Another scenario where Frothy suggests an obscure non repeated route, and I pay it off, then a month later he suggests it again I'm half interested. Then the 3rd time I take the bait. aha
Fun day out with Paul and Jared. my gri gri decided to stop locking for 200m abseil in.....
P1 was a bit choss than a 10m long traverse over a precarious washing machine-sized boulder.
P2 had some great climbing but was heady on 2nd for sure.
P3 Don't fuck up getting to the first bolt
P4 short but good movements, the cam at the crux blocks where your hand wants to go.
P5 Black moss & choss with 10m runouts
P6 Black moss & choss with 10m runouts to a vertical garden boulder crux.
Bolts: Vintage rusty bash-in carrots placed at an angle to instil confidence that the rust will hold you
Psych: high except for Jared who was not a fan of the jumaring options.
Just one more big Katoomba Cliffs -with everything that encompasses- mixed epic off the list.
I liked P2, P3 and P5, but the other pitches are really just doddly, chossy access/egress pitches.
P2 had some cool, wandery, superrunoutface climbing, with more sideways than up. The opening mantles were tough! I got off route trying to free an old aid route at one point -eventually broke a hold and took a big whip, realised my mistake, lowered back to a big no-hands ledge, and continued onsighting the correct line. This was my favourite pitch of the route.
P3 was a sketchy solo on loose rock to the first bolt, then a cool fused corner, followed by an easy, but airy traverse.
P4 is just a shortvertical walk.
P5 necessitated pioneering some new beta since the crux breakages. I eventually figured out some very unlikely morpho beta that went at the same grade. After the crux, its some pretty wild unprotected campus traversing to the belay.
P6 Is a long death by ironstone arete. Easy, but not much gear.
P7 is an even more death by ironstone pitch, with even worse gear, leading to a vertical gardening exit.
- with
Paul Frothy Thomson
Fun day out with Paul and Jared. my gri gri decided to stop locking for 200m abseil in.....
P1 was a bit choss than a 10m long traverse over a precarious washing machine-sized boulder.
P2 had some great climbing but was heady on 2nd for sure.
P3 Don't fuck up getting to the first bolt
P4 short but good movements, the cam at the crux blocks where your hand wants to go.
P5 Black moss & choss with 10m runouts
P6 Black moss & choss with 10m runouts to a vertical garden boulder crux.
Bolts: Vintage rusty bash-in carrots placed at an angle to instil confidence that the rust will hold you
Psych: high except for Jared who was not a fan of the jumaring options.
Rock quality: ehh
My first Katoomba cliffs route.