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	Grade	Route	Gear style	Quality	Climber
Sat 13th Apr 2024 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Bridie franks
Fri 13th Oct 2023 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Lexy Monserrat	Trad 48m		Graeme
Fri 6th Oct 2023 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14 Hard	★ Gecko - with Imogen, Josh Ring	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Poppy
Loved this and would come back to lead it to get to AdF first belay.
Tue 12th Sep 2023 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Maddie	Trad 48m		Ting Chin
Very cool long pitch. We continued on Salamander.
Wed 28th Jun 2023 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Nick	Trad 48m		ThorAss
Wet and scary.
Fri 16th Jun 2023 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Zorba Parer
Running a lap with the TazLov 3
Sat 10th Jun 2023 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Kat Hayhoe
solidly comitting when youre avoiding wet streaks
Mon 1st May 2023 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		jack hatton
Sun 16th Apr 2023 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★ Good	Kat Liss
Sat 15th Apr 2023 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Hannah Rose	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Patrick Munnings
Thu 6th Apr 2023 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Leanda
Finished up Salamander
Mon 13th Feb 2023 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Zin
Thu 22nd Dec 2022 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Erin Francis
Thu 24th Nov 2022 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Mishka Thrun
Mon 3rd Oct 2022 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Nick Morgan	Trad 48m		Tam Scott
Slabby Goodness
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★ Good	Nick Morgan
Wed 1st Jun 2022 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Brad Graham
Similar feels to Brolga. Double ropes and tri- cams handy
Sun 22nd May 2022 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Aurora Pandora
Fri 13th May 2022 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Oliver Crawford
Mon 9th May 2022 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	John Wilson
Mon 2nd May 2022 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Lizzie Stokes	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	jack jane
Tue 26th Apr 2022 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Ryan Gaskon	Trad 48m	★ Good	Greg Carter
	15 14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Ryan Gaskon
Don’t know if I followed the proper line because this felt quite hard and bold for 14. Similar climbing to brolga with good but spaced gear. Tricams and double ropes help.
Sun 3rd Apr 2022 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Ollie Crawford
Mon 20th Dec 2021 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Evan Tyson
Fri 10th Dec 2021 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Caleb Skirrow
Fri 28th May 2021 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Tom Scott
	14	★ Gecko - with Darren	Trad 48m		Daniel White
Sat 17th Apr 2021 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		William Skea
Sat 3rd Apr 2021 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with lincoln	Trad 48m		Shane P
Fri 2nd Apr 2021 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Jonah Bellet	Trad 48m	★★★ Classic	Patrick Wilson
Wed 31st Mar 2021 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Jonah Bellet
Sat 19th Dec 2020 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Michelle C	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Jim Boyd
	14	★ Gecko - with Jim Boyd	Trad 48m		Michelle C
Wed 16th Dec 2020 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Alexander Pokrassen	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Timmy Wong
Sun 1st Nov 2020 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Breanna Slattery	Trad 48m		Adam Flower
	14	★ Gecko - with Adam Flower	Trad 48m		Breanna Slattery
Tue 24th Mar 2020 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★ Good	Dimsim
Wed 6th Nov 2019 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Chad Freak
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Chad Freak
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Chad Freak
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Chad Freak
Sun 27th Oct 2019 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with peter	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Grant Johnston
Fri 25th Oct 2019 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Anna	Trad 48m		Angela Hewlett
Tried to lead this but came down as insufficient slab skills for the climb.Got lost and made a nice square shape with the ropes, luckily Anna knew what she was doing and tidied up my mess and got us off before dark
Sun 20th Oct 2019 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with John Henry	Trad 48m	★ Good	John Pitcairn
Pretty good, decent gear, not overly run out. Didn’t really need the double ropes except to get off.
Sat 5th Oct 2019 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★ Good	Tom Atkinson
spicy slab. not much pro
	14	★ Gecko - with Tom Atkinson	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	David Muir
Fri 4th Oct 2019 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Fraser Darcy
Tue 11th Jun 2019 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★ Good	Emanuele
Fri 19th Apr 2019 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★★★ Mega Classic	Tchargy
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★ Good	Cliff Barnett
Surprisingly well protected for a watchtower route. Nice climbing
Thu 18th Oct 2018 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Florian Goessmann	Trad 48m		Breanna
Quite thrilling, engaging the whole way up. 'Line of lease resistance' is difficult to find, take two ropes and lots of small/micro pro. Save your blue cam for the break just below the belay ledge, otherwise the last moves can be pretty spicey.
Sat 13th Oct 2018 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with James Watson	Trad 48m	★ Good	Adrian Kladnig
Rest Day?
Sat 28th Jul 2018 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Dave Scarlett
The crack sections are easy, the slabs trickier, and then it's difficult to know where to go to find the "path of least resistance" after the second crack. I ended slightly left of the rap chain, which was tough, committing and lacking protection. Double ropes seemed to help.
