Ascents by Ro-boat having Trad CPR

Nowra comes to the Blueys! In all its horrific glory. Skin destruction, hard pulls and potential ledge falls. But actually a really fun onsight. Yeah - the 2nd bolt is a little scary. Im not sure whether I think its proper dangerous, but with a bad catch I'm sure it could be a leg breaker.

Another epic Taipan struggle. Easily the hardest of the grade I've ever done - four attempts on the route without even getting to the chains. 6 attempts over all. What a great route. Sent on my birthday =)

The start requires trust in rubber, the end trust in gear. Quite an intimidating package all in all. Must have climbed up and down almost 5 times before committing to the final moves.

Ahhh awesome awesome awesome. The reason I drove all the way down to PP - 2/3 of the summer tick list. Great consistant climbing, prime position, plenty of intricate sequences and a gripping finale.

I didn't think the "long move" was particularly long. However, it took me a long time to commit to the final sequence. A single set of cams is sufficient. But i was wishing for one more small cam...

If this was at Piddo it would easily have a million ascents. As good, or better, than any of the classic cracks there.

Awesome, steep, involved climbing, up an inspiring line, on great gear and rock. Essentially the epitome of mega classic. Maybe not quite as memorable as Catching the Wind, but excellent all the same. Done as 2 pitches.

Good - hardest moves are protected by a single bolt. Rest is trad.

Nice, delicate climbing. Good dose of scary to boot.

Exciting! Long run outs between semi decent gear and no visible guarantees that there will be better gear above. Not particularly hard at 20, but I wouldn't want to be anything less than solid at grade 20 blueys face climbing. Rad.

Apart from the super rubbish bolts and being quite contrived - the climbing is dynamic but technical. Pretty cool.

First OS of the grade, not very good conditions for it though (full sun - crux was trying not to slide of the holds). Thin face climbing with enough run-outs to keep you focused.

2nding to strip the gear. Super techy on very small / non-existent feet. Quite intimidating to follow. A very cool looking line though.

A good tradventure. It goes hard, scary, then glorious. First pitch is probably the best "climbing pitch", the start is a single hard pull (hard), followed by nice thin crack (still hard). Pitch two is virtually a solo, very little gear and lots of average rock (not terrible but definitely not great). Pitch 3 is awesome, another hard pull over the lip and the coolest, easy lay back crack (most enjoyable part of the climb, easily). If doing it again I'd take at least doubles of 0.3-0.5 (maybe a few C3s as well), and a single set up to 3 (nothing bigger) and a single set of nuts. P1: dog P2: OS P3: OS Oh, and the bush bash out was horrific, we definitely missed whatever track there is supposed to be. Bush swimming more like it.

Well cracks in the Blueys don't get much better. After saving this for years to send "onsight", I finally worked up the courage to get on it. And punted about 2m off the ground. I then proceeded to thrutch wildly and poorly for the entire route. Luckily - second go it felt like a completely different route and went down easily. Glad to finally tick this test piece.

If this is the "best" 20 slab in the mountains. Then quit climbing slab in the mountains and go climb 20th Century Fox. It's way better. The start is tricky slabbing. And there are way too many different lines of carrots. Rather confusing.

Done in three pitches - a vegitated grovel, a great thrutch, and a solo. I thought it was worth doing, an easy access tradventure with a great 2nd pitch. We took a rack of 0.5-4 with doubles of 0.75-3 and some longish slings for the tree belays.

Its an awesome crack - but not really a crack climb. Sinker gear and mostly face climbing.

Face climbing on awesome bomber rock. Little bit of everything with some super improbable moves for a 19.

Easily the coolest 3D climbing I've done since Thailand. It's for sure the most involved stemming / chimney problem I've tried. P1 is hard and awkward, and damp. Luckily Che lead it. P2 is sweet. Super satisfying to onsight. A complete double rack from 0.5-3 with a single 4 was enough.

Climbed the lower section on top rope after Ewa's attempt. Lead from around 1/2 height - so still got the best parts. Needs a little more traffic to fully clean it up imo, but like Vincent HRD - if it was at Piddo people would froth for it.

Accidentally climbed p1 straight into p2 thinking it was all the same pitch. Didnt seem 21 to me, but I'll take the grade. Seemed more convenient to get my mates to carry my bag out and continue to the top. Linked p1 to p2 and p3 to p4. Enjoyable the whole way - but the best was over by p1.

Seconded p1 and OS p2. Probably the most fun I've had on a single pitch of trad. Not to hardest or the best, but super fun. Reminds me of climbing in Pembroke - exciting face climbing protected (well) by small cams and wires. I found it relatively crimpy, but not cruxy?

I liked it. Good continuous climbing that isnt a really over until its over. That said the first carrot is rather committing and I would definitely stick clip it.

