Ascents in Tasmania by Paul Frothy Thomson

Back-to-back-to-back thinness on positive edges. The technical finale is the best bit. No time for another shot.

Sharp little crimps, but everything is just so much more positive than you expect. A fun little ramble.

Clean repeat. Wow, I forgot what a wild showstopper the finale (through the roof direct) is. Earns the grade for this one sequence, but its a good one.

Clean repeat. Just pleasant, flowing slabbing the whole way. Dreamy!

I fell off the start boulder a couple of times till I found the holds. A very cool finale.

Repeat. Weird, funky, and tough.

Another stacked one. The opening boulder gave me a fair bit of grief initially. I went through it twice, only to bungle easier moves higher up. Complex face climbing.

Repeat attempt - not clean today. In this instance, I couldn't even touch the opening move, but had no real trouble from after it to the top. But for the bouldery start, this route is better, and more arete-y than I remember it.

Really short, but really tricky and unrelenting in my opinion. I came close to falling a few times.

Short, but intense and unlikely.

The best of the routes on this boulder. More technical and interesting than it looked from the ground.

An okay face climb.

2 shots. Couldn't keep it together at the mid-point crux on either lap. A stacked upper half.

An enjoyable, easy start, leads to a brutal, thin and technical finale. Exciting for a slab.

Surprisingly sustained thin moves the whole way. I didn't find the sneaky crimp near the top on my onsight attempt.

A few cool moves when you first come around the arete, then victory jugs to the top.

Repeat attempt -not clean today. Frustrating. I first onsighted this back in 2016, and have never fallen off it since. Today, I got utterly schooled. Some big falls, much complaining, and a pathetic effort. The sun didn't help, but that's certainly not wholly to blame.

Clean repeat. Well, at least I can still get up this one despite weakness and temps. Still a personal favourite.

TRS Clean both pitches. Good to get back on this years after I last did it, and repeat it without too much difficulty even sans chalk. P2 is quite sustained and continuous in its two halves, with very rad moves up an incipient series of seams. I enjoyed this way more today than I did last time.

TRS clean. Surprisingly worthwhile, and not as contrived as I was expecting from some of the comments here (certainly no more contrived than Neon God P2). Challenging thin sequences between good stances. This didn't seem too hard in the style even absent chalk.

Morning FS to get my rope atop the pillar for some TRSing. Absolutely brilliant! Clean, old school, exposed, technical, and even a tad thrutchy. Easy climbs dont get much better.

TRS Clean 2nd shot. I wanted to give this a lap now that it's no longer a closed project, but absent belayer, TRS will have to do. I've given this little gem classic, because I just can't imagine 12m of climbing getting much better (Great rock, super sustained, complex, technical moves, a very obvious line... even the initial gr21 crack section was engaging with bombproof rock).

Repeat. Great way to access the top of the boulder. Has cleaned up nicely since last time I did it, and is now good insecure fun.

Wow! A sustained, complex face climb with classic moves and rock, to a no-hands rest, before a gnarly V6 boulder finale through the top roof. The upper slab is not to be underestimated!

Though I could do the moves of the boulder, I didn't feel that I could put both parts of the climb together in the 2 days I had to try it, so instead I traversed over to the finale of Velvet Morning immediately before the no-hands rest at the top roof, and finished up that (hence not claiming the full grade). Sure, it's the piker's McDougall, but it makes the climb even more sustained, and just as classic as most of the other routes here IMO! Hopefully next time I'll send it properly.

Full disclosure: I also started with the first 3 bolts pre-clipped.

At the start I use a compression/arete-slapping/heel-hooking sequence rather than the crimp boulder. Was heaps of fun figuring it out.

Haha, what a hilarious route. Not really a "line" per say, but certainly a very unlikely journey. I climbed a sightly harder variant for the sake of a photo, where I climbed the tier of rooflets below the normal line (ie, my handholds were the normal footers), which added even more wildness. Bomber rock and pro. My old criticism is that rapping in is a bit faffy.

Clean repeat. An evening lap before dinner. Heavenly.

5 days of effort in total to free both pitches. It takes a lot for exposure to scare me, but this route managed it. Super obscure, but stunning.

Wild, gymnastic traversing, with huge falls into space. I got in the habit of climbing this with my grigri pre-set just behind my knot, and my Jumaar ready for rapid deployment.

On one of my laps on P2 I took a really bad fall, to the point I thought I'd broken my foot. I managed the Send on my final real shot of the trip.

The Aid move on P1 probably goes free if you've a bigger standing reach than me. The one on P2 definitely goes free, but it adds at least 3 more grades to the pitch. Feel free to go for the true FFA!

