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Grade Route Gear style Quality
Fri 19th Apr 2024 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount Piddington Eternity Area
17 ~18 ★★★ Psychopath - with Ev Trad 28m ★★★ Classic
17 ~18 ★★★ Psychopath - with Ev Trad 28m ★★★ Classic
Leading on pre-placed gear

  
17 ~18 ★★★ Psychopath - with Ev Trad 28m ★★★ Classic
Practicing placing gear

  
15 ★★ The Carthaginian - with Ev Trad 33m ★★★ Mega Classic
Sun 14th Apr 2024 - Blue Mountains
Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd Cosmic County Area Cosmic County Memory Lane
10 ★ Alisons Playhouse - with Gavin Rech Trad 27m ★ Good
15 ★ Bell Bottom Pants - with Gavin Rech Trad 25m ★★ Very Good
11 ★ Scary Monsters - with Gavin Rech Trad 22m ★★ Very Good
11 ★ Scary Monsters - with Gavin Rech Trad 22m ★★ Very Good
Sun 7th Apr 2024 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount York Atomic Punk Area
20 ~21 ★★ Atomic Punk - with Ev Mixed trad 25m, 5 Average
Old bloke fingers not strong enough to pull the crux on this one. Seemed much harder than the grade

  
14 ★★ The Obituary - with Ev Trad 30m ★★★ Mega Classic
Sun 7th Apr 2024 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount York Auntie Jack Area
17 ★★ Viparete - with Ev Trad 30m ★★ Very Good
In hiking shoes to clean (a mistake in retrospect)

  
17 ★★ Viparete - with Ev Trad 30m ★★ Very Good
Really nice route. Only had a few offset nuts so would have enjoyed a full rack of nuts. Didn't use a #4 and all seemed well protectable.

  
Sun 31st Mar 2024 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount York Noodle Wall
14 ★ Thunderfart Trad 35m ★ Good
Sun 31st Mar 2024 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount York Crackle Area
12 ★ Snap Trad 30m Average
Sun 31st Mar 2024 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount York Auntie Jack Area
10 ★ Lishenbak Trad 30m ★ Good
Hiking shoes to clean

  
10 ★ Lishenbak Trad 30m ★ Good
Sat 9th Mar 2024 - Blue Mountains
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag
15 ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - with Ev Trad 95m ★ Good
Wed 28th Feb 2024 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount Piddington Solomon Area
19 ★★★ Gemini - with Ev Trad 51m Average
Wasn't able to cleanly second as I needed to unstuck 3 nuts and a cam. Mostly ok, but very tricky getting into the larger crack due to the width being just slightly larger than fist size.

  
17 ★ Cardiac Arete - with Ev Trad 38m ★ Good
Pitch 2 after finishing Genesis P1. Quite a balancy affair with small but positive pockets

  
17 ★★ Genesis - with Ev Trad 58m ★ Good
17 ★★ Genesis - with Ev Trad 58m ★ Good
Start and end of P1 are really nice and well protected. The middle crack was tough and needed #5 cams, but still quite thrutchy to get moving

  
Wed 28th Feb 2024 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount Piddington Hocus Pocus Area
8 ★★ Hocus Pocus - with Ev Mixed trad 49m, 15 ★★ Very Good
Led as one very long pitch with pack on. Good weight training

  
Sun 11th Feb 2024 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount Piddington Eternity Area
18 ★★★ The Eternity - with Ev Trad 22m ★★★ Classic
Gear used - double #0.3 to #0.5, triple #0.75, #1, #2 and single #0.2 and #3. A few medium wires but no offsets or hexes for this route.

  
18 ★★★ The Eternity - with Ev Trad 22m ★★★ Classic
18 ★★★ The Eternity - with Ev Trad 22m ★★★ Classic
Time to finally get on this nice route and figure out how my jamming game is

  
Sat 3rd Feb 2024 - Blue Mountains
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag
13 ★★★ Cave Climb Trad 50m ★★★ Mega Classic
Sat 3rd Feb 2024 - Blue Mountains
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Herbaceous Gully
16 ~17 ★★★ Tol Trad 50m ★ Good
Very short laybacking section on P2 and early in P3. Both are a little tricky and perhaps difficult to place gear whilst in those areas. Did as 2 pitches

