Ascents in Upper Gara Gorge

Powerful start with an interesting balancey finish

Seems easier than the grade to me?

Think we made our own route by combining a harder sit start to this

Repeat for good measure

Fuaaaaken lovely

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew! Couldn't be bothered cleaning each attempt so we'll settle for the ol pink point. With a few more bodies on this route it'll clean up very nice.

Got to about 2/3 and pumped out. Finished with 3 hangs. All the moves are there but it is deceptively steep. A truly superb route and its crazy that routes were done either side decades ago and this gem was just left untouched

Biiiig links and progress and finally figured out the bulge courtesy of Evan

really fun climb!!

Insanely hard crux, definitely worth a revisit!

Awesome climb! Sat on my gear once for a confidence boost.

Awesome climb! Sat on my gear once for a confidence boost.

...had to relive it.

Not my finest performance. Awesome problem though

Such a classic. I tried this so many damn times but by the time it was figured out there was no more beans in the tank.

Very noice

Warmin up. Although I did break a hold and went for a bit of a ride. Top notch spotters tho!

Nope. A little too optimistic for this time of the night. Needed Nathan at hand to recall how this went.

Nice head jam

Phwoar. Tough. Volo and I may've gotten a little too excited. Meanwhile while Michael and Skippy were discovering a classic.

Starts a little chossy but improves a little higher. Shoulda topped it out.... :-/

Great climb, awesome crew, spectacular setting. I sat down again pretty quickly after trying to pull on to this for the first time. very stepe and not much to hold onto. Funny how these things evolve though. Got up it with some technical toe scumming. Gotta love a good toe scum ;-)

Spiders just keeps on giving

Got here with headlamps, sweaty from the bash up the hill. Had a few goes, so sharp and so thrashed.

Volo and Ben had gotten a couple moves on this so gave it ago. The moves feel impossible! It isn't really clear where is would go. Don't think I can do it. Sound familiar?? But was mega spent, so something for next time

I thought this would be easy but the start turned out to be quite hard up the direct line I was expecting as well as sharp. Ben found a hold way round left. I also did the 'head jam' move same as Ben to get the finish

This is a text book example of everything I love about bouldering. The water level was high and so our original goal of the big nugget was out, as was the king line project. We'd looked at this wall more than once before but it didn't seem that great. Michael started scrubbing and it just got more and more intriguing. But it was completely impossible! I couldn't even pull on! It was totally beyond me. Gradually refined beta and we managed to get unlock it bit by bit and after probably 15 goes got the tick! I haven't pinched, compressed, campus'ed and generally thrashed myself this hard on something in ages and I love it

The water was so high it was more difficult just to get here, only to confirm it was mostly underwater. Volo half jokingly suggested we try the end, and then took off his shirt and did an extremely committing traverse on slopers over the water in his approach shoes. I tried it a couple times and couldn't even do the first move and was totally wigged out. Now that this traverse has been unlocked it is the obvious link up finish to what will be a true king line when finally done (probably next drought)

I thought I was doing the Feeling of Presence but turns out to be a new problem, and yet another high quality problem on this ace little wall

Got it first go. It is quite delicate, could get a grade bump

Fun! I remembered it was high, but still gets your heart going

Trs. Some good little links today