Ascensions de Remains Of The Day comme Tick

Felt like just another QLD run out climb. Fun.

Thwarted again! Had to bail on the 4th pitch due to the water still dripping out of the rock making things too slick to climb. Bummed.

Had to bail after two pitches because the rain was heading our way.

First pitch as a sport route.

Climbing was pretty good, position and scenery were great. The falcon was chilling about 10m from us watching while James climbed the last pitch! Second pitch had the best climbing.

Just did the 1st pitch for a bit of fun.

A great route. The sport parts are challenging and thought provoking for the grade, the trad parts are easy.

Came to climb Patience Crack but it was a waterfall, so we did this one. Interesting to note how efficient it was climbing this route with a 70m rope and 3 people by putting the second climber in an alpine butterfly.. 3 pitches only just short enough to pull it off. Second pitch was quite nice, although some of the holds were weakened by recent rain.. chimney and crack on the 3rd pretty cool too! 4th pitch was low-key hard (me and robbie both slipped so lucky steve led this one ) Lost the line of bolts and could only make 1 piece of gear work in the 5th pitch so that was abit deathy. Good intro into the art of route-finding and placing gear without the option of a frog splitter crack. I did both poorly . Highlights of the day included the sunset rap, robbie coming all the way out just to get from paddington to windsor for his car, the steaming gris gris discussed during the car podcast actually happening to steve on the descent, being off the boys for captioning my photo 'handsome jack' as if it wasnt already obvious.. some good laffs

Bailed after the third pitch because it starting raining. Will return to complete.

Bailed on the last pitch because the Tibro Pterodactyls were nesting about 20m off to the left and started to look a bit stressed

P1-p2-p4

Almost didn't make it up the first pitch seconding (how embarassing), ended up having to take off the gear bag and haul it up behind me. Turns out we climbed the wrong first pitch (I think we may have been on First Contact) which made for some interesting route finding to get back on track. Some really fun climbing after that with great variety and some decent exposure. Pitch 4 and 5 are standouts. Props to my partner for his patience on the first pitch, and leading the rest after my arms prematurely gave out.

Mel put the draws up. OJ's rope.

Simulclimbed after bailing off the major crackline to the left - chossiest rock on Tibro! But me a rap-in job.

Simuling this was fun! Yarded off every bolt on second to keep up with Kyle hahaha.

Super fun day out, didn't get to finish the climb as it was going to get dark and the 5th pitch wasn't that inspiring anyway. Nice to be out with the ladies with two parties on the multi, it definitely took a bit longer than it should have with some route finding fun and belay sharing but we all had fun and got to do some fun adventurous climbing. I don't think I used much gear on the 3rd pitch and the crux of it was bolted.

Having experienced the brutality of Tibro summer sun exposure on this exact route 2 years ago, I proposed an afternoon ascent with our party of 4. I gave us a 15% chance of rapping in the dark - pack your head torches, ladies. I painted a romantic picture of shaded, breezy climbing, engaging but well protected moves, victory Arnotts Shapes in the summit caves and a possible rap under twinkling stars.

The plan was for me to go first and link pitches 1 & 2 to avoid congestion at the belays. But, like a moron, I charged off up P2 of Phoenix, belayed Jelena up and then started up Phoenix's 3rd pitch. I think I must have been semi-conscious during the previous ascent and the heat had affected by ability to retain wayfinding information. Being pregnant wouldn't have helped either...

Anyway, it took up while to work out what the hell we were climbing, reorganise ourselves and get back on route, by which time we were joined by a third pair of climbers.

Unfortunately my mistake cost us a lot of time and caused a fair bit of congestion/waiting around at belays. It became apparent that we weren't going to be able to finish the climb but I encouraged Jelena to lead pitch 3, which she completed with outstanding grit in face of the daunting moves off the belay.

Despite the Shapes having to be consumed in the car not the summit cave, we had a wonderful afternoon adventuring together. And sure enough, we were still on the mountain rapping down in the dark. The full Tibro experience!

A bit sketch, lots of lichen. Slipped halfway up the fourth pitch and sprained my ankle hitting the little ledge, so called it a day.

Me and my friend climbed up to pitch 3 anchors today and cut the old rusty mallions off that a few people mentioned they were worried about and replaced them with new stainless ones .

Pitch 4 definitely brings the spice

Completed the climb, fist three pitches were definitely the best. Top two pitches were quite slabby and a bit mossy, complete with a couple of tenuous looking blocks which need to be used if you want climb at the grade.

Great climb! Fourth pitch felt spicier than the first pitch though. Third pitch only had a few placements in some easier terrain, and fifth pitch took gear straight off the belay for around the first 10m. Dans’ first lead on gear, and was a pretty good intro for him.

As at mid Feb, shade comes over at about midday, starting from the lower pitches. Do yourself a favour and climb this in winter or after lunch! We started climbing at 7:45am and were back on the ground about 12:30pm, using 2 x 60m ropes. It was hot.

This was a good adventure. P1 Pretty tricky. Fell off seconding on the first real moves. P2 fine climbing once on route except you really ought to go straight up the easy blocky wall to the V high hanger. Don't traverse right and have to up and down climb half of Phoenix (most of which is disintegrating). Remainder of pitches were pleasant climbing on just-out-of-reach bolts and gear.