  
Sat 27th Jan 2024 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount York Dragon's Tooth Area
12 ★★ Dragon's Tooth Trad 30m ★★ Very Good
12 ★★ Dragon's Tooth Trad 30m ★★ Very Good
Really fun route. Used #5 at the start which was the crux of the route. Very cruisy after about 5 metres. Crack seemed to like #4 and #3s most of the way. Used a large boulder for an anchor and then walked back down. Would have loved some lower offs at the top

  
Sat 13th Jan 2024 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount Piddington Slape Area
16 ★★★ The Spartan - with Ev
1 14 16 Second lead by Ev
2 16 24 Trad lead by Geoff Cooper

Made it up the offwith ok, but struggled to sustain the squeezy traverse due to the very high heat and humidity. Hands kept slipping off the holds

3 14 10 Second lead by Ev
Mixed trad 50m, 4 ★ Good
Sat 13th Jan 2024 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount Piddington Hornes Point
14 ★ Yellow Crack Trad 25m ★★ Very Good
Sat 13th Jan 2024 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount Piddington Descent Gully Area
14 ★ Great Unwashed Direct Start Trad 20m ★★ Very Good
Wed 15th Nov 2023 - Blue Mountains
Blackheath Area Mt Boyce Shock Wall/Fire Bug Mall
16 ★★ Gold Star Pitch 1 - with Ev Trad 30m ★★★ Classic
Really awesome climb. Easy to protect and a lot of super nice holds

  
Wed 15th Nov 2023 - Blue Mountains
Blackheath Area Mt Boyce Walk-Down Gully
14 ★★ Gently Mine - with Ev Trad 50m ★★★ Mega Classic
Pitch 1 only

  
Wed 15th Nov 2023 - Blue Mountains
Blackheath Area Mt Boyce Shock Wall/Fire Bug Mall
15 ★★ Wild is the Wind - with Ev
1 15 40m Second lead by Ev
2 15 20m Trad lead by Geoff Cooper
3 14 20m Second lead by Ev
Trad 80m ★★ Very Good
Will bring 90 degree bolt plates next time. Too stressful putting wires on the large carrots through the middle of the second pitch

  
Sat 11th Nov 2023 - Blue Mountains
Leura Sublime Point West Face (Main Area) Middle Cliffs Iliad Buttress
16 ★★ The Iliad - with Ev
1 12 27 Second lead by Ev
2 16 27 Trad lead by Geoff Cooper
3 16 13 Trad lead by Geoff Cooper
4 15 20 Second lead by Ev
Trad 87m ★ Good
Mon 2nd Oct 2023 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
13 ★★ Tom Thumb Mixed trad 170m, 10 ★★★ Classic
Sat 16th Sep 2023 - Barrenjoey
Southwest
11 ★ Orgasmic Trad 25m ★ Good
18 ★★ Marsupial Smearer Mixed trad 20m, 2 ★★ Very Good
14 ★ Carrie Bradshaw Mixed trad 12m, 3 ★★ Very Good
13 ★ Two Steps Forward Mixed trad 20m, 1 ★ Good
Sun 3rd Sep 2023 - Blue Mountains
Blackheath Area Mt Boyce Abseil Gully
10 ★ Sweet Irish Trad 49m ★★★ Classic
12 ★★ The Eyrie Mixed trad 45m, 3 ★★★ Mega Classic
Sat 19th Aug 2023 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Zig Zag Black Bart's Wall
13 ★★★ Honey Dip Mixed trad 28m, 1 ★★★ Classic
Sat 19th Aug 2023 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Zig Zag Amok Time Gully
14 Brobdingnag Trad 25m ★ Good
Sat 19th Aug 2023 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Zig Zag Rip Van Winkle Wall
16 ★★ Van Trad 44m ★★★ Classic
Sun 25th Jun 2023 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area New York East (Right) Side
14 Two Carrots Red Mixed trad 10m, 2 ★★ Very Good
14 Two Carrots Red Mixed trad 10m, 2 ★★ Very Good
15 Two Carrots Yellow Mixed trad 10m, 2 ★★ Very Good
Sun 25th Jun 2023 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area New York West (Left) Side
18 ★ Synchronicity Mixed trad 15m, 3 ★★ Very Good
17 ★ Factotum Mixed trad 15m, 4 ★★ Very Good
17 ★ Shovelling Out the Paupers Trad 15m ★ Good
Quite strenuous with the laybacking. Tough to find good feet in the small crack

  
14 ★ Winter Slab Trad 12m ★★ Very Good
Started a bit right of the block. Nice protection.