Sun 17th Jun 2018 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Tim
Sat 2nd Jun 2018 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Mandy Williamson	Trad 48m	★★★ Classic	Shae Parker McCashen
Went too far right, ended up on part of Brolga
	14	★ Gecko - with Mandy Williamson	Trad 48m	★★★ Classic	Shae Parker McCashen
Went too far right, ended up on part of Brolga
Sun 20th May 2018 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Adele Westgård
Fun slab, not recommended in rainy weather, slippery!
Tue 20th Mar 2018 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		William Gordon-Wright
Wed 26th Jul 2017 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★ Good	Fil Kindblad
Tue 13th Jun 2017 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Benham	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Steve Gretton
Lovely climbing, with a couple of tricky slab sections.
Thu 8th Dec 2016 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Mikie Bob	Trad 48m	★★★ Classic	Markus
Sat 19th Nov 2016 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★ Good	Mauro
Wed 16th Nov 2016 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Michael Tanner
Sun 30th Oct 2016 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Anton Steketee	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Nick Chappell
Though provoking in parts. Seemed a little run out, tri-cams could possibly come in handy if you have them.
	14	★ Gecko - with Nick Chappell	Trad 48m	★ Good	Anton Steketee
Thought this was pretty run out. Could have taken a couple more small cams but it still would have been pretty runout.
Sun 19th Jun 2016 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Nick Lourensz	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Geoff Denans
Lead by Nick.
Sun 25th Oct 2015 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Di Batten	Trad 48m	★ Good	Doug Bruce
Sat 3rd Oct 2015 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with James Beilharz	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Geoff Denans
1/ (14) Lead by Geoff Great climb. A little difficult though to know where I was at times, even looking at the guide book. Micro cams and 'pocket size' cams were particularly useful.
Fri 2nd Oct 2015 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with joel cheung	Trad 48m	★ Good	Lewis
Sun 26th Apr 2015 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Phil Sidaway	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Bernd Schiffer
Nice one, but the route wasn't obvious to me. The guide said after the first crack left, and I went right. Guide said after the bulge right, and I went left. Guide said after the 2nd crack, find "the way up with the least resistance". Er… Went left after the crack and couldn't find a way up for 10 min, let alone pro. Gave up, wanted to come down and let Phil do it. Climbed back to the last pro, looked up, and saw a way up to the right after the 2nd crack. Made it then quickly to the rap station.
Mon 9th Mar 2015 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Rick Lee	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Geoff Denans
Very slabby. 1/ Lead by Rick.
Fri 6th Mar 2015 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Elisa Chaplin	Trad 48m	★ Good	Cameron Roy
Seconding Elisa but we traversed off to the lower anchors
Mon 27th Oct 2014 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Michael Salt	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	amelie
Easy evening speed climb to get Scott's stuck abseil rope
Sun 26th Oct 2014 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Amelie Scheichl	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Mikie Bob
Im not sure why I spend so much money on climbing shoes when $5 volleys from K-mart work fine.
Wed 30th Apr 2014 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		fred dyer
Fri 10th Jan 2014 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★ Good	Will Massey
Wed 13th Nov 2013 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Tomarto
Mon 21st Oct 2013 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with ScoFlo	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Al Brad
Very smeary
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	ScoFlo
Sat 19th Oct 2013 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Philip Armstrong
Thu 13th Jun 2013 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Dan
Sat 8th Jun 2013 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★★★ Classic	Rod Smith
With Big J and Sean
	14	★ Gecko - with Rod Smith	Trad 48m	★ Good	Sean
Mon 26th Sep 2011 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★ Good	Anton Steketee
Sun 25th Sep 2011 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m		Cameron Roy
Thu 14th Jul 2011 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★ Good	Cliff Barnett
Mark bailed left to the lower rap as he didn't like the look of the unprotected end. Very small cams a must for handy pockets.
Sun 10th Jul 2011 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Peter Brookes
Stupidly thought it was a 30m climb. Had to lose a nut for last few meters.
Thu 10th Mar 2011 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Bernardo Mayer
Mon 20th Dec 2010 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Pete Matulich	Trad 48m	★ Good	Mike Barnes
Tue 16th Mar 2010 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★★★ Classic	Rod Smith
With Big J.
Sun 4th Oct 2009 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★ Good	Frazer Baker
Sat 3rd Oct 2009 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Andrew Scott
One pretty hard move
Sat 15th Mar 2008 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★ Good	Paul Badenoch
Not special by RWF standards.
2008 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★ Good	Jonathan Whitfield
lots of gear for a slab
Fri 7th Sep 2007 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★ Good	steven k
shy on pro.
Thu 23rd Nov 2006 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko - with Kristian Brønstad	Trad 48m		Torbjorn
Sat 21st Oct 2006 - Arapiles
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Joanna Parker
Lovely cracks but quite a runout in second half. With Julie and Jenny.
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★ Good	Jenny Tannoch-Bland
Jo and Julie. Run out slab.
	14	★ Gecko	Trad 48m	★★ Very Good	Julie Stanton

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