Ascensões em Australia como Red point or First free ascent

2 or 3 cruxy moves, one blind dyno makes this one a really good line

warmup

Finally redpointed it! Yay

time to red point it, after all these years

Quick morning burn to introduce Chip to seqld climbing. Ran into the Roma St swift water crew on the way up who swiftly began sledging Chip about his choice of footwear (cowboy boots).

Hugely surprising, managed to send this today without the draws on, such a great climb!

Four kids under nine. Lennys first belay.

Converted into a sports climb by top rope soloing (2 sessions) to figure out every inch(move and gear).

The climb can be divided into the following sections:

1. The silicon dump: First 8 meters of complete shit. I support the setting up of a gofundme page to gather the $ to have rungs installed.

2. Jenny Craig's endless warmup: Next 20m until the little rooflet. Pretty good climbing to get the blood following for what's about to come. This section does have one hard exit move which involves 'mingin'. The section name is inspired by Jenny Craig's Endless Pitch in Moonaire, if you are into face climbing trad routes (which Grasshopper falls in the category of) Jenny Craig has you covered out in the big red.

3. Darn Tootin pulling: The crux of the route following the little roof. I speak for the sages that have come off here in the past: Sort your gear out, "Bloody darn tootin". Sort your feet out, "Frickin darn tootin". If (!sorted) { You are going to come off, "Goddamn darn tootin"; }

4. Michael Law's techy moves section: If you have seen the photos then you know. Technical face interspersed with good rests to place gear. Style points if you twist lock like in one of the photos.

5. The cave of timiditas: Rest up, place some good small wires (recommended: make a nest), tictactoe on your feet and snatch the jug like a Grasshopper hopping.

PS When you topout remember this mind blowing fact, "A grasshopper can jump 30 inches. If you could jump that many times your body length, you could cover an entire football field in a single bound."

PSS Blessed and truly brave are thee who go ground up on this stuff.

First climb at porters since 2022 - so good to be back !

COVID positive send

A great harder warmp-up! I used the LH sidepull and undercling + a Right heel to get through the crux.