Ascensioni in Yellowwood

Crux pitch has to be up there with the best. A proper trad outing.

Excellent route, better than 3 star in the book. The pitches seem to get better and better. It is an improbable line. The crux pitch gets one thinking. 2nd last pitch has to be one of the best for the grade anywhere. 50m of joy. Highly recommended

Follows a fantastic natural line on bomber rock. Mostly great gear except some delicate moves at the end of p2 with sparse pro. One of the best routes I have done.

Has to be one of the best 19's in the country, Used the Timerity rap.

Getting lost, opening new lines!

16-hour quest AKA your average Tuesday. I think we were a little delirious on the top of the mountain because at one point Coach just started soloing stuff.

Cool historic route. We took a fun alpine approach with a few short roped sections and a rap to get to the start of the climb. Wonder how low down the ridge you could start? Lost time finding Timerity rap. Know Yellowwood a bit better after this long day out on the hill.

The best trad route I have climbed to date. A true mega classic

Sent every pitch, amazing route. Crux maybe more like 29?

to halfway ledge to gain C/W project

A great route in an incredible setting. Finding the beginning of the route is tricky, ended up pitching some exposed scrambling and only started on the route proper at 11 despite leaving the cars much earlier.

Good intro to Yellowwood, felt like a very relaxing day. 1 hour 45 walk in, 5 hours 18 mins on route. Missed the 4.5 to 5 hours target time. Topped out at same time as Lise, Josh and Josh on Divine time and abseiled down together. Hot day, amazing place.

Was like a 10 year anniversary of the first ascent. Still a full on challenge in the heat

Trad

Trad

Take a double rack, I ran out of 17 extenders on one of the 3 x 45m pitches P1 is a warm-up; P2 is serious, ran it out at top, a fall would have been dire, small holds, no time for gear, but slabby. High end climbing some of the best ever. P3 gives you a taste of the proper crack climbing to come. P4 has a wild start, that gives you a mental warmup, further up when you get into the slot it tests your metal!; sandbag pitch, it felt harder than the grade-20 pitches's of 'Roulette'. Prob the best pitch of climbing I have ever climbed to date, very very wild. P5 is the best crack climbing I have ever experienced, long bomber hand jams. Top out in very high mountains, difficult to believe only 1 hr drive from Cape Town.

3rd time lucky.