Ascensioni in Cape Raoul che possiede trad-cpr o ascent-date

Fun route up through the chimney.

What a day! Slept under the stars at the lookout the night before. Rapping at 6:15. Route finding all went well. Didn't feel like we were slow, but must have been as we didn't get back to the packs at the top of the rap gully till about 10:15. Trudged back to the car because of forecast rain. Said rain did arrive, so ended up driving back to Hobart as well. Mega day!

Stegasaurus was nowhere near 55m the way we did it. Maybe because we skirted around a couple of pillars to find the "squeeze through to the big spike" bit. Worked well. Chimneys were ok and protectable with slings. Especially if you're tall enough to reach the first spike before comitting to the step across.

Little Jaycar walky talkies were super helpful. No problems with comms all day.

Really good pitch in a great position. Found it on point for the grade, and good pro. Probably felt a little harder due to backpack etc. Initial split is way bigger than fist sized, but can be protected with small cams on the left face. I used a full double rack on this pitch, but am a wus.

Nice pitch. Straight into it though with some gravelly dolerite face holds.

Mega classic! Proud dog for me. Took a stick clip and clipped 3 bolts through the lower half to keep things moving. Still really pleased to have made it to the top. Just an amazing place to find yourself.

Stegosaurus pitch is pretty wild!

Unreal movement in a great location, so stoked to get this one first go

Stegosaurus pitch was great and protects okay with some slings. Depending on provider you can call/text to communicate between belays

Close but not this time, what a beautiful Magic place ✨

Tougher than expected but manageable through the right chimney and good crack and holds in left side. I was slow on this one. Need to get up this in <45 min. Took us about 3h20 to climb this and get back to the top of start rap near main trail.

Walked then belayed on scramble to rap bolts. Better to go unroped and carefully for time. Rapped down and walked to cairns. Short break as we had taken 5hr from the start of the first rappel to here. Lost here for 2 hr unsure where the stegosaurus pitch started. The crag description that I didn't read is much more helpful than the guidebook here. Eventually realised the correct way was through squeeze corridor up to very exposed easy terrain. Decided to turn back as time had run out.

Very cool to look at the ocean through the pillar but I was terrified going up this with a single rack. Got some great offset nuts in but the exposure got to me and it became a long slow slog. Took way too long. I think you need to do these two pitches in <1.5 hr. Good idea to leave some water and food at the base for your return.

Surprisingly not that terrifying.

Super Chill approach , soft for the grade , one star ⭐️

Second half of the climb is great. First half probably would have felt better if Rina hadn't nearly slipped and possibly zipped a 0.2 to her death.

It's just scrambling and walking and a bit of abseiling but the views and experience were just amazing. If this was a hike it would be up there with the best of them.

I didn't realise (though in hindsight it's obvious) that we needed to stay high up on the spine of the Wedding Cake and ended up having to backtrack after going too low. This cost us a lot of time faffing around with ropes and anchors and traversing around.

In the future, I think I'd only rope up for the downclimbs, and everything else we'll just crawl across carefully. You can't spend too much time up here because the whole trip takes so long as it is.

We had already decided to call it a day because it was 1PM by the time we found the rap bolts on the other side, but we abseiled down anyway just to see where we would go next time.

I don't recommend taking a backpack, I regretted it the whole trip. Next time we're just taking the rope bag, snacks, camelbak, and some first aid/emergency blankets. The packs can stay at the top of the descent gulley and wait.

By the way, how on Earth can this only have two stars? Have people been doing this blindfolded?

Nearly slipped out of the crack catastrophically about 10m up but got it done.