Help

Ascents in Robin's Buttress

Searching in:

Ascent filters:

  • Wearable
  • Protection
  • Milestone
  • Journey
-

Route filters:

Climber filters:

Sort by:

Showing 1 - 100 out of 574 ascents.

Grade Route Gear style Crag Quality Climber Date
24
24 Social Lepers (AKA King of Heaven) Trad 85m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Gareth Llewellin
Wed 10th Jan 2007
The second pitch is scarred and hairy.

 
24 Master Blaster Trad 100m Ben Lomond
Dave Hoyle
Wed 7th Jan 2015
Onsoghted on top rope. What a route! Sensational jamming after the crux!

 
24 Master Blaster Trad 100m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Alex Hartshorne
Wed 13th Jan 2016
24 Master Blaster Trad 100m Ben Lomond Classic
Daniel
Fri 18th Jan 2019
Lovely.

 
24 Master Blaster Trad 100m Ben Lomond Very Good
Ashlee Hendy
Tue 8th Jan 2019
24 Master Blaster Trad 100m Ben Lomond
Hunter Cole
Mon 25th Jan 2021
24 Master Blaster (Master Blaster P1)
1 24 100m
Trad 100m Ben Lomond
Josiah Hess
Sat 20th Feb 2021
24 Doug and Squib's Route
1 24 75m
2
3
Trad 75m Ben Lomond
Josiah Hess
Sun 21st Feb 2021
2nd pitch is mega hard finger crack, must have sat 1000 times.

 
26 24 Doug and Squib's Route Trad 75m Ben Lomond Classic
Alex Hartshorne
Sat 6th Mar 2021
Lead placing all gear, laughable at 24.

First pitch is a bit sketchy but fine with small wires.

 
24 King of Heaven (Social Lepers) Trad 85m Ben Lomond Classic
Alex Hartshorne
Sat 6th Mar 2021
24 Master Blaster - with Pete Bovino Trad 100m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Aidan Cox
Sun 13th Mar 2022
The tips layback is indeed firey. If you get through the crux you're rewarded with 20m of glorious perfect hands.

 
24 Hard Master Blaster — 2 attempts Trad 100m Ben Lomond Classic
Brendan Coulter
Sat 17th Dec 2022
Tough! Basically pulled through the crux on onsight, but had the gear on the wrong side and got scared.

Got the toprope tick, but a redpoint would be much harder

 
24 Master Blaster — 3 attempts Trad 100m Ben Lomond
Dylan Tubaro
Sun 15th Jan 2023
Two shots falling quite high up. one just before the hand jams exhausting. Stunning

 
24 Hard Master Blaster — 3 attempts Trad 100m Ben Lomond
Zac Lazatin
Sat 21st Jan 2023
24 Master Blaster - with Zac Lazatin Trad 100m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Martin Brown
Fri 17th Feb 2023
Amazing. Stoked to get the onsight having left this alone for years as I didn't feel ready.

 
24 King of Heaven (Social Lepers) - with Zac Lazatin Trad 85m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Martin Brown
Fri 17th Feb 2023
Absolutely amazing route - a real unrelenting journey; a bit chossy at the top - the full Ben Lomond experience.

 
24 Master Blaster P1 - with Madi R
1 Trad
Trad 100m Ben Lomond Very Good
Chris L
Sat 18th Feb 2023
Tronsite! Seems like the crux is the gear

 
24 Hard Master Blaster — 3 attempts Trad 100m Ben Lomond
Zac Lazatin
Sat 18th Feb 2023
24 King of Heaven (Social Lepers) P1
1 Trad
Trad 85m Ben Lomond
Zac Lazatin
Sat 18th Feb 2023
24 Master Blaster P1 - with Fraser
1 Trad
Trad 100m Ben Lomond Classic
Patrick Munnings
Fri 10th Mar 2023
Ascents don't come much better than this. Really gave it some beans and scraped through to the half way rest where it backs off significantly to a beautiful splitter hand crack to the top. So fun!!

 
24 Master Blaster P1 - with Patrick Munnings
1 Trad
Trad 25m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Fraser
Sat 11th Mar 2023
Pink point flash on Pat's gear. I might have gotten the flash placing gear but on Pat's gear I definitely had more fun!

 
24 Hard Master Blaster Trad 100m Ben Lomond
Zac Lazatin
Sun 26th Mar 2023
24 Master Blaster P1 - with Buster the Booly Bushman
1 Trad
Trad 100m Ben Lomond Classic
The Condawg
Fri 26th Jan 2024
7 degrees and 70km winds stopped my Queensland acclimatised fingers from giving this a lead burn. Decided to aid it because we walked the whole way. Looks nails for 24 but that’s Ben lemon I guess.

