Ascents in Persian Carpets

tree good pitches

fucking hard

some loose flakes

thin moves, go for it

runout at top

fucking hard crux moves

fantastic flake

great layback

watch the brade

lots of wondering

Well we found the first pitch fine, a filthy enjoyable line! From the grassy belay ledge at the top of the first the second and third pitches didn't appear to exist, no cracks in sight, just slab. If I'd paid closer attention to the first ascentionists the lack of pro wouldn't have surprised me. Perhaps a good line to add to the route description would be something like 'stupidly/excitingly run-out'... We 'bailed' up the more lenient slab to the right, putting in two alternate pitches along the way.

Wow! If this 20m thing wasn't at the bottom of a 100m granite slab accessed down a sketchy waterfall gully in the far flung reaches of Oxley Wild it would probably be only slightly less memorable...it was sick!

best slab in the country