Ascents by Brendan Heywood

This thing is great. Been eyeing this off for years but it needs 5 pads to fill the awkward hole on the right.

A weird little nice semi high ball.

Another lap. Might need a downgrade to V2?

5-10 minutes of log stacking, and then this went down a little too easily to initially justify the effort, but then ...

Total quality

I did it with the chockstone in, then Benji eliminated a few things for a harder line

We tried this a few more obvious ways which felt doable, but unlocked it with and inverted sequence

Thrutchy goodness

Was much more interesting in a swim, a gara swim is long over due. Only a fortnight ago it was almost drought level trickle again but now its magic. (I'm sun burnt now). Did a quick lap as a warmup

It no longer has a tree. Easily the best line on this face, the start is cool

At least a grade harder than tree crack

Still fun

Went to do it in my socks and crocs but it turned out to be just a bit harder, fun little thing

New fav warmup for when doing stuff in the area

Every single time I've jumped on Shawarma I've meant to jump on this and we just always get too frothy and forget. A nice little route and now a good warmup.

Dabbed crux so took 2 goes

Did this a couple times in different ways and its nice to finish traversing left to the dyno jug finish on landing zone

Had to work hard for this, it is probably just a V2 but I was pretty gripped with no pad and felt harder

Ace little problem. Onsight but dabbed, did it a couple times in different ways

So good, didn't do the sketchy top out

So glad to finally send this on a beautiful dawn mission. Standing under it it's still intimidating and you definitely do not want to mess up as you pull the lip or down climbing but it is all perfect hand and fist jams and then glory jugs. Did about 10 goes hanging around for pictures and worked myself to the point where I fell off at the top and had a pretty good fall. Head butted my bicep as I landed and gave myself a dead arm!

Nice line

OMG the rock here is amazing. Imagine if any of these jug littered surfaces was somehow uplifted into an overhanging face this would be a mecca

So coarse for my delicate keyboard fingers

If anyone wants to know the name history, year ago when this first got done I was with a french couple. I went through the water tunnel head first and come out just as the dude was there bending over putting his swimmers on.

Ballsed up my first attempt in my sneakers so had to shoe up, got it first proper go.

I've waited ages for the water to be low enough, was easier than expected, second go

Spicy! Totally surprised and stoked this went

Lap of this classic in the dark

Tooled around on both of these and a couple others closer to Plaque, after dark with heaplamps and port but no pad

Another good gem. I was checking out the sculpted thing just upstream which turned out to be nails and would need a lot of creative pad work to be safe, and found this on the way retreat.

Finished up E7 which is quite nice, and much better than up the crack

Also great, (but man who graded this stuff? oh yeah, hhmm)