 
24 Master Blaster P1 - with Anton Korsun
1 Trad
Trad 100m Ben Lomond
Brandon
Sat 2nd Mar 2024
24 Master Blaster Trad 100m Ben Lomond
Tom Baanders
Wed 8th Feb 2023
23
23 Rajah Eliminate Trad 20m Ben Lomond Very Good
Alastair McDowell
Sat 6th Jan 2018
Unreal

 
23 Darkness Visible - with Issac Lethborg Trad 45m Ben Lomond
Nathanael Hinton
Thu 1st Feb 2018
A poor start by me lead to a slow seconding after a great lead by Issac.

 
23 Rajah Eliminate Trad 20m Ben Lomond Very Good
Ashlee Hendy
Mon 7th Jan 2019
23 Darkness Visible Trad 45m Ben Lomond Classic
Aidan Cox
Sun 22nd Nov 2020
An excellent job of sandbagging by Isaac. He promised easy grade 22 laybacking "the whole way". After an outstanding lead by him I flailed my way up. Probably didn't climb a single metre without falling

 
23 Climbers Variant - with Steve Postle Trad 100m Ben Lomond Classic
Patrick Munnings
Tue 29th Dec 2020
Absolute quality. Unfortunately came off a couple of times but a mega route with fantastically varied climbing.

 
23 Rajah Eliminate - with Mac Labine-Romain Trad 20m Ben Lomond Very Good
Fraser
Sat 7th Jan 2023
Very good climbing, would be a classic at anyother crag. So flowy and beautiful

 
23 Rajah Eliminate - with Fraser Trad 20m Ben Lomond Classic
Mac Labine-Romain
Sat 7th Jan 2023
a nice crack very consistent in the cursed # 0.5 range

 
24 ~24 Climbers Variant
1 Second
2 24 Trad
3 Second
4 Trad
Trad 100m Ben Lomond
Zac Lazatin
Wed 18th Jan 2023
23 Rajah Eliminate - with Zac Lazatin Trad 20m Ben Lomond Very Good
Martin Brown
Sat 18th Feb 2023
A great little test piece. Would be a classic at any other crag.

 
23 Rajah Eliminate Trad 20m Ben Lomond
Zac Lazatin
Sat 18th Feb 2023
23 Climbers Variant - with Sami Trad 100m Ben Lomond
Fraser
Sat 29th Apr 2023
Only 3m or gr23 climbing but the gr20 & 22 pitches are good. Lead the hard pitch but had two hangs, top roped the pitch clean.

 
22
21 22 Defender of the Faith Trad 70m Ben Lomond
muki Woods
Tue 13th Apr 2010
21 22 Defender of the Faith Trad 70m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Gareth Llewellin
Wed 10th Jan 2007
hard and awesome

 
21 Defender of the Faith Trad 70m Ben Lomond Classic
stephen hancock
2007
got pulled up it,oh well

 
21 22 Defender of the Faith Trad 70m Ben Lomond
Dennis Kearnes
Tue 13th Apr 2010
22 Die Nadal Trad 25m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Ian ORourke
Sun 24th Jan 2010
Hard and sustained jamming.

 
22 Die Nadal Trad 25m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Ian ORourke
Tue 26th Jan 2010
21 Defender of the Faith Trad 70m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Ian ORourke
Sun 24th Jan 2010
Owen lead

 
22 Defender of the Faith Trad 70m Ben Lomond
Alastair McDowell
Sat 6th Jan 2018
Awesome

 
22 Defender of the Faith Trad 70m Ben Lomond Classic
Scott Godwin
Tue 23rd Jan 2018
With Graham. 1st pitch only (the hard one), then rapped because we were running out of daylight. Accessed by top roping the rigudon offwidth from the chains on Ramadan. Just barely managed the onsight. I had to fight for this one! Intricate sequences of fingerlocks and pulling on rattly faceholds. We had an incredible sunset on the walk out.

 
22 Die Nadal - with Isaac Lethborg Trad 25m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Scott Godwin
Sun 4th Feb 2018
Fell off with about 5 m to go. Left a trail of blood and tears up the upper half of the crack. This one is unforgiving! It lulls you into a false sense of security early on with lots of edges for your feet and the odd pod for a good jam and a rest, then slowly ratchets up the difficulty as the crack gets just a little bit thinner and all the helpful footers disappear. 3 green cams, 5 red, and 3 yellow (plus some smaller stuff for the bottom) are plenty as long as you manage them right, which I didn't. I'll be back as soon as the skin on my hands has grown back. They look like sausage mince now.

