Ascents as sport by Ashley Felton

That's right: this route is awesome.

Pretty cruisey, but I'm glad that we did it.

Quality route, but too tough for me today.

Excellent! Crimpy as all get-out.

Another nice one. What's with all the highball starts, setters?

Nice, easy for the grade.

Nice, easy warm up.

A spectacular day out. And it will be the whole day. The dicey long traverse was a highlight.

Big, multi pitch fun. Awesome.

Surprisingly easy for the grade, though pumpy. A big, lovely, overhang jug haul.

A good intro to Blue Mountains rock.

I enjoyed this more the time it wasn't pissing down with rain

The route I've had most fun failing to send clean in ages.

Good warmup.

This route is nails, and that's just the easier part. At least it was shady.

Pure quality.

Stalled out on the unsettling top section. Trust those tiny feet.

OK warm-up.

Getting back to stiffer grades, slowly. This was a great confidence-booster today.

Too tired to finish the middle section. At least I worked out the first move again

A messy dog of an ascent on top rope. At least I made it all the way up this time.

Good confidence-booster to come back to this and lead it cleanly.

Working the hard first sequence, to properly tire myself out. Worked!

Couple of boulder problems, some delicate slab, some technical face climbing. The whole package. Wish I was a stronger climber.

First foray back to outdoor lead after a break. Suitably humbling. Good sequences - will come back to this one.

Gotta trust your feet on this. Good moves, grade 20 feels about right.

Redpoint attempt: got through the hard bit smooth-as, then slipped off the finisher. Careless, but not unhappy with this effort.

Had grand plans to practice then pink point this, but was not to be today. But now I know it's secrets!

Tried this on lead to test my hard man credentials. Failed. There's some good climbing here, but it's not good enough to warrant the genuine risk you're putting yourself in to find it. I reckon there's a good reason we don't bolt them like this any more.

Nice warmup. I suspect I spent a bit much time in the corner.

I might have enjoyed this more if it hadn't started raining midway. Nevertheless, some good moves.

Clean as you like.

Totally forgot how to do this

A good route with a variety of moves needed to finish. I should have had it clean the second try, but lost concentration and dogged it. Another day.

Old school climbing! In the sense of widely-spaced bolts, the first of which is a certainty of crippling injury in the event of a fall. I made that okay, and the second, but couldn't figure out the hard move to gain the third. Nonetheless, a great line that I'll come back to.

A very pleasant surprise, way better than expected. If it were at ground level, I'd describe it as "must try".

Technical, interesting and unique moves. Will definitely come back and try doing this cleanly.

The first pitch is fairly straightforward, the second is a lot more challenging (hats off to Kym). Second carrot on the 2nd pitch (after the hanger) is in a butt-clenchingly high spot.

Good fun, though pretty damn tough for the grade. Needs a couple of hangers on the ledge at the natural top of pitch one. The sequence on the pitch two arete felt harder than 19, but I dogged through it eventually.

I like this route, just not in the dark.

I can do pretty much all the individual moves on this, while fresh. The trouble is stringing them all together.

This is nails hard. At least I cheated my way to the top this time.

A pleasant enough warm-up.

After a discouraging practice turn, I was very pleased to make it up this entire route. Superbly atmospheric moves up the arete, followed up by haaard slab moves on tiny features. Thanks to a patient belay partner, and mad props to Kym for doing it clean on lead.

This was a pretty weak couple of goes on the first sequence. The route looks very good, but I might pencil this one in as an aspiration.

Got up with plenty of shouted beta. This is the best of what I climbed today, possibly of the whole crag. Remarkably consistent in difficulty over the entire route.

Fine enough, for slab.

Eh, it was okay. A bit muddy.

I made the blank section look much harder than it should be. Trust the rubber!

Good mix of moves. Easy for the grade.

Setting up/retrieving gear for offspring to have a climb.

Short, but wicked good laybacking until the lip. Plus a good kneebar!

Slabby start, then a cruise up the arete bit. Good warmup.