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Wed 19th Jun 2024 - Watagans | ||||||
Monkey Face The Ramparts | ||||||
19 | ★★ Red-Belly Black Flake | 25m, 4 | ★★ Very Good | |||
One of my favourite routes, so technical
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Sat 15th Jun 2024 - Woodford Island | ||||||
Sandy Corner Sandy Caves | ||||||
18/19 ~19 | ★ Birdy | 8m | ★ Good | |||
Bouldery fun. The hardest of the 3 as many of the holds are blind.
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18/19 | Holey Moley | 9m | Don't Bother | |||
Link up. Doesn’t add anything
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18/19 | ★ Hole in One | 8m | Average | |||
Novelty through hole.
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21 | ★ Birthday Boy — 2 attempts | 10m | ★ Good | |||
A bit damp on the first go upon slopers requiring brushing and a bit of chalk. Awkward start, nice crux sequence.
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Fri 14th Jun 2024 - Woodford Island | ||||||
See Sea Wall | ||||||
21 | ★★ Monkey Business — 2 attempts | 12m | ★ Good | |||
Too much today after minimal climbing for 3 months and nothing steep. Had to sit after clipping last bolt. It’s a long move and I can’t keep feet on under roof.
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10 | Honey | 10m | ||||
14 | S.I.S | 8m | ||||
18 | Straws in the Wind | 8m | ||||
17 | Berowra Dreaming | 8m | ||||
16 | Next Level | 8m | ||||
14 | ★ Animals as Leaders | 8m | ||||
15 | Over the Top | 8m | ||||
The climbs might be easy and short, but we had fun. Thanks to the route equipper.
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Wed 5th Jun 2024 - Scout Wall | ||||||
18 | ★ Natalia | 9m | ★ Good | |||
Ongoing post Covid recovery. I think this route is fun- gym bunnies it’s like climbing on volumes! A couple of laps for leg fitness
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Thu 30th May 2024 - Watagans | ||||||
Monkey Face Smear Slabs | ||||||
14 | ★★ Without a Lead | 15m, 4 | ★★ Very Good | |||
Thu 30th May 2024 - Watagans | ||||||
Monkey Face Central Gully | ||||||
18 | ★ Centennial direct finish | 9m | Average | |||
Off the couch after Covid. The walk up the hill was almost enough…
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Sat 27th Apr 2024 - Watagans | ||||||
Gate Crag Walls of 2000 | ||||||
15 | Pinch me I'm dreaming | 12m, 4 | Average | |||
Rpt
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19 | ★ Midway | 12m | Average | |||
15 | ★ Shanes 3 | 11m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
The top is definitely harder than 15, could easily be 18
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13 | ★ Shanes 2 | 11m | Average | |||
Rpt, the mantle at top was tenuous with only one hand
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16 | ★ Spider Lair | 10m | Average | |||
Rpt
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19 | ★ Plain Dumb | 10m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt
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Fri 26th Apr 2024 - Woy Woy | ||||||
Phegans Bay | ||||||
15 | ★★ HS | 15m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
2 laps. 55 days off rock, wrist brace on. Skin hurts, wrist seemed to survive, just avoided mantles.
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19 | ★★ Phoenix | 15m, 6 | ★ Good | |||
Felt a bit pumped, not surprising I suppose
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15 | ★ Stingray | 15m, 5 | Average | |||
2 laps
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20 | ★ B | 15m, 4 | Average | |||
Rpt, good friction today.
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Sat 13th Jan 2024 - Glenrock Lagoon | ||||||
Waterfall Area | ||||||
19 | ★★ Super Nintendo Chalmers | 10m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt. The little pockets were very slimy today. 2 laps.
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18 | ★★ Peeking Possum | 10m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt. Nice flash by Flynn for his Duke of Ed
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18 | ★ Ferns and Fings | 9m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt
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20 | ★ Roo Fing | 10m, 3 | Average | |||
Rpt. Very dirty
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17 | ★ Moss Monster | 8m, 3 | Average | |||
Rpt
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16 | ★ Fried Lichen | 8m, 3 | Average | |||
Rpt
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Sun 7th Jan 2024 - Fingal Gym | ||||||
13 | ★ Ichi Knee | 8m, 2 | Average | |||
Original ascent was solo, weirdly coming up as red point. Rpt today
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19 | ★ Vertical Hanger | 12m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt
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18 ~19 | ★ Hop | 10m, 3 | Average | |||
Rpt. Still feels hard for grade, height dependent for sure
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19 | ★ Wetting The Wick | 10m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt
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Tue 19th Dec 2023 - Kaputar | ||||||
Lindsay Rock Tops Fern Gully | ||||||
23 | FA ★★ Jurassic Park | 31m, 15 | ★★ Very Good | |||
Hopefully the predicted rain will settle the dust. Really great and varied moves and steeper than it looks. One go on TR to brush the holds then sent with a bit of power grunting and wobbling before we had to leave.
