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	Grade	Route	Gear style	Crag	Quality	Climber	Date
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	26	★★ Baby Dawn	Unknown 20m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Damien Boorman	Sat 22nd Apr 2023
Really fun slabbing, right up until the mystifying top crux. Either need some fancy beta, fancier footwork or to grow 4 more inches..
Trad
	25	★★★ Soul Catcher	Mixed trad 60m, 10	Blue Mountains		Adrian Kladnig	Sat 30th Nov 1996
	25	★★★ Soul Catcher	Mixed trad 60m, 10	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Matt Brooks	2012
Hard second pitch, very height dependant I think. My second could reach between the breaks and found it not so bad. I was having to all out jump.Rather airy doing this on the arete.
	25	★★★ Soul Catcher	Mixed trad 60m, 10	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Josh Mackenzie	Sun 24th Sep 2017
Super choss corner that feels like it is going to try and kill you gives way to brilliantly committing, mildly terrifying arête balancing. Take some bolt plates (no mention of this in the guide book.
	20	★★★ Soul Catcher P1 - with Paul Frothy Thomson 1 20 20m lead by Paul Frothy Thomson	Mixed trad 20m, 10	Blue Mountains		Will Vidler	Sun 29th Jul 2018
Hideous disgusting choss. Utterly offensive and terrible. I won't give the whole route a quality rating though because I didn't get to try the upper pitch which is obviously the reason to climb the route. Pitch one was just so so bad though! Bleh.
	25	★★★ Soul Catcher - with Will Vidler 1 20 20m 2 25 40m	Mixed trad 60m, 10	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Paul Frothy Thomson	Sun 29th Jul 2018
Onsight P1. Interesting climbing, but consists of actual disintegrating sand-choss for much of it. Linked into P2 to try and climb it as a giant singlepitch, before getting scared of the rope grinding on the choss below and the alpine winds got the better of me. Reversed the crux and backjumped to the belay. Might be okay, but requires bolt plates, and probably a 0.5, 0.75 and 1 BD Cam to make it comfortable.
	25	★★★ Soul Catcher	Mixed trad 60m, 10	Blue Mountains		Mattia Fornari	Wed 27th Nov 2019
	25	★★★ Soul Catcher - with Stephen Varney, Martin Cankov 1 20 20m 2 25 40m	Mixed trad 60m, 10	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Paul Frothy Thomson	Wed 29th Dec 2021
2nd shot. Put in a proper good effort on the "onsight" and just didn't find a single hold mid-crux. Committed, tried hard, read the route right. Gotto be happy with that. A 5m section of hard arete climbing on P2, but the rest of the pitch is only about gr23. Still cool, but looks better than it is, and its quality is tempered by the hideous 1st pitch, and the terrible equipping. Bareback is better. Bring 4 x Bolt Plates, a 0.4, 0.75 and #3 cam -to supplement some crazy runouts and the bad bash-in carrots.
	25	★★★ Soul Catcher - with Demetrius 1 Trad lead by JeremyPerier 2 Second lead by Demetrius	Mixed trad 60m, 10	Blue Mountains		JeremyPerier	Sun 29th Oct 2023
First pitch = choss central. Second pitch = scary, hard, but beautiful.
	25	★★★ Soul Catcher - with JeremyPerier 1 Second lead by JeremyPerier 2 Trad lead by Demetrius Awesome	Mixed trad 60m, 10	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Demetrius	Mon 30th Oct 2023
Simon's photo of Stephan in the guide has always captivated me so this one has been on my list for a long time, great to work up the nerve to actually try it! Struggled a bit but managed all the moves, placed a red alien in the early horizontal and wished for bigger cams up higher on the the run out easier ground. It's going to be a good one to pice together next time.
	19 19 M0	Bewt Root	Trad 90m	Blue Mountains	Don't Bother	Boyd Robinson	Mon 20th Jun 1994
We did a psycho free version of this(god and buddha know where the route goes) on the frigid day in my misspent youth, onsight and trad : )
Sport
	29	★★★ Utopia	Sport 30m, 15	Blue Mountains		Jake Bresnehan	Fri 18th Feb 2022
	29	★★★ Utopia	Sport 30m, 15	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	James Hockey	Tue 1st Nov 2022
Awesome route, supposed to be a rest day but with draws up I couldn't resist. Equal parts pulling and technical, stunning line.
