Ascents in Waitaha / Canterbury having Beta

Avoided the normal gully most of the way and climbed on the face to avoid ice/rock fall.

rather dirty, but good moves

was hard work on the easy end of the rope

Best multipitch ever

beginners route, bolted as such, take a bit o gear for the top

airy topout on peak

some big looseness

very stretchy, and lots of balance required, but worth it!

I led middle pitch (19)... stunning

quality rambling back to camp

Note that dragon crags is on private land and the procedure on the climbnz page must be followed.

Scrambly

unless you you froth the fuck out of trad don't bother bringing your cams up just sling a single alpine around solid rock and that will do

Did the first pitch only. Didn't realise it went on.

Horrible choss as far Astor eye can see

Fantastic long climb. Rap stations offset from belays. Take a size 2 yellow BD cam to protect the grade 18 pitch. I belive we did a second ascent! Please check for permission as I belive the area is now closed.

An interesting route. Pitch 1 requires placing some gear (mid sized cams and wires) at the roof. Pitch 2 is more slabby, mostly on bolts with just one piece of gear placed.

Really fun with varied and interesting climbing. Unfortunately it's let down a little by the loose blocks and associated gear placements between 8th and 9th bolts.

The top was rad. The rest ordinary.

Poor bolting above the ledge/vegetated slope. Had a ledge fall when I was getting close to the 2nd bolt above the ledge.. Landed hard on my left heel on a rock which fractured my calcaneous (heel bone), lucky I didn't break it worse. Pretty cruxy (to me at least) moves below the 2nd bolt off ledge. Belayer had some slack out but main reason for ledge fall was high 2nd bolt off ledge imo. Nice moves to where I got to but I would not recommend this route because of the real bad ledge fall potential with current bolting.

The top pitch is very run out... per haps there is gear?

Fun delicate moves

Spotty weather. Got as far as the top of the bolts on P2 before it began to rain again. Escaped to the El Nino P1 bolted anchor about 5m left, brought Grant up and waited for Dave on El Nino, then we bailed.

Nicely set up route, can easily be done as one pitch

Good fun

after the vegetated start the crack was great

Good job liz. Very balancy, on your feet kinda climbing:l

Lives up to its name! Very nearly sent, fell at the last possible move. Would be easier without hanging the draws!

Probably the hardest of the variations on this wall, though it does have good rests. A faff to clean but worth a lap.

Really good. Sustained.

Great sustained route. Technical traverse on marginal footholds. Excellent crack line above the bolts.

Awesome, Chamonix style climbing. Techy traverse followed by great gear and finger jams in the corner. Cam placements: Red #1 and yellow #2 in the corner, then green #0.75 to protect the mantle onto the ledge. Broke a hold on the onsight attempt and came off, sadly. #2ndGo

A couple of mid size cams required to protect the upper headwall.

Went from the base of the crag and continued up past the ledge clipping the extra bolt to top out proper. Roughly 30m and feels like a 22 doing it this way.

Nice moves, good protection at top.

Climb past two paat two bolts, then natural gear (small wires and cams), to four bolts. Airy moves on good jugs on the arete.

being kind to the ankle

Good. Almost a sport climb but a few pieces needed (just nuts would do)

Lovely crack with run out slab. Magnificent

a little plain, big holds, prob bcos i'd jus done seriass..

6m above wires on a slab...interesting?!?

take some wires

Three pitches right by waterfall

did last pitch in a cloud, wish i could see the last pro i put in!

Adequate gear in the crack, then nice moves past some bolts.

P1 - Nick

P2 -