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Grade Route Gear style Quality
Sun 30th Sep 2018 - Boomerang
Boomerang Slabs
17 15 Woomera Sport 20m Good
Couldn't see the top anchors to decided to lead it and hopefully find them. Hard for the grade,felt more like a 17. Great climbing,a few holds snapped and felt a bit sketch. And again quite far back for top rope, bring long rigging rope.

 
17 Hunting Spear Sport 20m
Very cruisy for the grade, felt more like a 14. Bolts are VERY Far back. Bring cordellete or rigging rope for top rope anchor. 240 Sling and 2x120cm slings not quite long enough.

 
Mon 7th May 2018 - Elanora Heights
Feather Wall
18 17 A Turkey Named Trevor - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 19m, 8 Average
Needs lots of cleaning up. Good moves just needs some real gardening. It could have finished on the last bolt. Didn't bother clipping anchors, just lowered of last bolt. Uneccesary rope drag for little pleasure. Would be great in 3-4 years time.

 
17 Feathers - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 18m, 8 Good
Also needs more ascents. Nice aesthetic route needing more traffic.

 
Mon 7th May 2018 - Elanora Heights
Main Wall
23 24 Cyrus The Virus (Osiris) - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 15m, 8 Very Good
Fun! The bottom holds are seeping pretty bad. Real hard to get this clean as it's so wet. Need to bring a rag and extra chalk, or just skip second draw. The top half of the climb is stellar! Would still love to come back and get this despite the seeping madness down low. Fun powerful moves to the anchors!

 
Mon 7th May 2018 - Elanora Heights
Heist Wall
19 20 Straight For The Safe - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 12m, 7 Good
Would be great if longer! This wall clean up real nice

 
18 17 Room With A View - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 10m, 7 Good
Good not sure if I was on the right climbs. Bit confusing with no toppo and many bolts and what looks like multiple start points for the climbs. Apart from bein confused about what I was it it was all good!!

 
Sun 6th May 2018 - Nowra
The Grotto Cliffline The Grotto Proper
20 Spinning Blades of Steel Sport 9m Classic
Jugs for days!

 
21 Bedtime Teddy Sport 8m Very Good
Awesome! Really stoked to get this. Mega pumpy. One crux sequence in the middle and the rest is jugs and heel hooks.

 
17 L'Arch Sport 16m, 5 Very Good
The flake and the wall next to flake sounded super hollow, apart from that it was an awesome climb!

 
Sat 5th May 2018 - Nowra
Thompson's Point Betty Blue Area
24 Betty Blue Sport 20m Mega Classic
Awesome! Got all the moves, just gotta put it together. Such a solid climb. Stoked!

 
Sat 5th May 2018 - Nowra
Thompson's Point The Grease Cave
23 Pulling On the Porcelain Sport 12m Very Good
Awesome climbing very pumpy and technical to begin and then swinging on jugs to he end. Didn't quite have it to link it all up.

 
Sat 5th May 2018 - Nowra
Thompson's Point Orca Area
18 Orca Sport 25m, 8 Classic
Mega! Real fun

 
18 Korca Sport 24m, 7 Very Good
Not as good as Orca

 
Sat 5th May 2018 - Nowra
Thompson's Point Descent Gully Walls
14 Turtle Wall Sport 17m, 7 Classic
Awesome climb! Did I heard someone say best 14 in Aus

 
15 Santa's Little Helper Sport 15m, 6 Average
Mon 23rd Apr 2018 - Wahroonga Rocks
Abseil Wall/Main Wall
15 HJ - with Jacob Tarasenko Trad 6m Very Good
Good climb with good gear

 
21 Project Sam 3 - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport Classic
First time trying This. The moves went a lot easier than expected. Lovely sequence

 
Mon 23rd Apr 2018 - Wahroonga Rocks
South West Wall
21 Wave Runner - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 10m, 2 Very Good
Forgot some of the beta for this one. And maybe a bit sandbagged. Still a great climb

