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Dom 26.º Mayo 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | |||||
I never log ascents. Just wanted to add the block in the MIDDLE of pitch 2 looks like its getting closer to being a flight risk. Not the previously discussed belay ledge block.
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Lun 20.º Mayo 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Rodolfo Bertozo | 95m | |||||
Dom 19.º Mayo 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
Bojana Pavlovic, Rodolfo Bertozo, Cynthia F.
| 95m | |||||
Exciting second pitch and ridiculous chimney squeeze on the thirds.
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15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
Cynthia F.
1
13
35m
2
15
30m
3
13
30m
| 95m | ★★ Muy buena | ||||
Amazing second pitch and amazing chimney. Really enjoyable climb
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Jue 25.º Abr 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
Caitlyn, Jason Nguyen
2
15
30m
Almost had the onsight and at the crux grabbed a cam. Rest of it was challenging but not nearly as bad as the the crux move. Bring big gear
3
13
30m
escalada de primero por
Jason Nguyen
Bit of faff removing some gear so had grab a draw. Broke a hand hold and almost got stuck in the chimney so had to go around. | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
True adventure climb! 🫠
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15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
Caitlyn, Robin Kumar
| 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Repeat with Robin and Caitlyn but a total Alzheimers onsight, including going the wrong way on P1; future reference, just stay on the right side.
P2 was easier than I remembered with no off-widthing required. P3 start was still hard as shit and I didn’t remember the chimney being that tight but I still had an absolute blast of a time. So good!! Definitely sections of “do not fall” on P1 and P3. |
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Lun 1.º Abr 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
Gavin Rech
| 95m | |||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
Ken Thrash
1
13
35
2
15
30
3
13
30
| 95m | ★★ Muy buena | ||||
A really nice climb
A few notes The first third of pitch one, up the slab has very little pro. There are no bolts or carrots at the top of this pitch. There is some gear in the wall at the top of the block (belay piont) but you will have to look for it. Do not underestimate the off-width on pitch 2. We only used one bolt plate and that was on pitch 2. Having a #5 or #6 cam is handy for this pitch. But probably not essential. There is a DBB at the top of pitch 2. The first move off the blay station for pitch 3 is very difficult compared to the rest of this climb. Pitch 3 is a chimney. If you climb inside the chimney you will only fit if you are thin/small and will not fit with a backpack on. If you step to the outside of the chimney there is more space but less gear. Choose your own adventure. There is a DBB at the top of pitch 3. This climb gets sun early... like 10am |
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Sáb 30.º Mar 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 ~16 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Justin | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Really good route nice jugging for P1 just sandbagged myself by making a right angle in the gear near the top, belayed from carrots off to the left. P2 has one hard layback section and might be a grade or so harder, Justin realised the left his phone at the base of the climb while having a snack at the bealy for P3. P3 was a nice boulder to start, again probably sandbagged for 13 but fine either way clipping an old piton on the way to the chimney, the chimney was super cool i just wish i had been carrying less gear, ended up only placing a 5 a nut and another small cam near the top. A 6 would have been nice on P2
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15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Chris | 95m | |||||
Vie 22.º Mar 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★ Buena | ||||
Awesome
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Sáb 16.º Mar 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
Chris Lam
| 95m | |||||
Father-Son bonding
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Sáb 9.º Mar 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Ev | 95m | ★ Buena | ||||
Jue 22.º Feb 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Jue 19.º Oct 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
Tim Winterflood
1
13
35m
escalada de primero por
Tim Winterflood
Kind of like a baby wafer thin fin. We climbed the front face of the leaning pinnacle. Quite happy Tim ended up getting the odd numbered pitches, as this would have been a rank, runout lead. The next two were good enough to make up for it though
2
15
30m
escalada de primero por
Luke Yerbury
Felt a bit out of my depth on even such a short off-width section. Bumping the 6 meant I pretty much got to do it on top rope though, so that's nice. Top of the crack was great! | 95m | ★★ Muy buena | ||||
Evening tradventure, the sequel. Old school classic
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Lun 31.º Jul 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
1
13
35m
2
15
30m
3
13
30m
| 95m | |||||
Mié 10.º Mayo 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | |||||
What an absolutely amazing day out!! Opted to not do the direct start as it looked horrifying. The other start was fun up until the void of death. I saw Evan's foot just make it and thought it can't be too bad. Evan and I cracked ourselves laughing as we tried to figure out how I'd get across. My best solution was just to jump and go swinging. I started down climbing to let go and then realised I could just get my foot across. Fun. The second pitch I lead and got to the offwidth section and had a battle with it but it won. My blood is there for the proof. Evan seconded and ended up avoiding offwidthing by reaching to an OK hold out left. I was outraged he'd avoided the fun I'd had with it! Rest of pitch was fun! Last pitch was an absolute blast up the chimney and overall a fantastic day out!! You definitely go for the adventure. Beware it's chossy, run out and has limited pro but that's the fun of it! Will definitely do again such a fun day!
