs Bluff Major Bluff Major West Face | ||||||
23 22 R | ★★ Unrequited | 15m | ★ Good | |||
I found this quite hard and a bit scary. Wondered if hexes would help in the podded crack - these days link cams might do the trick. Backed off it one day and then lead it next time.
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24 23 | ★★★ Despatched - with Paul Hoskins | 40m, 2 | ★★★ Mega Classic | |||
24 If you ask me! I kicked out the RP above the roof and lost it - slumped onto a #1 RP. Went back and did it later. One of the best 24's at the mount. Don't bother with the second pitch, it's rubbish.
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Fri 12th Sep 2014 - Arapiles | ||||||
Voodoo Area Voodoo Buttress | ||||||
18 | ★ Social Darwinism - with Wendy | 20m, 1 | ★ Good | |||
Poor pro for first 6m then ok.
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Thu 4th Sep 2014 - Arapiles | ||||||
Mitre Rock South Mitre | ||||||
24 | ★★ Cayenne | 15m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Tue 2nd Sep 2014 - Arapiles | ||||||
Mitre Rock North Mitre | ||||||
13 | ★ Bostok | 40m | Average | |||
OK - access to chains at top of Nuns Love It
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Sun 14th Nov 2004 - Mt Alexander | ||||||
Scorpion Rocks | ||||||
25 | ★★ I'll Stick Around - with Kent Paterson | 12m, 3 | ||||
23 | ★★ Sustain the Pain - with Kent Paterson | 12m, 3 |
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