Grade | Route | Gear style | Quality | Climber | |||
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Sun 28th Apr 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
18 | ★★ Honey Rider | 60m | ★ Good | ||||
Hard first few metres then easy going to the top. Pitches 2 and 3 ran together without issue
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20 | ★ Casino Royale | 15m | Don't Bother | ||||
Only worth doing if you happen to be in the area and waiting for your preferred line
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Sun 31st Mar 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
19 | ★★ Mr Big | 75m | |||||
15 | ★ Flying Circus - with Ben Anthonisz | 14m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
17 | ★ Casual Assassin | 12m | ★ Good | ||||
20 Hard | ★ Casino Royale | 15m | ★ Good | ||||
Sat 20th Jan 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
19 | ★★ Mr Big - with Ian Bacon | 75m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
18 | ★★ Honey Rider - with Ian Bacon | 60m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Sun 24th Dec 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
18 | ★★ Honey Rider | 60m | |||||
Sun 3rd Dec 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
18 |
★★ Honey Rider
- with
Ike
1
18
20m
2
12
15m
3
18
25m
| 60m | ★ Good | ||||
18 | ★★ Honey Rider - with Ben Jancovich | 40m | |||||
17 | ★ Casual Assassin - with Ike | 12m | |||||
Tried to use the right bolt but it didn't make much sense so down climbed and continued up the left line.
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16 |
★★ Mr Big pitches 1 & 2 P1
- with
Ike
1
16
30m
| 30m | |||||
Attempted to do the first 2 pitches of Mr Big but turns out we split the first pitch into 2 pitches -.-
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20 | ★ Casino Royale — 2 attempts | 15m | |||||
Really desperate crux at last bolt
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Thu 2nd Nov 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
18 | ★★ Honey Rider - with Julia Lloyd-Smith | 60m | Average | ||||
19 | ★★ Mr Big - with Dani Hess | 75m | ★ Good | ||||
19 | ★★ Honey Rider - with Dani Hess | 75m | ★ Good | ||||
19 | ★★ Mr Big - with Julia Lloyd-Smith | 75m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Sat 21st Oct 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
15 | ★ Flying Circus | 14m | |||||
17 | ★ Casual Assassin | 12m | |||||
16 | ★ Cold Finger | 12m | |||||
19 ~18 |
★★ Mr Big
1
16
25m
2
13
25m
3
19
25m
| 75m | |||||
Sun 15th Oct 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
17 | ★ Casual Assassin | 12m | |||||
16 | ★ Cold Finger | 12m | |||||
16 |
★★ Mr Big pitches 1 & 2
1
16
30m
2
13
25m
| 55m | |||||
18 | ★★ Honey Rider | 60m | |||||
20 | ★ Casino Royale | 15m | |||||
Mon 9th Oct 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
16 |
★★ Mr Big pitches 1 & 2
- with
Michael Velsigne, Roger Jiang, David Brancalion, Kati
2
25
lead by
Roger Jiang
Walking up the wall with generous runouts was absolutely fun. Jug city all the way up. | 55m | |||||
Sun 8th Oct 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
16 | ★ Cold Finger - with Tommy C | 12m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Nice warm up slab climb.
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Sat 7th Oct 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
16 |
★★ Mr Big
- with
Roger Jiang, David Brancalion, Softboi_core
1
16
25m
2
13
25m
| 50m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Second run up the wall for Kati as well.
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16 |
★★ Mr Big
- with
Roger Jiang, David Brancalion, Softboi_core
1
16
25m
2
13
25m
| 50m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Multi-pitch teaching day, anchors, rappel, knots. All the adventure.
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Fri 6th Oct 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
18 | ★★ Honey Rider - with Hartnell Dean, Otto K | 60m | Average | ||||
18 |
★★ Honey Rider
- with
Hartnell, Jonah
1
18
20
lead by
Otto K
Took a wanger on the first bolt then figured out the sequence and got it next try. Quite hard for the grade. Very slippery crimp to a long reach around to a nice pocket. Then extremely easy climbing from there.