Clean Repeat. Even after all these years and laps, this doesn't get any easier. Damn its sustained!

Clean repeat. Totally worthwhile technical face climbing. This has cleaned up well over the years.

Early birthday present! What a rad outing. Like the Free Route, but with proper physical, burly climbing. The crux pitch is very sustained in the bottom half. Gale force winds made this a griping, shivering, barn-dooring experience.

P1 - Self-belay shennanigans after the belay got dumped by waves. After self-belaying to the end-of-pitch anchor, I fixed the rope there, and back-tracked to undo my self-belay anchor so Jared could rap all the way to the P2 belay from the mainland.

P2 - Hard fought, unchalked onsight. The top 5m is fierce arete slapping. I almost gave up at the last bolt as I struggled to clip mid-barndoor, but just squeaked it.

P3 - 4th shot total (including onsight attempt and a TRS lap). On my 3rd shot I fell off on tbe last move of the last hard sequence. Stacked techo climbing, with no shutdown crux.

A lot of this was sopping, so I chose to chalk and equip the draws on the way down. Like everything here, the quality was so high that crappy connies didn't impede the fun. Super classy face climbing.

Seconding Michael. Yep, deserves the rep. Quality rock, classy climbing, very unlikely at the grade. A total joy to climb.

Wild face climbing, with lots of insecure technicality. After the nights rain, this was super spooge, and I climbed like I was walking on eggshells.

Awesome! Lots of unlikely moves that seem like they'll be nails, but come together okay. Even with a sopping wet start, this was just tonnes of fun, and easily as rad as white noise IMO.

Seconding Michael. The rock is a bit crunchy, but the climbing is rad, insecure and gripping. The bottom half is the money, and seemed hard at the grade to me. Be sure to make the most of the arete through the crux.

2nd shot total. Scrapped by way up this with the help of some funky crux beta from Michael -necessitating some gnarly foot-above-head insanity to work with my physiology- which was key to my success without working the route. It's far from over even after sticking the roof, and I felt like I was questing desperately all the way to the anchor. Highlight of the Bruny trip for sure.

2nd shot. Flash pumped out at the top bolt on the onsight. Awesome, technical shallow corner climbing in an insecure position. Quite unrelenting in the top half. Totally deserves its rep.

Great warmup. Climbed both pitches as 1 big pitch. Beautiful climbing up funky grooves on P1, and easier but worthwhile box groove traddy stemming on P2. I brought a rack of medium wires, and cams 0.3 - 1 for the top.

Mega! The slightly annoying trad start is long forgotten after you tackle the sustained overhanging stemming grooves. Even in todays wetness, this was just too much fun!

2nd shot. Did not find the key crimps at the crux before I spooged off. Still felt nails at the grade 2nd shot.

Really cool, sustained climbing, with a gnarly fingery crux. The upper bit is great!

2 gnarly cruxes in differing styles separated by easier climbing. The upper crux got me, I'm afraid. Was a bit too frustrayed to give it another shot.

Went for the unchalked, spoogey onsight, and managed to make it to the roof before falling. After that it was bolt to bolt. Happy with my effort and the fight at EOD, cause it is proper stemmy stem insecurity to the roof.

Short and punchee!

I probably had more trouble keeping it together through the start boulder, than the upper powerful, morpho section... but I did have Michael's good foot beta.

Some cool, delicate moves... but I thought the crux was absolutely brutal at the grade. Not a bad introduction to the crag, though.

Clean repeat. Whew... thinner than I remembered! This one got me warm.

Clean Repeat. Great way to shake out the bare rock cobwebs. A worthwhile easy multi!

Gave it a mega onsight attempt, which ended high high high when I encountered too much moss on one of the final sequences. With a quick scrub it woulda been fine, but such is the nature of onsighting, I guess.

Despite appearances, this has a lot of independant, sustained technical climbing, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

2nd shot. First clean repeat, I think. Mega exposed climbing through huge blocky roofs on immaculate rock. I giggled my way up this on the send (singing Lovecats, for some reason).

13 More days of effort on the project, and came a hair's breadth from success. The gr25/26 sections either side of the crux felt like a cruise wherein I could rest on almost any move, and each of the 6-moves of the crux (and the crux in isolation) were in complete control. But I just didn't manage to link the final moves of the crux into the rest of the route.

Twice I latched the final hold of the crux (once in the dark with a headlamp) which I'd never managed in all my previous days on this route over 7 years, but just didn't have the wherewithal to see it through, and was worn out after so many days on the climb.

It's all there for the taking, I just need to bring my route knowledge/fitness from this trip BACK to the climb when I'm fresh and psyched. October, methinks...

All in all, disappointing, and a trifle frustrating, but still a great journey.