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Sat 16th Dec 2023 - Kaputar | ||||||
Lindsay Rock Tops Waterfall | ||||||
20 | ★★ Telapia | 10m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt. Quite a tricky one
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Thu 14th Dec 2023 - Kaputar | ||||||
Lindsay Rock Tops Barley Walls | ||||||
17 | ★ The exslovenian | 30m | ★ Good | |||
Rpt. I keep thinking a clean up of this route is needed. Nice traddish climbing on bolts, a couple of finger size cams can also be used.
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Wed 13th Dec 2023 - Kaputar | ||||||
Lindsay Rock Tops Barley Walls | ||||||
22 | ★★ Careless Fingernicker — 2 attempts | 30m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Rpt, needed a bit of a brush. Left hand crack glove/ tape useful for me. Unfortunately I had brought 2 right hand gloves ( duh!)
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18 | ★★ Capricious | 30m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Rpt. The moves on this route are great, if only it remained a bit cleaner. Rock improves a lot after 8 m. Calf pump!
The vegetation up high doesn’t interfere with route.
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Mon 11th Dec 2023 - Fingal Gym | ||||||
19 | ★ Vertical Hanger | 12m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
I think we did this as a TR problem in the past. Awkward but interesting start
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18 ~19 | ★ Hop | 10m, 3 | Average | |||
Tricky start keeping left of arete. Stupid finish.
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19 | ★ Wetting The Wick | 10m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt
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18 | ★★ All Ass | 18m, 6 | ★★ Very Good | |||
Rpt
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22 | ★ Go Go Gadget | 18m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt. Shares a lot of holds with route to right
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19 | ★ Three Amigo's | 14m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt
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20 | ★ Builder's Cleavage | 14m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt
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18 | ★ Side Pull Bob | 14m, 3 | Average | |||
Rpt
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Thu 7th Dec 2023 - Berowra | ||||||
Blackboard Wall | ||||||
21 | ★★ Palm Sunday | 15m, 3 | ★★ Very Good | |||
Rpt, alzheimers os, the slimpers felt pretty slimy today
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20 | ★★ Tomorrow's Villians | 12m, 4 | Average | |||
17 | ★★ Yesterday's Heroes | 12m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt. A bit sandy, gave it a brush.
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Thu 7th Dec 2023 - Berowra | ||||||
Bullet Hole Wall | ||||||
18 | ★★ Mental Fatigue | 13m | ★ Good | |||
Rpt. Unfortunately now crossed by another route.
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21 | ★★ Mental Fatigue Direct Start | 12m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
Time to bail, getting increasingly hot and slippery. Greased off where it joins the regular route
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19 | ★★ Boris | 13m, 6 | ★ Good | |||
It’s a squeeze but didn’t feel too contrived
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18 | ★ Fox Sox Pox | 12m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt.
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Thu 7th Dec 2023 - Berowra | ||||||
Pimple Buttress | ||||||
11 | ★ ThreeSandShoes | 5m, 2 | ||||
Surprised to see a standard solo for many years now with bolts
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15 | ★ Taylor Made | 6m, 2 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt
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18 | ★ Look Blue Go Purple | 10m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt
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17 ~19 | ★ Abe Simpson | 10m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
I have this ticked as a solo, but I think that was Plum Duff. This is almost a retrobolt of Pimple and of similar difficulty
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13 ~8 | WallowWall | 12m, 4 | Don't Bother | |||
Another questionable route
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3 ~1 | ★★ Abseil Slab | 12m, 2 | Crap | |||
Seriously, I walked down this with no hands and the dog ran up it. Needs to disappear.
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Tue 21st Nov 2023 - Bulahdelah | ||||||
Hoppy's Cave | ||||||
25 | ★★★ Black Leg Miner | 25m | ★ Good | |||
Just the back half via alt start into cave and onwards. Did it clean to last bolt second go, but hadn’t refreshed memory as to the last moves on first go due to heinous rope drag so fell victim to the Booladelah factor. Nice to be back here, but the rock is so sharp!
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Tue 21st Nov 2023 - Bulahdelah | ||||||
Hoppy's Cave The Terrace | ||||||
20 | ★★ Got that Phelan feeling | 23m, 8 | ★ Good | |||
The usual warm up in light rain
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Sun 19th Nov 2023 - Woy Woy | ||||||
Phegans Bay | ||||||
21 | ★ Gastric | 13m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt. Some worthwhile committing moves on this off poor holds. Climbs completely independent of route to left to same anchors
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18 | ★ Show Bag | 13m, 4 | Average | |||
Rpt. The first bolt position is not in a good location for this route, it works better for Gastric. Hard start for grade.
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15 | ★★ HS | 15m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt
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19 | ★★ Phoenix | 15m, 6 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt
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19 | ★★ Sharon Stone | 15m, 6 | ★★ Very Good | |||
Rpt, lovely shady and breezy conditions after midday
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Tue 14th Nov 2023 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
Mount Victoria Area Bardens Lookout Historic Wells | ||||||
24 | ★ Evil Deeds with Good Intentions | 10m | ★ Good | |||
Got to third bolt but not a good one to have done on trashed tips.
