Ascensions dans The Cathedral

Repeat, just as fun as I remembered

Weird that the start crux is meant to be the harder of the two, definitely find it to be the opposite.

Dry fired on the second crux and took a huge fall with a super soft catch. Ended up next to my belayer, Anton Korsun .

Awesome fun. I was really hesitant to do it on lead but I'm glad I did. The runouts look bad until you get wedged in the chimney then it's totally fine.

Went for a flash attempt, got the beta wrong coming out of the halfway rest.

FFA. Cheers for cleaning this one Tom Bes! Unfortunately it gathers run-off so I pretty much had to reclean the entire crux while humourously grovelling up and down the mantle 😅

This was like doing drugs for the first time: didn’t know what the hell to expect beforehand, kinda scared while up there, felt like throwing up half way, but overall a wildly fun ride. Will do more crack in the future.

Awesome slab climbing. Very cool moves.

Hard new style for me!

Can't figure out the first move.

NOPE!

Old-school style. Don't ever attempt it to save the onsight for when I'm strong enough. Is it an onsight if you belayed someone up it a year or two ago? And asked maybe one question about it before hand? My belayer thinks not. A pink-sight? Anyway, works really well as a hand Jam crack on gear for the first half. Second part was a breeze comparatively.

About 2 years ago, and on maybe my 3rd climb outdoors, I tried this and had my first (but not last) major panic on a route. Somewhere in the seemingly endless spaces around the 4th bolt. I managed to calm myself down, get out of the chimney, but then it started to rain, I forgot bolt plates, and I bailed only a few metres from the anchors. I have since visited this crag more than any other but have refused to give it another go. Not today internet! It was still full of very hollow sounding, flexing flakes, pure friction moves and a big distance between bolts. But my head game was up to it this time.

Smackdown

the hot crack summer train keeps on rolling

bringing up the caboose for the one and only Mr. Buns on his long overdue grudge match

the saga continues... but strangely progress was made? well i at least now know what not to do

as pure as crack climbing gets in sydney

ringing in the new year with merlin and heel-toe-Tom - wouldn't have it any other way

The thin bottom half is really fun. I just can't get through that buldge. Gonna change it to an open project if anyone cares to give it ago. Try it if you are good with thin hand sizes or have thin hands.

The big #8 Merlin cam could have been made just for this climb. I backed it up with a big bro and used a #2 at the top but could of just done it bumping that 1 cam. Felt 3 grades easier than when I tried it a few weeks ago. The dream of greenpointing these big cracks has begun. Watch the bumping action in 15x speed here .

That metre and a half of bomber hand jams is glorious. Some rattly fists above and below. Crux for me is stepping in to the start.

Twice I think. Can only do the crux moves individually but maybe forgot how to climb slab a little bit

1.5x, if ever send this I will have officially learnt how to fist jam. With the right hand anyway. The left hand can learn on its own time, maybe never. Never would be fine with me. It’s a shame the upper part of this climb is quite enjoyable but I deeply resent the crux at this point!

Hateful lichenous slab

Good moves, would be reachy to redpoint

Reachy, hurtful, humid and frequented by mosquitoes