Ascents by Chris Ahlgren

Steep and sustained at the grade nearly the whole way. Great little route. Need to come back and get it clean.

Nice route, all around. The final pitch has one spicy bit, but with that said it's also a pretty damned soft 20. It's a major stretch to call this a trad route, being that I placed 4 pieces of gear on the entire route.

Down climb free solo from the top of Ross Miller Route. Def the way to go. A little spicy in a few sections but nothing unmanageable

Great moderate route that leads up a particularly cool corner (p4). A good few moments with nice exposure but never scary. All cruxes are very well (too well?) protected so if 19 is a tough grade for you, go for it. Did it in 5 pitches by easily linking pitches 2&3, 5&6, 7&8. Back clean, use slings and skip bolts on easy terrain and the rope drag is never bad.

Lead every pitch

Love the airy pull over the chockstone at 3/4 height.

I found this route to be a lot easier and a lot less scary than I had imagined. Lachlan got his bit of trad practice by leading the first 3, though he only placed 1 BD .75 on p1 (which he could have done without), and a few more pieces on p2, one nut and one cam, which only really called for 1 piece but placed the 2nd for practice. p3 is scarier for the 2nd since the last bolt before the belay has a committing step out into space with bad hands. The leader will have just clipped when making this move while the 2nd will have just UNclipped, thus looking at a nasty penji fall if they blow it. Def make sure your 2nd is confident for this pitch. We simlued the rest of the climb with me leading to polish off the route, all of which is easy climbing from there, in good time. Managed the route in about 2.5hrs (I think).

Too short, boring and easy to be worth the time unless you're a total beginner.

Too short to be worth the while, unless you are a total beginner.

About 1 meter or worthwhile climbing. Otherwise too short, too easy, and all-around boring.

Dogged this shit out of it on TR. Super fun climbing. Just gotta get stronger to got for the redpoint

Too fat. Had to hang a bunch at the crux.

Awesome moderate climb on solid rock. Lots of slab, so bring your buffed calves. Simuled on the sharp end for the first 9 pitches, linking pitches 1-9 into one mega 290m pitch. So fun! Plus, we got to skip all the awkward and uncomfortable belay stances. Managed to do it in 2hr31sec. 32 sec too slow! Reracked at the bottom of the tenth and lead to the top. Could have linked it all but wasn't sure what gear I needed. Used ~25 draws and a few mid sized cams plus skipped a good few bolts on easy ground. Used one draw and 3 cams (BD .75, 1, 2) for pitch 10. Pulled through the outside of the overhanging chimney for the direct finish.

Really fun three dimensional climbing

A long time dream come true. Don't shit your pants on the last pitch.

So fun pulling through the mini roof. Just barley stayed dry enough during the rain.

A really cool climb with a few committing moves at halfway. 1 hang.

Cleaned it for my lady. Second time up and a little top rope courage and I got it clean.

A real heart racer. Extremely fun start to half way where the business begins. Crimper city! 1 hang

Found this route and everything else at the grey slab to be boring and forgettable.

Found this route and everything else at the grey slab to be boring and forgettable.

Found this route and everything else at the grey slab to be boring and forgettable. Didn't notice the run out.

Only climbed the first pitch. Super duper fun and stayed perfectly dry in the rain.

Absolutely a must do. Sure the climbing is easy but just so damn fun. The climbing is varied, exposed and in such an amazing position. Lead all pitches. Linked 1 & 2 (only placed 3 cams) then wanted to link the final 2 pitches to the top but ran out of draws. Take at 16 draws if you want to link the last 2 to turn this into a 3 pitch climb (recommended)

Epic day out. Linked this bad boy to the Governor. 15.5 hours car to car. Ouch.

Every inch of my body hurts today, but damn it was worth it. Psych couldn't have been higher as I clipped the chains after climbing the final pitch of 22 onsight. Thought the corner at the start of p12 was especially fun. The crux is not the climbing itself put pulling those moves with raw fingers and screaming toes at the end of such a long day. Pulled on some draws when seconding cause I'm a lazy bastard.

Swung leads with Lachie. He took odds I took evens.

Severely botched the approach. Took us 5 hours! Managed to do the climb in just under 7hrs. Car to car in 15.5 hours. 2 shattered men.

End of the day, no #4, top roped it like a baby.

Amazing climbing that would be way harder without the perfectly positioned feet. I was gassed by frothing like punter at the top of this one. 1 take and pulled on a piece to clip.

1 slip trying to lieback when I should have just jammed it. Botched the onsight attempt Crack six is a bit trickier for those of us with monster hands.

One of the best single pitches of my life. Amazing jamming and pro from bottom to top.

One of the best single pitches of my life. Amazing jamming and pro from bottom to top.

This climb is awesome: climb inside the wall. It wad nice to get the serious grunting out of the way down low. The chimney to the top provides many options for gear and jamming.

Super dirty top and pretty tough for the grade, but I liked the awkward deep jamming.

Too bad it's so short! Balancy and thin. Good fun. Also, I only counted 4 BRs.

Meant to climb "tower of power". Ooops. No wonder that felt so hard! Hang at the 2nd FH before I got the nerve to run it out to the first bit of descent gear 4m up.

Wait... I think I climbed Witch Hunt (21) from the top of Bloodsucker's first pitch... oops. No wonder that felt so hard! I'm leaving this tick here to warn prospective climbers to beware and not jump on Witch Hunt accidently. Luckily grade 21 is just doable for me, but if 16 is at or near your limit, this note is for you.

Pretty fun. Perfect nut placements. Linked to "Tower of Power".

Wooo! So psyched to tick this one. Probably my new favorite route at KP. Sustained. Pretty thrilling climbing up to that first bolt!

Thin technical climbing then a small roof gains you the main wall where the climbing is pretty straight forward, save a few tricky bits to keep things interesting.

Another fantastic pitch from an unbelievable position. If you can get a mate to the Cliff Top Lookout with a telephoto lens you can snap some incredible pics. The climbing starts technical along the arete then turns amazing overhanging jugs with ass puckering exposure. Get on it!

These routes are not for the faint of heart. If you can handle massive exposure, then these two routes are not to be missed. The liebacking through the corner makes you feel like a sexy climbing god.

An absolute amazing adventure. Conditions were pretty terrible (high of 9 degrees C, light rain, windy), but I was only in town for the weekend so it had to be done. Walked in as rapping Mirrorball is not advised in windy conditions. turned into quite the bush bash and took us nearly 2 hrs from car to climbing. Lachie linked p1&2 just as the rain really started. Luckily it stopped by the time I started climbing. Fun bouldery start and a bit tricky making the moves around the arete to the belay. The traverse on p3 is pretty exhilarating and again, I found the moves on the arete pretty tricky. We simul climbed the next 2 pitches which is defo the way to go and it made otherwise boring climbing fun. p6 out of the cave was probably the coolest pitch of the route, though p7 is spectacular as well. p8 = whatever, time to get off of this mountian. Amazing climb all around.

Clean twice in a row. BD .4 fits the crack nicely between bolts 3 & 4. Time to get on lead!

Awesome route. I saved it for so long hoping I would come and climb it onsight. Alas, I gave up on that dream and I'm glad I did. Stoked to come back and redpoint it on lead.

Fun little roof. A bit dirty through the middle section.

This climb was awesome! Little bit of everything: steep face, juggy roof, and thin slab finish. Loved it.

Sick route! Such fun moves. 1 hang at the 3rd bolt. Gonna red point this baby the next time I'm here.