	29	★★★ Utopia - with Will Vidler	Sport 30m, 15	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Paul Frothy Thomson	Wed 25th Jan 2023
Awesome! Way more interesting and arete-y than I expected. Kinda a bit scary, even. Just the one exploratory lap (with a lot of time spent piecing it together) but there was still one sequence near the top that I never really figured out. Totally my style, for sure!
	29	★★★ Utopia	Sport 30m, 15	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Damien Boorman	Sat 22nd Apr 2023
Insanely good! This route has it all! (Including seeping holds on the bottom crux ) Another 29 proj to add to the collection.
	29	★★★ Utopia	Sport 30m, 15	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Aidan	Thu 17th Aug 2023
Mega!
	29	★★★ Utopia - with Nathan Kenny, Ben	Sport 30m, 15	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Michael Moore	Sat 14th Oct 2023
Fuaaaken whadda line. Did the moves and made some noice links, would be a nice one to proj post summer training maybe.
	29	★★★ Utopia - with Ben	Sport 30m, 15	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Michael Moore	Fri 20th Oct 2023
Ooooo big link today, cool
	22 23	★★★ Bareback p1	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Matt Pascoe	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	25	★★★ Bareback	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains		Andy Richardson	Thu 1st Jun 2006
	27	★★ Containment Line (Containment Law)	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		warwick payten	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	24 25	★★ Lucifer's Hammer	Sport 60m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Roger Austin	Sun 7th May 2006
A bit cheesy on the first pitch. One harder-than-average move and a dodgy finger knocked me back on the second. Doubled 50m ropes will reach the ground from the top chain (just).
	24	★★ SSCC4	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains		Justin Clark	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	24	★★ SSCC4	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains		M.Warren	2002
	24	★★ SSCC4	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains		Damien Taylor	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	26 25	★★ Hazard Reduction	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	Average	peta barrett	Sat 1st Mar 2003
was suckered in to having photos taken on this...go up..go down...no just hold that pose...never again! and i never even saw the pics! how rude!!!!
	24	★★ SSCC4	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	chris	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	22 23	★★★ Bareback p1	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		James Hardy	Sun 17th Apr 2005
	24	★★ SSCC4	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	JJ	Wed 7th Dec 2005
My footwork sucks! P1- 2nd'ed Adski clean, P2- Botched footwork @ 2nd last bolt, you IDIOT! Stella sustained climbing on P2, Awesome!!!
	24	★★ SSCC4	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Tim Haasnoot	Sat 18th Dec 2004
P1 only, soooo Hot, nice moves
	24 25	★★ Lucifer's Hammer	Sport 60m	Blue Mountains		Justin Clark	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	25	FA ★★★ Bareback	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	ness	Mon 1st Mar 2004
	26 25	★★ Hazard Reduction	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	will watkins	Sat 3rd Feb 2007
awesome 2nd shot. worthe its weight in gold
	25	★★★ Bareback	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Adam Bramwell	Sun 14th Oct 2007
I got on this while Kent got on Chook Lotto
	26 25	★★ Hazard Reduction	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains		M.Warren	2002
	27	★★ Containment Law	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Lauren van der Mast	Sat 2nd Dec 2006
Okay, so I'm not one for top roping. I just didn't have the headset for the lead today, redpointed up to the last draw before toprope. Soo very freakily run out and crimpy.
	27	★★ Containment Line (Containment Law)	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Doug	Sun 7th Mar 2004
Scary at first. Most draws are hard to put on.
	26 25	★★ Hazard Reduction	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Lauren van der Mast	Sun 26th Mar 2006
Finally found a way to get my lankiness through the crux! Such an awesome arete to climb : )
	24	★★ SSCC4	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Adam Bramwell	Wed 7th Dec 2005
Wicked fun. led p1, the easy pitch!
