Ascents in Carborundum Wall as various tick types

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	Grade	Route	Gear style	Quality	Climber	Date
Carborundum Wall
	21	★★ Airtime Over Pumicestone	Mixed trad 250m, 24		craig pohlman	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	21	★★ Airtime Over Pumicestone	Mixed trad 250m, 24	★★ Very Good	Craig Burgess	Sun 10th Jun 2007
Great Climb, Run out between FH. Mis read desc for start of last pitch, made life difficult and added 4m fall, from landing spot found proper start of pitch and cursed myself, finished easily.
	21	★★ Airtime Over Pumicestone - with Tom Semple 1 18 lead by Tom 2 18 lead by Cam 3 21 lead by Tom 4 5 6	Mixed trad 250m, 24	★★★ Classic	Cameron Semple	Sun 1st Mar 2015
Bailed at the top of the third due to getting late and forgetting to bring torches.
	21	★★ Airtime Over Pumicestone - with Lachlan Gardiner 1 18 lead by Lachlan 2 18 lead by Nick 3 21 lead by Lachlan 4 lead by - 5 lead by - 6 lead by -	Mixed trad 250m, 24	★★ Very Good	foztr	Wed 8th Feb 2017
Both climbed clean to the top of the 3rd pitch, then bailed in the rain. It would be nice to revisit on a winters morning.
	21	★★ Airtime Over Pumicestone - with Dalaney 1 18 35m Second 2 18 30m Trad 3 21 40m Trad 4 19 40m Trad 5 2 60m Trad 6 19 40m Trad	Mixed trad 250m, 24		Bruce Schneider	Wed 6th Dec 2023
Rope and gear retrieval for Dalaney. Seconded pitch 1, and led the beginning of pitch 2 to retrieve gear, then lowered back to pitch 1, and rapped off.
	20	★ Leaving On A Jet Plane	Sport 25m, 8	★ Good	Todd dawson	Fri 10th Feb 2012
totally sandbag myself thinking it was remains of the day. but made it on lead falling twice.
	20	★ Leaving On A Jet Plane	Sport 25m, 8		Martin Monteiro-Haig	Sat 2nd Apr 2022
	20	★★ Nine Month Sojourn	Sport 25m, 8	★★ Very Good	Brenton Owens	Sun 24th Nov 2013
Sustained at the grade for the whole climb.
	20	★★ Nine Month Sojourn - with Antoine Chandonnet	Sport 25m, 8	★★ Very Good	Troy McAndrew	Mon 1st Jul 2019
Had a devastating foot hold blow and lost the flash.
	20	★★ Nine Month Sojourn	Sport 25m, 8		Ricki-lee Driver	Sat 30th Nov 2019
	20	★★ Nine Month Sojourn	Sport 25m, 8	★★ Very Good	Patrick Hall	Mon 4th May 2020
Two hangs. Maybe next time.
	20	★★ Nine Month Sojourn - with Matt	Sport 25m, 8	★★ Very Good	Colin	Sun 16th May 2021
	20	★★ Nine Month Sojourn - with kelly-clambers	Sport 25m, 8		Chris Nolan	Sun 19th Sep 2021
	20	★★ Nine Month Sojourn - with Connie Huang	Sport 25m, 8		Shane P	Sat 21st Oct 2023
	21	★★ Insurrection VS - with Antoine Chandonnet	Sport 28m, 8	★★ Very Good	Troy McAndrew	Mon 1st Jul 2019
	18	★ Insurrection	Sport 25m, 7	Average	Garry Saunders	Sun 18th Nov 2007
	18	★ Insurrection	Sport 25m, 7	★ Good	Carrie Doyle	Sun 11th Aug 2013
nerves kicked in, grabbed the third and fourth draw to get steady, still a good climb though
	18	★ Insurrection	Sport 25m, 7	★★ Very Good	zac	Sun 24th Sep 2017
You can tell this has been rebollted, nicely bolted where crack line is at the start, then the last 3 hanger have some good space between them
	18	★ Insurrection	Sport 25m, 7		Davide L	Sun 22nd Aug 2021
	18	★ Insurrection	Sport 25m, 7		Davide L	Sat 19th Feb 2022
	18	★ Insurrection - with Issy Jukes	Sport 25m, 7		Pedro Rocha	Thu 26th Jan 2023
Hoped on it thinking it was the first pitch of AOP. Misread a cruxy bit and slipped off
	18 ~19	★ Insurrection - with Chris Gibson	Sport 25m, 7	Average	Greg Henderson	Sat 15th Apr 2023
	18 Hard	★ Insurrection - with Achi	Sport 25m, 7		Joe Lin	Sat 29th Apr 2023
	18	★ Insurrection - with Connie Huang	Sport 25m, 7		Shane P	Sat 21st Oct 2023
	20	★★ Into Darkness	Sport 18m, 7		zac	Sun 6th Oct 2013
i thourt i was on Insurrection gusse thats why it felt hard
	20	★★ Into Darkness	Sport 18m, 7	★★ Very Good	Matt Schimke	Tue 28th Jan 2014
Went left at fourth? bolt when I should have moved right. Tricky onsight, as the holds are all hidden. Maybe 21?
