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| Grade | Route | Gear style | Quality | |||
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| Sun 20th Jun 2021 - Pierce's Creek | ||||||
| Eastern Area Matricide | ||||||
| 20 |
★★ Matricide
- with
Tracy Beaglenose
| 12m | ★★★ Classic | |||
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Super line and climbing with 2min access. Fun in the winter sun out of the wind, flocks of yellow tailed black cockatoo's, and the view from the top of the boulder in the late afternoon is sensational. The climbs at Pierces Creek really should be more popular than they are as they are total class!
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| Sun 6th Jun 2021 - Pierce's Creek | ||||||
| Eastern Area Blackwater | ||||||
| 21 |
★★ Mercenary Swine
- with
Tracy Beaglenose
| 15m | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Excellent climbing! Used a horizontal knee bar with my right leg across to the left arete below the fingers section to make the crux sequence less sketchy. While lowering off I tested how hard I could use the knee bar - it's possible to take both hands off but I reckon you'd want to use a knee bar pad if you were serious about a no hand rest!
We accidentally took the double length sling from the top anchor when abseiling off - it's under a rock at the base of the route.
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| Sun 30th May 2021 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Mount Victoria Area Mount Piddington Janicepts Area | ||||||
| 21 |
★★★ The Janicepts
- with
Tracy Beaglenose
| 27m | ★★★ Classic | |||
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Still a great climb. After all the offwidthing we've been doing I found a knee lock 3/4 way up which provided a great no hands rest...the top thinner crack section is so much easier when not pumped stupid!
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| Sun 2nd May 2021 - Gibraltar and Corin Road | ||||||
| White Horse Rocks | ||||||
| 17 |
★★ Cratercritter
- with
Tracy Beaglenose, gavin voigt
| 20m | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Excellent splitter offwidth into a wider layback. We tried it a couple of weeks ago but had no idea how to do hand/fist stacks nor knee locks, nor did we have gear big enough to make the wide second half a sane prospect.
This time, after reading the 'hand/fist offwidth' section of Peter Whittaker's 'Crack Climbing', having bought back my two Valley Giants (VG) I'd previously sold, plus judicious taping of hands and left knee I was set and got it first go. Gear is big to humungous - #4, 2 x #5, #6, VG#9 and VG#12! A 240cm sling is also handy to loop the large block 3/4 way up.
As granite goes, this is smooth sided and an excellent climb to learn offwidthing on. A top rope using a second rope to get the anchor over the edge can easily be setup using the ring bolts above 'Black Satin Lingerie'. The walk in is about 40 minutes.
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| Sat 24th Apr 2021 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Mount Victoria Area Mount Piddington Flake Crack Area | ||||||
| 15 |
★★★ Tombstone Wall
- with
Tracy Beaglenose, Gain Voigt
| 30m, 3 | ★★★ Classic | |||
| 17 |
★★★ Flake Crack
- with
Tracy Beaglenose, Gavin Voigt
| 53m | ★★★ Mega Classic | |||
| Sun 18th Apr 2021 - Pierce's Creek | ||||||
| Eastern Area Matricide | ||||||
| 19 |
★★ Tarred and Feathered
- with
Tracy Beaglenose
| 15m | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Great line, good climbing and solid gear.
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| Mon 12th Apr 2021 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd Cosmic County Area Cosmic County The 39 Steps | ||||||
| 22 |
★★ Incandescence
| 25m | ||||
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Decades ago...
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| 17 |
★ Graffiti Crimes
| 40m | ||||
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| 21 |
★★ Comfortably Numb
| 25m, 3 | ||||
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| 21 21 R |
★★★ Fantastic Voyage
| 26m, 2 | ||||
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| Mon 12th Apr 2021 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd Cosmic County Area Cosmic County Greenhouse Gully | ||||||
| 21 21 R |
★ Ground Effect
| 30m | ||||
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Decades ago...
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| Sun 11th Apr 2021 - Gibraltar and Corin Road | ||||||
| Snake Rock The Buttresss | ||||||
| 20 |
★★ Snake-in-the-Grass
- with
Tracy Beaglenose
| 15m, 3 | ★★ Very Good | |||
| Sun 4th Apr 2021 - Point Perpendicular | ||||||
| Seaside Windjammer Wall | ||||||
| 17 |
★★★ Grey Mist
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Tracy Beaglenose
| 30m | ★★★ Classic | |||
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It's become almosr polished in the 10 or so years since I last did it! Great gear and nice moves.
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| 19 |
★★ Windjammer
- with
Tracy Beaglenose
| 30m | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Nice to revist this great crack after a couple of decades. This time with a quadruple rack...rather than a single rack...everything felt more sane!
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| Wed 10th Feb 2021 - Queanbeyan area | ||||||
| White Rocks | ||||||
| 10 |
★ Intro RH Variant Finish (Climb A RH Variant Finish)
- with
Tracy Beaglenose
| 14m | ||||
| 18 |
★ The Slab
- with
Tracy Beaglenose
| 15m, 3 | ||||
| 19 |
★ The Slab LH Variant Start
- with
Tracy Beaglenose
| 15m, 3 | ||||
| 13 |
★ Cave Crack
- with
Tracy Beaglenose
| 16m | ||||
| 14 |
★ Blinky (Climb C)
- with
Tracy Beaglenose
| 13m | ||||
| Tue 17th Jul 2018 - Frog Buttress | ||||||
| West of the access track | ||||||
| 18 |
★★★ Iron Mandible
- with
Cate
| 24m | ★★★ Classic | |||
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Awesome
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| Sun 24th Feb 2008 - Orroral area | ||||||
| Orroral Ridge Legoland Approach boulders | ||||||
| 20 |
★ US Blues
- with
Chris Warner
| 6m | ||||
| Sun 3rd Dec 2006 - Point Perpendicular | ||||||
| Bayside Hello Dolly Wall | ||||||
| 22 |
★★ Cast Adrift
- with
Damien Taylor
| 30m | ||||
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