Ascents in Blue Mountains by Roger Austin having sport-cpr or ascent-date

Simply awesome. Milked the kneebar and handjam rests until they squeaked and managed to keep it together for the final few lunges to the anchors. Now I feel inspired to try The Way of All Flesh again

Pretty pleased with this.

Mantle? What mantle? Lots of other good climbing - the easy bit; the intense bit; the pumpy bit; the mantle-that-wasn't.

Pretty stoked to onsight this classic. It felt a bit of a gift for 25 but then (a) the conditions were absolutely perfect and (b) every hold was neatly outlined in white. Similar in style, quality and grade to Life of Riley.

Crimpy and powerful, then just powerful.Clipped the first bolt on lead for added value.

Great moves and great location. Looked very blank in parts but its all there and not hard for the grade.

Fun dynos. Finished on the lower anchors which is a bit of a cop-out but my oomph was all used up.

Led the main pitch. Excellent, fun climbing but can't quite rate it as Mega-Classic because of the rather arbitrary first pitch and because it has just a bit too much of that boulder-problems-between-ledges style which can get rather tiresome. The belays and pitch combinations around here could do with a bit of rationalisation. Doing a 70m pitch from the Central (Castaway) belay, as recommended by others, makes good sense - those with shorter ropes can take the Sojourn belay option and still need do only one more pitch to the top. The Subliminal first pitch is a bit of a giggle but the only hard bit would make a good alternate start to Castaway.

This is a little ripper. Harder, more sustained and dare I say better than DJ with some funky moves and only just enough holds. Can't claim the onsight as it was tick-marked to perfection and I got a birds eye view lowering off DJ. Two stars.

Lots and lots of thought-provoking quality climbing. I found the initial traverse a bit turf and it was pretty intense for the rest of the first 'pitch', easing to a gentle stroll before an exciting and entertaining finale.

More like leg'o'lamb today - a bit hot and greasy but full of tasty goodness.

Climbed as a warm-up in mistake for The Jewel Thief. Tough for 21 but an absolute steal for 25.

Nice enough variant finish to Form One Line but the meat is the shared lower section.

Thought provoking. Arrived on the lip of the roof in a kneeling position which worked surprisingly well. Not 24 though.

Jug, jug, jug, hmm, throw, jug, jug

Straightforward but fun.

Blew the onsight by trying to follow the guidebook crimp-dyno beta. A big rockover-reach did the trick on the second attempt, but only just. Lots of fun climbing before and after the hard bit.

Enjoyable, engros(e)ing climbing on all pitches. Andy kindly split P2 at a convenient ledge so I could savour the technical corner crux without rope drag. Tricky finale which I lacked the willpower to avoid inspecting on the abseil in.

Classic. Be sure to pick the correct line at the start. Almost blew it trying to find decent finishing holds while dangling like a sloth at the lip.

Some good climbing. Final move slightly pointless but fun.

Varied and fun. Only the large ledge below the headwall prevents it being a Classic.

4a at the gym. Worthwhile.

Good workout for the right arm and left leg, not to mention the fingers. Took a couple of rests placing the draws then first shot.

Good, bouldery climbing unfortunately marred by a big dirty ledge.

Yay! My first 26. Dogged up then got it first shot. Gotta love a route where you can stop for a nap after the crux.

Interesting climbing with a tricky crux sequence with clip mid crux. It would be good to clear up the confusion between this and Milo as there is clearly only one line with two finishes, this being the left. Right looks quite a bit easier but not on rings.

Pumpy with a couple of big moves. Blew the onsight by dithering on the penultimate jug. Ripped a hold off above the third bolt while cleaning the draws but don't think it will affect the grade.

Felt much easier fresh. And cooler. And the draws in. And the crux moves wired. 4th go overall via the original McDougal which is still a fair 25.

Sustained and thought-provoking right to the top.

Lots of good climbing in a great location. Lead P1 and P3. Long and pumpy P2. Fingery and balancy on P3 with an unlikely single-leg-squat manoeuvre in the middle.

This is really two excellent and independent routes that share a name and finish one above the other. Led the odd pitches (combining 5 & 6). The desperate little traverse on P2 just squeaks it to grade 24 overall and was quite unnerving to second with 30m of rope above and the ledge just below. There is an optional belay at 10m on this pitch which would suit a nervous second. Annoyed to fall on P3 when I misread a move and pumped off some crimps. Overall a stunning route with the first 3 pitches being the meat of it.

2nd shot. 4th overall. Too inflexible to use Will's beta (thanks Will) but eventually found holds (and conditions) that worked for me. Worth the effort.

Led the 3rd pitch, which felt quite pumpy and was fun enough bar the grovelling dirt mantleshelf finish. The first pitch had a hard, reachy crux - harder than any move on Subliminal - although perhaps we were just beefed at the end of a 37-degree day. Hamish took it into his head to combine pitches one and two - don't go there. Worthwhile, but with more than its fair share of crap bits for a route on such a good wall.

2nd shot, this time with AJ's hat as a knee pad and a better hand sequence on the crux.

One of the harder 24s here. The jugs came one move too late for the onsight

A bit brutal for a warm-up.

Mostly on sight after misreading the first hard move and lowering off. Two sections of fingery and reachy climbing split by a good rest.

Enjoyed the interesting moves and lack of sharp, snappy holds. Balancy yet still tiring.

Dave wanted to do Date with Density but after 2 pitches realised he had done it before (d'oh) so swung onto Beggars Banquet. I was pleased to lead the easier pitches and scrabble cleanly up the others with the comfort of a rope from above. Big pitch on BB is stellar - nearly pumped after taking a poor line at the crux and reversing back to the better line.

Nicely sustained with some interesting holds.

Repeat to retrieve a tangled rope on War and Peace. Both better and harder than I remember.

Not an ideal warm up as the hard bit is low down.

Must have missed something because the Rose move on a two finger pocket between bolts 1 and 2 felt as hard as anything on the Next Doctor. Great position - particularly the hanging belay at the top!

I thought this was very worthwhile. Thin to start and sustained all the way up. Would have been "bold old skool 80's climbing" on carrots but speaking as a timid old skool 80's climber I felt pretty happy with 7 shiny ring bolts.

Good fun. More like 21 with some stiff moves past the underling.

A cleaner and more direct start to Libby the Lick. Probably better and not appreciably easier than that route.

Glad to get this out of the way after floundering on the final mantleshelf a few years ago. Still took 2 attempts. Awkward and hard to read with poorly located bolts.

Finally nailed the old shibboleth at the 3rd attempt in twice as many years. Thanks to Niko for putting the clips in. Hardest route of the day.