등정들 Robin's Buttress에서

pitch one only

Split the first into two pitches to share the lead. The most ridiculous hand crack on the first. Then a surprising amount of face-ish bridging on the second.

Amazing. Stoked to get the onsight having left this alone for years as I didn't feel ready.

Absolutely amazing route - a real unrelenting journey; a bit chossy at the top - the full Ben Lomond experience.

Ascents don't come much better than this. Really gave it some beans and scraped through to the half way rest where it backs off significantly to a beautiful splitter hand crack to the top. So fun!!

Very good climbing, would be a classic at anyother crag. So flowy and beautiful

A great little test piece. Would be a classic at any other crag.

hard and awesome

Awesome

With Graham. 1st pitch only (the hard one), then rapped because we were running out of daylight. Accessed by top roping the rigudon offwidth from the chains on Ramadan. Just barely managed the onsight. I had to fight for this one! Intricate sequences of fingerlocks and pulling on rattly faceholds. We had an incredible sunset on the walk out.

Oh this was so good. So many #1's. Best thin-hands crack I've climbed outside of Indian Creek. Borrow some cams and get on this.

Awesome, took absolutely everything out of me, and was trying not to vomit at the belay. Started in the wrong crack, with wet, slimy crap for 5m, but the main crack is amazing. Most of the crack is super thin hands, with a couple of decent rests, and feet to the R of the crack. Would be have been more comfortable with 4 #1 and 3 #0.75 cams.

Day 1 of ben long weekend with claire and guy. Everyone had a good climb on this bad boy. We were entertained at the start by darren rolling up like a tornado in purple flared pants and soloing the gr 18 offwidth first pitch of defender as a committed (very) layback. Rope around shoulder, climbing partner still putting his bags down. He even had a footslip. Id not like to be the one carrying him back to car villa. Returned to ramadan to confirm its still hard and we can confirm it. Not as fucked as it felt last year with better techas but still abit red hot for 19. Great to be back in splitter heaven

My most relaxed route on the Ben, I had such a good time, nice and steep with a good amount of cheater holds.

Had some funny rope shenanigans at the start and end of the climb.

with Lorna. How good is this route!!!!

Would be Mega classic if it were a bit cleaner and less vegetated (though even that is quite minimal). Now THIS was a fight. Amazing, varied climbing over 45m, interrupted briefly by the ability to step right onto thr Barbe Di belay ledge for a break. Laybacking, stemming, fingerlocks, ringlocks, v-groove chimneying and weird houdini maneuvers. Made scary by very hard to place gear in the upper half due to the weird double-seam inside the crack. Strenuous and tenuous. I was completely thrashed!

The resident wedgie was cruising around while we were racking up, which seemed like a good omen. Technically not really an onsight, but I'm going to claim it anyway. Climbed the first few metres and found the crack dripping wet and freezing cold so I backed off to warm up my numb fingers and wait for the sun to come around. Second go - crack still dripping wet but a bit less freezing. All clean with the rope still through the first three or four runners. It turned into an epic battle against the pump in the last ten or fifteen metres. Grant led the second pitch, which as second pitches on this buttress go is a really good one. There were still a few patches of snow on the ground at the top from the dump two days beforehand.

Mega

Insane

What a route! Full value, good and sometimes tricky gear, made you work for the glory.

Stiff. Thankful Aine's red nut was fused half way up, was a perfectly positioned bolt substitute.

Anywhere else this would be a great route but is probably no stars for Ben Lomond

Ripper! What fun, only did the first pitch though.

Absolutely mega. Full body pump with crazy karate kicks out to the left face for intense stemming rests. The most incredible glory handjams at the top almost made me cry. Just pitch one

So good, required just the right amount of fight. Pitch one only.

Offwidth chimney start isn't as bad as it looks

Onsight all 3 pitches. Utterly hideous offwidth P1 (I solo'd 1/3rd the way up it before getting scared and getting a side-runner in Ramadan to protect it and continue up -I couldnt have gotten pro in the offwidth until gaining the chimney proper at 2/3rds height). P2 is an enjoyable marathon of laybacking and stemming on spaced gear, with the usual Ben Lomond Shale-rock junk in the last 15m to ruin the experience. P3 is a brief jam-crack ramble on okay rock.

Skipped deathy first pitch.

Onsight for the mega second pitch. We skipped the offwidth by rapping in. Had about three metres of rope left at the top of the pitch. Great climbing, easier than Ramadan. Lots of great stances mean it never gets too strenuous.