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	Grade	Route	Gear style	Quality	Climber
Sat 9th Sep 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Scott
Sat 26th Aug 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Marc	Trad 40m		Jake Delaney
omg cannot believe this happened. very stoked and this was the climb that helped me believe in myself (cute). great stemming and gear the whole way with some epic cranking here and there (well cranking for me)
Wed 2nd Aug 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Ola	Trad 40m		Jake Delaney
from a tick on someone's face in the morning, to a down aid gear retrieval mission, to Ola cruising this thing? WHAT A TURN AROUND. to quote Ola, 'the day of ticks'.
Sat 22nd Jul 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with j wiz	Trad 40m		Jason Capenecas
Tue 18th Jul 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		j wiz
Mon 17th Jul 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Dylan Glavas	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Jacinda
Doing the link up really adds an extra flare! Would be keen to try lead it next time. Bigger gear than i thought!
Sat 15th Jul 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Jacinda	Trad 40m	★★★ Mega Classic	Dylan Glavas
Unreallll line, definitely keep on trucking up right on keed spills once you hit the ledge, bomber locks crack, wouldn't finish any other way
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		Nathan willson
Fri 14th Jul 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22 Easy	★★★ Old Guard - with Matilda Elder, luke, Ariel	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Sausage
Great rock, bit faffy
Thu 13th Jul 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Tory Henson
Wed 12th Jul 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Kye Henson
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		steve willson
Mon 10th Jul 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	JakeSouthen
Following Esther
Sun 9th Jul 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Hannah Rose	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Patrick Munnings
Tough to read. Amazing variety.
Wed 5th Jul 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Kalang Kedumba Jones	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	angus smith
top quality route right here
Tue 27th Jun 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Imogen	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	JakeSouthen
That’s a rippa. Absolutely perfect climbing right up to the last move!
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with angus smith	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Kalang Kedumba Jones
An epic one. Well overdue for small gear… At least I made it work with plenty of nuts. Pretty goey, make sure you launch like a hero at the end. will have to come back when I’m feeling less like a sloth
Sun 25th Jun 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with ian	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Mary Shea
Sun 11th Jun 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Scott
Went the hard way on the very last moves and had a sit. Otherwise went smoothly.
Sat 10th Jun 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Scott Birse	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Mary Shea
Sun 4th Jun 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Alf
One of the best, felt super smooth and creamy
Sat 25th Mar 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Martin Timperley	Trad 40m	★★★ Mega Classic	Pedro Rocha
Awesome!!
Sun 26th Feb 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Sonia	Trad 40m		Lauren Hunter
Three stars. Found so many rests on tiny feet. Spent an age on the slopey ledge after the crux placing a hex and taking it out again, then taking my shirt off cos it got hot. Fun.
Sat 18th Feb 2023 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Pedro Rocha	Trad 40m		Lauren Hunter
Fell, thought it was a layback, then found the hold. The rest was fine, exit to ledge too.
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Lauren Hunter	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Pedro Rocha
Seconded clean after Lauren crushed it! Felt on the edge of falling a few times, but somehow stayed on thanks to some Tony painfull foot jamming. Will definitely come back to try it on lead
Thu 10th Nov 2022 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Louis Umashev	Trad 40m	★★★ Mega Classic	Lee Prescott
Absolute mega classic route! Felt a bit easier then 22 but great fun regardless. Awesome little boulder problem to exit the climb
Mon 3rd Oct 2022 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Mary Shea
Awesome, glad to get this one towards the end of the season
Sun 11th Sep 2022 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Mary Shea	Trad 40m		Daniel Razzino
This was brutal in the sun and so many walked in cams was most puppy burn ive had on thus climb
Fri 2nd Sep 2022 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Jack Seawright	Trad 40m		Johnny Sullivan
Thu 1st Sep 2022 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Johnny Sullivan	Trad 40m	★★★ Mega Classic	Jack Seawright
No mistakes this time. One of the best routes at frog, never too hard but keeps you on your toes (not just metaphorical.. its the biggest calf destroyer out here). Especially love the boulder to escape to the sloping ledge up top. What a finale. Also didnt stitch johnny up the way i did jarred a year ago with the exposed swing. Im learning!
Sun 28th Aug 2022 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Sinead	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Mary Shea
Sat 20th Aug 2022 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Cameron Hickling	Trad 40m	★★★ Mega Classic	Matthew Robbins
Happy to get the send on this! One of my favourite routes I've done at Frog so far. Very close to piking off the final hard move but nothing a good old PSAAAT couldn't fix.
Fri 19th Aug 2022 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Matthew Robbins	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Cameron Hickling
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Cameron Hickling	Trad 40m	★★★ Mega Classic	Matthew Robbins
Sun 17th Jul 2022 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		Peatey
Sun 19th Jun 2022 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★★ Mega Classic	Daniel Razzino
Got the tick Didn’t feel as smooth at the crux as my onsight attempt but still got the job done
Sun 12th Jun 2022 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Daniel Razzino	Trad 40m		Sam Pearson
Sat to remove a stuck cam. Loved this line, perhaps the best 22 I've experienced at frog!
