Ascents in World by Brendan Coulter

First time back at Frog in 12 months, and another new line done. Super fun, though committing and quite tricky for the grade at the start (maybe I’m just out of practice).

Channel your inner sport climber and you can get away with doing no real offwidth climbing.

3 back to back onsights! What a day. Stoked to finally get out to this - definitely holds up to expectations.

There happened to be a party on Clockwork Orage when we rocked up, so did the first pitch of this to kill the time.

Despite the description, the “bolted belay” of the adjacent route is actually 2 carrots… so lowered Aidan and then down-led the pitch. Cleaned up an old stuck sling in the process too, which literally pulled apart in my hands.

Awesome fun. That corner looks so intimidating from below, but it climbs surprisingly reasonable.

Sandbagged ourselves by assuming we could rap off, so took packs to the base. I got the honours of bush-bashing out at dusk with the gear and rope, whilst Aidan got to rap down, and do the long walk with one pack stuff inside the other.

Glorious hand crack, and an excellent start to the day. Almost as many threads as cams, and I managed to do only one fist jamb the whole way.

Managed to get away with 1 x #3 and 1 x #4, but I’d imagine more sane people might want a double of #3

Not sure it quite lived up to the hype, but it’s definitely a unique position, and makes for some great exposure.

Honestly, the crack after the roof felt like the hardest moves I’d pulled all day!

Fun finger locking with some nice techy footwork.

I’m a pretty aggressive downgrader, but I didn’t feel like this was soft. Maybe I missed something 🤷🏻‍♂️ felt pretty good anyway

Seth won the rock off, which meant that I got the honours of leading the wet slab start. Just to add to the controversy, I’ve done harder 18s, despite it being completely soaked.

Despite the choss, the whole route was still excellent. I wish p3 was longer though!

Awesome morning, and good to finally tick it off the list. Finger didn’t give me any grief which is nice.

Everything except the last pitch felt overgraded, but it didn’t detract from the fun of the movement.

“One of the best pitches in bungonia” is a bold claim when competing with the likes of Siblings of the Sun. This wasn’t even in the same weight class.

Gets a star for the awesome and unique belay holes, but I didn’t find the climbing all that interesting. Lots of easy stuff interrupted by a (hard for the grade) crux.

Dogged through the crux - turns out my finger isn’t better yet. A nice sustained sequence, a bit hard to read.

Worth doing - not certain it was worth the walk out though

Started via Wailing Cockatoo. Loved p3, and grateful it hadn’t rained recently, because the bath was dry. Finished up Wailing Cockatoo Direct Finish

Took a double rack, and regretted it. I think I placed two cams, and never touched anything except my offset nuts and 1 hex.

Was sitting in the bath tub, and this line looked better (had no clue where it went, or how hard it was).

Absolutely loved the pitch! Was cruisy, edgy slab climbing the whole way. Didn’t do the last pitch, because it didn’t look worth it

A rude reintroduction to slabs, especially with an injured finger. Fun, but wasn’t close to my favourite pitch of the day.

Felt harder than everything else, but maybe I was just re-learning limestone.

Started a bit further left and stepped across to avoid climbing through the tree

Incredible splitter crack, and no giveaway either. Would make a nice easy single-pitch stopping at the ledge, but the p2 finger crack is the money.

A fun little ground-up expedition into the unknown. Had a light rack with me, so why not. Surprisingly decent gear, but took a while to find it. Managed to use everything of my light rack (including draws) except 3 nuts.

Lives up to the hype, and now takes first place for best gear route I’ve done. The movement, the position, the gear, the rock. It’s all perfect (1st pitch only, T&Cs apply).

Seth took the lead so that I wasn’t tempted to push myself on the injured finger, but I think I almost preferred the toprope lap (please don’t hold it against me). It meant that I could just cruise up the perfect line, enjoying the movement without having to think about what might come next, and without stopping constantly for gear.

There’s no way it goes at 24, and I think it might also go entirely on passive gear, so might give it a crack next time I’m out here. Top pitch was absolutely drippingly soaked, so we topped out on the bolted line adjacent (also wet).

10/10, do this route.

