Ascents as sport by Ashley Felton having distinctroute

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.

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!

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

I had no answer to the second bolt today. It's tough. Aided my way up shamelessly to at least see the top.

This one is probably one of the best routes in this area. Pity I flubbed it so hard!

Tough first move, balancy second, slab to finish. Short but fun.

Hahaha nope. Sandbag much? A single point harder than SSD I don't think.

Easy enough to be relaxing, thin enough to still have interest.

Top rope with (much) rest, but finally got up this with a bunch of coaching. Sequency as heck.

Wild contortions to get through the overhang, then efficient moves to scale the arete. It's pretty doable, once you know how.

Has some interesting and chancy moves in the bottom half. Not ashamed to admit that having the beta made me feel a bit braver.

Got it done cleanly this visit.

Got to the top rest, then couldn't face the razor-sharp holds at the end.

Had a crack at this after watching the others, forgot what they did and brute-forced the first half. It's a fun time - big overhang, and falls are practically risk-free! Pumpy and demanding, requires forearm endurance, good footwork and finger tape. Will return.

Well (over?) protected and enjoyable multi-pitch slab climbing, though without many distinguishing features. A fun day out.

Got this dialed. Very close to a clean ascent today, just some carelessness on the undercling move. I should probably stop putting off the lead and get this done.

Felt tough for the grade, but then I was pretty tired. A tick for another time.