A particularly hard start (that spat me off), turns into a great varied climb. We broke it into two pitches just before the chimney (which is awesome thrutchy fun). Just above this is another hard burly section with a risk of ledge fall, so if its at your limit I would potentially build the belay here instead.

Best route of the day. Linked as 1 pitch. Excellent consistent slabbing with a crux pulling a mini rooflet right up the top. Took a full single rack, placed 1 purple...

Sick. A 6 sort of protects the OW.

The arete on P1 was quite funky and totally worth climbing. The second pitch was less awesome but a reasonable Blueys ramble. Rene didn't like the look of the traverse on the route proper so we did this as bail option.

Rad. Pretty much as good as single pitch trad gets. Siiiick.

Another Taipan bail... Was scoping around for another Taipan project. Top jugs were satched and it's a horribly long runout from the pin to the chains. I also had no idea how to pull the crux move. Super nice flowy climbing though. Maybe one for a future drier day.

Good climbing in both pitches, I found p1 harder than p2 - probably because I'm a horrible crack climber though. Good half way belay stance.

One of the best adventure style climbs I've tried. Slipped out of the spoogey crack down low, lowered to the ground and climb the whole route OS with the first two pieces still placed.

Had an unfortunate foot blow out in a wet pocket, but otherwise climbed as a one hang, placing the gear. A really good line, climbs super well - and not a cake walk even after the initial boulder problem.

Not quite what I intended on climbing - but alright face climbing, then a pretty rad arete section. If the arete section was longer (its only really a couple of moves in total) it would be classic. I took a full rack down, and place 2 cams. Weight training right?

Super consistent cracking. No real crux. But endless climbing. I was really concerned by everyone saying you needed so many 2s. I ended up shuffling mine - and as a result only needed doubles of 1s, 2s and 3s.

So, I didnt read any of the comments here. And it was foolish. Definitely take big gear, at least a couple of 4s and a 5. Probably two 5s and maybe even a 6 could help. Other than that, the first pitch is good but a little contrived feeling. Quite sporting on solid small cams. The belay is a little draggy around the arete. The second pitch is starts awkward hard (easily harder than the first pitch), the carrots leave a lot to be desired. Above that its all gully bash grossness, moss, choss and thrutch. I'd just rap off the tree and climb out via something else.

Well, it's pretty average indeed. Starts off the same "block" as Rutger Hauer, straight into a chossy corner. But enjoy it as it only gets worse! The anchor for P2 is actually just off to the RIGHT half way up the chossy chimney of doom - two carrots on a small stance just outside the chimney (Che belayed off the ring bolt on the LHS of the rooflet, essentially pulling the crux of P3 with 40m of rope drag). P3 is probably "the money", however I think drag could be a problem. P4 has a few solid slab moves for an 18 and some pretty exciting scrub scramble sections up the top. And P5 is literally death on a stick - it might be worth moving the belay to the bottom of P5 (only 1 ring to belay off though). It's only 5m or so of climbing, but wait until you do the grass mantle... I'd take at least a single rack up to BD5.

Banging. My kind of trad.

My favourite moderate multipitch to date. Clean second p1 and onsight p2 and 3. Good rock, good belays and really varied. Fun morning out.

Seconding Rene - easy start into a hand crack that steadily increases in difficulty. Almost came off when the crack thins out at the top.

Its an awesome looking arete, but the arete'ing action is actually quite short. Spicey start, super cruxy around the bolt (which i can just clip on tip toes) and extremely run out towards the top.

Mega. 2nding Rene (great onsight buddy). Long, sustained and varied. Literally a finger crack route with an offwidth section.

Seconding Sam.

Yet another Buffalo classic falls! Lead the first and last pitches. Good rock, pro and climbing. Final hand crack was the highlight for me.

Gets the mega classic. First time Ive been both hands and both feet in a crack. Feeling robbed at 17 though, it was hard.

Just P1 and P2. We rapped off a threaded chockstone avoiding the grim looking top pitch. Wow the traverse under the roof is awkward awesome. Everything else is a little average. Definitely worth doing once. Maybe not twice though.

The action is short, and the crack wider than it looked. But Che threw down and we will eat ice cream!

The middle pitch is gold. Awesome adventure, wild position - one to remember. Only took us two hours of bush bashing and two dodgy tree abseils to get back down...

I am not yet worthy. Fantastic line on the best rock. I fell of quite a bit trying to get used to the slopey/flowy style.

Keeping with the theme of backing off routes in the Grampians - this route is quite a package. The rock quality and climbing down low is awesome, super steep, solid and bomber gear. Gets you pumped and a little frazzled. Then the style changes considerably for the "2nd pitch". It's almost exactly Sydney sea cliff climbing. Choss, sand, spaced bolts, minimal gear, scary traverses. This route must have been horrifying without that top RB, it's scary enough with it...

Broken into two pitches. The curving corner crack is as awesome as it looks!