	20	★★ Into Darkness - with Anthony Nielsen	Sport 18m, 7	★ Good	Anthony Nielsen	Sat 14th Jan 2017
Tough for a 20
	20	★★ Into Darkness	Sport 18m, 7		Peatey	Mon 31st Jul 2017
Ignoring how weak I was that was really good climbing. Would certainly fit in on upper slider wall. Lots of good movement on just-good-enough edges.
	20	★★ Into Darkness	Sport 18m, 7	★★ Very Good	Josiah Hess	Sat 2nd Dec 2017
More moistness, a good climb but.
	20	★★ Into Darkness - with Mel, Kate	Sport 18m, 7	★★ Very Good	Bruce Schneider	Fri 15th May 2020
Surprisingly difficult, although very nice moves. I'm wondering if a big hold has broken off making it harder as it looks like something has broken off recently. Sustained all the way though.
	20	★★ Into Darkness - with Mel, Kate	Sport 18m, 7	★★ Very Good	Bruce Schneider	Fri 15th May 2020
	20	★★ Into Darkness	Sport 18m, 7	★ Good	Dan OS	Wed 8th Jul 2020
We climbed this as an off route self sandbagged first pitch of Banished. Whoops 😂
	20	★★ Into Darkness	Sport 18m, 7		Davide L	Sun 22nd Aug 2021
	20	★★ Into Darkness - with Jamie Foulkes	Sport 18m, 7	★★ Very Good	James Keough	Sun 12th Sep 2021
Slipped going for silly move, climbed 3/4 clean
	20	★★ Into Darkness - with kelly-clambers	Sport 18m, 7		Chris Nolan	Sun 19th Sep 2021
Clipping mis-adventures. Great climb though.
	20	★★ Into Darkness	Sport 18m, 7		Chris Ahlgren	Sat 6th May 2023
Steep and sustained at the grade nearly the whole way. Great little route. Need to come back and get it clean.
	20	★★ Into Darkness - with Chris Ahlgren	Sport 18m, 7		Lachlan	Sat 6th May 2023
Enjoyable route, should go next time.
	20 ~21	★★ Into Darkness - with Annalisa V	Sport 18m, 7	★★ Very Good	Scotty Does	Sat 24th Jun 2023
felt hard for the grade, committing fifth clip made me pump out. got it clean on second, will be back for the red point.
	20	★★ Into Darkness	Sport 18m, 7		Ivan Milyakov	Sun 20th Aug 2023
	20	★ First Contact	Sport 20m, 7	★★ Very Good	Garry Saunders	Sun 18th Nov 2007
Deserves a star in the glasshouse guide
	20	★ First Contact	Sport 20m, 7	★★ Very Good	Toby	Sat 8th Nov 2014
Fun
	20	★ First Contact - with Kallin W	Sport 20m, 7	★ Good	Oscar Bassi	Sun 17th Jun 2018
	20	★ First Contact	Sport 20m, 7	★ Good	Patrick Hall	Sat 18th May 2019
	20	★ First Contact - with Stephanie Emmert	Sport 20m, 7	★ Good	Patrick Hall	Sat 17th Aug 2019
	20	★ First Contact	Sport 20m, 7	★ Good	Maxine Hunter	Mon 20th Jul 2020
First time trying to lead this one. Got the first few sections sorted. Foot blasted off and had huge pendulum whipper from just below the 5th FH. Next time!!