 
17 Cool Running - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 10m, 2 Very Good
Good climbing. Short but sweet.

 
Mon 9th Apr 2018 - Berowra
Positive Ape Factor Area
14 Kenneth's Climb - with Jacob Tarasenko Trad 10m Good
All on nuts and hexes in 33 degree heat! Nice climb

 
22 Positive Ape Factor - with Jacob Tarasenko Trad 12m Very Good
Had a crack on top rope to sus it out, super cruisey to th crux. Didn't ge the reach for the direct and the variant looks nails as well. Would be a real interesting one on lead

 
Mon 9th Apr 2018 - Berowra
Ladder of Gloom Area
19 Ladder of Gloom - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 12m, 4 Very Good
Rpt. Always classic

 
22 Ladder of Death - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 10m, 5 Good
Had a few shots at the Dyno but couldn't quite get it before my wrist blew out. Even after the dyno the moves are pretty stiff

 
19 21 Savage Cabbage - with Jacob Tarasenko Trad 8m Good
Placed gear in rap, small nuts. Really nice climb, awesome movement. Got caught up in the crux near the top and had rest

 
16 18 Stone Grotties - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 8m
Thu 5th Apr 2018 - Middle Cove
Harold Reid Reserve Middle Cove Crag
23 Grannies From Hell - with sam darley Sport 10m, 3
fun! great sequence

 
18 20 Z - with sam darley Trad 10m
strenuous!! but super awesome

 
16 Ringo's Revenge - with sam darley Sport 10m, 2
21 UK Rootfest - with sam darley Sport 10m
Mon 19th Mar 2018 - The Stables
The Stables
26 Jazz Maverick Sport 10m
20 Bluntman - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 8m Classic
Rpt. Great climb!

 
19 Chronic - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 10m Classic
Good juggy climbing, following mostly up the left side of the arĂȘte.

 
18 Bunsen Honeydew - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 10m Good
fun

 
23 Blabbering Fool - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 10m, 3
Faffing hard and quite sharp. Thin punchy start. To a funky finish. Dogged it quite hard on the draws. Was the last climb of the day

 
18 Dissociative Fugue - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 10m
Fun climb, harder if you stay right at the first bolt/mantle

 
Mon 12th Mar 2018 - Blue Mountains
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Herbaceous Gully
16 Tol - with Jacob Tarasenko Trad 50m Mega Classic
Epic climbing! Linked P1 and 2 then ran out of cams to do a mega pitch. so we bailed of left at the ledge to finish up Tal. awesome crack. eats up 1s and 2s.

 
Mon 12th Mar 2018 - Blue Mountains
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag
15 Fuddy Duddy - with Jacob Tarasenko
1 15 95m lead by Sam Small
2
3
Trad 95m
we went off route for this. instead of climbing the giant pillar we went up on the face to the right of it. this led to a very run out pitch of about 35m. we came to a ledge with two old bash in carrots. and after scoping out the corner past the arete, we chose to bail as it looked like we needed quite big gear which we didn't have. probably a BD 5 or 6. first time backing off a route so was a good lesson to learn, will definitely come back. the rest of the climb looks epic!

 
13 Cave Climb - with Jacob Tarasenko Trad 50m Classic
great climb, link P1 and P2 which made for some heinous rope drag, but was still manageable. the cave is a cool feature. reminds me a bit of watchtower crack.

