Ascents in Mt Stuart as Tick or First ascent

fun

Done in one pitch

My first team solo with the big guy!.. After he racked and roped, then took his harness off 1m up. He threw the rope and harness on the ledge so i chucked my shoes on and followed on. Great movement and no hands photo ops. Abit less stress than trying to clip the second bolt on warlock. Luckily it turned into a very memorable route afterwards. Thumb press in the flake in particular felt cool. Glad we persisted with the day after some very anti-outdoor-climbing-looking weather at the carpark and a shakey ascent of cannonball.

Stuey! This felt like the one to have done if we do only get 1 day here. A mixed bag of styles, 2 crux pitches very different challenges, a whack traverse, a huge and completely unnecessary runout of the entire final pitch by death-wish-yim. Best moment was when the route crossed our fixed rap rope on the second pitch and yim, again wildly runout, finally fiddled some gear in and accidentally clipped the fixed line in.

Abseiled in to do 2nd pitch.

Free large BD nut now on the first pitch. Thorn tree is still very much alive. Don't worry about gear larger than BD 2.

Second pitch takes gear. Third pitch feels a fair bit easier than 20?

Warm up.

Tricky start - took the crimpy option around the right side of the arete

Good fun through the corner

Jono's first trad lead at Stuart what a mess