Ascents in World as Pink point by Paul Frothy Thomson

2nd shot. Hard 24 boulder-problem for the first 2 bolts, then about gr20 (and easier) for the rest of the route. Totally flashable, I simply didn't manage it. The boulder problem slab start is fun despite its short duration, and the upper is okay despite its easiness. The first bolt location, however, is utterly stupid. Too hard to solo to, too high to stick clip without a minor epic... You almost need to climb So, Said the King just to equip the first part of this route... Pointless.

Epic retro-flash. I'd been on this over 2 years ago and got utterly spanked (and didn't remember a thing). Today, since Andrea's draws were already on it, I gave it a lap and enjoyed every minute of it. Great climbing despite some worryingly creaky holds, with a strangely powerful lower crux (I solved it with a hardcore left-leg flag that put me totally horizontal) that is almost out of context for the climbs slabby nature. Great techy upper section through much blankness and a pleasant runout.

2nd shot today. Felt quite easy (even on the first shot) but I still managed to throw to the wrong hold before reaching the halfway ledge and fell off on the 1st shot. The business end is over quickly, but it's some entertaining steep jugging with big moves.

2nd shot. On the Onsight I ended up on the wrong side of the arete to clip the 2nd bolt and couldn't get back on route, thus blowing it. The 2nd shot went okay, but was still hard work. Super-sustained knifeblade arete climbing which doesnt give it up without a battle of balance and barn-dooring. Crux at 2nd bolt, with an out-there sting in the tail as you climb thinness straddling the arete for the last 4m or so. Very sharp thin crimps for the right hand, and arete slapping for the left.

2nd shot today, 3rd shot total. Mmm... black-rock slabbing in the full sun. I really battled the heat on this. 1st shot today I fell off in the same place as yesterday, not remembering anything (and my chalk washed off from rain overnight). 2nd shot today, feeling worn-out and heat-struck, I kept it together and crushed. Another Bare Rock classic.

2nd Ascent. 2nd shot. Didn't quite manage the flash with flash pump surprising me on a matched fingernail edge, but went to the top with only 1 fall. 2nd shot felt awesome. This climb was made for someone like me. 30m of non-stop, slightly steep, super-thin technicality on micro-edges, sidepulls and underclings. No real pronounced crux, but trickiness that you could easily fall off on the last move to the anchor (3 x slopey gastons through a steep bulge). Beautiful black and orange rock.

2nd shot today, 4th shot total. My 1st attempt today placing the draws was a dogs breakfast as I got epically flash pumped, too hot in the full summer sun and stressed with the expectation of a quick send. The 2nd shot was executed perfectly, and was just fun, steep, pumpy big moves between big slopes. I chose not to place the last draw before the anchors for some encouragement not to fall. Did another lap at the end of the day for some photos with Simon Carter.

3rd shot today, 6th shot total. Utterly stoked to tick this inspiring piece of rock. Should've gone 2nd shot today, but my smeared foot slipped as I grasped the final mingen crimp before the juggy finale. Like a harder version of Toyland Direct, but better rock and fewer stances. The fluid technicality of the crux felt more amazing after each lap, but the insecure top slab never felt anything other than heartbreakingly precarious. A great test piece.

2nd shot. Utterly spanked by the boulder problem start to the 2nd bolt on the onsight. Reminds me of a sloper version of War and Peace in the Blueys. Definite crux at the start to a very hard clip on a giant sloper, then big moves between (mostly) big slopers to the top, with a fair bit of climbing for a short route. Better than I expected, and quite pumpy.

2nd shot. Mostly enjoyable tricky arete climbing, but with a pronounced, very cruxy crux section that felled me on the onsight. Makes a great warmup when you know the crux sequence.

2nd shot in the rain. Thought for sure I had the flash (placing draws), but I fell off at the 2nd last bolt, the last of the long series of hard moves when I totally misread the sequence and sandbagged myself onto the wrong jugs. On the 2nd shot it went well, and was simply amazing fun. Sustained, thin, technical face climbing with lots of varied, tricky moves and no true rest stances. Less overtly cruxy than Heaven Can Wait but much more intense. Immacculate rock.

2nd shot. Burly and technical in equal doses. The thuggy but awkward start leads to a balancy arete and a ridiculous throw leaving it to gain a good edge. My onsight ended on the top arete. The 2nd shot with the sequence dialled felt great. Good rock. Quite sustained but with good stances.

2nd shot. This would be a rad 22 to the good undercling that marks the start of the crux (about 16m up), but the bouldery crux (which FOR ME required some desperate smearing, a back-heel, cross-over match and full-body barndoor, square-heel rockover and a spot of sloper-loving) is a stark contrast to the rest of the route, and kind of sharp with rock rapidly deteriorating the the anchors.