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Tue 14th Nov 2023 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
Mount Victoria Area Bardens Lookout Electric Blue Area | ||||||
23 | ★ Under Pressure | 32m, 9 | ★ Good | |||
Ate away my finger skin going direct on the crux. Mc Dougalled a bit in the end as I could hold the sloper and get feet up well with a half pad undercling but couldn’t reach the good hold
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18 | ★ Frisky Two Times | 20m, 8 | ★ Good | |||
Much better than I was expecting
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Tue 14th Nov 2023 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
Mount Victoria Area Bardens Lookout Little Triggers Wall | ||||||
15 | ★ The Arrow and the Song | 26m, 9 | ★ Good | |||
The one I hadn’t done. Finished up Karinya by mistake. Found going direct at 3rd bolt quite tough for grade
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Tue 14th Nov 2023 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd The Dam Cliffs Steep Wall | ||||||
19 | ★ Lonely Thursday | 12m | ★ Good | |||
Rpt
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23 | ★ School's Out | 12m | Don't Bother | |||
Contrived.
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18 | ★ A Tale of Two Cities | 12m, 7 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt. Slopers.
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21 | ★ Friendly Fire | 12m, 4 | ★★ Very Good | |||
My taste has clearly changed. Did this 20 yrs ago and thought it average. It was the best route we did today.
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Tue 14th Nov 2023 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd The Dam Cliffs Mossy Wall | ||||||
19 | ★ B1 | 15m, 5 | Average | |||
Better than route to left
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19 | ★★ Matador | 15m | Don't Bother | |||
Crap rock, only good move is the starting mantle ( if you don’t chimney)
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Sat 11th Nov 2023 - Blackwall | ||||||
Offspring Wall | ||||||
16 | ★ Hell No its Twins | 10m, 4 | Average | |||
Rpt.
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Sat 11th Nov 2023 - Blackwall | ||||||
Red Head Wall | ||||||
23 | ★★ Rather be Dead than Red | 10m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
You definitely can’t finish out left. The anchors are straight up on a large block in front of the dead tree. The final move is the longest. Very height dependent and no chance of holding the dyno sloper for my height even with toe hooks in the heat today.
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19 | ★★ Suspenders Will Do It | 10m, 4 | ★★ Very Good | |||
Rpt, another bouldery number, probably my favourite route, had to brush sand out of all the incuts
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Sat 11th Nov 2023 - Blackwall | ||||||
Kit Kat Wall | ||||||
19 | ★★ Better Breaks than a Kit Kat | 10m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
This always makes me laugh for a 19, like many of that grade here, but it’s a nice climb.
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Sat 1st Jul 2023 - Watagans | ||||||
Monkey Face Middle Crag | ||||||
20 | ★★ Colour Card | 16m, 2 | ★★ Very Good | |||
Rpt.
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18 | ★ Mirror Mirror | 12m, 5 | ★★ Very Good | |||
Rpt
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Tue 27th Jun 2023 - Umina | ||||||
Lake View | ||||||
24 | ★★ Mental Pinch — 2 attempts | 11m | ★ Good | |||
The mantle is nice, the start nails if slot is out of reach and the end pretty hard. Gives me something to come back for.
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19 | ★★ Hieroglyphics of Luxor | 8m, 3 | ||||
Rpt, long reach to finish but some nice moves
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20 | ★★ Chain anchor | 13m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt, good friction day made it feel more like 19
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16 | ★ Quick links ahoy | 11m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt
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18 | ★ Step across gap | 13m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt
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Sun 25th Jun 2023 - Bulahdelah | ||||||
Fieg's Overhang Fiegs Right Wall | ||||||
19 | ★ Meat and Beer | 18m, 7 | Average | |||
18 | ★ New route | 15m, 6 | Average | |||
Rpt steeper bit more straightforward than meat and beer
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18 | ★ Pinky and The Brain | 24m, 12 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt 2 laps
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19 ~20 | ★ Acme Corporation | 24m, 10 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt. For my height I find the start of both pitches more like 20
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Fri 23rd Jun 2023 - Bulahdelah | ||||||
Hoppy's Cave | ||||||
23 | ★ Young and dumb — 2 attempts | 12m | ★ Good | |||
Rpt, two goes, clean second shot
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Fri 23rd Jun 2023 - Bulahdelah | ||||||
Hoppy's Cave The Terrace | ||||||
22 | ★★ Route with a high first bolt and goes through roof | 25m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Rpt, if this is the one I think it’s easier than 22, more like 20
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22 | ★★ Just kick it | 22m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Rpt with Mel
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20 | ★★ Got that Phelan feeling | 23m, 8 | ★ Good | |||
Rpt. Couldn’t make bolts wobble but the glue looks like polyester (101) which should no longer be used as life is only 20 years which is what these would be close to
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Thu 22nd Jun 2023 - Tomaree Head | ||||||
North Zenith Trade Wind Slabs | ||||||
18 | ★★★ Trade Winds | 60m | ★★★ Classic | |||
Trade winds will become a trade route I suspect
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Wed 21st Jun 2023 - Watagans | ||||||
Monkey Face Middle Crag | ||||||
16 | Bombayment | 10m, 3 | Average | |||
Rpt
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