P1+P2 = Sam P3 = Sam

 
Fri 9th Mar 2018 - Mt Ku-ring-gai
Fossil Wall
16 Vanstone the Vampire - with laura Sport 7m, 2
Very tricky for a 16

 
20 The Mind has Mountains - with laura Sport 12m, 3 Very Good
Took a few falls figuring out the crux

 
18 Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Wicked Wedgie Woman - with laura Sport 11m, 3 Very Good
Top climb

 
16 Legoland - with laura Sport 15m, 4 Average
16 Elbow Abrasions - with laura Sport 15m, 4 Average
Mon 5th Mar 2018 - Berowra
Bullet Hole Wall
21 Looks Poxable - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 15m, 4
Mon 5th Mar 2018 - Berowra
Glamorpus Area
23 Scones of Doom - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 15m, 4 Classic
Such a good climb! Did this at the end of the session as it started to rain. Only had 1 crack at it but keen to come back and red point it. Rested between the second and third bolt

 
20 Zooloft - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 12m, 6 Classic
Got the rope stuck going around the arĂȘte and got yanked off the wall.

 
Sat 3rd Mar 2018 - Narrabeen
Slabs
18 Manic - with laura and el Sport 17m, 4 Good
16 Ag Science - with laura and el Sport 18m, 4
18 A - with laura and el Sport 10m, 4 Average
Wed 21st Feb 2018 - Berowra
Bullet Hole Wall
21 Looks Poxable Sport 15m, 4
X3

 
18 Mental Fatigue Sport 13m
X4

 
Wed 21st Feb 2018 - Berowra
Blackboard Wall
21 Palm Sunday Sport 15m, 3
Mon 5th Feb 2018 - Berowra
Positive Ape Factor Area
19 Wall Thing - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 12m, 3 Very Good
Rpt. Getting very hot by this point

 
Mon 5th Feb 2018 - Berowra
Bullet Hole Wall
21 Mental Fatigue Direct Start - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 12m, 4 Classic
Rpt.

 
18 Mental Fatigue - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 13m
Rpt.

 
Mon 5th Feb 2018 - Berowra
Cave of Soap
20 Luv Handles - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 12m, 5 Very Good
Didn't have the guts to go through to the 4th bolt, gotta come back, looks great.

 
Mon 5th Feb 2018 - Berowra
Blackboard Wall
17 Yesterday's Heroes - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 12m, 4 Very Good
Rpt

 
17 Yesterday's Heroes - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 12m, 4 Very Good
Warm up

 
Mon 5th Feb 2018 - The Drive In
16 May & Don - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 22m Good
An absolute sandbag! A very stiff 18 if not harder. Whilst pleasant at times there were some very blank and dirty sections. Would be better with a brush. Ended up pulling on the draws near the end

 
18 Manogamy - with Jacob Tarasenko Sport 22m Good
Also another complete sandbag. Same deal as the other. Good thin climbing to about 2/3s then goes completely blank

 
Wed 31st Jan 2018 - Blue Mountains
Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd Bell Supercrag Sunnyside
22 Seamstress - with steve Sport 22m, 10 Mega Classic
Awesome,awesome climb, just completely pumped out at the end of the day.

 
Wed 31st Jan 2018 - Blue Mountains
Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd Bell Supercrag Duck Wall
18 Gosling - with steve Sport 12m, 4
20 Duckling - with steve Sport 12m, 4
21 Duck Tits - with steve Sport 16m
16 Rabbit Season, Duck Season - with steve Sport 12m, 7
Wed 17th Jan 2018 - Joll's Bridge
Lower cliffline
19 No Boots and Panties - with Daniel Butler Sport 35m Very Good
we ended up doing the start of B Jam on bolts then moved over left to the ledge and arete and straight up NBAP. there were zero bolts at the beginning for sport, and Dan put his hand on a snake! we we ended up doing this all in three pitches due to complete uncertainty of what we were actually climbing haha. the final airy top out was epic!

 
17 Pigmy Sex Low Down - with Daniel Butler Trad 10m Very Good
17 Natie Head - with Daniel Butler Sport 8m Average
19 Bad Luck Silverback - with Daniel Butler Mixed trad 12m, 1 Very Good
Fun! With one rest at the bolt

 
Mon 15th Jan 2018 - Wahroonga Rocks
Stag Wall
15 Luna Sol - with Denis Rump Trad 10m
19 Dill Pickles - with Denis Rump Sport 9m, 3 Very Good
Mon 15th Jan 2018 - Wahroonga Rocks
Twin Aretes Area
14 B - with Denis Rump Mixed trad 9m, 1
17 HD - with Denis Rump Mixed trad 10m, 2
always a fun route, not sure about that new carrot? there is the bent one near the lip which has been there for years, and a sheaved of nub further up and back.