	27	★★ Containment Line (Containment Law)	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		M.Warren	2003
	24	★★ SSCC4	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains		James	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	22 23	★★★ Bareback p1	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		chris	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	26 25	★★ Hazard Reduction	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Matt Pascoe	Wed 1st Feb 2006
	26 25	★★ Hazard Reduction	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains		Andy Richardson	2005
	24	★★ SSCC4	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Stuart McElroy	Sat 29th Jan 2000
with Dude
	22 23	★★★ Bareback p1	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Lauren van der Mast	Sat 28th Jan 2006
Wicked climb, I just got damn scared on it? But there was a big spider up there.(So what if it was dead?)
	22 23	★★★ Bareback p1	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Tim Haasnoot	Tue 27th Dec 2011
very old school and it just seemed to keep going.
	26 25	★★ Hazard Reduction	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Tim Haasnoot	Tue 27th Dec 2011
just couldn't link that move pulling the lip.
	24	★★ SSCC4 - with Chris the Pom	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains		Adrian Kladnig	Wed 27th Oct 1993
	25	★★ Lucifer's Hammer 1	Sport 60m	Blue Mountains		Adrian Kladnig	Sat 10th Sep 1994
	24	★★ SSCC4 - with Greg James	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains		Adrian Kladnig	Sat 3rd Sep 1994
	22 23	★★★ Bareback p1	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		Rowan Blakers	Mon 13th Aug 2012
	23 24	★★ SSCC4	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Matthew Glendenning	Tue 10th Dec 2013
Pitch 1 only. Cool moves
	23 24	★★ SSCC4	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Peter	Sat 7th Dec 2013
P1 only. Quality the whole way!
	24	★★ SSCC4	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Carlos	Mon 22nd Sep 2014
One try all the moves. Must try again
	22 23	★★★ Bareback p1	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Carlos	Mon 22nd Sep 2014
Hard for the grade
	25	★★★ Bareback	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Carlos	Mon 22nd Sep 2014
Must have another go, very tricky,
	22 23	★★★ Bareback p1	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Aaron Buttel	Tue 31st Mar 2015
	22 23	★★★ Bareback p1 - with Aaron Buttel	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		James vilimaa	Tue 31st Mar 2015
geat pitch!
	25	★★ Hazard Reduction - with Sammi	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Lee Cujes	Sat 31st Oct 2015
For me, first day back from holiday usually means climbing like a bag of rocks, but this was good! Glorious rock on the arete.
	24	★★ SSCC4 - with Heath Black	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Lee Cujes	Sun 11th Sep 2016
p1 only. Glad Monty went first! Bloody slabs! Perversely fun. What about that second pitch huh?
	22 23	★★★ Bareback p1 - with Heath Black	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	Average	Lee Cujes	Sun 11th Sep 2016
Geez. Tricky. Hard.
	25	★★ Lucifer's Hammer - with Heath Black	Sport 60m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Lee Cujes	Sun 11th Sep 2016
Tricksy slab crux. Punted.
	25	★★ Lucifer's Hammer - with Heath Black	Sport 60m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Lee Cujes	Sun 11th Sep 2016
What a beast of a wall route. Really good. Looks intimidating but it's safe and good value. FH's on p1 and all rings on p2. [2]
	25	★★ Hazard Reduction	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Mitch Perkins	Sun 4th Dec 2016
Fluffed the onsight by trying to avoid the flake and sticking to the arete. On the easier end of 25 but well worth doing if only for that amazing arete!
	24	★★ SSCC4	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Vanessa Wills	Sat 17th Dec 2016
Stuffed up first move on wall, came back to block, then did it. A bit run out, but it's all there if you trust the bolts and rock
	25	★★★ Bareback	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Vanessa Wills	Sat 17th Dec 2016
About 2010 I think with Mike Lawrence. Led P2 and had one fall right at top before doing it.
	25	★★ Lucifer's Hammer	Sport 60m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Ian.Grabowski	Tue 24th Jan 2017
Great route. P1 - led clean (adventurous for sport), P2 - climbed clean to bolt before crux. Couldn't make the final move of the crux and with a stretchy 2nd rope not on autobloc I ended up having to aid through to the break (seeing where I should have been reaching for!). Climbed the rest fine - watch the rock at the top - I pulled a huge chunk off.
	23	★★★ Bareback p1	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Jason McCarthy	Mon 31st Jul 2017
Wow this pitch is rad. Intense moves off the ground and then exciting climbing all the way to the anchors. Full value pitch. Maybe 22 if you dont count the moves off the ground.
