Ascensões em Big Top

Top rope aid. Did most of the easy moves, left the hard stuff for someone else.

Just the one TRS lap. Very technical slabbing. More arete-y than I expected. Rock is a mixed bag of quality.

Did all the moves (with lots of falls) to the last bolt, and I think I could link this much on lead within a sesh or two...

But I never made any upwards progress in the 1.5m from the last bolt to the anchor, and didn't really have an idea for how to do it at the grade.

Getting there. Rad movements and holds. Shame it's a bit sandy.

it would be a classic if it weren't for the pre first draw section, gentle overhang with really good movement and body tension moves

Needs a bit of a scrub. Tecky crimp fest. Keen to work out the first few metres. Most of the rest goes.

Sick sick climb. Worked out all the moves bar those below the first draw. Gently overhanging with some very tensiony moves on crimps and very high feet. Keen to come back

Stoked with this! Incredibly sustained for such a short route.

need more time on the moonboard (and a little more skin couldn't hurt) managed all but the first sequence keen to put some more time into this one!

This thing is fuaken spectacular. One hang doneso, maybe can do it?

Fell on the last hard move sheeeeeeet.

Agonisingly close. Jared came in hot with a good beta suggestion from behind the camera which made a huge difference, tried it on the 4th burn and nearly got it but just a smidge too fried. Next time

Managed to squeeze another sesh in but day 3 and fatigued. Still managed very close attempt so given how zooted I was that’s promising

Falling on the last hard move again, rock was insanely close today though was fully numbing out

Fuaken punted at the anchors

Just the one exploratory lap.

Some cool moves, but probably the most contrived bolted route I've ever been on, and hardly aesthetically inspiring. The rock is also rather soft (and probably not destined for long term survival).

Only the start move gave me any real grief (that is; once I'd figured out how I'd attack the upper crux). If I came back, and can sort the start, I think I could do this next visit

fuak me fell at the anchors again. Found a lil rest after the cruxy bit after though, so fingers crossed for next time.

Fucken get in

Beta intense face climb

Aesthetic line

It's not hard to ignore the obvious crack feature o the left

Moves go easy but the send isn't a gimme

About as good as a 10m face can get. Really rad moves

Classic technical number, 2nd shot

Not worth it, bolts have not been placed deep enough and some are rusty. Only made it to just matt to before backing off. Rock is also super soft and constantly kept snapping holds off. Surprised it was bolted at all. Bring belayer up to belay ledge after second bolt if you're going to do it at all

Pretty happy with the onsight effort. Onsighted to the 2nd last bolt, then broke a footer off while doing the move correctly. Then had no real issues to the top despite having all the wrong gear to make it exciting (though I did practice the move at the top bolt after I clipped it). Kinda dirty, but the climbing is a burly old-school shoulder-workout, with a strenuous move to turn the arete and get established above the roof. The crack itself is 21/22 and non-trivial to say the least.

Fun stuff! Some messiness between the anchors and the roof but overall really interesting, burly movement. The upper crack is pretty enjoyable too. Good work Josh Mackenzie and thanks for cleaning it up and making it climbable!

Climbed to the third bolt (with chain) above the anchor of the climb below as I thought it as an anchor and figured I'd get a few more metres of climbing in. Had a rest or two getting there, but made most of the moves. Would be good to come back with some gear to do the whole thing.

2 rests.Did Technical crux clean,and got to ledge for a rest. Then fell at horror show sand traverse. Classic lines aren't sand pits with loose rock breaking off. Tricky/pumpy stepping right out of sand central corner to face again. Good rests up higher, before tricky hold finding finish.

feels like 26!

Brilliant, engaging and sustained climbing pretty much the entire way up this gorgeous red wall. Committing 25 climbing up thin slab. If this is your thing, highly recommended. If not, a little less recommended.

Awesome, old school hard sport slabs. More strenuous cruxes than on 'why the long face?' but less sustained... Still very sustained!

Loved it, you need a focused sharp mind!

Shell I blame myself or my big hole in shoes... perhaps both

Got rained off

The start is desparate. Glued hold broken? After that okay but dirty and no chalk to show the way. Thought the top was run out at my height

Nice for the first 6m, then silt which would clean up, then choss which won't, then friable holds held together with glue.

I've seen less sand at the beach.

Engaging start with poor hard to spot feet (which becomes the enduring theme for the first half), through to first crumbling ledge to good rest at half way point where the feet almost entirely disappear and the rock disintegrates. I wasn't able to convince myself to hold the crumbling holds above the bolt so cheated through to the incredible headwall which was awesome and well worth doing. I managed all but two moves. If the rock was better this would be a classic, closer to the guide grade in my opinion but maybe i was just bricking it with the sand. We removed several souvenir holds (some dangerously close to landing on the belayer) and there are likely more for tourists to these parts to take and treasure....make sure you and everyone at the base wears a helmet.

Could not quite reach through the crux. Managed to work out the other moves on the blank wall. Some fun moves and lockoffs with very small feet. The Muras did not let me down. Could not be fucked with the chossy bubble rock so bailed half way up. Needs a clean.

Hard and committing old style slab climbing. Pretty sustained and with multiple cruxes. It felt harder than 25.

On the first burn I needed gardening gloves, Roundup, and maybe a whipper snipper. I fell out of the first V-groove spitting fern leaves. I think Emil injured himself laughing.

Came off after the last bolt.

I'd been thinking about this route since its intriguing description in the old Pircher guidebook. The enormous bottomless chimney ended up climbing quite differently than you might imagine, requiring a fusion of old-school and new-school techniques. We cleaned it a LOT so it's ready for a flurry of ascents, lol. [3]

One move left to figure out. This thing is wild!