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15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
1
13
35m
2
15
30m
3
13
30m
| 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
3 stars not for the rock quality (choss), pro (average) but for the adventure 😂
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Sáb 1.º Abr 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 ~16 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Ian Scott | 95m | |||||
Sáb 11.º Mar 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con John, Peter Melouney | 95m | |||||
15 Duro |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
John, Christian Pilarcik
| 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Enjoyed the 2nd and 3rd pitch. Chimney was fun and had good enough small/medium gear
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15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Peter Melouney, Christian Pilarcik | 95m | ★★★ Megaclásica | ||||
So damn good after the first pitch!
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Mar 20.º Dic 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★ Muy buena | ||||
Vie 18.º Feb 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Megaclásica | ||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Whoa… crazy first trad multi experience. That chimney is something else.
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Mié 16.º Feb 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Megaclásica | ||||
Now this is what we came to narrow neck for. We started the day off with a cruisy run up cave climb and had a blast. Rapped back down our fixed line and had lunch under a shady boulder while we waited for our other party to finish. We conducted a "wife swap" of seconders as Yim likes to call it then Jack and Johnny started up the regular start of Fuddy Duddy. Jack intially enjoyed the beginning of the route then cursed the rest of it and recommended we check out the direct start and save ourselves some dodgy climbing. At this point we had no idea what we were in for. Yim tied in for the direct start and on the very first move his eyes lit up like a kid on Christmas "BOOOTYYYYY! MY FIRST BOOTY I AM SO HAPPY!" As he pulled a #9 dmm nut out from the boulder on the ground. A stellar start to the route, less can be said about the rest. Yim consistently cursed the route being full of spiders and choss, "The most disgusting route i've ever climbed" then he was faced with the dilemma of either the chimney or a sketchy uncertain face climb, so the chimney it was. Towards the top of the chimney Yim turned to loving the pitch, the joy of successfully soloing an unprotected chimney. Until this point probably took about 20 mins, then after another 10 minutes and noticing the middle marker of an 80m rope passing on a 30m pitch I had to tell out and see what was going on. Yim had decided to nail down and link the first two pitches like an absolute machine and I had to follow. Backpack on the pitch 1 chimney was absolutely fucked and did not spark joy. No protection, choss sandstone galore, holds breaking everywhere and my backpack between my legs being caught on everything. The sun decided to peer through and absolutely beam me as I struggled my way up reaching onto anything above me, blinded by the light. I made it through to the view of Yim manically laughing from the top of pitch 2. Choice words were exchanged towards the pitch and towards Yim for finding a sick joy in the climbing. Pitch 2 was an absolute off width battle. Knees were barred, chickens were winged, the crux move at the carrot certainly a struggle for grade 15. Somehow during the crux battle my chalkbag dislodged itself and fell into the abyss. Upon reaching the top of P2, exchanging more choice words, breathing for the first time in 30 mins, we saw another party coming up behind us. Tom and Jay, two more unlucky souls who had succumbed to the direct start. Saved my chalkbag though, absolute heroes. Pitch 3 had a clear grade 18 boulder problem start. Some crucial permanent tick marks stop you from hitting the deck but definitely weren't expected on a "grade 13" pitch. The chimney climbing here was surprisingly pleasant and flowy?? No protection yet again, but if you traverse towards the face half way up leads to a significantly better time than squeezing through the narrow part, pick your poison I guess. The top out was glorious. We meandered back to the car with the sun shining in our eyes asking if the warm beers had manifested themselves into coldies, to an unknown voice exclaiming that they had. The fellas had made friends with Kiki, a lovely girl that was doing a lap of Oz and was taking warm beers in exchange for coldies in there fridge, an absolute life saver. Tom and Jay met us at the car and we had an absolute yarn for the next hour over further beers. An absolutely perfect day out on incredibly unique climbing with bonus friends at the end, couldn't ask for much more.
