Ascents in World by Paul Frothy Thomson having sport-cpr or ascent-date

Clean repeat. Via the Backstreet Boyce start (radder climbing, and less rope management). The crux was tough, but not too hideous today. The upper wall is just gravy.

For training, I also down-climbed from the anchor to the crux, taking off draws as I went. Good fitness!

The superior start of Backstreet Boyce, then the shared crux of Reinventing the Wheel, followed by awesome gr23(ish) steep face climbing on amazing rock! Would that the crux wasn't so hard, and this would be a mega classic 23!

Clean repeat. This is a "classic 24" if you pull up to the 3rd bolt, or a "very good 25" from the ground. Shame the start is so incongruously hard/unpleasant, because everything from the ledge up is technical, funky, feature-climbing on amazing rock.

2nd shot today. Still only just kept it together on the final roofy moves -with fingers opening up on the jugs. Just a hilarious thuggy problem, with some wild "heroic" moves.

3 x Early-morning TRS laps clean for training. Very cool, IMHO.

Subjectively, the start for me probably makes this route 26, but I suspect more compact climbers might find this not too bad, as there are plenty of options (making this not a "reachy" climb) but it is awkward and bunchy at my height.

4 shots. 3 of them were to the final little sequence, which I kept on bungling. New beta on the final laps may have unlocked a better sequence for the end, but we'll have to see.

Cliffhanger-esque roof absurdity. Short, but hilarious. Makes you feel like a boss.

Back in 2019 I came a hairs breadth from freeing this for the First Ascent after sieging it for an entire season. A year later Nigel did the FFA, and since then I've had this in the back of my mind as an "obvious project to return to for a gr30 slab I know I can do".

Trying it today, I did all the moves "okay" (certainly better than my first days of trying it back in 2019) though it would still need a tonne of effort to put it all together.

But you know what I realised? I just really don't enjoy this style of razor-blade crimping much anymore, and I'm not so desperate to chase my first gr30 to suffer it for the sake of the grade. Honestly, I'd rather climb something steep (though it suits me less) and have more fun.

This is a proper slab/face test piece, and substantially harder than it looks from below. If you're still vibing that style, this is definitely your cup of tea. Now, after 18 years of climbing, I know it's not mine anymore.

Clean to the bolt above the "Bryden Allen move" as a warmup, then lowered. Apart from the stupid runout between the 2nd and 3rd bolt, this all felt pretty chill, and super fun. I forgot how good this is.

Sweet! Proper airy, pumpy, juggy arete climbing at the grade. Mitch's vision paid off, and this climbs super well. I climbed this with a gentleman's sit at the no-hands-rest

Fun end of day attempt in the pouring rain... Felt like I was climbing well... and then I found the crux!

Took a few biiiiiiig falls on the crux undercling move. When I stuck it (replete with flying drive-by) I felt like a boss!

Short (if climbed without linking into the upper pitch) but great rock, and very strange (engaging) moves. I'm happy to call this one 25 with my physiology.

Another lap. Love the upper half steepness.

Clean repeat. Lapping!

A great FA, whereby I still had to fight to stick the top moves, despite 5 sessions on this thing (most of them in TRS).

Once you get to the steepness, its all just genuinely fun climbing. The rock quality is wave wall, but longer, and steeper. The main 3 bolts of the crux is just super funky, powerful, tucked-in bouldering over a long sequence, and I just really enjoyed my time on this.

Hope you guys do too.

Fun fact: this is the first time I've projected anything since my accident in September last year!

Clean repeat. Raaaaaad.

My favourite of the routes on this wall. A rad start up a corner/crack feature, then continuous climbing on great rock, with quite a few tricky moves. The pockets near the top are wickedly cool.

Clean repeat. A great warmup.

Great climbing. Reminds me of Theory of Negativity -albeit, less funky features- though longer. Only a brief crux.

A bit too zealously cleaned, IMHO, but at least the rock that remains is solid-as. Fairly continuous at a cruisy grade, with a briefly thin crux. Steeper than it looks.

Seconding Neil to exit the crag. The moves were great, but the rock was friable at times (which meant I was more concerned about breaking something, than enjoying the climbing itself).

2 shots. I had a pretty good (tenacious) onsight attempt, but the mid-height crux took me a bit to figure out.

On the second shot, I ended up linking from the initial traverse no-hands rest, to the top, through all 3 cruxes. I'll definitely come back for the true send, because this is a great climb!

Like the other routes here, this thing is quite continuous and sustained. Yet this one quite definitely has 2 thin and technical cruxes to keep it interesting.

Awesome, continuous face climbing, with no obvious "stances" to break up the pitch. Seconding Mitch clean to exit the crag. Fairly sustained, though with no pronounced crux. Great rock, rad moves... the start is all time

Bah, not winning Fell off a key hold well-above the cruxy start that for some reason was covered in sand. Its okay, future ascensionists, I've cleaned it up for you now

The start is hard, but super rad when you figure it out. The roof is strangely easy, given its absurdity, and the climbing above is relatively cruisy.

