Ascents by Brendan Heywood

Headed for here as it was probably the only dry problem nearby. Raining properly now but worked and resent it in a couple goes. Decided to leave the pads here to get headlamps and come back and see if there was any problems underground in the cave, then got distracted by cold pizza in the car, then by crawling through storm drains, and then the crew turned up for a caving trip and it was only once I was home that I discovered we'd left the pads there! Ben Vincent to the rescue

Another lap as a light drizzle started

Utterly frothing on this, I cannot understand how such an obvious and high quality line has been unsent all these years. The more I scrubbed the more froth was exposed. Thought it would go fairly easy but it's put up quite a fight. Each move gets progressively harder. Great holds, nothing is tweaky or sharp. I did find some tat at the base so I don't think we were the first to try it but I doubt it's been sent. Probably a dozen attempts, able to get to the face rail and juiceless for the dyno. The right finish is a hard mantle, the left finish ads a few great moves and looks more doable.

Warm down lap and then a swim in the water tunnel

Great little dyno

Strong possibility I did this a decade ago with Bruce, but seems lots in time. Really great problem with delicate feet

Stoked to find this gem and scrub it up, and more stoked as it was tantalizingly close to getting sent. Probably half a dozen cracks, defeated by the beastly rock over finish.

This thing is sick! Didn't really seem possible at first but it will go. You can't have too many pads, 5 was ok but I think 8 would be ideal as you aren't quite sure in which direction you'll ping off

Another lap on this great problem

Fun little burly beasty, better than it appears

Took a while to re-figure this out, and we send it by going directly up instead of out to the corner.

Lap in blundies, love this little weird problem

Took a couple goes, fingers have not crimped in yonks!

First try again

Solo mission to get out of the house, aching back from flu.

Took a bunch of attempts. Desperate feet, opposing gastons, and the top isn't trivial once you get there. Would be significantly easier if you had 3 more inches of ape than I do

This had Alan's gear and a top rope still on, so after a bit of creative fishing to reach down to the rope I rapped off and did a lap. Sat on the rope to get the crux nut out.

Plan was to pack up a couple top ropes everyone had done, so I ran a lap up this with my pack. Then suddenly everyone was packing up even though we still had an hour of sun left!

I loved this route, naturally clean fist crack to perfect hands and just a bit of finger spice a the end. And a perfect clean topout. Led on Alan's gear but moved the gear around at the crux as it was in the way

No grunting, clean. Was keen to have a red point attempt but got distracted

Not sure if I've done this before but this route is great

Made some quality grunting noises

Linked into the top of 'Funky Monkey'

Really dig this

We decided we had one more in us if we were fast and this looked good on paper. It turned out to be 1/3 vegetated. carol lee led with a few falls while I slowly froze after sunset getting showered in multiple flurries of dirt and farmers friends. I declined to second.

carol lee had a few cracks at this but was defeated by the wet spooge gushing out of the first meter of the crack. Jumped on and was pretty happy to power through this and up to half way to the last good stance before the hand crack widens to not-quite-fists and then I regressed into the worse pumped out dogging / aiding / grunting. Finally got to the head wall and then went right for a subterranean burrow (after being warned by Ben Vincent not to go this way)

Good feet stances the whole way

One rest at crux

Surprisingly not as much stemming as it looks from the ground,

Pretty darn amazing line, again super happy to get up it clean and feeling the most confident jamming I think I've ever felt.

Fantastic! Great finish to the whole trip. Nice boulder problem over the final lip

Sustained layback, powered through it fast without breathing much. Got a weird sharp pinch pain in my right palm, possible from gloves too tight