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15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Johnny Sullivan, Will West | 95m | ★★ Muy buena | ||||
Todays installment was a day out at narrowneck to climb the bumblers. Cave climb first on the menu. Will forgot to leave the big gear for j and y so i had to lower him halfway down the climb to re-place it all. Had a undies shower in the trickling waterfall; i wish theyd turn the pressure up on that thing. Some difficulties finding the start of fuddmania but ended up shooting for the carrot. Told will and yim the first pitch was shit and maybe they should go direct start. They ended up taking over 2 hours longer than us to complete the climb with some large solos. My hands were too sweaty to fist stack the offwidth on p2 but werent too sweaty to grasp a fistful of dyneema. Johnny and i hung out at the car for a bit before a girl named kiki drove past in her truck asking for camping advice on the area. She ended up doubling back despite my lack of help and gave us freezing beers and chatted to us until the boys came back. 2 other lads followed them out the top of the chimney and joined us for a bev for sunset. Kiki seemed interested in climbing and was encouraged by the vibe of post climb beers but yims 20m run out chimney recount quickly eroded her enthusiasm for it. She was also potentially not 100% convinced we were real climbers after 50% of us (yim and i) almost came off the boulder problem that was mounting wills car roof with racks on. Hardly a V6.
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15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★ Muy buena | ||||
We did the direct start and I wouldn’t recommend it. It was loose as and I pulled off a few blocks and broke a foothold or two. The rest of the climb was rad. Start of the third pitch is definitely at the hard end of 13
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Dom 2.º En 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Megaclásica | ||||
Repeat just as good as i remember. Could get away with a single rack of cams to hand size, and a set if nuts.
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Vie 31.º Dic 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★ Muy buena | ||||
Mar 21.º Dic 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Megaclásica | ||||
Went all the way to the back of the chimney and out the little cave. Super tight!
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Dom 24.º Oct 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
1
13
35m
2
15
30m
3
13
30m
| 95m | |||||
Jue 7.º Oct 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Stephen Roche | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
a thrutch a day keeps the doctor away ❤️
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Dom 22.º Ag 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
Sarah McVicker
| 95m | |||||
Mar 20.º Jul 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Lun 31.º Mayo 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
1
13
35m
2
15
30m
3
13
30m
| 95m | ★★ Muy buena | ||||
Dom 30.º Mayo 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
Cait
1
13
35m
2
15
30m
3
13
30m
| 95m | |||||
Fun adventure climbing, number 5 is recommended for the second pitch.
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Dom 18.º Abr 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Rollacoasta | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
enjoyable outing on a rest day. Start to piton on pitch 3 is a bouldery move grade 18.
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Sáb 27.º Feb 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★ Muy buena | ||||
A very nice climb, but beware. The first pitch is loose and runout, with a terrifyingly loose car sized block on top of the fin.
The second pitch needs some off width skills and the top is powerful for the grade.
May be best to be very solid at the grade for this one.
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Lun 15.º Feb 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
1
13
35m
2
15
30m
3
13
30m
| 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Heaps of fun. Took the direct (left) P1 which has plenty of gear although not amazing rock. P2 took some tries to find the offwidth sequence, I liked have a #5 and 6, though you could skip one or the other if you trust the carrot. After all the hype I expected the P3 squeeze section to be longer, but then again it was probably the longest metre of climbing in my life
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Mié 2.º Dic 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Jack and Amanda | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Great climb, nice to have another lap.
