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24 | ★★★ Social Lepers (AKA King of Heaven) | 85m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Wed 10th Jan 2007 | ||||
The second pitch is scarred and hairy.
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24 | ★★★ Master Blaster | 100m | Ben Lomond | Wed 7th Jan 2015 | |||||
Onsoghted on top rope. What a route! Sensational jamming after the crux!
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24 | ★★★ Master Blaster | 100m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Wed 13th Jan 2016 | ||||
24 | ★★★ Master Blaster | 100m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | Fri 18th Jan 2019 | ||||
Lovely.
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24 | ★★★ Master Blaster | 100m | Ben Lomond | ★★ Very Good | Tue 8th Jan 2019 | ||||
24 | ★★★ Master Blaster | 100m | Ben Lomond | Mon 25th Jan 2021 | |||||
24 |
★★★ Master Blaster (Master Blaster P1)
1
24
100m
| 100m | Ben Lomond | Sat 20th Feb 2021 | |||||
24 |
★★★ Doug and Squib's Route
1
24
75m
2
3
| 75m | Ben Lomond | Sun 21st Feb 2021 | |||||
2nd pitch is mega hard finger crack, must have sat 1000 times.
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26 24 | ★★★ Doug and Squib's Route | 75m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | Sat 6th Mar 2021 | ||||
Lead placing all gear, laughable at 24.
First pitch is a bit sketchy but fine with small wires. |
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24 | ★★★ King of Heaven (Social Lepers) | 85m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | Sat 6th Mar 2021 | ||||
24 | ★★★ Master Blaster - with Pete Bovino | 100m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | 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.
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24 Hard | ★★★ Master Blaster — 2 attempts | 100m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | 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 |
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24 | ★★★ Master Blaster — 3 attempts | 100m | Ben Lomond | Sun 15th Jan 2023 | |||||
Two shots falling quite high up. one just before the hand jams exhausting. Stunning
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24 Hard | ★★★ Master Blaster — 3 attempts | 100m | Ben Lomond | Sat 21st Jan 2023 | |||||
24 | ★★★ Master Blaster - with Zac Lazatin | 100m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Fri 17th Feb 2023 | ||||
Amazing. Stoked to get the onsight having left this alone for years as I didn't feel ready.
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24 | ★★★ King of Heaven (Social Lepers) - with Zac Lazatin | 85m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Fri 17th Feb 2023 | ||||
Absolutely amazing route - a real unrelenting journey; a bit chossy at the top - the full Ben Lomond experience.
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24 |
★★★ Master Blaster P1
- with
Madi R
1
| 100m | Ben Lomond | ★★ Very Good | Sat 18th Feb 2023 | ||||
Tronsite! Seems like the crux is the gear
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24 Hard | ★★★ Master Blaster — 3 attempts | 100m | Ben Lomond | Sat 18th Feb 2023 | |||||
24 |
★★★ King of Heaven (Social Lepers) P1
1
| 85m | Ben Lomond | Sat 18th Feb 2023 | |||||
24 |
★★★ Master Blaster P1
- with
Fraser
1
| 100m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | 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!!
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24 |
★★★ Master Blaster P1
- with
Patrick Munnings
1
| 25m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | 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!
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24 Hard | ★★★ Master Blaster | 100m | Ben Lomond | Sun 26th Mar 2023 | |||||
24 |
★★★ Master Blaster P1
- with
Buster the Booly Bushman
1
| 100m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | 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.
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24 |
★★★ Master Blaster P1
- with
Anton Korsun
1
| 100m | Ben Lomond | Sat 2nd Mar 2024 | |||||
24 | ★★★ Master Blaster | 100m | Ben Lomond | Wed 8th Feb 2023 | |||||
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23 | ★★ Rajah Eliminate | 20m | Ben Lomond | ★★ Very Good | Sat 6th Jan 2018 | ||||
Unreal
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23 | ★★★ Darkness Visible - with Issac Lethborg | 45m | Ben Lomond | Thu 1st Feb 2018 | |||||
A poor start by me lead to a slow seconding after a great lead by Issac.
