Ascents in New Zealand by Troy Kendall

16? That’s a sandbag and a half.

Third attempt at finishing this climb off. Excellent climb, is actually four pitches goes at 16-16-19-17. Cool slab climbing!

First attempt didn’t have the right gear, second; snowstorm came in and made a quick retreat. Third times the charm!

Fun balancing face climbing on incut crimps.

Just did the first pitch, second looks pretty average. For a 20 slab would expect something bit trickier, not to difficult.

Cool climb. One hard sequence. Fairly burley and pumpy.

Tricky for the grade

Long nice climb with a cruxy layback crack.

Crux would be the bouldery start. Besides the pump it’s a good climb

Cruxy start to cruxy mantle. Top is just a slab.

Combined first two pitches. Fun climbing.

Lots of pressing

Very good route. Might be a touch sandbagged for a 19. First moves are pretty cruxy to the third bolt.

Nice easy climb, feels like a soft 18.

It’s actually a really fun route

Warmup

Quite enjoyable.

Actually great quality. Good flowy moves.

Slabby goodness

Beautiful balancey moves after the overhang.

Mellow day out teaching the misses to multipitch. For a 15 may be a touch sandbagged. Second and last pitch probably more between 16-18.

Tad runout, but not very difficult climbing. Good line!

Dirty but fun!

Extremely fun climb, lots of different moves. Bit of technique for a 17

Crag classic, extremely fun. Looks a bit flat on the bottom but once your on there, piece of cake.

Good climb, quite engaging on last sequence

Very good climb, good start goes to easy middle to very engaging bridging and stemming!

First climb around Christchurch. Made it more fun by going up the face rather than the arete

Bit run out. But bolts are where you need them, very enjoyable climb to get high quick! Deff recommend to others! Though make sure you get some sun for a day beforehand to let the footholds dry out! Maybe a brush could help too 😏

Climbed Lost in Translation to the anchor, then the second pitch. Second pitch is a fun layback crack, though there is loose rock.

Great move off the boulder, runout (6m) the slab to the anchor.

Same as above, another great route.

Pumpy

Good line. Big holds going through the wee roof

Very good line. Flowy. Great moves.

Bottom part is pretty eh. However, it steadily improves in rock quality as the climb goes up.

Cheeky wee quick session in the morning.

Excellent route. Probably one of the best new route of the beach

Definitely a sandbag for the grade. Most people agree with this.

Good route with some wee sneaky moves in between. Having to relearn how to smear after a year away from the limestone 😅

Very fun slab climb. Good moves throughout! Cramps and edging!

One of the best 16s around

What a great line! Sustained fun smearing the entire route!