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Mar 24.º Nov 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Dani Hess, Josiah Hess | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Very different climbing styles on each pitch. My first offwidth and chimney... and in pouring rain!!
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Sáb 21.º Nov 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Josiah Hess, Julia Lloyd-Smith | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Dani Hess, Julia Lloyd-Smith | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Super varied climb! The rain definitely made it interesting.
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Dom 27.º Sep 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Mié 5.º Ag 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
A fun outing with two mates.
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Dom 2.º Ag 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
1
13
35m
2
15
30m
3
13
30m
| 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Lun 6.º Jul 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Megaclásica | ||||
Vie 3.º Jul 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Oliver | 95m | ★★ Muy buena | ||||
Narrow neck is a wasteland after bushfires, but at least it meant that we didn't get lost on the approach. For future reference, the 'Cave Climb' rap anchors are at (-33.732197, 150.282879).
P1: We weren't sure how to start this, so Ollie started in the back behind the smaller block, then went up past the carrot on the wall. Despite it being a nice sunny day, I got cold standing around in this cave while Ollie tried in vein to protect the unprotectable run-outs. When I finally started climbing the first chockstone I pulled on in the gap between the blocks came straight out... oops I followed Ollie's line which involved an airy step from the wall to the big block, with some added faffing to protect against a potential pendulum. Top of P1 has fixed hangers & one very rusty biner. P2: Was psyched to try some offwidth technique, but this ground to a halt at the crux (carrot a few metres up offwidth). The crack was too narrow to heel-toe, too wide for fist stacks, and certainly didn't let me switch hips easily while wearing a double-rack, #6 and a backpack. ..but I did get a good knee-lock in. Too good in fact, because I got stuck after using it to move up to the slopey holds on the left. Put the #6 to good use here and rested on the rope while I got my leg out. With my leg out I threw in a hands-stack and stepped up to the good jugs on the left, woohoo. Got to another wide but easy section above, and decided I wanted the #6 back. Alas, I was only able to over-cam it some more, and had to put up with the run out. The bolts on the ledge were inconvenient to top-belay from, so I made a redirect more directly above the crack with 2x#.75 (a #1 would have been better though). P3: moves at the start were rad; it definitely still goes on good crimps with some footwork and tech, but more like 18 than 13. Climbing the chimney was unpleasant: the strong winds blew all the lichen and dirt straight up. Wearing the backpack, I got "squeezed out" of the chimney and had to move to the opening when it narrowed (fortunately could still clean the gear inside). Gear: double rack + #6 (a #5 would be better) - missing #1 |
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Jue 14.º Nov 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | |||||
Dom 27.º Oct 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con chris cole | 95m | ★★★ Megaclásica | ||||
What a sandbag. Nearly the best climb ive done in the boueys to date though. Goad there was a bolt on the second pitch as i down climbed 5times trying offwidth beta.
Bad news on the boulder problem on start of pitch three, my second reckons he ripped off a crucial hold (the pocket at the lip) and had to jug the first moves.
Such a good way to finish up a trip in the blueys. Very rewarding climb. Also best access via ladders, added some fun to the outing. |
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Mié 25.º Sep 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con shaun, dave, chris | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Fun day out showing off some historic blueys trad in perfect weather. Dave complained about the squeeze chimney on pitch 3 but deep down I’m sure he was having fun.
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Sáb 24.º Ag 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Jeffrey Kwan | 95m | ★★ Muy buena | ||||
Tried to lead the first and third pitch but ended up overshooting and going halfway up the second . Really solid climbing
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Dom 16.º Jun 2019 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Megaclásica | ||||
Absolute must do! Really cool positions, exposure and a very interesting chimney pitch to finish it all off. Probably my favourite multipitch to date. The climbing is very stiff for the grade,in particular the boulder problem at the start of the 3rd pitch which is probably V2 with risk of a ledge fall. Definitely recommend youbring a no 5 or 6 cam, I only had 4s and so there was a big runout on the offwidth pitch.