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23 | ★★ Rajah Eliminate | 20m | Ben Lomond | ★★ Very Good | Mon 7th Jan 2019 | ||||
23 | ★★★ Darkness Visible | 45m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | 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
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23 | ★★ Climbers Variant - with Steve Postle | 100m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | Tue 29th Dec 2020 | ||||
Absolute quality. Unfortunately came off a couple of times but a mega route with fantastically varied climbing.
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23 | ★★ Rajah Eliminate - with Mac Labine-Romain | 20m | Ben Lomond | ★★ Very Good | Sat 7th Jan 2023 | ||||
Very good climbing, would be a classic at anyother crag. So flowy and beautiful
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23 | ★★ Rajah Eliminate - with Fraser | 20m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | Sat 7th Jan 2023 | ||||
a nice crack very consistent in the cursed # 0.5 range
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★★ Climbers Variant
1
2
24
3
4
| 100m | Ben Lomond | Wed 18th Jan 2023 | |||||
23 | ★★ Rajah Eliminate - with Zac Lazatin | 20m | Ben Lomond | ★★ Very Good | Sat 18th Feb 2023 | ||||
A great little test piece. Would be a classic at any other crag.
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23 | ★★ Rajah Eliminate | 20m | Ben Lomond | Sat 18th Feb 2023 | |||||
23 | ★★ Climbers Variant - with Sami | 100m | Ben Lomond | 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.
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21 22 | ★★★ Defender of the Faith | 70m | Ben Lomond | Tue 13th Apr 2010 | |||||
21 22 | ★★★ Defender of the Faith | 70m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Wed 10th Jan 2007 | ||||
hard and awesome
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21 | ★★★ Defender of the Faith | 70m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | 2007 | ||||
got pulled up it,oh well
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21 22 | ★★★ Defender of the Faith | 70m | Ben Lomond | Tue 13th Apr 2010 | |||||
22 | ★★★ Die Nadal | 25m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sun 24th Jan 2010 | ||||
Hard and sustained jamming.
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22 | ★★★ Die Nadal | 25m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Tue 26th Jan 2010 | ||||
21 | ★★★ Defender of the Faith | 70m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sun 24th Jan 2010 | ||||
Owen lead
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22 | ★★★ Defender of the Faith | 70m | Ben Lomond | Sat 6th Jan 2018 | |||||
Awesome
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22 | ★★★ Defender of the Faith | 70m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | 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.
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22 | ★★★ Die Nadal - with Isaac Lethborg | 25m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | 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.
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22 | ★★★ Die Nadal | 25m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | 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.
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22 | ★★★ Die Nadal - with Alice | 25m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | 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.
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22 | ★★★ Defender of the Faith | 70m | Ben Lomond | ★★ Very Good | Mon 7th Jan 2019 | ||||
22 | ★★★ Die Nadal - with Scott Godwin, Will | 25m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | 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
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22 | ★★★ Die Nadal - with EJ Budarick | 25m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | 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.
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22 | ★★★ Die Nadal | 25m | Ben Lomond | Thu 19th Nov 2020 | |||||
22 | ★★★ Die Nadal | 25m | Ben Lomond | Mon 25th Jan 2021 | |||||
22 | ★★★ Defender of the Faith | 70m | Ben Lomond | Mon 25th Jan 2021 | |||||
22 | ★★★ Die Nadal - with Claire xian | 25m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sun 24th Jan 2021 | ||||
22 | ★★★ Die Nadal - with Hannah Rose | 25m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | 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
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22 | ★★★ Die Nadal - with Cédric | 25m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | 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!
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22 | ★★★ Die Nadal - with Cédric | 25m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | 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
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22 | ★★★ Die Nadal - with Martin Brown | 25m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Mon 24th Jan 2022 | ||||
Mega line! Inspiration for the future.
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★★★ Defender of the Faith
- with
Martin Brown
2
| 30m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | Sun 23rd Jan 2022 | ||||
Rapped into the second pitch from Ramadan. Really ramps up the higher you go.
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22 | ★★★ Die Nadal | 25m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | Tue 10th Jan 2023 | ||||
Killer line, much more varied than the guide suggests, but no less awesome
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22 | ★★★ Defender of the Faith | 70m | Ben Lomond | ★★ Very Good | Tue 10th Jan 2023 | ||||
Fun line and i basically face climbed it, but on lead those dinner plates might be less inviting
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22 | ★★★ Die Nadal | 25m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | 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
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22 | ★★★ Defender of the Faith | 70m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | 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?