  
Sat 17th Jun 2023 - Watagans
Monkey Face Central Gully
12 ★ Chutney Trad 13m ★★ Very Good
Sat 17th Jun 2023 - Watagans
Monkey Face Middle Crag
15 ★ Crimson & Clover Trad 14m Average
ok to about two thirds height. Didn't know the way and the fused seams were uninviting so bailed

  
Sun 11th Jun 2023 - Point Perpendicular
Bayside Lemon Sorbet Area
15 Vomitorium - with Carl Deininger, Arianne Reis Trad 12m Average
Hyper-grovel. Less skin now. Nice route

  
16 ★ Psychic Aberration - with Gavin Rech Trad 35m ★ Good
Sun 11th Jun 2023 - Point Perpendicular
Bayside Hello Dolly Wall
15 ★★ Aeolus - with Ken Thrash, Gavin Rech Trad 30m ★★ Very Good
Sun 11th Jun 2023 - Point Perpendicular
Bayside The Yardarm
14 ★★ Over the Yardarm - with Ken Thrash, Gavin Rech Trad 30m ★★★ Classic
Sat 20th May 2023 - Queanbeyan area
White Rocks
15 ★ Inky Trad 13m ★ Good
14 ★ Bee Line Trad 12m ★ Good
14 ★ Blinky Trad 13m ★★ Very Good
13 ★ Florin Trad 16m ★ Good
9 ★ Intro Trad 14m ★★ Very Good
15 ★ Tiny Tower Trad 15m ★★ Very Good
Sat 6th May 2023 - Blue Mountains
Leura Mt Hay
13 R ★★ Margarine Ridge Trad 380m Crap
Approach is long and particularly strenuous on the loose scree heading off the canyon track to the base of the climb. We didn’t descend far enough and traversed into the top of pitch 2.

Pitches 3 to 7 are quite good. Some run out sections but climbing was quite nice. Rope drag tends to be the main struggle with long pitches even using double ropes.

Quite disappointing that pitches 8 to 10 are much worse for climbing style, rock quality and gear placements. Pitch 8 was terrifying as we ended up putting all our lives in the hands of the thread belay. Rope drag caused a big problem and delayed the process - leading to pitches 9 and 10 being done after sundown. These involved a lot of dirt thrutching.

I led pitches 3a, 5 and 8.

Left carpark at 8:30am, returned at 6:00pm.

It appeared as though there is an escape from the top of pitch 4 back to the scree slope.

Should be graded slightly higher and with an X rating as there were some moments where a fall would have been extremely serious.

Compared to Tom Thumb this has a much harder approach and the climbing is nowhere near as good.

  
Mon 10th Apr 2023 - Blue Mountains
Katoomba Area Ngula Bulgarabang/ Radiata Plateau The Nest Main Area
16 ★★ Jobless High School Student Mixed trad 20m, 3 ★★ Very Good
Sun 5th Mar 2023 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount York Deep Freeze Area
11 ★★ Second Thoughts Trad 25m ★★★ Classic
11 ★★ Second Thoughts Trad 25m ★★★ Classic
Would be a nice route to learn trad. Easy stemming and jamming. Used #0.75, #1 and doubles of #2 and #3

  
18 ★★ Last Call for Fame and Glory Mixed trad 16m, 6 ★ Good
Used a #0.5 and #0.75 together at the break. Went more smoothly than I expected with good crimpers and pockets

  
Sun 5th Mar 2023 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount York Noodle Wall
14 ★ Thunderfart Trad 35m ★ Good
Sat 4th Feb 2023 - Point Perpendicular
Bayside Hello Dolly Wall
15 ★★ Aeolus Trad 30m ★★ Very Good
Challenging climbing. Beta not difficult but avoiding rope drag and potential ground/ledge fall in the travese was the main obstacle. Nice flake at the top for hand jams and small cams

  
Sat 4th Feb 2023 - Point Perpendicular
The Mild West T-Shirt Gully
7 ★ T-shirt Trad 10m Average
10 ★ Polo Shirt Trad 10m ★★ Very Good
Sat 4th Feb 2023 - Point Perpendicular
Bayside The Yardarm
9 ★ Dracophyllum Corner Trad 30m ★★ Very Good
Sat 14th Jan 2023 - Blue Mountains
Leura Sublime Point West Face (Main Area) Middle Cliffs Iliad Buttress
16 ★★ The Iliad Trad 87m Average
Led P1 and P4. P1 was actually not bad even with a few bushes. Start of P2 was highly risky on lead as the flake is flexing a lot and can't hold a wire. Punchy start and awful blocks to land on. Rusty piton and #0.5 in a pocket further left in the roof is the only pro. P3 start was quite punchy and hard to place gear but it worked (#0.3, #0.4 and #0.75). P4 was awkward in a way but not too bad.