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Sáb 10.º Nov 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
17 15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Greg Blachon | 95m | ★ Buena | ||||
17 15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★ Buena | ||||
Sáb 15.º Sep 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
Ian
1
13
35m
2
15
30m
3
13
30m
| 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Windy day but felt sheltered. The start of pitch 3 felt more challenging than it should have done
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Dom 2.º Sep 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Tim M-S | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
An old school classic. Approach it from that perspective and it’s fun. Handy to have a no.5 Camelot in the off width. Stay on the outside of the chimney as per usual.
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Vie 24.º Ag 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Stew Hayes | 95m | |||||
Dom 5.º Ag 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | |||||
Lovely adventurous experience. Worthy of the tick list.
A carrot on the off width at the start of pitch 2 means a #5 isnt really necessary atm. Pitch 3 has u bolt anchors. Pitch 2 has an offset anchor, not sure what its for, maybe belaying for the next pitch or an escape plan? It wasnt useful for top belaying pitch 2. |
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Dom 15.º Jul 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Narissa | 95m | ★★★ Megaclásica | ||||
Great day out. Warm in the sun, cold in the breezy chimney.
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Sáb 23.º Jun 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Scott Bishop | 95m | ★ Buena | ||||
Great climb! loved seconding on chimney section
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15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con ChrisO | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Super fun morning confirming my lack of offwidth skills in the sunshine. That chimney is ridiculous. Deadset giggling the whole way through the top pitch
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Lun 4.º Jun 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
Blake Hawkins
1
15
95m
2
3
| 95m | ★★ Muy buena | ||||
Vie 1.º Jun 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
Jason Nguyen
| 95m | ★★ Muy buena | ||||
Repeat today to assist with improving Jason's trad classics tick list. Still super fun but not as good as remembered. Squeeze is rad.
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15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
Will Vidler
| 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
A doddle up with not that much gear. Don't try and climb behind the flake to get to the ledge. Made my first (really bad) trad anchor! Crux pitch, minimal jamming / laybacking required! The start was absolute nails at the grade; I couldn't stop laughing to myself about the squeeze chimney, I had so much fun! Loved it. |
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Dom 27.º Mayo 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
Ryan Tranter
1
15
95m
2
3
| 95m | ★ Buena | ||||
Ah narrow neck grading, only here will you find a boulder problem to start a grade 13 pitch. Lead first and last pitch. Heads up....don’t go too far back in the chimney...you will get stuck
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15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★ Buena | ||||
If this is the sort of thing you like, then you will love this!
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Sáb 26.º Mayo 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Nikhilesh Sharma, Marty Doolan | 95m | |||||
course day 13
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15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Harry Hill, Marty Doolan | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Harry's mega effort on this mega climb carrying mega cams (#5, #6) 'for the fun of it of course'.
Some mega runouts on P1 (not so bad actually). Piece of advice from our mega sensei for this pitch was "whenever you find a placement put mega two pieces in". P2: Mega corner, mega stemming, mega crux, mega movement, mega views, one loose mega block (don't pull on it unless your belayer is a mega pain in the A). P3: Mega pull up first move to set the seen for the mega chimney (you can use a mega stick to stick clip the mega piton if you are in mega luck of finding that mega stick), followed by mega tight chimney, mega grunts from leaders and followers and then topout to some mega achievement in your list of how much you like mega adventure climbing. If you wanna know the mega story of the mega helmet that took a mega flight, keep wondering. |
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Lun 12.º Mar 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Jacob Tarasenko | 95m | |||||
we went off route for this. instead of climbing the giant pillar we went up on the face to the right of it. this led to a very run out pitch of about 35m. we came to a ledge with two old bash in carrots. and after scoping out the corner past the arete, we chose to bail as it looked like we needed quite big gear which we didn't have. probably a BD 5 or 6. first time backing off a route so was a good lesson to learn, will definitely come back. the rest of the climb looks epic!
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Mar 2.º En 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★ Buena | ||||
Sáb 30.º Dic 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | |||||
Really fun varied climbing, from face to corner to chimney. Led pitches 1,3
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Dom 22.º Oct 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Mar 26.º Sep 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Megaclásica | ||||
Jue 27.º Jul 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con brian, chris | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Nice Blueys crimping
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Sáb 22.º Jul 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
Keith Davison, Daniel D
1
escalada de primero por
Daniel
2
escalada de primero por
Daniel
3
escalada de primero por
Daniel
| 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Cool climb. A bit pumpy.