2nd shot. 1 fall on the onsight (warm up). Thought this was the bolted 21 arete nearby to do as a warm up. Thought it seemed insanely hard, and insanely runout to the 1st bolt (8m up, gr19 climbing), and scarily runout at the top. In hindsite that would be because we were on the wrong climb, and THIS one is supposed to be supplemented with gear. Only gave this another lap to get the draws back. Good arete climbing with some great (and brutal) sequences which I thought were quite strenuous.

2nd shot. Sustained and varied hardness. Climbed as one giant pitch. 3 of us ticked this climb today, and all 3 climbed the crux 1st pitch COMPLETELY differently in its entirety. For the middle crux section, I used right hand arete-slapping rather than the razor-thin crimping of my friends. The top pitch is dreamy technical climbing, with the first few metres off the halfway anchors being particularly memorable.

2nd shot despite being sick as a dog. I thought I was on track for the onsight, but I made a mistake at the 6th - 7th bolt and threw it all away. Clean to the top from there. 2nd shot I felt tired, but it went easily enough. Great sustained featured climbing in a huge range of styles, that doesnt let up to the anchors. Some spooge made things exciting, but conditions at ~8pm when I sent this were nothing to complain about.

Spooged off the moves between 2nd and 3rd bolt on the flash. Came down from there and climbed clean to the top. Still needs more traffic and is a bit gritty, bit the climbing is varied, interesting, long and logical. Could become a classic. Excitingly bolted!

2nd shot. The flash was with 1 fall at each of the 2 cruxes. 43m of awesome moves, but with some choss (and lots of glue behind flakes), and needs more traffic to clean up the crozzly footers on tufas. The lower 15m is slopers galore with an unpleasant sloper crux, but the remaining 27m is radical featured flake and tufa climbing with tricky body position moves and feet, but separated by juggy stances. This is the 1st climb ive done with long sections of streno open hand pinches on slopey tufas.

First 27! 3rd shot today, 4th shot total, but arguably my first proper red point attempt as after my onsight attempt yesterday my first shots today involved screwing around putting on draws that other climbers had removed. Came really close 2nd shot today (placing 5 of 10 draws) with a single fall, pull straight back on and go to the top. With perfectly refined beta, the 3rd shot was "mark and execute" and felt utterly rad! Super sustained, technical, thin, long, pumpy and COMMITTING. Stoked!

Blueys climbing on Nowra rock!!! 2nd shot. 5th day on (14 days climbing in 18 days in Spain) and im falling apart! I didnt find a CRUCIAL sidepull on the onsight but cruised the rest. 2nd shot was executed perfectly for a mega-tired end of day send. Hard first 4 bolts, with a rad bolted trad 20m of easy featured climbing to the anchors. Totally worth a lap.

3rd shot. Had some mega-whips on this moderately runout classic on the onsight, and punted it on the last hard move on 2nd shot (my small brain got confused with the spanish bolting) but stuck it for a frozen fingers 3rd shot send. Radical sustained semi-bouldery steep climbing that keeps coming all the way to the anchors. Stellar rock, position and moves... now if only they moved 1 stupid bolt placement...

Great techy and body-position dependant climbing up rad flake features, but the first 3 bolts are v4 boulder problem at least. It took me 30min of non-stop work to put together a viable sequence to get to the 3rd bolt, and that still involved a full bodyweight monopocket move, 2 mingen crimps and a desperate throw. After FINALLY linking to the 3rd bolt I flashed to the top.

2nd shot today. 3rd total. Almost did it placing the draws, but muffed the top crux (while feeling fine) due to unrefined foot beta. Felt in control and awesome on the 2nd shot. Sustained and varied and one of my favs at this crag. Had some fun skipping bolts (and clipping at my feet) to guarentee the send.

2nd shot. Thoroughly enjoyable. Had a rad onsight burn but never found the crux jug well back from the lip before I fell off the final roof. Interesting slightly steep pocket pulling with an exciting finale.

First shot today, 2nd shot total. Cold but brilliant felt much easier today, but still thoroughly enjoyable.

3rd shot. My 2nd shot was stylish perfection until I punted it at the top. The 3rd shot was desperate, feet-free lobbing but somehow kept it together. The bottom 2/3rds is hard sequences with good stances, but the top headwall is sandbagged desperation. Big moves, average pockets, terrible feet and STEEP.

2nd shot. A good looking pocketed blue streak. Mostly about grade 21 but with a super powerful crux sequence that I muffed on the onsight.

2nd shot. Awesome climbing up an incipient seam all the way to a topout atop the pillar, but bloody oath the bottom 1/3rd is a sandbag. Very sequency and strenuous, but cool.

2nd shot. Mostly 21-22ish face and pocket climbing, with a very thin and run-out boulder problem crux near the end. A bit chossy and with some stupid bolt placements. Looks aesthetically pleasing.