I would say the grade is a little higher given the 2 cruxes and the level of risk. Some blocks/holds are not easy to trust.

  
Tue 10th Jan 2023 - Woy Woy
Phegans Bay
17 ★ Knife edge Mixed trad 8m, 3 ★★ Very Good
Sun 11th Dec 2022 - Barrenjoey
Southwest
14 ★★ Pledge a Legend Trad 16m ★★ Very Good
11 ★ Orgasmic Trad 25m ★★ Very Good
15 ★★ Crack of Dawn Trad 20m ★★ Very Good
9 ★ Jezebel Mixed trad 11m, 2 Average
16 ★ Professor Wigginsworth's Chunder Bucket Mixed trad 20m, 3 ★★ Very Good
Sat 3rd Dec 2022 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount York Ashes to Ashes Area
4 ~6 ★ Peeceezy Trad 40m Average
One punchy move to mantle, then easy pro following the crack. Lowered from the single bolt to avoid having to walk back down

  
Sat 3rd Dec 2022 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount York Noodle Wall
14 ★ Thunderfart Trad 35m ★ Good
Sat 12th Nov 2022 - Woy Woy
Phegans Bay
17 ★ Knife edge Mixed trad 8m, 3 ★★ Very Good
Sun 6th Nov 2022 - Barrenjoey
Southwest
9 ★ Jezebel Mixed trad 11m, 2 Average
14 ★ Carrie Bradshaw Mixed trad 12m, 3 ★★ Very Good
15 ★★ Crack of Dawn Trad 20m ★★ Very Good
17 ★ Enterprise Variant Mixed trad 15m, 4 ★★ Very Good
Sat 29th Oct 2022 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount Piddington Flake Crack Area
11 ★ Prologue Trad 73m ★ Good
First 2 pitches are good, second 2 pitches are not worth the effort. Vegetated, dodgy pro if any and not great climbing. Might have gone a little off route on pitch 4 by traversing out left for a while and up the slabs

  
15 ★★★ Tombstone Wall Mixed trad 30m, 3 ★★★ Classic
Quite nice on lead. Still a bit spicy through the latter part of the traverse and up to the first bolt.

  
Sat 29th Oct 2022 - Blue Mountains
Mount Victoria Area Mount Piddington Hornes Point
14 ★ Yellow Crack Trad 25m ★★ Very Good
Seconded in hiking shoes. Quite a nice route and not overly chossy. Well protected with a traverse left at the end

  
Sat 15th Oct 2022 - Blue Mountains
Leura The Fortress
13 ★★ Tom Thumb Mixed trad 170m, 10 ★★★ Classic
Rope got stuck on a ledge on first abseil. Walked across to belay and did pitch 5 and 6 only. Good to know this is possible without being stranded on the ledge

  
Mon 3rd Oct 2022 - Point Perpendicular
Bayside Bluebeard Area
7 ★ Mixed Platter Trad 15m ★★ Very Good
7 ★ Mixed Platter Trad 15m ★★ Very Good
Mon 3rd Oct 2022 - Point Perpendicular
Bayside The Yardarm
14 ★★ Over the Yardarm Trad 30m ★★★ Classic
16 ★★ Sympatico Trad 20m ★★ Very Good
Mon 3rd Oct 2022 - Point Perpendicular
Bayside Bluebeard Area
7 Lobster Pot Trad 6m ★★ Very Good
Sun 25th Sep 2022 - Mt Gibraltar
Slab Walls
20 ★★ Roomba style Trad 45m ★★ Very Good
Seconded in approach shoes. Quite a nice route although gear is very small and spaced

  
Sun 11th Sep 2022 - Bungonia Gorge
Reflux Crag
16 ★ Slaba Daba Doo Trad 20m ★★ Very Good

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