1st pitch:there's a lot of bushes so got dirt in the eyes. There's an off width section. I kinda of chimney that.
2nd pitch: I found it fairly pumpy and reachy.
3rd pitch: beginning of 3rd, the anchors are on the far left of the ledge. Bit of a bouldering start. Have to pull up. Start of the chimney is narrow so it will take sometime to wiggle through but it widens out and it's fine after that.
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Vie 21.º Jul 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
Keith Davison
1
escalada de primero por
myself
2
escalada de primero por
myself
3
escalada de primero por
myself
| 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Pitch 1: Cool big block at the top.
Pitch 2: Contains an offwidth section. I have zero offwidth skills so opted to stem most of it. Pitch 3: Very stiff first move (bouldery). Doing this pitch with only head torch light made it even more challenging. Chimney finish (*Warning: super tight and I'm very skinny! My helmet got stuck). |
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15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Daniel D, Charity Maj | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Jue 15.º Jun 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Will Vidler | 95m | ★★★ Megaclásica | ||||
pretty wicked varied climbing! so much good pro on all the pitches and the tight chimney certainly makes it more of an engaging experience
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15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Harry Kadi | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
led first and third pitches - my climbing shoes were left at the top and i can testify that it is an exciting route in school shoes - led mostly on nuts which was rad (including belays) - skipped legal studies to do this climb which my legal studies teacher ironically recommended to me!
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Mié 19.º Abr 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Greer Knight, Max | 95m | ★ Buena | ||||
great climb, slow due to party size. start of the 3rd pitch is a bit hard for the grade. Greers first trad multi!
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Vie 14.º Abr 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Sam Clark | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
3rd pitch is the money, awesome tight chimney with great gear!
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Sáb 1.º Abr 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Match, Max | 95m | ★ Buena | ||||
Fun climb with great people, beautiful day for it! Definitely a sandbag, start of third pitch pretty difficult. My first multi-pitch/trad!!
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Vie 10.º Feb 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Megaclásica | ||||
Wow! The third pitch is just spectacular. Be warned, the first move is quite hard if you aren't 6ft and in possession of grasshopper legs. First pitch is only memorable for the runouts as you climb over recently broken holds. A fantastic knee jam will get you through the crux on the second pitch. Big gear is unnecessary, there is a bolt to protect the second pitch, and there is surprisingly good gear in the chimney. An incredible morning out (even if it was in 40 degree heat).
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Mié 28.º Sep 2016 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | |||||
Lun 11.º Abr 2016 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★ Muy buena | ||||
Dom 21.º Feb 2016 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con julia viertel | 95m | ★★ Muy buena | ||||
good to see julia' progressing on trad, her first proper lead
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Mié 13.º En 2016 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Andrew Harward | 95m | ★ Buena | ||||
Mié 30.º Dic 2015 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 |
★★★ Fuddy Duddy
- con
Carsten, Emma
1
escalada de primero por
Andrew
2
escalada de primero por
Carsten
3
escalada de primero por
Carsten
| 95m | ★★★ Megaclásica | ||||
Sáb 3.º Oct 2015 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Dom 16.º Ag 2015 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | |||||
Sáb 1.º Ag 2015 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | |||||
Sáb 30.º Mayo 2015 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con Andrew Stevenson | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
Great old school trad climbing with 3 varied pitches, a bit of everything
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Dom 1.º Mar 2015 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy - con liam | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
First outdoor climb, great experience. Needed a couple of assists on the 2nd pitch. Keen to go back for another shot!
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15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
The 2nd and 3rd pitch are sweet. There are 2 carrot bolts so take some plates with you.
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Sáb 8.º Feb 2014 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★ Muy buena | ||||
I didn't think I was that fat !
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Mar 21.º En 2014 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Katoomba Area Narrow Neck Narrow Neck Crags Southern Crag | |||||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Clásico | ||||
15 | ★★★ Fuddy Duddy | 95m | ★★★ Clásico |