Ascents in Tasmania by Ben Armstrong

A great day out. Been planning to do this for ages. It was a 10 hour round trip from Geryon Camp via Pool of Memories, moving at a comfortable pace (although we simul-climbed the Forsight and bypassed the Southern Spur). The crux pitch has some decent climbing, but you'd want to be very comfortable leading 18 as it involves a spicy traverse where a fall wouldn't be wise.

Excellent little adventure. It took us 10 hours car to car, mostly simul-climbing with a couple of conventional pitches by a first time trad leader. Gear is actually pretty reasonable.

Stupidly hard start for the grade.

Stiff for the grade. Maybe a touch overrated, but cool moves on the hand traverse.

Definitely worth doing. A number 5 and 6 camalot are recommended.

Nice.

About as good as it gets for a route this long. Keeps you fighting all the way.

Pulled on gear. The crack is very uneven inside making cams annoying to place and jams awkwardly deep. There's also a bunch of really distracting flakes on the face which are tempting to pull on, but not at all solid. There's a fine line between good offwidths and bad offwidths. This is definitely one of the latter.

It's got some really good climbing, but also some really not good climbing. Only attempt if you're comfortable dealing with choss. Rob dislodged an oven sized block 30m above me. I jumped off the ledge onto my anchor, and the rock and it's debris bounced pretty much where I'd been belaying. The two cruxes are both very good and the final pitch is really pleasant. Pitch 1 is a bit deathy though.