Grade | Route | Gear style | Quality | |||
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Sun 31st Mar 2024 - Camels Hump | ||||||
Eastern Outcrops Back Wall | ||||||
16 | ★ Undertow - with Simon | 15m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
13 | ★ Skippy - with Simon | 25m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
15 | ★ Summer Breeze - with Simon | 15m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
16 | ★ Waning Crescent - with Simon | 15m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
Wed 31st Jan 2024 - The You Yangs | ||||||
Great Circle Drive North Royalty Walls | ||||||
16 | ★ Koo Woz Ere - with Eric Sorenson | 12m, 2 | ★ Good | |||
17 | ★ Buckingham - with Eric Sorenson | 15m, 2 | ★ Good | |||
16 | ★ Live and Let Di - with Eric Sorenson | 14m, 2 | ||||
16 | ★ Dead Queen in the Middle of the Road - with Eric Sorenson | 15m, 2 | ★ Good | |||
8 | ★ Lara's Knockers - with Eric Sorenson | 15m | Average | |||
8 | ★ Corner R of Jack of Hearts - with Eric Sorenson | 12m | ||||
13 | ★ Jack of Hearts - with Eric Sorenson | 12m | ||||
10 | ★ Queen of Diamonds - with Eric Sorenson | 12m | ||||
Sun 7th May 2023 - Arapiles | ||||||
Organ Pipes Area Organ Pipes The Red Wall & Toccata Wall | ||||||
15 | ★★ Toccata - with Benham, Simon | 50m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Sat 6th May 2023 - Arapiles | ||||||
Northern Group Echo Crag | ||||||
14 | ★★ Touchstone - with Benham, Simon | 60m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Sat 6th May 2023 - Arapiles | ||||||
Northern Group Harlequin Cracks Area | ||||||
11 | ★★ Salami - with Benham, Simon | 81m | ★ Good | |||
Old school classic araps climbing! Bridging, squeezing, and thrashing.. and that’s pitch 1.
Good holds and gear on pitch 2 and 3
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Sat 6th May 2023 - Arapiles | ||||||
Organ Pipes Area Organ Pipes Central Organ Pipes | ||||||
9 | ★ Keyboard - with Benham, Simon | 25m | ★ Good | |||
16 | ★ Decibel - with Benham, Simon | 50m | ★ Good | |||
Climbed the first pitch and squeezed thru the hole at the back to get off.
Nice climbing
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Sun 8th May 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
Organ Pipes Area Organ Pipes Central Organ Pipes | ||||||
13 | ★★ Horn Piece - with Simon, Jo | 33m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Great climb to finish the weekend off. Had forgotten how good this climb was.
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Sun 8th May 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
The Watchtower Faces Pinnacle Face Siren Area | ||||||
10 |
★★ Xena
- with
Simon, Jo
| 110m | ★★★ Classic | |||
Great climbing all the way
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Sat 7th May 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
Organ Pipes Area Organ Pipes Central Organ Pipes | ||||||
8 | ★★ Diapason - with Simon, Jo | 55m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Always fun to get rained on halfway through a climb, and have to finish on nice wet holds!
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Sat 7th May 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
The Watchtower Faces The Watchtower | ||||||
9 |
★★★ Arachnus
- with
Simon, Jo
| 110m | ★★★ Classic | |||
Sun 6th Mar 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
The Pharos and Surrounds Pharos Gully Heckle and Jeckle Area | ||||||
13 | ★★ Rush of Blood - with Benham | 18m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Sun 6th Mar 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
The Watchtower Faces Left Watchtower Face | ||||||
15 |
★★ Sundance
- with
Benham, Simon
| 140m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Sat 5th Mar 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
The Watchtower Faces Left Watchtower Face | ||||||
12 |
★★ Watchtower Chimney
- with
Benham, Simon
| 110m, 1 | ★★ Very Good | |||
Sat 5th Mar 2022 - Arapiles | ||||||
The Watchtower Faces The Watchtower | ||||||
9 |
★★★ Arachnus
- with
Benham, Simon
| 110m | ★★★ Classic | |||
Wed 26th Jan 2022 - Camels Hump | ||||||
Omega Block Area Privy Block - Chain buttress | ||||||
21 | ★ Limited Pain | 7m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
15 | ★ Guilty by Association | 10m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
15 | ★ Morty | 10m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
21 | ★ Cruel Stain | 12m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
20 | ★ Cultasaurous Erectus | 12m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
Mon 3rd May 2021 - Arapiles | ||||||
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face | ||||||
14 | ★★ Salamander - with Simon, Benham | 120m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Really nice climbing all the way, with some interesting sections to spice it up.
