Ascents in The Pinnacle

Got to the pinnacle way too early and climbed this in direct sun. Sweatiest climb I've ever done.

Done in one pitch

First crack on the 2nd pitch. Figured out the first crux after a couple of microbeta changes but struggled with 2nd crux moving up after the traverse left onto sharp sidepull. Surprised to get through the rest of the climb without coming off.

P1 good fun short route with a nice mixture of balancy and committing moves. P2 After Jarrah blasted through the crux and was on for the send... A hold broke, ejecting him, and gashing his finger in the process. Maybe sending this IS his mid-life crisis 🤔

Quite crimpy and technical for a warm up but it did the job

Type 2 fun! the exit isnt to dangerous as a bolt on suspended animation is in the perfect position as you exit the chimney.

What a fun climb! Did it as a trio on double ropes. Spewing I slipped off a few moves from the top of the 2nd pitch. Serves me right for forgetting my chalkbag 🤦‍♂️

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?

Where do I even start with this? It was an unforgettable climb. 😅

After 3 days on, Em and I scrambled our way down to the base of the pinnacle full of froth and stoke. After a short hiatus to fend off a green ant attack (little bastards!), we found the base and roped up. I immediately felt the fatigue when I pulled on and realised I was a little short on cams; double #4s would have made the starting 6-8 metres much nicer. After bumping/shuffling a 3+4, I flopped onto the first rest ledge!

The next 10 metres of layback flake was absolutely divine. Super enjoyable climbing on good gear with beautiful lay-backing and jamming up the flake. I had a small lead fall when a footer blew; footers did seem to be constantly popping, and Em later noted she was getting sprayed with rocks while I was climbing.

So here I am, end of the flake, stoked as heck, surrounded by small wire placements, analysing how to tackle the roof when I slipped (or a footer blew, who even knows!) and I take the biggest god damn trad whip of my life.



The universe switches into slow mo so I can see my self yeeting down the cliff towards the ledge, hear my two nuts and a cam pop and so I can watch Ems shocked expression as I plummet. I stop roughly a metre above her, close enough that we could fist bump, maybe 2 metres from the deck. The grand whipping total is 15 meters, almost half the route! 🎉

Somehow I am completely unscathed. If the 4th piece had blown or Em hadn’t done a ground anchor or if I tapped the ledge or if I’d been slightly higher up, I’d at the very least have two broken legs and more likely have been much worse.

I think I’m going to have to think a lot about the circumstances around the fall and figure out what factors led into such a big whip. I definitely was very lucky today and am going to take away a few life lessons thats for sure!

Feeling it out. Very much my anit style but keen to have a top rope off it.

What a route, if the flake kept going it'd be 3star for sure.. fun as can be though!

this is what a 15 minute rest got me

found the second last bolt the mental crux, reaching around the arete. the second pitch looks sick

this is what 3 rest days gets you

FFA. What a line and lived up to its name! A whole crowd from the playground area gave a clap and cheer. What a wild climb with beta changes, holds disappearing and pre- glueing others. Cheers for the send catch Els

FFA.

cool route had limited time so only got to try one accent. Going for clean sometime soon

Awesome first pitch!! Read it wrong and peeled in the lower half off route.. got up the rest clean, awesome cruxy moves near the top! pumpy! attempted pitch 2 but got shut down by a good sliced finger off a sharp crimp just before the run out where you have good potential to fall straight onto your hanging belayer (?!) Would be nice to work the moves and send the 2 together

could use a bit more traffic! lots of lichen and hollow holds.. nice moves though, committing start and fairly sustained. good warm up for the fingers

Solid for the grade

Need to work out the beta to get past the crux just before that last draw.