Ascents in Oceania as trad by Mathew Hutchins-Read

Surprised you don’t hear more about this route. Really good layback with some very marginal stances to place gear. Pumpy.

Didn’t take anything big. At the top used a .5 in a horizontal above the good nut slot.

Why is Odin not that popular?? Cracks here are all time!

Forgot boltplates so used nuts on all the carrots.

Beautiful crack ranging from perfect hands, to tight hands, to fingers. Consistently 1s for a fair portion. Felt hard for 19.

Top pitch has a fairly hard undercut start to get established in the corner then east ground with barely any gear until the top out. Probably not 18 and probably only 15m. Next time I would rap from P1.

Surprisingly fun. Perfect #2 in slot down low

Vastly underprepared gear wise. Used my only .75, 1, 2 in the first part of the crack and bailed after realising it’s the same size the whole way.

Good gear all the way

Well i dogged the whole thing but im still ticking this because it was awesome.

Well i dogged the whole thing but im still ticking this because it was awesome. Took some pretty big whips over the waves while the sun was setting and seals played below. What an amazing epic day!

Fun moves and good pro

Another well protected interesting route.

Route of the weekend. Good pro, interesting moves. Felt very alpine.

Burly start moves then nice easy climbing.

Easy to protect, nice corner climbing. Chain to belay off.

Made the sport climber in me want to cry. P2 is great but with a mega runout.

Had to dodge a party of six on the third belay...

Very nice with lots of pro, big gear in the main crack or smaller in the surrounding smaller cracks. A number 6 fits the wide part perfectly!

Fun afternoon and a good intro to Booroomba. Belay on the third pitch was tricky for Lorraine as i used all the gear she needed in the previous belay.

Great climbing on great gear.

Classic for those who like this type of thing. Faffed a bit on the way in (read: slept through alarm) and started climbing by 10am. Some decent rock between loose bushwalks. Some seriously dubious chimneying on the last two pitches. Great day out, back at the car by 10pm.

Good gear and nice moves on insecure feet

Had to pull on the first draw, the rest isn't so hard.

Pooped pants on this. It was slightly damp, enough to make everything feel insecure.

Decent pro but as usual still pooped pants. I think I went too far left...

Fun climbing with lots of holds. Needs bigger gear than a #3 camalot...

Didn't read the description and got a bit lost at the top. Pretty nice with average gear.