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22 | ★★★ Die Nadal - with caleb | 25m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | Sat 28th Jan 2023 | ||||
22 | ★★★ Die Nadal - with mac and hayden | 25m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | 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.
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22 | ★★★ Die Nadal - with Hayden L, Fraser | 25m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | 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
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22 | ★★★ Die Nadal | 25m | Ben Lomond | Sat 10th Feb 2024 | |||||
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21 | ★★★ Dangerman | 75m | Ben Lomond | Tue 13th Apr 2010 | |||||
21 | ★★★ Aquilla | 80m | Ben Lomond | 2004 | |||||
With Garn Cooper and Anders
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21 | ★★★ Dangerman | 75m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Tue 13th Apr 2010 | ||||
21 | ★★★ Dangerman | 75m | Ben Lomond | ★★ Very Good | 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.
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21 | ★★★ Dangerman | 75m | Ben Lomond | Tue 13th Apr 2010 | |||||
21 | ★★★ Aquilla | 80m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Mon 23rd Jan 2012 | ||||
21 | ★★★ Dangerman | 75m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Thu 21st Jan 2010 | ||||
Knox lead with rest
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21 | ★★★ Dangerman | 75m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Fri 27th Jan 2012 | ||||
With Knox and Justin
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21 | ★★★ Dangerman | 75m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sun 28th Feb 2010 | ||||
with Lorna. How good is this route!!!!
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21 | ★ Faith Defended | 12m | Ben Lomond | ★ Good | 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
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21 | ★★★ Dangerman | 75m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Mon 26th Jan 2015 | ||||
Full body workout! This route smashed me, rested twice. What a line!
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21 | ★★★ Dangerman | 75m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | 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
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21 | ★★★ Aquilla | 80m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | 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!
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21 | ★★★ Aquilla | 80m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | 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
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21 | ★★★ Dangerman | 75m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Tue 13th Jan 2015 | ||||
21 | ★★★ Aquilla - with Grant John Hyland | 80m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | 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.
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21 |
★★★ Dangerman (Dangerman P1)
1
| 75m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sun 7th Jan 2018 | ||||
Mega
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21 | ★★★ Aquilla | 80m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sun 7th Jan 2018 | ||||
Insane
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21 | ★★★ Aquilla - with Harry Kadi | 80m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | 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.
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21 | ★★★ Aquilla - with Will Vidler | 80m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | 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)
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21 | ★★★ Dangerman - with Nathanael Hinton | 75m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | 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.
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21 | ★★★ Dangerman - with Isaac Lethborg | 75m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | 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.
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21 |
★★★ Dangerman
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21
75m
2
3
| 75m | Ben Lomond | Sun 6th Jan 2019 | |||||
21 |
★★★ Aquilla
1
19
80m
2
21
3
19
| 80m | Ben Lomond | Sun 6th Jan 2019 | |||||
21 | ★★★ Aquilla - with Anne, gerald | 80m | Ben Lomond | 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.
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21 | ★★★ Aquilla - with Gerald | 80m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Fri 3rd Jan 2020 | ||||
What a route! Full value, good and sometimes tricky gear, made you work for the glory.
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21 | ★★★ Aquilla | 80m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Mega Classic | Sat 4th Jan 2020 | ||||
21 | ★★★ Aquilla | 80m | Ben Lomond | Thu 19th Nov 2020 | |||||
21 | ★★★ Aquilla - with Mark Feeney | 80m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | Sat 23rd Jan 2021 | ||||
21 | ★★★ Dangerman - with Mark Feeney | 75m | Ben Lomond | ★★★ Classic | Sat 23rd Jan 2021 | ||||
21 | ★★★ Dangerman | 75m | Ben Lomond | Mon 25th Jan 2021 | |||||
21 | ★★★ Dangerman - with Mike Hitchcock, Ben F | 75m | Ben Lomond | ★★ Very Good | Sat 23rd Jan 2021 | ||||
Stiff. Thankful Aine's red nut was fused half way up, was a perfectly positioned bolt substitute.
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