Totally worth your time!

2 Laps - just to the last bolt (24 to here) clean, as the last moves were dripping wet. Managed to punch this one out, sans chalk, placing draws, no worries whatsoever. Pretty chuffed with this, given that I haven't steep climbed in the 7 months since my accident. My core and calves felt it the next morning, though!

This is my favourite of all the routes on the upper ledge.

2 x Repeat attempts, not clean. Though I cruiiiiiiised the link from above the lower layback crux to the top, for whatever reason, the low-crux kicked my arse today, and felt grades harder than 24.

The finale of this puppy is wild!

Another repeat. A great way to access the upper tier of climbing here.

Repeat. Rather stop-start, but the upper moves are my favourite of the crag.

Repeat. Absolutely cruised this. No way it was ever 23 (not sure what I was thinking?) Awesome technical climbing on weirdly good rock the whole way.

2 Laps. After a long morning working one of my upper mountains projects, this one felt hard today. Fun enough for what it is.

Climbed as a giant pitch to exit the crag. Pitch 1 is classic slab climbing, Pitch 2 is snappy ironstone crimping. Quite the bipolar climb, then;

2 laps to verify the route/quality. Really interesting, sustained, technical slabbing/face climbing. Now the easiest route to exit the crag with.

Clean repeat. Much better than I remembered it (and much easier)! Essentially 2 boulders surrounded by easy climbing, but both boulders are rad. With some rope management, this is very achievable as a giant single pitch.

Amazing, sustained, technical face climbing, and bloody hard for the grade! It took me quite a bit to sort the two main cruxes (I had to approach them very differently from the FA), and I took a huge whip from the very top going for a big link attempt. Beautiful rock, wild position, unique movement.

A bit more of a gnarly warmup than I was expecting. I pumped out on the last moves of the opening roof crux, but otherwise had no trouble with this route.

The start and roof boulder is great rock and wild moves, and the headwall is classy face climbing. Totally worthwhile addition.

Repeat attempt, not clean today. Just the one lap for fitness and to re-remember the beta for Match . I was pretty happy to put together the entirety of the upper crux section with minimal hassle, years after I was last on this. Amazing climbing from about the 5th bolt up!

I really enjoyed this, but its probably not for everyone. Went really easily today, so its probably not as hard as I thought it was. A really funky, fun, steep finale with some very weird moves

Repeat. As I said before, if you stay out of the cave, this is actually quite fun, and the crux is enjoyable.

Finally decided to suss this route to the top. The moves to gain and turn the lip are mega, and the grey-rock face climbing above involves some complex and gripping sequences for a first ground-up lap.

Probably the most annoying part for me, is having to lap the lower 24 section of this route to get to the hard bit

Clean repeat placing draws to the roof (easy 25 to here) then I explored the upper section. The move to turn the lip is very much the 27 bit, but the section above it is probably another 25 in its own right (albeit with good stances before the hard climbing). The upper section is excitingly runout when placing draws, in classic Emil style

Clean Repeat TRS.

After chopping the original (crappy) start, re-jigging the bolts in the upper section, repairing a super key broken hold (that was forcing a weird "round the world" sequence, and meant the crux bolts were all in the wrong place), and developing a whole new (gr21) start, I needed to see if my efforts had borne fruit.

In short, this is now one of my favourite routes on the wall. I'd call it 2nd best after Life of Riley. Its rad that with a bit more route development experience, and a bit of time and effort, this route -that has always frustrated me for having a crappy lower half, and a good but poorly arranged upper half- is now one of my favourite sporty sport routes I've put up.

I really hope this gets more traffic now, because it deserves it.

Incidentally, the gr21 Bottom section (25m to the first anchor) is proper good climbing, and would happily stand next to such contemporaries at Cosmic County.

Clean Repeat. Revenge! Had to work at the top, but still managed to punch this straight out today. So much fun.

Clean repeat. Revenge! How did I fall off this last weekend? Still awesome.

Repeat attempt, not clean today. No real problems to the top boulder, but -absent chalk- it took me a bit to piece it together. Essentially, three boulders (each getting harder than the other) with easier climbing and good rests inbetween. The top headwall is super rad.

Clean repeat. Sweet! It's been a decade since I was last on this (when I ticked it) and it was rad to get on it today and just do it straight up, placing draws, without too much difficulty.

One of the best technical, sustained, and consistently clean face climbs in NSW.

Repeat attempt, not clean today. Whoops... The unsend! Totally botched the crux. Otherwise, had a great old time. This route is always so much better than I remember it being

Back-to-back-to-back thinness on positive edges. The technical finale is the best bit. No time for another shot.