 
22 Die Nadal Trad 25m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Alex Riegelman
Mon 4th Feb 2019
Oh this was so good. So many #1's. Best thin-hands crack I've climbed outside of Indian Creek. Borrow some cams and get on this.

 
22 Die Nadal - with Alice Trad 25m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
topher
Sun 10th Feb 2019
Awesome, took absolutely everything out of me, and was trying not to vomit at the belay. Started in the wrong crack, with wet, slimy crap for 5m, but the main crack is amazing. Most of the crack is super thin hands, with a couple of decent rests, and feet to the R of the crack. Would be have been more comfortable with 4 #1 and 3 #0.75 cams.

 
22 Defender of the Faith Trad 70m Ben Lomond Very Good
Ashlee Hendy
Mon 7th Jan 2019
22 Die Nadal - with Scott Godwin, Will Trad 25m Ben Lomond Classic
EJ Budarick
Sun 8th Dec 2019
Definitely depends on hand size. A lot easier for me than it was for the boys. Good quality rock all the way to the top out

 
22 Die Nadal - with EJ Budarick Trad 25m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Scott Godwin
Mon 9th Dec 2019
With Emma and Will. A considerably worse performance than the first try two seasons ago when I fell off just a few metres from the top. This time there was much more resting and pulling on gear. Need more fitness. Nice to have lots of red cams.

 
22 Die Nadal Trad 25m Ben Lomond
Greg Blachon
Thu 19th Nov 2020
22 Die Nadal Trad 25m Ben Lomond
Mattia Fornari
Mon 25th Jan 2021
22 Defender of the Faith Trad 70m Ben Lomond
Mattia Fornari
Mon 25th Jan 2021
22 Die Nadal - with Claire xian Trad 25m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Kieran Norwood
Sun 24th Jan 2021
22 Die Nadal - with Hannah Rose Trad 25m Ben Lomond Classic
Patrick Munnings
Fri 3rd Dec 2021
Unreal climbing, strenuous size for my large mits. Punted within a metre of the top where the crack thins the most. An awesome 15m whip followed by some frustrated vocal antics saw me reach the top and watch Hannah swim up the route

 
22 Die Nadal - with Cédric Trad 25m Ben Lomond Classic
Josephine Roper
Fri 21st Jan 2022
Was always a goal, so glad I got on it, but found the initial finger section slightly too hard and didn't have much motivation to push through once I lost the onsight. Mostly a pain threshold problem with raw fingertips, thumb pads and some bit of my forearm I seem to smear on walls... it's a rough rock here!

 
22 Die Nadal - with Cédric Trad 25m Ben Lomond Classic
Josephine Roper
Fri 21st Jan 2022
On the plus side, the 'thin hands' bit is indeed pretty good for me, and tape gloves were a good idea

 
22 Die Nadal - with Martin Brown Trad 25m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Cameron Semple
Mon 24th Jan 2022
Mega line! Inspiration for the future.

 
22 Defender of the Faith - with Martin Brown
1 22 30m lead by Martin Brown
2
Trad 30m Ben Lomond Classic
Cameron Semple
Sun 23rd Jan 2022
Rapped into the second pitch from Ramadan. Really ramps up the higher you go.

 
22 Die Nadal Trad 25m Ben Lomond Classic
Gavin
Tue 10th Jan 2023
Killer line, much more varied than the guide suggests, but no less awesome

 
22 Defender of the Faith Trad 70m Ben Lomond Very Good
Gavin
Tue 10th Jan 2023
Fun line and i basically face climbed it, but on lead those dinner plates might be less inviting

 
22 Die Nadal Trad 25m Ben Lomond Classic
Jack Seawright
Thu 26th Jan 2023
Day 1 of ben long weekend with claire and guy. Everyone had a good climb on this bad boy. We were entertained at the start by darren rolling up like a tornado in purple flared pants and soloing the gr 18 offwidth first pitch of defender as a committed (very) layback. Rope around shoulder, climbing partner still putting his bags down. He even had a footslip. Id not like to be the one carrying him back to car villa. Returned to ramadan to confirm its still hard and we can confirm it. Not as fucked as it felt last year with better techas but still abit red hot for 19. Great to be back in splitter heaven

 
22 Defender of the Faith Trad 70m Ben Lomond Classic
Jack Seawright
Fri 27th Jan 2023
Started the day by soloing darrens layback as an offwidth. Belayed claire on rigaudon. An impressive debut lead at the ben and not most peoples first. Mega lost on the walkdown, laybacked the offwidth to get back to the anchor on preset toprope left from rigaudon and fell off! Danger darren has earned his name this time. Got claire to belay defender from the ground which was a mistake. Rope drag central, faffed a move at half height while shawn was taking my photo from tr solo and grabbed a cam, otherwise gingerly clean to the top. Climbed like someones grandma but a cracker pitch. Very social vibe back at carr villa. Turns out this might actually be the climbers campground?

