Ascents: Ascents of Heavy Metal

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	Grade	Route	Gear style	Quality	Climber
Sat 19th Aug 2023 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal - with Edgar	Sport 18m, 4	★★ Very Good	Andrew Woolley
Top roped for a second time and then led. Hardest lead so far
Sun 28th May 2023 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal	Sport 18m, 4	★ Good	Noah Craven
Sat 6th May 2023 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal - with Andrew Woolley	Sport 18m, 4	★★ Very Good	Simon Porter
	19	★★ Heavy Metal - with Simon Porter	Sport 18m, 4	★★ Very Good	Andrew Woolley
Managed to static the move I was told was a dyno.
Fri 17th Feb 2023 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19 ~20	★★ Heavy Metal - with Brendan Heywood	Sport 18m, 4	★★ Very Good	Michael Moore
Bit on the sandbag side if you’re short as you have to go around the arete and do a few burley moves that you could definitely skip. Noice climbing though.
Sun 11th Dec 2022 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal - with Ned	Sport 18m, 4	★★ Very Good	Simon Porter
Sat 30th Apr 2022 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal - with Laura Price, Volodymyr K, Brendan Heywood, Michael Moore	Sport 18m, 4	★★★ Classic	Bryn Norris
Awesome climb
	19	★★ Heavy Metal - with Brendan Heywood, Bryn Norris, Michael Moore, Volodymyr K	Sport 18m, 4	★★ Very Good	Laura Price
Mon 21st Feb 2022 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal	Sport 18m, 4		Benji Dutaillis
Sat 5th Feb 2022 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal - with Chris Bentham	Sport 18m, 4	★★ Very Good	Jack Murray
	19	★★ Heavy Metal - with Jack Murray	Sport 18m, 4	★★ Very Good	Chris Bentham
Great climb.
	19	★★ Heavy Metal - with Jack Murray	Sport 18m, 4	★★ Very Good	Chris Bentham
Great climb.
Tue 13th Oct 2020 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal - with Jake Delaney	Sport 18m, 4	★★★ Classic	Tom Bes
my first granite climb and what a joy. standing and crimping on tiny flakes to gain nice ledges. well bolted except the last carrot seems to have popped out. this is no big deal as its on the easy slabby finish.
Wed 7th Oct 2020 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal - with Tom Bes	Sport 18m, 4		Jake Delaney
dear the person who hucked our stuff in the river - we will find you...
Sat 23rd May 2020 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal - with Benji Dutaillis, Chloe	Sport 18m, 4	★★ Very Good	Brendan Heywood
Two laps
Sun 16th Jun 2019 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal - with Scott Camps, Vaschka Koboroff	Sport 18m, 4		Brendan Heywood
A mysterious new bolt has appeared at the start to replace to one which has been missing for two decades
Sun 8th Feb 2015 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal	Sport 18m, 4		Match
First climb in armidale very blank and balency
	19	★★ Heavy Metal - with Aaron Wells	Sport 18m, 4		Match
Fri 30th Jan 2015 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal - with Mitch and Mark	Sport 18m, 4	★ Good	Ben Vincent
Always fun!
Fri 29th Mar 2013 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal	Sport 18m, 4	★ Good	Jason Nguyen
Good one to start the day, not hard at the grade, especially with the draws and bolt plates already on! (Thanks Paul)
	19	★★ Heavy Metal	Sport 18m, 4	★ Good	Paul Frothy Thomson
Short but interesting, and not too hard for the grade. Worthwhile.
Sun 17th Feb 2013 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal - with Mark and Carol	Sport 18m, 4	★★ Very Good	Ben Vincent
Nice. First clip is a bit long for short people. A cool cruxy move onto the arete halfway up the climb is the highlight.
Thu 11th Mar 2010 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal	Sport 18m, 4		Toby
Scary starting move...
Sat 9th Dec 2006 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal	Sport 18m, 4	★★ Very Good	Chris Bentham
cool top moves
Sun 28th May 2006 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal	Sport 18m, 4		Brendan Heywood
2003 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal	Sport 18m, 4	★★ Very Good	Aaron Wells
one of the first bolted lines in the gorge sic climb
Wed 17th Jul 2002 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal	Sport 18m, 4	★★★ Classic	gordon grant
Tue 17th Jul 2001 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal	Sport 18m, 4		gordon grant
Sun 1st Apr 2001 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal	Sport 18m, 4	★ Good	James
the 1st bolt was missing when I did this
Tue 10th Jul 2012 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal	Sport 18m, 4	Average	Bruce Taylor
Tue 13th Apr 2010 - Upper Gara Gorge
Central climbing areas Illusion Buttress
	19	★★ Heavy Metal	Sport 18m, 4	★★★ Classic	John Lattanzio
Great wall climbing on granite

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