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		Daniel Razzino
So close was about two moves from the top out Went directly up the thin crack foot slipped on a layback just after the tiny ledge
Sat 11th Jun 2022 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Nut Busting Unicorn	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Morag Stewart
I think I could've got this clean if it wasn't for one pesky nut! So good though, loved it!
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Morag	Trad 40m	★★★ Mega Classic	Nut Busting Unicorn
Fri 3rd Jun 2022 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with benny, tel, greg	Trad 40m		Blueoffset4lyf
Sat 5th Feb 2022 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Amos J	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Sam J
Bro got his rp so my seconding days on this one are done but seriously good quality, still couldn't put all the moves up high together clean but happy to push my physical and technical limits, even if it was on second.
Sat 29th Jan 2022 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Amos J	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Sam J
Third time cleaning this one in full sun. Sweaty spaghetti fingers. It will be a great lead when the time comes.
Mon 15th Nov 2021 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		Paul Norris
Sun 10th Oct 2021 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Bonnie C	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Sid Lu
consistent climb but more like a long 20 with couple rest spots.
Wed 15th Sep 2021 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Grace Curtis	Trad 40m		Dale Williamson
Dogged/aided
Sat 28th Aug 2021 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Matt Langley
Went the direct finish and avoided stepping out right at the end to rest, didn't want to risk a dabs call.. great climb
Tue 24th Aug 2021 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		estherenita
Mon 23rd Aug 2021 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Tavish Healy	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Dani Hess
Sun 15th Aug 2021 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Tristan Baskerville	Trad 40m		Lauren Hunter
Fri 6th Aug 2021 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Pat, Esther	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Daniel Darshan Hazell
Sat 26th Jun 2021 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		Anzhela Malysheva
Sat 5th Jun 2021 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Jarred Vardy	Trad 40m	★★★ Mega Classic	Jack Seawright
A cracker of a climb. Bit of a leap of faith skipping the 21 grade and jumping straight into this one, but was really stoked to have given such a good crack at the onsight; punting after the crux and getting the rest clean. Some high step ups into the crack and some thin bridging keep it ever-exciting. Definitely enough rests to stop things getting too desperate at any point. Gear is all bomb, Some beaut layback moves on the very positive left edge of the crack. No reason not to award this mega classic status. (I screwed Jarred over by not plugging the top before descending to plume ledge, leaving him a scary clean - sorry J-man)
Sat 15th May 2021 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		Ken Thrash
Sat 1st May 2021 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Isaac Buckingham	Trad 40m		Issy Jukes
Got caught out in the dark, but was a good adventure! Also got a hex stuck down the back of a crack that was a bit too small for Isaac's hands, so had to go back the morning after to collect it haha
Thu 28th Jan 2021 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Josiah Hess	Trad 40m		Issy Jukes
Really enjoyed this one! Might even try it on lead sometime.
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Issy Jukes	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Josiah Hess
Tue 14th Jul 2020 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Alex Riegelman
Good but I would say a bit soft for the grade. Fun movement though. Definitely worth a climb.
Mon 6th Jul 2020 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with ashley colsten	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Johnny
Really happy to have got my first 22. Awesome climbing in the shade and great gear. Setup an anchor at the ledge and down climbed in order to rap off. Will try the full climb next time
Tue 16th Jun 2020 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Brendan Coulter
Decided not to go for the old-school points, mostly due to my largest piece remaining being a 0.5 camalot
Sat 30th May 2020 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Tom Phillips
Fri 15th May 2020 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Ryan Siacci	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	David Jefferson
Cleaning up Ryan's classy red point. Brought back whimsical memories of my own send during one of my first visits to Frog.
Mon 4th May 2020 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Josiah Hess	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Dani Hess
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Dani Hess	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Josiah Hess
Sun 4th Aug 2019 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		David Collard
Wed 10th Jul 2019 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with chou chou halperin	Trad 40m		Mati
Great climb. Cheered on to victory
Jul 2019 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		Jacques Beaudoin
Sun 26th May 2019 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Chris, Renee	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Olga K.
Fell off trying to transition from laybacking to fingerlocks in the second half... Really enjoyed the climb though!
Sun 24th Mar 2019 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Ben	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Swann
Foot slip 3/4 of the way and blew the onsight. Got it second try. Thanks Ben for seconding it twice.
Sun 16th Sep 2018 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		Alex Mougenot
A strange ascent resulting from a strange circumstance. Cleaning the gear after John's fun time fainting. Glad he's okay! A good reminder to brush up on rescue skills. As he was lying out of it on the rope, I tried to lower him as far as I could as the wall was steep and clean, however a piece of gear clipped into his gear loop and prevent me from lowering him further. Luckily this was when he came to. If not, I think the best rescue plan would be or me to ascend my ropes using prussiks, or my GriGri and prussik, attach John to me, and then lower both of us to the ground together. Does anybody else have any suggestions? Cleaned by toproping to last piece, downclimbing half the route, then swinging over to Gladiator and rapping off of above tree and doing some funky rope shenanigans.
