Ascents as trad by Will Vidler having Distinct route

Does it even get better for the grade?

I led the first and third pitches on this and man it felt hard for 17. Sustained off hands on the first pitch left me gasping for air and then terrifying choss on the last pitch combined with quite funky climbing also had me working. Superbly awesome last route out here though and a great way to top The Ben. Hands are now absolutely messed after 5 days of jamming dolerite.

Way better than expected. I love a good layback! Part of David the Strong Canadian's crack circuit for the morning before he headed to Tassie.

Great varied jam crack. The smooth rock just hugs your hands. Very worthwhile.

It was raining and kind of full value.

Tricky

Quite tricky down low and a bit if a ramble at the top. A fun little route that stayed a bit hidden from the sun.

Nice to do some hand jams for a change. Pretty cruisy

Another easy trad classic ticked off the list and one that I thought was very solid at the grade. Harry led a giant first pitch, climbing we are not sure how many actual pitches and finishing on top of a big block. This left the awesome overhanging cruxy section to the top out for me which was just fantastic. Highly recommend!!

funky with good holds in all the right places

Eternity will be working hard to contend with this. Awesome jams the whole way. Committing but not particularly hard and interesting with a limited rack.

what a route!!!!!

Pretty fun really, though should just have one more bolt at the start and be a sport route. Wandered back and forth between arete sides as it seemed contrived to stick to just one.

Today i learnt to crack climb and it was hard. Exciting leading it with a fairly minimal rack.

Pretty tricky to start and on rock I was struggling to trust but the top half is superb. Possibly more than Eamonn bargained for.

Great hand crack to slings on tree, the continuation didn't look super.

Sucked in thinking this was an FA but had a feeling it was too good to be true. Nice but sharp hand crack on pitch one with some suboptimal rock up the top and then short ramp and more sharp hand crack on pitch two. Didn't take heaps of gear so I built a belay on stacked wires which was amusing.

Super duper worthwhile! One of the best pitches of The Camel (along with pitch 16) so make sure you do it. Surprisingly steep and pretty unique for the Bluies.

Awesome warm up hand crack. Trad is rad!

It rained and we got very wet.

First climb of the trip and it was great. Went up the flake at the start as width is not our area of expertise. So fun seeing Dad get rattled the whole way up! Slab at the top was more exciting than I was fully expecting

Probably the best long, easy, crack multipitch in Australia! Such wildly good and varied jamming on every pitch, from ring locks all the way to offwidthing and tight chimneys at the top. We did most of it in approach shoes but there is one section on pitch three and pretty much all of pitch four where climbing shoes makes life much easier. Our rack was double cams from 0.3 to 3 with a single 4 and two extra 2s. This was more than enough gear and in reality you could probably just have singles from 0.3 to 0.5. We also had nuts but only placed a few to justify our having brought them.

In regards to taping, it is hugely unnecessary on this climb. The route is so slabby that you rarely have to weight your jams in any meaningful way, so leave the tape or gloves at home and use it as an opportunity to improve on your technique.

All up a completely excellent experience with the light rain that flavoured the day keeping the scorching sun away.

I totally love this shit. Easy but thought provoking climbing up an intimidating line with some exciting gear. One of my most enjoyable recent climbing experiences for sure! Radness. (Pretty much an onsight but I had rapped over the top of it twice coming off other routes so we'll call it a flash.)

Linked into the top pitch of this via Genesis for a great long pitch.

Brilliant climb marred only by the block you can stem out to for a lot of it. I found the wide more exciting than I expected. Well worth it.

Worth doing if you’re out at Mental Physics. A fun, heady slab. Also done as one giant pitch.

Repeat with Dad. He got this clean on second which isn't bad for someone who has only climbed two days (at Mt. Buffalo) in the past 10 months or so.

High point on your proj then multi pitch into the evening with ya Dad. Classic!

Climbed scarily on just the wires we had left in the bottom of our bags and Neils #2 cam. Really nice and obvious line and pretty clean. It might have been done previously but it didn't seem so. Did this because the line for Indian Pacific was long and I didn't want to get in the way of other's sendage attempts and i had big plans for the following day so I wanted to save some skin. The monorail looks so mega though, I'll definitely be back for it.

Very very R. A fall from the incredibly sandbagged crux move pulling through the roof would be terrible, I was happy to be on second for it. Zack ended up building a belay due to rope drag and I did an unprotected second pitch of friction to the anchors. Tobin Sorensen was a mad man.

Only climbed to the double bolt belay - some good sequences at the bottom and top marred by a small forest and choss garden in the middle - a good adventure though

Super straightforward and quite nice. Not particularly hard but a good warm up for what lies ahead.

A wonderful way to spend an evening. We watched the sunset on top with a few beers. Sublime.

I went up and took a whip on my tooth brush, Eric whipped on a beer can. Then I seconded it. Fucking burly!