 
22 Die Nadal - with caleb Trad 25m Ben Lomond Classic
Luke Hef
Sat 28th Jan 2023
22 Die Nadal - with mac and hayden Trad 25m Ben Lomond Classic
Fraser
Mon 13th Mar 2023
My most relaxed route on the Ben, I had such a good time, nice and steep with a good amount of cheater holds.

Had some funny rope shenanigans at the start and end of the climb.

 
22 Die Nadal - with Hayden L, Fraser Trad 25m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Mac Labine-Romain
Mon 13th Mar 2023
only marginally harder than rajah for me with my #1 size hands. not that this was easy, just that rajah is hard thanks FLR for the top rope to try this classic

 
22 Die Nadal Trad 25m Ben Lomond
Tom Baanders
Sat 10th Feb 2024
21
21 Dangerman Trad 75m Ben Lomond
ross taylor
Tue 13th Apr 2010
21 Aquilla Trad 80m Ben Lomond
Marcus Yong
2004
With Garn Cooper and Anders

 
21 Dangerman Trad 75m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Nick de Kam
Tue 13th Apr 2010
21 Dangerman Trad 75m Ben Lomond Very Good
Cam McKenzie
Fri 9th Jan 2009
With Nic. Couple of rests on the first pitch. Classic first pitch, average second pitch (which I onsighted), horrible third pitch.

 
21 Dangerman Trad 75m Ben Lomond
Dennis Kearnes
Tue 13th Apr 2010
21 Aquilla Trad 80m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Ian ORourke
Mon 23rd Jan 2012
21 Dangerman Trad 75m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Ian ORourke
Thu 21st Jan 2010
Knox lead with rest

 
21 Dangerman Trad 75m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Ian ORourke
Fri 27th Jan 2012
With Knox and Justin

 
21 Dangerman Trad 75m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Gareth Llewellin
Sun 28th Feb 2010
with Lorna. How good is this route!!!!

 
21 Faith Defended Trad 12m Ben Lomond Good
Paul Frothy Thomson
Mon 26th Jan 2015
Hmm... decided to try and climb this as an alternative to the unprotectable offwidth start to Rigaudon, despite rock and gear looking marginal (and perhaps imagined in existance) at best. Onsight to halfway, refused to commit to the last 2m of hard climbing and fell onto a half-placed wire. Played around and got higher but still wouldnt commit to the last hard arete move and fell some more. Reverse-aid-climbed back to the ground. Lots of marginal gear, but fiddly in dubious rock. 2 ropes a must

 
21 Dangerman Trad 75m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Jason McCarthy
Mon 26th Jan 2015
Full body workout! This route smashed me, rested twice. What a line!

 
21 Dangerman Trad 75m Ben Lomond Classic
Paul Frothy Thomson
Tue 3rd Mar 2015
Tried to onsight this as a warmup, fell off 6m from the top, so pumped that both my hands were tingling from lack of circulation. I was SO flash pumped I even missed the obvious stemming rest stance, and just kept right on laybacking for 35m, desperately stopping to place gear half-blind. A soaring line, but rather repetitive, and not as creative as other lines here. Pumpy! =P

 
21 Aquilla Trad 80m Ben Lomond Classic
Paul Frothy Thomson
Tue 3rd Mar 2015
Would be Mega classic if it were a bit cleaner and less vegetated (though even that is quite minimal). Now THIS was a fight. Amazing, varied climbing over 45m, interrupted briefly by the ability to step right onto thr Barbe Di belay ledge for a break. Laybacking, stemming, fingerlocks, ringlocks, v-groove chimneying and weird houdini maneuvers. Made scary by very hard to place gear in the upper half due to the weird double-seam inside the crack. Strenuous and tenuous. I was completely thrashed!