	20	★ First Contact	Sport 20m, 7		Martin Monteiro-Haig	Sat 2nd Apr 2022
	20	★ First Contact	Sport 20m, 7	★ Good	I Skip Crux Holds	Tue 12th Jul 2022
	20	★ First Contact	Sport 20m, 7	★★ Very Good	Colin	Mon 26th Jun 2023
Got confused, very pumpy as a warm up!
	20	★ Banished For Infidelity - with nathan jackson	Sport 170m	★★★ Classic	Keegan	Wed 6th Jul 2016
This was awesome, first two pitches were sloper after sloper felt a little scary but so much fun Easy up through the roof balancy move with huge exposure to get out to the bolt on the bulge And That's where it ended, couldnt get the next move down Can't wait to try again this may be my new favorite route Oh left 2 draws up there if anyone is up there before I get another chance
	20	★ Banished For Infidelity - with Adam Sanders	Sport 170m	★★ Very Good	Adam Sanders	Fri 1st Sep 2017
The crux pitch (21) has an airy move out of the cave, and my reach made the crux move up to the belay ledge a bit harder. Will crush it next time.
	20	★ Banished For Infidelity - with HollyH	Sport 170m	★★ Very Good	John Pownall	Sun 9th Dec 2018
Onsight first pitch only. Got rained-off after the first pitch: Went out to do Black Orpheus but was soaking wet. BFI seemed to be the only dry start so threw ourselves at it. That “wee bit exciting” part is much more exciting when it’s damp/dank! Sheesh! Then started to rain, so had to bail off at the first chains. Looks like a sweet line though! Has anyone climbed the arete of the huge flake that houses Carbo Chimney? Looks amazing up there!
	20	★ Banished For Infidelity - with Daniel Smith	Sport 170m		Genevieve Kieseker	Sun 25th Aug 2019
Led the crux pitch and it was hard. Many friable holds in the cave. Saw a wasp next on Pitch 2 - easily avoided. No wasps on the crux pitch. Somehow went too far left on Pitch 3 and ended up on the 24 variant (Pitch 4b). It was hard.
	20	★ Banished For Infidelity	Sport 170m		Peatey	Tue 2nd Nov 2021
	20	★ Banished For Infidelity - with Nick Gresham 1 18 30 Sport 2 17 30 Sport 3 20 20 Sport 4 17 35 Sport 5 16 25 Sport 6 14 25 Sport	Sport 170m	★★ Very Good	Joshua Malherbe	Sat 28th May 2022
Very cool, big exposure, scary but rewarding. Definitely want to come back and lead the 20
	18	★ Banished For Infidelity - with Issam 1 18 30 Second lead by Issam 2 17 30 Sport	Sport 60m		Marcus Jolly	Sun 21st May 2023
	20	★ Banished For Infidelity 1 18 30 Second 2 17 30 Sport 3 20 20 Second 4 17 35 Second 5 16 25 Sport 6 14 25 Second	Sport 170m		Mackenzie Ellis	Wed 31st May 2023
	17	★★ Remains Of The Day - with Grace Daff 1 17 20m lead by Grace Daff 2 15 28m lead by Grace Daff 3 16 28m 4 16 30m 5 13 30m	Mixed trad 140m, 22	★★ Very Good	Deleted climber 2548049169	Sat 4th Jan 2020
A fantastic option for a summer afternoon climb with full shade and sea breezes. Sandbagged by at least a grade but well-bolted (except perhaps the start of pitch 2, where you have to traverse right and the first bolt is quite high up and, as you shall read presently, easy to miss!). Grace led her pitches with great style and rapidity, whilst I followed her with significantly less style and speed (even despairing of actually finishing P1. It was certainly a stiff pitch to warm up on!).We started at 1pm and would have finished certainly by dusk if we didn't get off route. Grace was going to link P1 and 2 of Remains, as there were 4 of us doing the climb, but ended up linking up to P2 of Phoenix. Looking at the logged history of Phoenix now, it looks like we are not the first to make this mistake! I found the steep bit off the belay on P3 quite challenging- it's definitely the most committing lead I've done thus far and whilst I didn't "send it", I'm just happy to have finished the pitch. The trad bit of the pitch was good but too short. We finished P3 of Remains (Jill and Alex finished P4, as they overtook us when we went off route) and decided to rap down as it was getting late. Walked back in the dark but we had head torches- this was fortunate, as we almost stepped on some kind of juvenile black snake. I put out my hand to stop Grace (she had not seen it, whereas I was on hyper-vigilant snake watch!). I couldn't see a red underbelly on the snake so it might have been harmless. However, my personal preference is to say that I saved our lives from certain envenomation and probable death. As our lives were preserved, we will be back to finish this climb (I have heard that P5 is the best pitch!).
