Ascents in Honeysuckle Crag

an absolute stunner of a climb, which definitely makes up for the shit approach through the thick bush. 3 interesting pitches, P2 is super run out for sure buuuuut, its only like grade 12 so just dont look back till you make it to the ledge. khush started off well, then i finished the rest. got a nut stuck on P1 so i climbed up once we got to the bottom again, will be sure to return here, for the harder slabs PSA; Road will be open after winter!!!!!!!!

Great day out climbing! pretty fun multi, and probably my hardest trad lead to date (if pitch 1 is a gr.16). Wind was howling but just so stoked to me out on the rock again with my man Hazlid!!! camped at Honeysuckle and started way too late lol so only got in the one multi for the day. Fun cracks and slab.

Hectic bush bash in or out. Walked in from camp, found the 2nd little creek and trekked uphill from there. a few OK climbers tracks for the first half, but just pure bushbashing for the second half, just aim for the big rock!

Climbs like an offwidth. A slog. Fun though. Top half is off first size which was a battle. So it matches the arduous bushbashing needed to find this climb and to get to the whole crag. A battle but worth it.

Fun. Runout. Tiny ACT gear. The move into the crack in the last pitch was too scary so I got Jake to lead it. It wasn't as bad as I thought when I seconded. Good ACT slab timez

omglob the runout on pitch 2 - like yes its fine but it's most certainly don't fall climbing. and then the wall behind was equally as unprotected with just some dodgy cracked flakes for gear. harder climbing than the slab with way more fall potential. the final pitch of sickle was sick. sad but also stoked Tom handed me the sharp end. One tough move into the crack and then it was 'jam your way to the hearts of millions' (another fav way to finish a climb)

a true miracle that we found this thing. climbed it after a light sprinkle thinking it would be a walk in the park - it was not. quite burly and wider higher up. but very happy we found it! cannot even imagine what blind freddy would be like at 4 grades harder!

Great if you like your slabs run out af. Atleast P3 had better friction than P1 & P2.

About 45 minutes in to our epic bush bash, I was starting to question whether it was all worthwhile... But fear not, this route was fabulous and we had an awesome day out!

I combined P1 and P2 into one classy mega pitch, which works with about 2 m spare on a 60 m rope. This might just be the cowardly millennial in me, but I would personally say P2 is X-rated. From the gear at the top of P1 (about 25 m up), there is absolutely nothing until you reach the top of the main slab (couple of small, slightly suspect wires in little scoops by a bush) and then nothing for the last 8 m up to the finish. A slip on the thick moss and lichen higher up would potentially end in a ~50 m groundfall, so take your time and make sure you are fully committed before setting out. P3 (led by Shub) also has no gear above the starting finger crack, but here the surficial vegetation was a bit thinner and you'd only end up hanging on the slab below. Kudos to Bridget for keeping it together on her first multi-pitch!

For approach notes, we didn't have much luck with the ones posted above and took at least an hour going in from the track (the bush in the second half is much denser than the first). We did better on the way out and here's some potentially useful way-points to get you in from the trail:

1. Start where the track crosses a creek (-35.5893438, 148.9687538). This is the second major creek that it crosses as you walk in from Honeysuckle campground.

2. Walk up the creek (stick to the higher ground on left or right side at the beginning) for quite a while until you reach a point around (-35.5920948, 148.9717961).

3. Turn right uphill for ~100 m until you reach a big boulder with two small rocks perched on top (-35.5929617, 148.9717592). From here, you should be able to see Sickle up through the trees. Head uphill as straight as possible towards it through the worst of the scrub. Whole thing will likely take at least 45 minutes from the track.

Always fun, even if I'm not in the best shape

Great fun, finished up Sickle

Couldn't find a marked path so bush bashed through heavy bush taking at least 45 minutes to get to the rock. P1 is fun climbing. P2 was slabby and very run out. P3 was even more run out..didn't place anything after belay ledge. Scrambled down as had to cross wet mossy slab to get to rap anchors and felt a bit sketchy. 30 min bush bash back to road.

Lead first two pitches, seconded next two pitches.

Epic climb with run out second pitch. Third pitch hand crack was awesome! Thanks Dylan Glavas for taking me up my first fully trad multi

Super awesome. First pitch is good, rock is good. Second pitch is super run out, no fall friction slab, very engaging but not too hard. After the slab I think you are are supposed to continue on easy slab further right, but I climbed the headwall above a somewhat suspect but bomber #1 RP. Pitch 3 is mega awesome crack, get on it.

Repeated this climb after a year. Delicate low angle friction slab with not many crimpers to hang onto. Very nice to climb this with Sausage.

Harder than Kim and Mel go Boxing. Clipped the rope through the first draw on the lower from KMGB and had tension on rope to the first bolt (it is thin and quite vertical). The remainder of the climb is easier but lichen makes things interesting.

Harder than Kim and Mel go Boxing. Clipped the rope through the first draw on the lower from KMGB and had tension on rope to the first bolt (it is thin and quite vertical). The remainder of the climb is easier but lichen makes things interesting.

Second pitch doesn't have any pro once left the belay for 25m (potential ground fall), very good pro in crack than 10m runout to the next belay ladge.

Very nice, but quite dirty and mossy, thoughts provoking flake

Slabby until flake - fun route all in all

Fun position to be in, run out between pro but relatively straight forward climbing

Sickle was a delight

Love that top pitch.

Great as usual.

Good hand jamming with a bit of a fist up top. Yellow, blues and a #4 is nice.

Harder than it looks

Approached from the rap anchor of Romantic Friction - small wires in the thin crack a few metres to the right, then step across the slab back left and up to the Sickle ledge, then head right to the flake at the start of Icy Universe.