Ascents in Bellthorpe National Park

This damn boulder is teasing me, feels so tantalisingly close every visit, but always leaves me with nothing but wrecked skin. Feel much stronger on the start than last season, but sticking the throw continues to elude me. Beautiful boulder and locale as always, good reason to visit again!

This is still both ultra classic and ultra hard, specific training hasn’t made those starting crimps any bigger or friendlier

Cool line, such different texture to the face, bit awkward with the tree roots but definitely worthwhile 🎊🎉

Hard mantle on the ol’ wrists, great climb!

Established a couple of times but it was still limit, no chance of making to jump today. Dialled from jumping the first move from the ground. Keen to come back with stronger fingers!

Unfinished business - bit anticlimactic once you hold the slap to the edge. moves are cool but the difficulty of getting established in the starting position doesn’t win the climb any favours. Harder to pull on than anything else.

Shooting in the dark is the better line of the pair

Obviously still don’t believe

Managed to string a few moves together in 3 sections of the climb, but it feels like there are still several metres of roof to navigate in between with no obvious sequence.

Been a while between attempts but the stand start finally went down! Such an awesome move when the left hand sticks. Three star line for sure.

I still think it’s harder than Midshipman, not sure whether that deserves a slight bump in grade though.

This is a king line, perfect starting crimps into a big move, and it's not over from there! Topped from jump-starting into the left, and almost stuck the big move a couple times before splitting my right index on the sharp starting crimp. Closest I've come to not being able to pull on to the start of a climb but actually be able to make an attempt. Unsure if this is actually harder than 8 or if my fingers just aren't there yet. I'll be back!

One go between burns on the V8, felt good, keen to get back and puzzle it out

Definitely got some tall boi stemming going on here. The hand crack is a beaut.

Note: check out the downclimb before you get to it

Cool puzzle!

One move wonder, and what a wonderous move it is! Akin to Midship man at Cedar, tho the holds are reversed. Needs some more ascents to be sure of the grade.