Did it in 2 pitches, which meant I got to climb the entire length of the thing without stopping!

Crux is definitely the top pitch. The money pitch is awesome, but only 20, maybe 21.

Wanted to do it in one, but pitched out before the 3rd, as I wasn’t comfortable doing the crux moves so close to the ledge with 30m of my super stretchy rope out.

Going against popular opinion and giving this two stars. It was really good, with lots of different styles throughout, but each was too short to truly experience. 2m of hands, 3m of chimney, 1 body length of squeeze, 3 moves of crux crack. Each was an exceptional section of climbing, that wasn’t long enough.

Would still recommend

Not bad, despite the fact that most of it was damp.

Surprisingly, there’s quite a few unnecessary bolts, with good pro directly next to it. First bolt on P1, and at least 3 of the bolts on P2. Was good news for me, considering I left my bolt plates in the car

Nice chill morning with rach, good to place gear again. Some sections of really good climbing, interrupted by ledges and dirty topouts. Worth it for p3

At 5’2” rach was on the lookout for the move that was “harder if you’re short”, but failed to find anything reachy 🤷🏻‍♂️

#6 is absolutely unnecessary, with the crack taking plenty of other gear at that point. Also only took 2 x #2 and it was fine (the p2 belay has options). Got to place my 4 a couple times though, which makes me happy

First pitch earns the stars. The top was surprisingly not as dirty or vegetated as it looked, but the climbing was pretty mediocre.

Did in 2 pitches, Canadia led the first, I did the top.

Just the first pitch. Finished up 2 bolts of arete

Rach decided to lead this one. Not a bad route

Last bolt plate didn’t fit over the carrot! Pumped out trying to grab one from the other side, and couldn’t hold the last 2 crimps… still feels more legit than stepping out left though

Incredible! Probably the best, most consistent easy crack in the mountains. I’d say it even outclasses The Eternity.

More climbing than you expect, and some perfect jambing from loose fingers to perfect hands.

Rachael’s lead. Deceiving appearance, there’s not as much big gear needed as you’d think.

First pitch only

Not bad if you’re into that kind of thing.

Absolutely epic, must do. Goes in 1 pitch on a trimmed 70.

Thought we were on bilbo doing the left variant (didn’t really read well, just went for the best looking line). A lot of concern about running out of rope, but we made it.

Nowhere near as hard as it looks, super fun. Probably should be marked as a sport, the only gear is very optional

Last route for the day, more quality slabbing.

Plenty of gear to be found in the seam if you’ve got totems of small nuts

Had a bit more fern in my face than I would have liked, but actually better than the description suggests. No grovelling to be found

Was supposed to be #2 in the hole, but after committing to the groove instead of stepping to the tree, one thing led to another and a mostly-independent route was done

Decided to have a top-rope play on some slabs, then realizing it was protectable (if bold), came back to do it placing gear

Following after Mike - committing not knowing whether that seam would take gear

Bit of a chossy start, but the crack above is awesome. The bolts are an absolute disgrace, and need to be chopped

Rach didn’t like the start of the 17, so I decided to go direct to avoid it… she didn’t like that either

Epic route! Ground up onsight on gear, all the way to the hanger at the very top.

Whoever placed the bolts should be ashamed of themselves. The gear is bomber all the way, and enough to aid it.

I’d also agree with Frothy, it’s definitely not even close to 26, although 21 would be a sandbag

Quite nice. Maybe a little hard for the grade

A little bit of rain on-route obviously isn’t enough to scare us off - even if it did scare me a little. Stoked to get back out here and do a long route, and super glad I had Mike to rope gun some of those early pitches.

Prefacing this: I LOVED the slabs on jumpmaster… Honestly though, skip the ground-up, and rap in for the top pitches. The 24 is worth every bit of effort, but the first 5 pitches were 1-star at best.

Nice clean line, on some solid quality limestone

Rachael took the lead (and got the onsight) of this one.

I recall this being one of my earliest trad leads. Nothing to write home about, but still enjoyable

Bomber gear, straightforward enjoyable face climbing

Rach getting a good lead in

Those damn jugs ruining a good crack climb!