Ascents as Greenpoint as sport by John Pitcairn

Gear within half a metre of every bolt.

New Year's Day and hardly anyone here? Unbelievable. A much more absorbing route on gear.

Perfectly good gear close to every bolt. Took the left-hand crux (17).

There's perfectly decent gear all the way with a miniscule runout to the anchor. Crux getting out of the crack and over the lip. Solid 16 or soft 17?

And as promised, it goes on gear. Decent pro for the boulder crux, a bit trickier low down.

Couldn't find my rock shoes, climbed in chunky approach shoes, certainly upped the pucker factor on the moss. Gear a bit sparse at top. I never need to do this again.

Placing gear for Greer to second and have a look. Lots of options.

Soft rock, stitch it up. Top wants a really big hex, #11-12. Must get one.

Take a big hex next time.

There's gear. It's not great gear but it'll do. A #3 cam would probably go in the drill hole but I didn't take it up, duh.

Cleaning the TR anchor. Cams in pockets.

Went up in the evening to see if there would be a link pitch on gear into The Sufferer And The Witness, allowing a full gear route to the very top of the bluff. There would be, but it would be short chossy and pretty average, probably need a hand rope, and cleaning it would rain crap on everything below. Effort best spent elsewhere. Linked P1-2, forgot Gareth's rope is now 56m and had to get down in 2 abseils.

Arapiles refresh, stitch 'er up, nuts, totems, hex.

Fun trad warmup.

There is a ton of gear from first bolt onward. Mostly nuts but totems in pockets pretty useful.

Goes on gear, with a couple of runouts. Probably could have hunted around and found more.

Wind down part 2: two pink tricams, red and yellow totem basics, thread, bomber #1 C4.

Wind down part 1: all five tricams and a red totem basic. Much more fun on gear. Then dropped the rope and had to scramble off the back in shame.

On gear because why not? You could put a lot of pro in this. Would be a decent first trad lead, with bolts available for sanity.

I've climbed this before on bolts, goes well enough on gear which starts small but becomes more heartening the higher you go.

2 hexes, 2 small nuts.

Plenty of gear in the thin crack, avoid cams in the wide crack at left. Nice.

It totally goes on gear, and the stances are solid. RPs useful for the top crack. PS: it's more like 17.