John Pitcairn

May possibly have done this a long time ago, not sure. Really nice thoughtful slab moves, highly recommended but perhaps not if 16 is your limit.

Unpumped, another go after watching grant's lefty compressed finish. Longish fall off that. Reaching right definitely better for me. 4 times through the top overhang by now, enough.

Made the start harder than needed, got fairly pump through the rest, fell off at the top crux. Got through next go but hard to clip the anchor due to mucho pumpo. Any suggestion this might be 18 is laughable.

Nah. Didn't get to the lip. A pad wouldn't be a bad idea.

Not bad but not 2 stars. Think left.

Pretty exposed on the arete, nice lead Tim. Don't go left before clipping all the bolts to reduce the rope drag. Just made it off through the goats before dark.

Felt reasonably sustained.

An experimental traverse to hang under the crux bulge was not a good idea. Reversed that then did the proper move. Quite a tenuous nervy move rightward above the bulge will get you going.

Much better effort. Balancy leftward crux move, get your hand out of there!

Fun arete

My kinda thing, a bit old-school and bloody great. No explicit thrutching that I remember, but plenty of bridging, jamming and weirdness, reasonably sustained. 2.9 stars. Used a #4 C4 (save it for later if you only have one) and several hexes, one of which my second needed to clip to a loop dropped from above for easier retrieval on abseil. Great climb to finish the trip.

Fun linkup, pitches 1 and 3 are highlights. Got stuck behind a party of our elders and betters at the tennis court but shade was available.

Pumpy indeed, and hot rock made it very sweaty. Good gear, and short enough to clip crux cams direct.

After Anna's Kachoong siege photo session. Deliberately didn't watch Frankie and Anna earlier, managed to make the left face awkward with an undercling traverse then didn't protect the right face traverse enough (ie at all). I'm told this is great, and none of the moves are hard, but a traverse through a corner really doesn't float my boat much.

Could have had more gear in the crux ShiChang ... really fun and more of an overhang than it looks from the ground.

Shade! Fun crack with plenty of face holds but I reckon 6 would be a sandbag. Another top rope setup for Rosie, all good.

Almost 2 stars I reckon. Nice climbing.

Setting up a top rope for Rosie's first Arapiles route. It gave her no trouble. Getting the big hex out of the anchor gave me some.

Enjoyable. A good old-fashioned P1 jam bridge grunt followed by a fingery start to P2, nice high position at sunset.

Rapped in to do P2 only. Fantastic wee route, took the left option with a couple of sneaky overhanging cruxes above good gear and an exciting top out (may have neglected to traverse R).