 
21 Aquilla Trad 80m Ben Lomond Classic
Kevin J
Sat 3rd Dec 2016
P1 onsight, P2 clean 2nd. First ever climb on the Ben and had to fight the whole way. Awesome, varied climbing that keeps you focused the whole time

 
21 Dangerman Trad 75m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Alex Hartshorne
Tue 13th Jan 2015
21 Aquilla - with Grant John Hyland Trad 80m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Scott Godwin
Sun 10th Dec 2017
The resident wedgie was cruising around while we were racking up, which seemed like a good omen. Technically not really an onsight, but I'm going to claim it anyway. Climbed the first few metres and found the crack dripping wet and freezing cold so I backed off to warm up my numb fingers and wait for the sun to come around. Second go - crack still dripping wet but a bit less freezing. All clean with the rope still through the first three or four runners. It turned into an epic battle against the pump in the last ten or fifteen metres. Grant led the second pitch, which as second pitches on this buttress go is a really good one. There were still a few patches of snow on the ground at the top from the dump two days beforehand.

 
21 Dangerman (Dangerman P1)
1
Trad 75m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Alastair McDowell
Sun 7th Jan 2018
Mega

 
21 Aquilla Trad 80m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Alastair McDowell
Sun 7th Jan 2018
Insane

 
21 Aquilla - with Harry Kadi Trad 80m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Will Vidler
Mon 8th Jan 2018
I cruised most of this on second only to have it turn into a desperate battle at the top trying to remove gear from rattly finger and ring locks. Ended up collapsing on the belay ledge quite exhausted but stoked with my effort. An awesome onsight attempt by Harry which was thwarted by a pesky foot skip. The first pitch is really only 35m long and we rapped off here due to time constraints.

 
21 Aquilla - with Will Vidler Trad 80m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Harry Kadi
Mon 8th Jan 2018
So close to the onsight! I found staying concentrated for the length of the pitch super tricky! The gear was also pretty hard to find with the crack not being just parallel. The climbing at the bottom section was super cruise though! A foot slip at the final rooflet sent me flying with a quality whip! Will have to comeback for this one! (First pitch only)

 
21 Dangerman - with Nathanael Hinton Trad 75m Ben Lomond Classic
Scott Godwin
Wed 24th Jan 2018
Nate laybacked to about halfway up the first pitch before pumpung out and whipping onto a green cam, munching the rope in the process. I top roped up to his high point and rested for a minute before finishing the pitch by stemming between the two cracks. We swung leads from there to the top. Great sustained laybacking or bridging (or both?) on the first pitch, burly hand/fist crack second pitch, and the usual chossfest exit pitch.

 
21 Dangerman - with Isaac Lethborg Trad 75m Ben Lomond Classic
Scott Godwin
Sun 4th Feb 2018
Isaac led so that he could rap down Master Blaster to sus the gear. I followed to clean. A combination of laybacking and bridging works well. I had to sit twice to clean some very bomber wires.

 
21 Dangerman
1 21 75m
2
3
Trad 75m Ben Lomond
David Tan
Sun 6th Jan 2019
21 Aquilla
1 19 80m
2 21
3 19
Trad 80m Ben Lomond
David Tan
Sun 6th Jan 2019
21 Aquilla - with Anne, gerald Trad 80m Ben Lomond
Fraser
Sat 4th Jan 2020
Ahhh. Fuck. This was hard i placed my .5s and .75s to early and then placed miserable gear through the crux. Hung around on a #1 umbrella'ing' on three lobes them pulled on and rested on next three pieces to the anchor.

 
21 Aquilla - with Gerald Trad 80m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Steve Postle
Fri 3rd Jan 2020
What a route! Full value, good and sometimes tricky gear, made you work for the glory.

 
21 Aquilla Trad 80m Ben Lomond Mega Classic
Daniel
Sat 4th Jan 2020
21 Aquilla Trad 80m Ben Lomond
Greg Blachon
Thu 19th Nov 2020
21 Aquilla - with Mark Feeney
1 21 80m lead by Mark Feeney
2 lead by Mark Feeney
3
Trad 80m Ben Lomond Classic
Alec Landstra
Sat 23rd Jan 2021
21 Dangerman - with Mark Feeney
1 21 75m lead by Mark Feeney
2
3
Trad 75m Ben Lomond Classic
Alec Landstra
Sat 23rd Jan 2021
21 Dangerman Trad 75m Ben Lomond
Hunter Cole
Mon 25th Jan 2021
21 Dangerman - with Mike Hitchcock, Ben F Trad 75m Ben Lomond Very Good
Chris L
Sat 23rd Jan 2021
Stiff. Thankful Aine's red nut was fused half way up, was a perfectly positioned bolt substitute.

 

Showing 1 - 100 out of 574 ascents.

Deutsch English Español Français Italiano 한국어 Português 中文