	11	★★ Carborundum Chimney - with cris	Trad 92m	★ Good	brent	Fri 13th Sep 2013
	11	★★ Carborundum Chimney - with cris	Trad 92m	★ Good	brent	Fri 27th Sep 2013
	11	★★ Carborundum Chimney - with Jack Seawright	Trad 92m	★★ Very Good	Will West	Wed 27th Apr 2022
Forgot a rope half way to Tibro only to double back home then have a crack at the Carpark to carb chimney tie-in speed run before it started absolutely pissing down with rain. Will be back on the next rainy day to better our pace.
	21	★ Phoenix (phoenix p3 closed projected)	Sport 70m, 21	★ Good	zac	Sun 23rd Feb 2014
	21	★ Phoenix (phoenix p3 closed projected)	Sport 70m, 21	★ Good	zac	Sat 8th Mar 2014
Still a projected rock fall hasn't helped my nerivs
	17 21	★ Phoenix (Phoenix p1)	Sport 70m, 21		Alex Mougenot	Sat 22nd Mar 2014
Yeah I fell Some good moves in the first pitch, though Cheers Zac!
	21	★ Phoenix (Phoenix P3 (Closed project))	Sport 70m, 21	★ Good	zac	Sun 11th May 2014
	16	★ Phoenix - with Rob 1 lead by Bernie 2 lead by Rob 3 lead by Bernie	Sport 70m, 21	Average	Bernie Walsh	Sat 26th Jul 2014
Its an interesting climb. We used a 0.5 camalot before the first to make things more pleasant. The second pitch is probably the pick. The third has a cool feature but the rock quality is a little low, but you get that. I'm not sure if the crux hold has disappeared, but it seemed considerably harder than 21...
	16	★ Phoenix	Sport 70m, 21		Ben	Sat 30th Aug 2014
	16 21	★ Phoenix	Sport 70m, 21	★ Good	Thomas Gissing	Tue 2nd Dec 2014
Ended up on the second pitch of this by mistake, third pitch we couldn't find the hangers after coming over bulge.
	21	★ Phoenix - with Grace Daff 1 17 25m 2 15 25m 3 21 20m	Sport 70m, 21	★★ Very Good	Deleted climber 2548049169	Sat 4th Jan 2020
Following in the footsteps of others before us, we ended up on this pitch by accident, while climbing Remains of the Day. Grace led P1 of Remains and then wanted to link up to P2 but went too far right to P2 of Phoenix. Solid lead by Grace (on this pitch) considering all the rope drag while clipping! I really enjoyed this pitch. It had some nice moves and also mostly positive handholds (flakes etc.)which was a relief after P1 of Remains. Not sure about the rock quality on this pitch and whether I would have felt happy leading it. It got a bit steep near the top and so I came off once, just before the end. I was meant to lead P3 (of what we thought was the third pitch of ROTD) but we thought it looked a bit hard so luckily Grace went for it. We thought it was a bit tough for a 16 and I guess that's probably because it was a 21! Grace almost finished it though but we ended up rapping back down and getting back onto P2 of ROTD.
	21	★ Phoenix - with Tim Janetzki	Sport 70m, 21		Nick Kress	Sun 28th Mar 2021
Thought we were on Remains Of The Day until we realised pitch 3 was a bit too steep for a 16 and didn't really match the route description. Traversed right at the end of the middle slab on pitch 3, up along the crack taking care to avoid loose and wet moss. Ended up somewhere around the top of Patience Crack. Up through some shrub to top out into the caves sector. Took a nice shaded breather in Cave 5 for lunch before descending down the Caves Route.
	21	★ Phoenix	Sport 70m, 21	★ Good	Alvaro Elias Barua Lopez	Sun 12th Sep 2021
	21	★ Phoenix - with Angie 1 17 25m lead by Angie 2 15 25m lead by Dave OS 3 21 20m lead by Angie	Sport 70m, 21	★ Good	Dave OS	Sat 20th Nov 2021
P1 felt a bit stiff, I reckon it could be 19. Good fun though with a fun crux. The moves are harder than they look.