3rd shot. Rad polished varied tufa climbing (my 2nd tufa ever!) With a hard facey finale when youre pumped. Hot in the spoogey sun. Onsight I sandbagged myself at the top trying to climb too direct. 2nd shot I hadnt actually sorted the top crux and came-a-cropper. 3rd shot it was style all the way for the send!

With Gene. Both pitches went first shot today after I scrubbed about 1kg of lichen and dirt of the crucial holds with a wire brush. Made for a brutal warm up, but was excellent climbing the whole way. The first 10m of P1 is still intense! Get on it while its clean!

Gave it hell and got good linkage, but didn't manage to find the chalkless crucial hold at the crux before I fell off. Still felt tough, but went easily enough second shot. The climbing is awesome, with the crux near the ground and some rad moves near the top, but the rock quality is quite average. I know you're psyched, Nathan, but calling this "mega-classic" is rather pretentious.

A great route, and quite sustained in the top half. Harder than any other 24 on this wall. Surprisingly little chalk on the top half of this (one of the crucial crimps didn't have any chalk or ticks on it, and I fell off on the onsight when I didn't see it and tried to do the moves without it). Quality climbing.

Wow! Dream send! Repeating this rarely climbed hard-trad testpiece of the era of Wolgan hardmen has blown my mind! 1st lead attempt, with pre-placed gear (8 bits of gear and 3 bolts) in part because the MISSING PITON on the middle (hardest) crux means the moves are done well above a single #4 wire in marginal rock to stop a 10m ground fall. I would be willing to do placing gear now, though! Boulder-problem lower crux; techy, strenuous trad-pro middle crux, and powerful fingery trad-pro top crux.

2nd shot today, 3rd in total. The first shot today was a throwaway with epic flash pump and trying to remember the tricky footwork. The 2nd shot was still a bit of a battle, but I felt solid the whole way. Probably the least-climbed line on Bentrovato wall, but actually something of a unique gem with non-existent feet and tricky movement. The last move of Kizashi could be a heart-breaker if you haven't got it dialled.

2nd shot. Went quite easily one the second go. The flash ended on the last move to the end. An action packed, intense 6m of climbing with 2 trickly sequences requiring some interesting footwork (and super-secret JengA beta). Better than I expected considering its contrivitae.

3rd shot, and I had to work for it! Hmmm, hard to grade... Very hard 25, softish 26? Neil is right with "harder than Kizashi but easier than Sadomastication". Probably more sustained and strenuous than Sado, but -despite having 2 HARD moves- without Sado's particularly hard crux. Totally worthwhile and demanding thinness, with lots of funky sidepulls and very high feet.

3rd shot. Onsight ended at the dyno (took me a bit to figure it out: stop trying to be tricky, and just face-on LAUNCH) then clean to the top. 2nd shot I muffed the dyno by completely missing it for no reason. 3rd shot it was all on to the top. Mostly a hardish 22 but for the pretty full-on dyno move. Consistently awesome climbing with interesting moves all the way to the top, 30m up. Probably deserves another star, neilio.

2nd shot. I struggled at first with the one crux move on my onsight, but cruised and thoroughly enjoyed the rest. The 2nd lap was just fun. Mostly lots of thin but positive crimping, with 1 power-move crux at the 2nd-3rd bolt. Good!

2nd shot. Should have been an o/s but the crucial crux pocket was full of spider webs, and I didn't even see it amongst the rock. Probably soft at the grade. Has cleaned up okay and makes a worthwhile climb.

2nd shot today. Despite the epic sandbag at "23", this IS STILL my all-time favourite Shipley route. Cruised it first go today placing draws (years after my lasy attempt)... EXCEPT for going into the lower crux completely wrong, trying to battle on and eventually falling off. Cruised it 2nd shot, and climbed with dreamy eyes the whole way. Perfect. Long, sustained, varied, no true crux, slab, face, steep, roof... PERFECT.

Cruised up it 2nd shot... would make a good warm-up with the beta sorted. 1 fall at the 2nd bolt on the onsight, the rest clean. A bit strenuous past the first 2 bolts, then quite enjoyable and thin to the top with tricky moves all the way.

3rd shot today. It was all there for the taking on the 2nd shot when I arrived at (literally) the last move feeling fresh as a daisy, but I threw it all away when I forgot how to do it! 3rd shot went easily. Quite a fun and obvious line with lots of big holds, and a few tricky/sequence moves. Meat-wrap/rock-over for the win!

2nd shot, in the blazing sun. Hard, steep, bouldery and polished, with a nails hard (and possibly dangerous) 3rd clip. Would be 24 at Nowra. Amazing climbing that doesnt let up until the anchor.

3rd shot. Totally had it on the 2nd, but threw it away with a foot slip after the crux. Finally send in a hail storm. Resistance climbing to the bouldery double-crux, then awesome slopey groove climbing for 10m up a slab with no holds. Brilliantly tecnical.