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Alex Mougenot	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	John Pownall
Yeah, so.... yeah.... may or may not have got all the way to just before the finishing ledge plugged in an amazing nut whilst on the huge “it’s all over ledge”.... proceeded to faint..... came-to upside down with Moogi yelling at me.... the usual ‘ol faint ‘n’ whip. Y’know?
Sun 8th Jul 2018 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		davedave
Fell off the easy bit down low, got the top done clean but pumpy.
Tue 3rd Jul 2018 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Vanessa Wills
This climb makes me think we may be grading our new trad ascents a bit too sandbaggy in Newcastle, even though I was only seconding I kept waiting for a hard bit.
Sun 24th Jun 2018 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Tanya	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Bernie Walsh
Got a little pumped, that's for sure. Such a good climb.
Sun 3rd Jun 2018 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Christopher Glastonbury	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Tonje Tessem Mehl
Fri 18th May 2018 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Susy G	Trad 40m		Carrie Doyle
Brilliant!!
Fri 11th May 2018 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with dan	Trad 40m		Rhys Phillips
Spicy! And pretty sharp down low. Very nice climbjng that doesn't let up!
Sun 6th May 2018 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Rick Helm
Took the whip in the crux on the .3 camalot
Sun 25th Mar 2018 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Rick Helm
Took the whip didnt get the tick.
Sun 18th Mar 2018 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Rick Helm
One sit. This thing is so epic one of the best i have climbed at frog and that sing in the tail wooo!! Going back to have a go on leadfor sure!!!
Tue 29th Aug 2017 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Taner	Trad 40m		Elias
Enjoyable, felt pretty easy for 22 (maybe because I just followed up?)
Sat 29th Jul 2017 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		Martin Monteiro-Haig
Fri 21st Jul 2017 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	21 22	★★★ Old Guard - with Gemma	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Gee Rad
Easier than Short Order
Fri 7th Apr 2017 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Josiah Hess	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Dani Hess
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Dani Hess	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Josiah Hess
Makes for a classic if you finish up Keed Spills.
Sun 2nd Apr 2017 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		David Jefferson
Wed 10th Aug 2016 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		Buncey88
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Nick Morgan
Clean & green all the way. Great onsight by Shano
Mon 4th Jul 2016 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Wendy Eden	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Douglas Hockly
Better than it looks and there are a number of stances on the way.
Sat 2nd Jul 2016 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Oliver Story
Tue 22nd Mar 2016 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		Alex Mougenot
What a rude/incredible introduction to blank open-book corner stemming/laybacking haha. Had me thinking hard to decode the blank sections. Loved it, but ended up continuing up the last rotten section with the wrong gear. Pulled out of the chimney onto the face, only to stick my face next to a hornet nest. Without thinking, I jumped down and swung off a jug, and next thing I know, I'm hiding in the chimney!
Sun 6th Sep 2015 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		Wendy Eden
Great climbing, probably the friendliest 22 at Frog. Actually ends above Faki ledge, build a toprope anchor and down climb 4m to ledge to belay
Wed 12th Aug 2015 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Susy G, Mario	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Bernie Walsh
Cool route. Good pro throughout and fun delicate climbing.
Sat 8th Aug 2015 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Tim Freeman
Great route except the finish. We wett left.
Sun 17th May 2015 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Michael Hall
this climbs so well! i enjoyed every second of this. mixed up my foot sequence a couple of times and got my body positioning wrong.
Sat 25th Apr 2015 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Cameron Semple	Trad 40m	★★★ Mega Classic	Tom Semple
Wow! Contender for my favourite climb at Frog so far. Felt like the softer end of 22 if you don't mind a bit of laybacking and finger locking. Plenty of rest stances.
	22	★★★ Old Guard - with Tom Semple	Trad 40m	★★★ Mega Classic	Cameron Semple
Amazing! Great onsight from Tom. One fall on second.
Mon 5th Jan 2015 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m		Alex Mougenot
After doing that "this isn't a grade 12" climb to access Faki ledge, we didn't actually know which one Faki was, and ended up going around the corner and doing what turned out to be the last third of Old Guard. Awesome fun in the rain
Mon 16th Jun 2014 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Tracey Hua
Failed so hard on second a year ago... on lead a year later why not and yay sendage Scary weird end though... Finger cracks are awesome!!!
Sun 23rd Jun 2013 - Frog Buttress
West of the access track
	22	★★★ Old Guard	Trad 40m	★★★ Classic	Cameron
This is an awesome corner with technical fingers, and bridging. Beware snake in the easy topout.

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