 
Sun 26th Nov 2017 - Narrabeen
Waterfall Crag
16 Pocket Rocket - with denis Sport 10m, 5 Good
Short

 
Sun 26th Nov 2017 - Narrabeen
Wakehurst Parkway Steep Side
21 Septic Penguins - with denis Sport 12m, 5 Classic
Mate didn't hit the top so I went for the third time round, can't complain, it's such a good climb!

 
21 Septic Penguins - with denis Sport 12m, 5 Classic
Rope got twisted so couldn't set a top rope up,so led it again

 
17 Flack - with denis Sport 10m, 3 Good
21 Septic Penguins - with denis Sport 12m, 5 Classic
Crux straight off the ground, awesome climbing after that

 
Wed 22nd Nov 2017 - Lindfield Rocks
Walkdown Wall
V1 10 - with Daniel Butler, Mike Ashelford Boulder 4m
V2 11 - with Daniel Butler, Mike Ashelford Boulder 4m
V3 7 - Discontinuous Crack - with Daniel Butler, Mike Ashelford Boulder 4m
V1 9 - Walkdown Crack - with Daniel Butler, Mike Ashelford Boulder 4m
Wed 22nd Nov 2017 - Lindfield Rocks
Abseil Wall
V3 The Tourist Route - with Daniel Butler, Mike Ashelford Boulder 6m Classic
Sat 18th Nov 2017 - Point Perpendicular
Seaside Windjammer Wall
16 Man Overboard - with nathan Trad 26m
17 Grey Mist - with nathan Trad 30m Mega Classic
Awesome climb. It started raining pretty hard half way up, made for an exciting finish!

 
22 Turning Of The Tide - with nathan Mixed trad 30m, 8 Mega Classic
Wow! Best arĂȘte ever. Super pumpy and quite techy, great way to finish the weekend

 
19 Icebird - with nathan Trad 30m Mega Classic
Mega! Was a fight to the end

 
Fri 17th Nov 2017 - Nowra
Bomaderry Creek Cheesedale Cheddar Choss Wall
20 Squeeze Me Hard - with nathan Sport 10m, 4
22 Uncertainty Pleasure - with nathan Sport 8m, 5
24 Gas Krankinstation - with nathan Sport 10m, 7
Pumpy!!

 
20 Squeeze Me Hard - with nathan Sport 10m, 4
22 Uncertainty Pleasure - with nathan Sport 8m, 5
24 Gas Krankinstation - with nathan Sport 10m, 7
Pumpy!!

 
Fri 17th Nov 2017 - Nowra
Bomaderry Creek Cheesedale Cheesemonster Wall
24 Wham Bam Thankyou Maam - with narhan, nathan Sport 8m, 4 Mega Classic
Fri 17th Nov 2017 - Nowra
Bomaderry Creek South Central
23 Crime Is Art - with nathan Sport 10m
19 Silver Hands - with nathan Sport 9m
Tue 14th Nov 2017 - Berowra
Bullet Hole Wall
21 Mental Fatigue Direct Start - with Mike Ashelford, Rebecca Mabbott Sport 12m, 4 Classic
Tue 14th Nov 2017 - Berowra
Glamorpus Area
20 Zooloft - with Mike Ashelford, Rebecca Mabbott Sport 12m, 6 Classic
Tue 14th Nov 2017 - Berowra
Blackboard Wall
17 Yesterday's Heroes - with Mike Ashelford, Rebecca Mabbott Sport 12m, 4 Classic

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