Ascents in World as various tick types by Tom Reid

another shot, got to the usual spot before falling but felt realy good, locked off nice and tight but tried the new beta and threw myself off haha. oops! sort of felt like i could have done it this go, had i stuck to my original plan. never let fatigue change your mind! just rest and try again. soon!

draws on, refreshing my memory. been a little while!

Wow! I loved this route, nice slab, tackle the reindeer antlers in the roof, pull the lip trying not to get too pumped for the tricky and technical finish! Delicious. Get on it!

Had a go, fell doing long move after 4th. tired after big 3 days climbing. made it to the top in 2 sits. Love this route.

Draws on, playing on different sections. Really good! for me this route is the classic on this wall. Hard, burly and sustained.

warm up. climbed in a billion knot winds. was exciting!

Progress today. Climbed to 4th bolt clean, but got a bit too high before clipping and fluffed around and came off. went to top in 2 more sits, realised what I was doing at the end would be too strenuous.

Climbed through the start clean again to 3rd bolt, but sat there. went through to the last bolt, and played around with the end after Tom K-O told me another way. seems good, eliminates an extra move.

Warm up. Fun

Much more playing. Can do the start, and can do the moves from first bolt to 4th bolt. I think I do 10 or 11 knee bars.

First good bit of progress. Rested at 1st, clean to 4th, rested then clean to last bolt. Was very knackered after 2 days of Capital Spankishment so I am amped about that!!

Had some beta, and worked well. I had a lot of fun on this and will do it again. good warm up for the mind and body.

A 'thrash down' attempt. fell off near the end, then back cleaned for Todd who sent this day!

pretty funky, nearly fell off at the end mantle thing! access for David Lee Roth.

playing around for a while with different things, working moves..(getting spanked)

mental note: none of this route helps you warm up.

First shot. Woah. Used my imagination alot, dogged to the anchor and pulled a couple of draws along the way. Figured out the back rest straight away which was cool. LOTS to do still.

More playing. started to figure out some way of doing the hard bit after 3rd bolt. Needs more work. but I am excited to do so!

Hard, Rad, Technical, and aesthetic. Not to mention Pompy!

Attempted in vain as a 'warm up' this day, when it was 23. got smoked! tried again later and got double smoked. cool though!

Really fun, wacky, exciting route.

Sweet, really really good the whole way to the chain. Loved it.

Last route of the trip! OS to the big move. close. Tomic gave some good beta and I went to the anchor clean.

Great! short lived crimpy crux into nice climbing up the face.

Great warm up.

A bit of fun. got a bit pumped after taking a little long to pull the lip. confused by someones tick marks!

After my epic spanking i couldnt muster the first few moves. from first bolt to anchor clean. Just as good as last time, awesomeness.

Wow, a chorus of wooden spoons spanked me to pieces on this pitch! start crimping like a bastard from the belay, no footers, then if your hat is still on continue to slog it out up the sustained, wandery and difficult orange wall. Bloody excellent climbing and position mind you, just going to take a couple more shots!

Rad long pitch, has a lot of nice climbing on it too. enjoyed it the whole way.

Had a go, fell off mid crux feeling a little tired. fell again and the end of the crux, then to anchor. cool route, ill be back on for sure.

Putting draws up and a bit of working, boulder start to rest, pumpy shouldery crux sequence, to a pumpy top section that you could blow at any point until at the anchor.

Tried to just do a big lunge this time, but couldn't hold on. oh well! Mitch schooled me on this route.

"I want to try onsight this" next minute fall off the first move! Tricky boulder start that ended up taking a few shots to work out, probably V3, to ledge where you can have a tea party. then blast the steepness proper on jugs to high crux.

fell at the top long move, thought I had a way to do it with a heel hook but it failed me.

Went easily next go, it is a shame it doesn't go on like that for longer! lack of bolts through the easy end keeps it worth doing.

Haha! fell off another warm up.. oops. must stop being too casual on slabs. I will get spat off.

This is a little gem, and tricky onsight with a bit of wandering and spicyness! couple that with a bloody tornado trying to pull me off the wall and youve got yourself a good time! dont fall at the second bolt- that will be a bad time.

Similar to sound and vision, but I held on a bit tighter and read the route better!

haha, woops! fell near the end of the crux, ended up in a position i couldnt rewind really cool route though.

fun and varied

Warm up on our volume day.

very cruisy climbing with no hands rests every couple of moves, to a hard crux then really easy finish. Wouldnt have found it overly good even if Id stayed on, but hey- its still climbing.

Fun warm up.

Putting draws up, getting beta.

Put it away. Rad fun, Funky route with a climatic finish. Happy New Year!

Putting draws on, having fun on the tiny holds! Left it to save skin. cool route though.

Fun little route. Just keep moving.

first route this trip.

OG onsighted, like a boss. I tried in vain to follow suit, this is brutal slabbing with hard to read sequences, poor feet and a shot of chilli pepper. i was well tired by this time, and promptly took to the air at halfway. Dogged the bajebus out of it to get to the anchor, with my tail between my legs. Everyone should climb this.

Flash attempt after OG looked really solid. HAHA! got spanked hard, let this word grow in the keyword section- HEINOUS . barely halfway up, started flailing. was a long shot to back up after Bozon though

Putting the draws on and working, super route, bit of everything. bouldery start, slopers, funky top section that could still spit you off if youre not careful.

had a go but glassed off the first hard move. pulled rope and retiied.

3rd go, definitely wasnt easy but climbed well where it counted and got the tick. Radical bananas, thanks for some tips and tricks OG!

First route at Hillwood, with OG. Really Radical, had to think outside the box a bit. This crag has got the funk! great the whole way. 3 stars.

DAMN. flashed all the way to top rooflet, and punted it. Keen to get back on this in December with the boys!