2
12
15
lead by
Hartnell
Quite nice climbing with my favourite belay ever. Sick little cave
3
18
25
lead by
Jonah
Very cool moves on a slopey arete. Super cool position. | 60m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Thu 5th Oct 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
19 | ★★ Mr Big | 75m | |||||
Tue 3rd Oct 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
19 | ★★ Mr Big | 75m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Pretty good climbing with some great views a bit runout in places
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20 | ★ Casino Royale | 15m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
This isn't 16
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Sun 1st Oct 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
18 | ★★ Honey Rider - with jonah ovadia, Otto K | 60m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
first pitch was a bit sandbagged
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Sun 24th Sep 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
20 | ★★ Honey Rider - with Yuji Nakano | 60m | |||||
20 ~20 |
★★ Honey Rider
- with
Adam Ametovski
1
20
20m
lead by
Yuji Nakano
Stick clipped to the second bolt. The sequence felt like a hard V2 boulder problem to there, then eased off to a jug haul | 60m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Dropped the onsight as I had the wrong beta. Good climb through nice positions on good holds
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Wed 20th Sep 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
19 |
★★ Mr Big
- with
Andrew Dolan
| 75m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
This is absolutely sensational. Our 'rest day' climb recommended by Mark. That little roof and moving to arete later is the best exposure you can get. SO good. We linked pitches 1 and 2, and climbed with double ropes to get back down to the first belay from the top, and then to the ground. A bit of bush bashing as the QR code in the book gives you the wrong car park — the right one is about 200m further down the road.
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19 | ★★ Mr Big - with Bruno Alves Buzatto | 75m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Pretty great blend of exposure and climbing
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Sun 10th Sep 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
15 | ★ Flying Circus | 14m | |||||
16 | ★ Cold Finger | 12m | |||||
Sun 9th Jul 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
15 | ★ Flying Circus - with Justin | 14m | Average | ||||
If 15 was your limit this would be trouserfilling
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17 | ★ Casual Assassin - with Justin | 12m | ★ Good | ||||
Nice moves laybacking the jug flake
Flake does sound quite hollow though
May need pinning in the future
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16 | ★ Cold Finger - with Justin | 12m | ★ Good | ||||
Went direct instead or retreating left
Makes for some cool slabbing at probably 17-18
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Sat 8th Jul 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
15 | ★ Flying Circus - with Matt | 14m | |||||
17 | ★ Casual Assassin - with Joey aquilina | 12m | |||||
16 | ★ Cold Finger - with Joey aquilina | 12m | |||||
Sat 27th May 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
15 | ★ Flying Circus | 14m | |||||
16 | ★★ Mr Big pitches 1 & 2 | 55m | |||||
Sun 21st May 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
19 |
★★ Mr Big
- with
jamie
1
16
25m
2
13
25m
3
19
25m
| 75m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Thu 18th May 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
16 | ★ Cold Finger - with Hartnell, Jonah | 12m | ★ Good | ||||
ok moves on a slab
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Mon 8th May 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
19 |
★★ Mr Big
- with
Aaron Abela, Nick Gowland
3
19
25m
lead by
Timothy Brunette
Gosh where do I start. We were all freezing, but the sun came out after the morning rain and I was feeling good to send the pitch, despite rain clouds looming. Got through the first (pumpy) roof section and out onto the face, when it started heavily snowing/hailing. Got psyched out, fumbled and fell on a reachy move. Decided to bail as the top would have been soaked, luckily had dual ropes so cleaning was straightforward. | 75m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Another epic - overcast, rain, sunshine, overcast, sunshine, snow, hail, sunshine. Will have to come back for the final pitch when it's dry!
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Sun 7th May 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
16 |
★★ Mr Big pitches 1 & 2
- with
Aaron Abela, Timothy Brunette
| 55m | |||||
Tue 25th Apr 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
15 | ★ Flying Circus - with owen | 14m | |||||
17 | ★ Casual Assassin - with owen | 12m | |||||
16 | ★★ Mr Big pitches 1 & 2 - with owen | 55m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Sat 15th Apr 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
19 |
★★ Mr Big
- with
Andy Hopf
1
16
25m
2
13
25m
3
19
25m
| 75m | |||||
Sun 9th Apr 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
16 |
★★ Mr Big
1
16
25m
2
13
25m
| 50m | |||||
16 | ★★ Mr Big pitches 1 & 2 - with Meetal Bhagvandas | 55m | |||||
Lead p1 and 2 as one big pitch.
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Sat 8th Apr 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
16 | ★ Cold Finger - with Sophie Lewandowski, zoe | 12m | Average | ||||
16 |
★★ Mr Big P1
- with
Sophie Lewandowski, zoe
1
16
25m
| 25m | ★ Good | ||||
Wed 5th Apr 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
19 | ★★ Mr Big | 75m | |||||
Exposed and fun. Lead p3
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18 | ★★ Honey Rider | 60m | |||||
Honey rider? More like Juggy Climb, Huh?
