Ascents in Pastoral Buttress

Sketchy bolting, escapable line, unpleasant climbing. If this is 2 star, I dread to think what a 1 star is; if you drop the last clip, you can look forward to two mangled ankles when you splat onto the runout slab below.

Cant believe this only gets 1 star. What a banger.

Stack those fists and you'll be sweet!

Another varied route at pastoral

Exiting trad climbing doesn’t get any better than this around town! Hard start and quite spooky. It’s almost R territory down low so be careful people! Engaging all the way!

coming back for you!! super cool just need to be fresh

just chicken wing the wide part and its soo fun!!!

Brilliant! A good ride to the top

just such a good time

Reachy and tenuous, but not a bad number

A great example of making a chocolate cake too dense. Weird and contrived

A contender for most enjoyable climb within cooee of the wine cellar. If it wasn't for the bushy start and the sound of kookaburras you could be forgiven for thinking you're at Indian Creek. Sorta kinda. One to add to the town crack circuit anyways

Now that’s what I’m talkin about! Weird Grampians rock that climbs a lot like arapiles!! Properly good trad climbing. Sustained all the way to the top with really fun movement. Unexpectedly popped a foot at the start but had great gear. Can’t wait to come back for this.

Didn’t love this one. Suuuuuper contrived as you can just climb the jam crack right next to it missing half of the route. Very fiddly gear up top but with time could make it work nicely I’m sure. Felt really hard so bailed upwards with a rope we conveniently had hanging up. Will come back if I’m desperate

Just great! Really interesting body movement because of the bulge. Impossible to fall out of jams!!!

Had a couple of rests. Could have done with more small cams.

So much fun the first time I did it again on top rope

Best jamming climb I've done south of Frog Buttress.

contrived

tricky little sucker

hard start, but very nice after that

A good onsight by Wendy. Quite insecure after the crux.

Good, odd low angle fine grain rock, some delicate bridging

A very hard start, then ok, then something about the finish, maybe loose.

hard start

Challenging crack climb. Hard start, cheated a little and stemmed off a tree to get onto the climb. No rests, keep it going all the way!

Sustained crack with acrobatic moves. Hard start. Thin near top.

First traverse lead and scary. It's disconcerting being the same distance from the ground for 25m!

Perfect hand crack. Strange moves near the start.