Ascents in Tasmania by Brendan Heywood

Too tired and couldn't really stick the 2nd move. The link sections feels ok but need to be fresh

Tommy's beta of double knee bar didn't work so great for me, I keep them out with left toe flag on the roof and dead point the right hand.

Worked the first moves to the first rest. Can hold things that previously were just silly, but no massive progress yet

Did a harder direct variant which avoids the big nest jug. Maybe this is the proper way?

Tommy Krauss showed me some beta which made this really easy, flash pumped on the mantle and got it second try. Stoked!

Got there on dusk optimistic about how much time we had. Chris L rocked it, I wasn't feeling the love, cold numb climbing with my pack on flailing badly in the dark.

Was going to second Adam up the tote but bailed with high wind and rain. Eventually jumped on this.

A little gritty, did the right crack start, chicken wings in big crack, crux hand crack I found pretty hard with cold fingers, spat off a footer close to the top. Rock is ok unlike the thing Chris L did to the right.

Start climbing in drizzle, bailed half way, walked down in the right

Wicked day out with plenty of adventure, rope issues, loose rocks, epic views, scary exit. Scotty lead most, I lead the loose 3b pitch

Sick! First proper play on this I'd always thought it looked really hard. First attempt stuck the first 4-5 moves and knew it would go. Ticked it on 3rd or 4th attempt. Now I gotta work the linkup into 'fire in the hole'

Want to do the side mantle variant finish

Started raining right after

Just on dusk, friction was great and gave it a quick burn and almost got it and got really pchyced. 4-5 try's as the light died but no sendage

Best attempt so far, used different right hand which gave me another few cm's ape and can just hit the lip

I still can't nail the end move but had the best attempt so far, just nipped the jugs and swung off

Jugged first pitch, simul climbed with Ili up the second

Cruisy! Only put in 3 bits of gear, a bit windy at the start but awesome cool conditions considering it was forecast to be 28

In my Merrell's with a fat heavy pack, just the way I like to climb chimneys

Compared to the 60's death choss chimney I climbed last time this route is really superb.

Utter mega classic. 3rd time lucky, the route is great even without the location, but certainly one of the best routes I've ever climbed. Rest at crux on 7th bolt and pumped out again at the mantle onto the top

Clean til just before the anchor which was soaked, left variant finish

Felt like I found twice as many micro crimps this time

The Stegosaurus pitch is great exposed fun

Crack looked fun and easy to protect so Chris L took over after the pants shitting chimney

Lead the easy first pitch with minimal pro. Then waited at the base for the other party to finish for ages. Got very cold as the winds built up and eventually decided to bail and very glad we did.

Chris was keen to lead again

Don't really know what I did. Got off route from Jihad into the phat ugly chimney of death and loose gravel and grovelled up without pro.

Had probably 10 goes and finally chipped away the last moves using lower feet. Still quite hard but feels a little cheaty so was working a more contrived no feet below the black line version.

BOOM! Finally cleaned this up. This was the second route I ever tried after moving to tassie and it's spat me off ever since. Happy christmas!

Another lap, completely dialed

Only had a couple goes before the storm rolled in. Got a little more progress along the lip

Not much progress, could barely pull on this time

This looks good, had a small play but didn't work it much. Something for next time

I'd previously looked at this and felt it was too hard but pretty sure this will go

Super stoked with this, smashed it first time - almost a flash as last time I think I had my blundies on. Every move static, V7 is a bit rich with the knee bar...

So we did it again a whole bunch of ways, I ticked with a no hands rest on the knee bar, Liam Green was working a campus version without the knee bar, but the mega tick for me was doing it directly without the knee bar, which I'm guessing is the way the original ascent happened which feels like a real V7

For the first time actually tried this moving to right slopey gaston and then left to high crimp. Probably a bit easier than the other way I've been doing it with the knee bar.

Another lap to warm up, never get sick of it

Playing around warming up, but still can't do the last move to the rumble jugs.

One last burn for the road, was feeling great, moved smoothly to the crux with energy to spare and then just completely shut down again. Couldn't even finish it this time was just pumped

Watched Adam work the moves and didn't seem so hard from the ground Pretty nails, got to third bolt, which is to say I barely got onto the route

Wasted a bit of time through the roof and pumped at crux.