Getting into the traverse is delicate, but the holds are all there. Be ready for some chimneying at the end of pitch 4!
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Sat 1st May 2021 - Arapiles | ||||||
The Watchtower Faces Right Watchtower Face | ||||||
16 | ★★★ Brolga - with Simon, Benham | 120m | ★★ Very Good | |||
A lot more fun this time around, really nice slabbing on lots of fun ledges
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Sat 1st May 2021 - Arapiles | ||||||
Pilot Error Cliffs Pilot Error Area | ||||||
10 | ★ Neta - with Simon, Benham | 25m | ★ Good | |||
Very nice climbing on some nice edges and jugs.
Good gear all the way, and just enough of a blank section to keep you thinking
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10 | ★★ Mesa - with Simon, Benham | 33m | ★ Good | |||
Good climbing all the way, nice little blank section to keep it interesting
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Wed 31st Mar 2021 - Camels Hump | ||||||
Eastern Outcrops Back Wall | ||||||
16 | ★ Undertow - with Simon | 15m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
15 | ★ Summer Breeze - with Simon | 15m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
15 | ★ Gary's Groove - with Simon | 15m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
13 | ★ Skippy - with Simon | 25m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
Fri 8th Jan 2021 - Arapiles | ||||||
King Rat Area King Rat Gully Skydiver Wall | ||||||
19 | ★ Coke Adds Life - with John K | 12m | ★ Good | |||
Fri 8th Jan 2021 - Arapiles | ||||||
King Rat Area King Rat Gully Right Fork | ||||||
18 | ★★ King Rat - with John K | 20m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Really great climbing, tricky moves out of the corner, but great jugs to haul through the roof on.
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Fri 8th Jan 2021 - Arapiles | ||||||
King Rat Area King Rat Gully Left Fork | ||||||
18 | ★★ I'm A Little Asteroid - with John k | 25m | ★★★ Classic | |||
Thu 7th Jan 2021 - Arapiles | ||||||
Central Gully Central Gully Right Dunes Buttress | ||||||
12 | ★★ Dunes - with John k | 100m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Wed 6th Jan 2021 - Arapiles | ||||||
Organ Pipes Area Organ Pipes D Minor Pinnacle | ||||||
18 |
★★ Cantata Linkup D Minor
- with
John K
1
18
35m
2
14
linkup D Minor
| 35m | ★ Good | |||
First climb at Araps for a while, bit sketchy on some of the moves. Nice link up from Cantata into D Minor second pitch. Very enjoyable
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Wed 6th Jan 2021 - Arapiles | ||||||
Organ Pipes Area Organ Pipes Central Organ Pipes | ||||||
11 | ★★ Didgeridoo - with John K | 35m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Sat 6th Jun 2020 - The Black Range | ||||||
Black Ian's Rocks | ||||||
14 | ★ Minor Offence - with Craig Orgill | 15m | ★ Good | |||
14 | ★ G.B.H. - with Craig Orgill | 20m | ★ Good | |||
14 | ★ Habeus Corpus - with Craig Orgill | 27m | ★★ Very Good | |||
15 | ★ Bail Refused - with Craig Orgill | 30m | ★ Good | |||
Wed 5th Feb 2020 - Camels Hump | ||||||
Omega Block Area Privy Block - Chain buttress | ||||||
21 | ★ Dominance and Submission - with Simon, Benham | 12m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
Wed 5th Feb 2020 - Camels Hump | ||||||
Omega Block Area Warfront Wall | ||||||
20 | ★ Young Warriors - with Simon, Benham | 16m, 6 | ★ Good | |||
Wed 29th Jan 2020 - Camels Hump | ||||||
Omega Block Area Warfront Wall | ||||||
18 | ★ War Front - with Simon | 15m, 4 | ||||
Couple of slippery footers at the start caught me out, but nice moves after that
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Mon 27th Jan 2020 - Halls Gap Area | ||||||
Lake Bellfield Little Joe Hill | ||||||
18 | ★ Son of a Preacher - with Aaron | 24m, 6 | ★ Good | |||
Linked this with Blessed Be The Chooks for one long pitch. Hard mantle move down low, then some interesting laybacking to the top of the climb.