	25	★★★ Bareback	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Jason McCarthy	Sun 30th Jul 2017
Pitch 2. 2 shots, amazing pure arete climbing. The unprotected step across the void is a bit stupid though.
	25	★★★ Bareback	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Josh Mackenzie	Sun 24th Sep 2017
What's not to love, this route has it all. Old school corner stemming, thin slabbing, committing positions and awesome arête climbing with a little rooflet thrown in for good measure. P1; led by Andrew. Broke a previously glued flake right near the ground (directing the hold into his own testicles) making this more like a 24ish? sequence to get off the deck. P2; psyched to onsite.
	24	★★ SSCC4 (SSCC4 P1) - with grace 1 24 25	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★ Good	Ben Hanley	Sat 20th Jan 2018
	24	★★ SSCC4	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Josh Mackenzie	Wed 21st Feb 2018
Why does no one seem to do the top pitch of this?!? Hard 24, interesting movement, awesome variety of features and hold, zero chalk marks and plenty of dirt... what’s not to love?! Will go back, soon.
	25	★★★ Bareback	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Jason McCarthy	Sun 29th Apr 2018
Back on this mega classic. Forgot the sun gets on this early. Be back again in winter. Have a love/hate relationship with this route. Pulled through the start.
	25	★★★ Bareback	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains		Andrew Macfarlane	Sat 16th Feb 2019
	25	★★ Hazard Reduction	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains		Andrew Macfarlane	Sat 16th Feb 2019
	25	★★ Lucifer's Hammer	Sport 60m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Andrew Macfarlane	Tue 26th Mar 2019
	25	★★ Hazard Reduction	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains		Krzysztof Maciejowski	Fri 2nd Aug 2019
	25	★★★ Bareback	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Jason McCarthy	Sun 25th Aug 2019
Psyched to tick this mega-classic that is really my anti-style. Could be the best arete in the mountains. 2nd shot today. 3rd visit over a couple of years.
	25	★★ Lucifer's Hammer	Sport 60m	Blue Mountains		Mattia Fornari	Wed 27th Nov 2019
	25	★★ Hazard Reduction	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains		Mattia Fornari	Wed 27th Nov 2019
	25	★★ Hazard Reduction	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Ben Jenga	Mon 30th Dec 2019
Quit at the crux when I tried climbing direct first shot, got my skirt stuck at the lip turn on the second. I will have to come back for redemption some day.
	23	★★★ Bareback p1	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Ben Jenga	Mon 30th Dec 2019
EOD lap. 33 degs and time to leave. Really great route that makes you work for it.
	23 25	★★★ Bareback	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Mitch Perkins	Mon 30th Dec 2019
Pitch one. Really cool techy opening boulder to some fantastic corner climbing.
	23	★★★ Bareback p1	Sport 25m	Blue Mountains		James vilimaa	Sun 28th Jun 2020
	25	★★★ Bareback	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains		James vilimaa	Sun 28th Jun 2020
bailed after the 4th bolt. Shit my pants... hahaha.
	25	★★★ Bareback - with Dave Hoyle	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Aaron Jones	Sun 15th Nov 2020
Frothing. All time mega classic. First pitch feels tradalicious, except on shiny rings. Second pitch is brilliant, funky position dependant arete climbing. Fell at the start (stay low for the right traverse) and at the top little overlap - there's a sneaky kneebar up there. Can't recommend these 2 pitches enough
	25	★★ Lucifer's Hammer	Sport 60m	Blue Mountains		Jesse Adams	Fri 27th Nov 2020
	25	★★★ Bareback - with Heath Black 1 23 30m lead by Paul Frothy Thomson 2 25 30m lead by Paul Frothy Thomson	Sport 60m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Paul Frothy Thomson	Sat 3rd Apr 2021
The full gamut of emotions on this one. With not a drop of chalk on the crux pitch, I pushed and pushed on the onsight with every trick I had, only to eventually fall off between the last bolt and the anchor, in the final few moves (getting the wrong foot up on the arete). Both pitches are brilliant in their own right (don't underestimate the 1st pitch, I fell off the first move as a warmup!), but it comes with some giant caveats that make it a mission to climb -not the least of which is the hideously positioned belay bolts, which necessitate a hanging belay, rather than just a semi-hanging belay with a few seconds of forethough as to their position. P2 is certainly one of the top 3 aretes in the Blueys, and reminds me of a more intense version of Teenager for the CIA. Certainly one of the most arete-y aretes in the mountains (and conveniently bolted, unlike Koyaan arete).
