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Ascents as Retreat by Joe Gordon

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Grade Route Gear style Quality
Tue 19th Apr 2022 - Wellington Dam
Main Wall
20 Savage Sausage Sniffer Sport 18m, 4 Good
Got past the third and awesome arete before almost freaking out and needing to come down.

 
Tue 19th Apr 2022 - Wellington Dam
Right Wall
21 Silverback Sport 10m, 3 Good
Hard moves from the second to the third. One of the hardest 21 cruxes I’ve encountered. Ahh quarry climbing...now I remember.

 
Sun 26th Sep 2021 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Bardens Lookout Historic Wells
20 Starseed Sport 11m
Not the cool down I was looking for. I will be back!

 
Sun 15th Aug 2021 - Blue Mountains
Leura Sublime Point West Face (Main Area) Middle Cliffs Binary Cave
23 A Nice Day for a Disco Sport 25m, 3
Nails start. Went back to the easier variant.

 
Wed 13th Jan 2021 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Boronia Point Main Wall (Ferris Cave)
23 Lyptus Sport 23m, 8 Classic
Second shot and pulley popped on ring finger. Oops. Rehab the popped pulley round 2.

 
Sun 29th Nov 2020 - Blue Mountains
Leura Sublime Point West Face (Main Area) Middle Cliffs Ben Trovato Wall
25 Reigning Steel Extension Sport 27m, 13
Had a scope out and got one draw higher. Really ups the difficulty from the first move off the anchor! Looks mega and one to come back to when I have a little more wizardry!

 
Sat 1st Aug 2020 - Blue Mountains
Medlow Bath DG's
21 Mad Taffy Traverse - with Eamonn Trad 25m
Followed and collected Eamonn’s gear on this adventure that we stopped just prior to the waterfall.

 
Sun 14th Jun 2020 - Blue Mountains
Blackheath Area Celebrity Crags Sharon Stone
23 Sensory Overload Sport 20m, 12 Classic
6 months later and after a finger injury, this was a good measure of how far I am from my previous fitness. Not that I’ve sent it. Did not make it to the anchor.

Someone nearby commented that it is a short route. My forearms tell a very different story.

 
Sun 6th Oct 2019 - Kalbarri
The Z Bend The Promenade
25 She Magic Sport 15m, 5
Brutal crux. Didn’t stick. Didn’t look doable after all that climbing for me. Aborted early to find a more doable project.

 
Sun 21st Apr 2019 - Blue Mountains
Blackheath Area Mt Boyce Upper Wall
24 Monica's Gate Sport 12m
Too hard.

 

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