Little bit of bush bashing gets you to the start of the next climb, well worth linking them up.
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19 | ★ Paleface - with Aaron | 25m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
Nice little variation to Pale Rider, interesting moves left to the fixed hanger then some balancy moves to the top.
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18 | ★ Pale Rider - with Aaron | 24m, 2 | ★ Good | |||
Tricky getting established into the crack, but quite nice once you’re in it.
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15 | ★ High Plains Drifter - with Aaron | 24m, 6 | ★ Good | |||
Nice pleasant slab climbing with some good balancy moves
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Sat 25th Jan 2020 - NE Mt Zero Range | ||||||
Golton Rocks Wave Wall | ||||||
18 | ★ The Riddler - with Simon | 15m, 7 | ★ Good | |||
Sun 12th Jan 2020 - Camels Hump | ||||||
Omega Block Area Privy Block - Chain buttress | ||||||
15 | ★ Guilty by Association - with Simon | 10m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
15 | ★ Morty - with Simon | 10m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
Broke an edge of an incut next to the first draw, cut my finger open, so had to clean that up before I got the tick.
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21 | ★ Limited Pain - with Simon | 7m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
Has some really nice moves, shame it's not longer.
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20 | ★ Cultasaurous Erectus - with Simon | 12m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
Sun 12th Jan 2020 - Bundaleer Area | ||||||
Bundaleer | ||||||
22 | ★★ Lunging for Melons - with Aaron | 15m, 5 | ★★ Very Good | |||
Sat 11th Jan 2020 - Bundaleer Area | ||||||
Bundaleer | ||||||
12 | ★★ Scarab - with Aaron | 59m, 1 | ★ Good | |||
18 | ★ Sanitize Review Pitch 1 (We Don't Like Slopes Pitch 1) - with Aaron | 25m, 6 | ★ Good | |||
20 | ★★ Sad But True - with Aaron | 25m, 6 | ★★ Very Good | |||
Bouldery start of the ground, Really nice climbing up to the roof, and a couple of tricky moves over the lip to the chains.
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Wed 8th Jan 2020 - Camels Hump | ||||||
Omega Block Area My Only Wish Wall | ||||||
19 | ★ The Downward Spiral Into Oblivion - with Benham, Simon | 24m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
Really nice climbing, with a nice balancy traverse thrown in for good measure.
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16 | ★ The Downward Spiral - with Benham, Simon | 18m, 5 | Average | |||
Sun 22nd Dec 2019 - The You Yangs | ||||||
The Turntable Car-park Area Eastern Walking Track Slack Attack Slabs | ||||||
8 | Slack Attack - with Benham, Mel McGregor | 18m | Average | |||
Sun 22nd Dec 2019 - The You Yangs | ||||||
The Turntable Car-park Area Eastern Walking Track Fig Leaf Slabs | ||||||
10 | ★ Fig Leaf - with Benham, Mel McGregor | 26m | ★ Good | |||
14 | ★ Two BA - with Benham, Mel McGregor | 25m, 2 | ★ Good | |||
20 | ★★ Malice in Trundleland - with Benham, Mel McGregor | 23m, 2 | ★ Good | |||
Sun 24th Nov 2019 - Mount Buffalo | ||||||
The Horn Area The Horn | ||||||
16 | ★★★ The Pintle Left Hand Variant | 70m, 1 | ★★ Very Good | |||
Great climbing with some great moves and wonderful positions
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Wed 23rd Oct 2019 - Camels Hump | ||||||
Eastern Outcrops Back Wall | ||||||
13 | ★ Skippy - with Benham | 25m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
16 | ★ Undertow - with Benham | 15m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
12 | ★ Tie The Knot - with Benham | 18m, 6 | ★ Good | |||
14 | ★ One For The Masses - with Benham | 20m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
14 | ★ Owen Glyndower - with Benham | 24m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
15 | ★ The Tell-Tale Shart - with Benham | 8m, 3 | Average | |||
Sun 22nd Sep 2019 - Arapiles | ||||||
Central Gully Central Gully Left Charity Buttress | ||||||
15 | ★ Mercy - with Benham | 16m, 1 | ★ Good | |||
Bit strenuous, mainly due to my poor crack climbing technique, but still quite enjoyable
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14 | ★★ Loyalty - with Benham | 18m | ★ Good | |||
Nice face climbing with an enjoyable traverse towards the top.