	25	★★ Hazard Reduction - with Hans Anetieser	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains		TimTam	Sun 16th May 2021
Clean ascent.
	25	★★★ Bareback - with Will Vidler 1 23 30 lead by Harry Kadi 2 25 20 lead by Harry Kadi	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Harry Kadi	Sun 24th Oct 2021
Awesome route! techy, exposed and generally excellent!
	25	★★★ Bareback - with Harry Kadi, Ben Sanford 1 23 47m lead by Harry Kadi 2 25 lead by Will Vidler	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Will Vidler	Sun 24th Oct 2021
Had a decent onsight effort on the second pitch. Found it quite reachy and hanging the draws was the crux. Came off in the top third and then dogged to the top. Fell off above the last bolt on my second go when I missed my footer and very very very slowly barn-doored off. Devastating. I shall return. I also think that there should be a bolt to protect the step across move, it seems dumb that you could break yourself on this one section for no reason. Harry flashed which was fucking rad.
	24	★★★ Bareback 1 24 47 Sport	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Liam Mcintyre	Wed 8th Dec 2021
	25	★★ Hazard Reduction	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Caleb Skirrow	Sun 3rd Jul 2022
	25	★★ SSCC4 - with Will Vidler 1 23 25m 2 25 25m	Sport 50m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	Paul Frothy Thomson	Wed 13th Jul 2022
My unchalked onsight of P2 ended at the 3rd last bolt (and the last real move) when I finally made a footwork mistake, with all the hardest climbing in the bag . Despite being aesthetically ugly, the moves on both pitches are brilliant, and I had to pull out every slab-climbing trick in the book on the onsight effort of P2. It was dissappointing to drop the ball right at the try-line, but it wasn't absent a whole-hearted effort -I tried hard. Linked both pitches from the ground with minimum rope drag. The start of P1 is rather nails, but the initial moves its only about gr21 to the top.
	25	★★ Hazard Reduction - with Heath Black	Sport 27m	Blue Mountains	★★ Very Good	Paul Frothy Thomson	Sun 24th Jul 2022
2nd shot. Almost a classic, marred only by the somewhat sandy start -though, it wasn't as chossy as I was expecting, and is much better than Soul Catcher P1. Quite easy at the grade (24?) but committing through the crux, and tricky to read when unchalked. Was a cruise 2nd lap, though.
	25	★★★ Bareback 1 25 47m 2	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Classic	James Hockey	Mon 7th Nov 2022
Stonker of a route. Very trad first pitch indeed, the step across took a while to commit to and then arete'ey goodness to the top. Got heartbroken by punting a couple metres from the anchors, chuffed regardless.
	25	★★★ Bareback 1 23 Sport 2 25 Sport	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains	★★★ Mega Classic	Tom P	Sun 27th Nov 2022
Absolutely mega line. Two sits on the first pitch just sussing out the stemming techa's. Fantastic pitch in its own right, proper variety of styles. Pitch 2 is true class dancing on the arete. Couple of sits figuring out beta for a few sections. Keen to get back and try send both pitches.
	25	★★★ Bareback	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains		Jack Seawright	Thu 1st Dec 2022
After getting thumped by the top crux on black heathen, my ego still had weight enough to not stick clip the first bolt on p1 and jump off to the ground when it turned out to be tricky. Disappointingly misread the start, yim showed us how it was done after waking up from a crag nap. The rest of the pitch went swimmingly and loved the heel toe cam in the flake up top especially. Tim quivered his way up p2, i was pretty stoked with a mostly clean 2nd (shafted by the roof).
	25	★★★ Bareback - with Tom P	Sport 47m	Blue Mountains		Dan Cox	Sun 27th Nov 2022
Was an epic fight on an epic line. Basically no experience arete climbing, and this route delivered the goods.

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