	21	★ Phoenix - with Amy Chan 1 19 25m lead by Robert Hartley 2 15 25m lead by Amy Chan 3 21 20m lead by Robert Hartley	Sport 70m, 21	★★ Very Good	Robert Hartley	Sat 29th Oct 2022
This is a short, excellent route, well worth the trip. The last pitch is worth the visit alone! If it's summer time, I'd start up the route at around 1230-1300, just as the sun heads over the peak. It was 30C today but was absolutely lovely in the shade. Pitches Pretty sure I made this harder than it needed to be. Felt pretty desperate. The first bolt was high, but the climbing to it was straight forward. A previous tick mentioned the second bolt being close to ground-fall territory, this must have since been rectified. Not at all a filler pitch, this was actually pretty fun climbing at the grade. Steep and sustained. It looks like it gets pretty wet if there's been rain, so take note of the weather over the past few days. Excellent climbing in a fun position! Really Two hands-free knee bars offer excellent rests. Kicking myself for trending right at the crux and robbing myself of the onsight! I'll be back to clean it before long. Descent 2 x 60m ropes will get you from the top of p3 to the top of p1 with ease.
	21	★ Phoenix - with Sam Pearson	Sport 70m, 21		Daniel Razzino	Sat 8th Apr 2023
Just did pitch one to get on remains of the day to access spooky for overexposed
	21	★ Phoenix 1 19 25m Sport 2 15 25m Second stiff 15 tbh 3 21 20m Sport	Sport 70m, 21	★ Good	Tom Q	Sat 3rd Feb 2024
only intended to squeeze first 2 pitches in. not terrible!
	15	★ Patience Crack	Trad 100m		andy	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	15	★ Patience Crack	Trad 100m		Tim Vaughan	Sun 1st Sep 2002
	15	★ Patience Crack - with Renata Holec 1 15 40m lead by Milan Holec 2 lead by Milan Holec 3 lead by Milan Holec	Trad 40m	★★ Very Good	Milan Holec	Sun 22nd Aug 2021
I was take option 15 which was possible for me I can’t do straight up as grade 19 😞 not enough experience
	15	★ Patience Crack - with Lauren Hunter 1 15 40m lead by Dave OS 2 13 24m lead by Lauren Hunter 3 12 22m lead by Lauren Hunter	Trad 86m		Dave OS	Wed 29th Sep 2021
Jeepers, there's a stiff move on P1! I yarded on a cam, so technically I guess it's aid. Takes decent gear of all sizes (regretted not taking the 5 and 6!). Lots of grenade holds, and the trees are kinda missing too, they're just shrubs presently. First proper climb in over a month, tendinitis seems to have settled.
	15	★ Patience Crack - with Lia Sullivan	Trad 100m		Johnny Sullivan	Sun 12th Feb 2023
Racking up at base of the route I realise we lost our first totem 😢 😢 😢 sad sad days. Good bye purple buddy. In other news i shat my pants big time on this rock climb. After seeing Kobi smash out the direct grade 19 start, i got way too scared doing just the 15 variant and had to sit on gear. Same story on P2, but actually enjoyed the climbing on this pitch, didn't layback much but got the world’s best fist jam just as I was getting scared in a section with bad feet. Didnt like the belay ledge at end of P1, gear was average and ledge was muddy. Would recommend belaying from rap chains below ledge (ignore the first set of chains with rusty maillon and continue on to nice shiny rings a few metres up) I think i blew past any good spots to belay end of P2, so did a sketchy traverse left to the end chains of Phoenix and abseiled from there. If doing again would probably end P2 wherever I could find a good 3-piece anchor. Lia also received a pant-soiling moment when a massive block exploded a little to her left. Turns out Kobi ripped off a flake on “Overexposed” and took a TEN METRE WHIPPER ripping out two cams. Jeepers…
	21	Every Day I Start To Ooze	Mixed trad 18m, 4		Peatey	Sun 20th May 2018
We launched up the R leaning crack on the white rock up the R side of this line thinking it was Patience Crack. I did think it was mightily stiff for 15. After whipping onto some surprisingly good gear and then discovering that there was no second pitch that vaguely resembled the description in the guide we came to suspect that we were off route. After we got back to ground level (who doesn't love lead downclimbing ) we discovered the 12 inch high painted 'P' at the base of Patience Crack. So does anyone have any FA details of that big white wide to hands crack, often wet, seeps, feels about 20ish?

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