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12 | ★ Faith - with Benham | 18m | Average | |||
Tricky through the overhang, then nice climbing to the top.
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15 | ★ Bozo - with Benham | 12m | ★ Good | |||
12 | ★ Zorro - with Benham | 12m | Average | |||
Sat 21st Sep 2019 - Arapiles | ||||||
Bushranger Bluff Back Wall | ||||||
6 | ★ Cartridge Wall - with Benham | 10m | Average | |||
Sat 21st Sep 2019 - Arapiles | ||||||
Bushranger Bluff Main Wall | ||||||
9 | ★ Holdup Line - with Benham | 20m | ★ Good | |||
Sat 21st Sep 2019 - Arapiles | ||||||
Atridae Muldoon Area | ||||||
11 |
★ Clytemnaestra Buttress
- with
Benham
2
lead by
Benham
| 45m | ★ Good | |||
Sat 21st Sep 2019 - Arapiles | ||||||
Atridae House of Atreus | ||||||
8 | ★★ Tantalus - with Benham | 35m | ★★ Very Good | |||
Sun 28th Jul 2019 - The You Yangs | ||||||
Drysdale Road Drysdale Hills Boulders East Hill The Rockettes | ||||||
16 | ★ One's a Crowd - with Benham | 9m, 2 | ★ Good | |||
8 | Crowded Craque - with Benham | 9m | Average | |||
15 | Music Haul - with Benham | 8m, 1 | Average | |||
Sun 28th Jul 2019 - The You Yangs | ||||||
The Turntable Car-park Area Eastern Walking Track Flinders Peak Slabs Flinders Peak Slabs - Lower Tier | ||||||
20 | ★★ Psychedelic Termination - with Benham | 21m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
14 15 | ★ Crinkle Cut - with Benham | 18m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
16 | ★★ Tewkesbury - with Benham | 23m, 6 | ★ Good | |||
Sat 6th Jul 2019 - Werribee Gorge | ||||||
Falcons Lookout Main Boardwalk | ||||||
11 | ★ Sweet Chariot - with Mel McGregor | 16m | ★ Good | |||
Sun 31st Mar 2019 - The You Yangs | ||||||
The Turntable Car-park Area Eastern Walking Track Flinders Peak Slabs Flinders Peak Slabs - Lower Tier | ||||||
18 | ★ Bosworth - with Benham | 18m, 2 | ★ Good | |||
13 | ★ Andy Pandy - with Benham | 19m, 1 | Average | |||
17 | ★ Afterburner - with Benham | 19m, 2 | ★ Good | |||
Sun 17th Mar 2019 - Black Hill | ||||||
The Northern Group Upper Tier | ||||||
16 | ★ Vibrio Parahaemolyticus - with Benham, Aaron | 9m, 2 | ★ Good | |||
12 | ★ Clostridium Perfringens (Fun Guy) - with Benham, Aaron | 9m, 2 | ★ Good | |||
17 | ★★ Milawa - with Benham, Aaron | 23m, 5 | ★★ Very Good | |||
16 | ★★ Polished Gem - with Benham, Aaron | 23m, 5 | ★ Good |