Ascensions dans New South Wales and ACT comme croix de types variés par Chris Kinny

Not great.

First pitch is easy/pleasant/clean. Pitch 2 & 3 aren't great. Bit dirty.

Do this if you want to practise fist-jamming. It's perfect!

Great! Has it all: tricky mantle, balancey slab-moves, steepening climax! Very tasty!

Fun climb. Quite atmospheric.

Great position above the boiling sea!

Start is a little hard for 18, but really fizzles out quickly.

Excellent! Very enjoyable & cruisy. Spaced pro down low, but comfortable anyway.

Very nice, with plenty of solid pro.

Fun. Should have led it.

A bit tough for 20.

Very nice! A bit loose and sharp in places, but very cruisy.

Very enjoyable! Good variety moves!

Not bad. Not great either.

Crappy start but a nice journey up top half. Exposed, but full of 'Gym-Jugs'.

Nice position. Pleasant climbing.

Cool climb in a superb position! Well protected.

Easy warmup to steady the nerves!

Awesome! Led 1st, 3rd, 4th pitch. Tom lead 2nd. Thought 4th pitch was hardest. Really exposed climb! Walk-in is a bitch.

Quite delicate. Entertaining.

Lots of fun! Not too hard for the grade either!

Super climb! Did in in 2 pitches, purely because I wanted my medium cams retrieved. Swallows a lot of medium gear. The small roof is ... exciting!

Seconded after Tom. Pretty thin down low. Not very interesting.

Convenient warm-up. Pretty thin up top.

It's Nowra. Quite nice.

Took a surprise upside-down leader fall and almost landed head-first on a ledge, so too shaken to lead again. Got it clean on second though! Fun climb. Pretty tough for 21.

Exit route.

Thin and interesting start. Juggy and boring finish.

Ordinary. Climbed in hiking-boots for practice. Bulge is nice ...

More hiking-boot practice.

Pretty good! Exciting top section.

Wow! Cool climb! Went off course and blew the onsight. Got it second go. Really interesting and exciting climbing!

Good climb with exciting and strenuous move over bulge.

Probably the best on the South Face. Quite an interesting & varied adventure with exciting traverse high on pitch 3!

This is an easy classic! Very interesting all the way up, well protected - a comfy lead!

Hasder than "Cheesy" in my book, and not as fun.

Good for a warm-up. Don't remember much about it - probably a bit boring ...

Pretty darn easy! First dyno is basic, and it's all jugs. Soft tick.

Did it as a climb-out in single pitch with packs. LOADS of rope drag = sore legs. If a sport climb, very run-out, but easy.

Very few bolts, and not much natural pro if any. Kept wandering onto this while doing H.P. I'll count the tick anyway!

25/4/03 - My new project! Today was practise. 31/5/03 - Got it second try today! Hardest clean lead to date! Opened up a decent flapper on it!

25/12/02 - First second on trad gear. Wish I led it, but would probably be too scared. 24/5/03 - Planned to go round to Flake Crack, but couldn't go past this thing! Truly an awesome line! Totally enjoyable! First 'real' trad lead ( > grade 14!!)

Good for getting trad practice. Worth doing...

Pretty damn nice! Gets a "classic" because of excellent exposure, interesting climbing, and good protection. However, it is NOT a 22, crux is maybe a 21 if that (especially since I did it with frozen fingers and still did it quite easily.)

Meant to be the warm-up for the day, but was surprisingly technical for a 19. Cold weather made things difficult.

Quite true to it's grade. Has some tricky little moves, and is more sustained than anything I've done at Barden's, but alas it is still a soft tick.

Graded 21 in Pircher/Carter's latest, and I agree with that grading. A very nice climb, with the crux down.

Junk! Basically 2 mantles and a simple jug-haul to the top. Didn't help that the rain made the route into a waterfall!

Great rock, great exposure, great climb. Nervous crux high and run-out. Awesome!