Pretty chill after the first 2 bolts. Lead 1,3 |
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Wed 15th Mar 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
19 |
★★ Mr Big
1
16
25m
2
13
25m
3
19
25m
Spooky roof but jugs make it not so bad | 75m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Sat 4th Mar 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
17 | ★ Casual Assassin - with Lydia | 12m | ★ Good | ||||
18 | ★★ Honey Rider - with Lydia | 60m | |||||
Sun 26th Feb 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
18 | ★★ Honey Rider - with emily | 60m | |||||
Mon 13th Feb 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
19 | ★★ Mr Big | 75m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Final pitch is still a doozie - Last climber couldn't complete and so there's 4 draws all the way up there as they are impossible to retrieve on rappel. 😭
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Sun 12th Feb 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
17 | ★ Casual Assassin | 12m | |||||
16 | ★ Cold Finger | 12m | |||||
Thu 26th Jan 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
16 |
★★ Mr Big pitches 1 & 2 P1
1
30
| 30m | |||||
Sat 21st Jan 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
19 |
★★ Mr Big
- with
Michael Velsigne
1
16
25m
2
13
25m
3
19
25m
| 75m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
Abseiled from third pitch anchor to bottom with two 70m ropes (tied together). Spared like 5 meters approximately.
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19 | ★★ Mr Big | 75m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
The third pitch is fun!
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18 | ★★ Honey Rider | 60m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
16 | ★ Cold Finger | 12m | |||||
Oddly blank at 3rd bolt - probably not the best warm up.
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19 |
★★ Mr Big
1
16
25
Little bit of crack climbing and a nice big runout for the anchors. Quite the lead climb of the day!
2
13
25
Well spaced bolts helps you think about where your feet are for this airy second pitch. Quite nice in the morning sunlight.
3
19
25
This is a solid 19. Surprisingly hard moves near the start to an absolutely stunning finish. Well worth it for the view. | 75m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Fri 13th Jan 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
18 |
★★ Honey Rider
1
18
20
Ground fall potential got to me, first two bolts are really challenging
2
12
15
3
18
25
| 60m | |||||
Mon 26th Dec 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
19 | ★★ Mr Big | 75m | |||||
Tue 20th Dec 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
16 | ★★ Mr Big pitches 1 & 2 - with Eddy | 55m | |||||
Sat 10th Dec 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
15 | ★ Flying Circus | 14m | Average | ||||
Not a bad route, but definitely not for beginners as it has a few moves on it
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17 | ★ Casual Assassin | 12m | Crap | ||||
Sandbagged and has one bolt that's a little off route. Maybe some crimps have worn with traffic but was quite a reach to get to the bolt from the flake
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16 | ★ Cold Finger | 12m | Average | ||||
19 | ★★ Mr Big | 75m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Led through the roof with some thuggish moves but after doing Weld Party in the morning needed a rest before traversing. Love this route
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Sun 4th Dec 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
17 | ★ Casual Assassin - with Juri | 12m | |||||
16 | ★ Cold Finger - with Juri | 12m | |||||
16 |
★★ Mr Big pitches 1 & 2
- with
Keira McLoskey
| 55m | |||||
18 | ★★ Honey Rider - with Juri | 60m | |||||
Sat 3rd Dec 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
19 Hard | ★★ Mr Big - with Claire Evans | 75m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Underrated. Exposed roof and overhanging arete on P3
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Fri 2nd Dec 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
19 | ★★ Mr Big - with Aminah, Marcos Canales | 75m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
also got to lead the last pitch on this (scene of many Events before) and it is really great
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18 ~19 | ★★ Honey Rider - with Aminah | 60m | ★ Good | ||||
Day of redemption for my past gumby self who could never lead the first pitch. I'm going to break with the long tradition of saying it's nails and then logging 18 anyway.
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Sun 27th Nov 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
19 | ★★ Mr Big - with Marion Lemetayer | 75m | ★★★ Mega Classic | ||||
The last pitch is great! Had to back jump (down climb) to clean it, as my partner didn't want to second it!! It was a bit scary, but worked fine.
Then we abseiled from ledge of second pitch.
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Thu 24th Nov 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
19 | ★★ Mr Big - with Yim Ch, JP Boersma, Maja Hjuler | 75m | |||||
Thu 17th Nov 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
19 | ★★ Mr Big | 75m | |||||
18 | ★★ Honey Rider | 60m | |||||
Wed 2nd Nov 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
17 | ★ Casual Assassin - with Cameron Lovell, Saxon | 12m | ★ Good | ||||
16 | ★★ Mr Big pitches 1 & 2 - with Cameron Lovell, Saxon | 55m | ★ Good | ||||
Sun 30th Oct 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Blackheath Area Megalong Valley Crags James Bond Mr Big Area | |||||||
17 |
★ From Russia with Love
1
14
25m
2
17
22m
| 47m | Don't Bother | ||||
19 |
Ecopoint
★★ Mr Big
1
16
25m
2
13
25m
3
19
25m
| 75m | ★★ Very Good |