Ascents in Upper Gara Gorge as Red point by Brendan Heywood

This is neat, deserves another star. Delicate start and the more moves you do the easier it gets so just keep shuffling! Feels pretty soft for a gara 23

Lots of mental rehearsal. Once you commit and get into it it’s not too bad, holds are pretty juggy and the mantle is probably technically the crux.

Send! Stoke is high. Executed the bouldery first section perfectly in 2 mins. Then took me around 6 tentative goes up and down over 25 mins to get comfortable with the 5th clip and then slapped and thrutched my way to freedom. It did not climb the way I'd visualized.

Glad to finally get on this and send after its long incubation period, got it 3rd go

Should scrub up with traffic into an ok little route, still the odd loose bits. The start is nice.

Warmup

The old sling at the top was totally ghetto

First go wasn't sure where to pop to the letter box, got it second go. A mist of fine bugs

Benji and Ben went earlier and I knocked off mid arvo and trundled up stylishly late. They'd had a solid session and Ben had already cracked the crux which is just sick. Benji had a go at leading up the first slab and roof crack pitch. Apparently they'd had an epic cleaning session and it showed. After Benji retreated I had a go and "flashed" it. The caveat is I had been on this on our very first session here but I had retreated from the sea of choss, loose dinner plates, and since trundled death boulders.

Benji reckons its a legit flash because it's genuinely so different. It actually climbs well with a fun left hip stretching move through the bulge. Apparently there is a cave I need to explore in there which I completely missed.

A mysterious new bolt has appeared at the start to replace to one which has been missing for two decades

Bouldered on a driftwood platform after a flood which was then later washed away