Ascensões em Booroomba Rocks como Hang dog

Last time I (or possibly anyone) will do this route. After having a few goes on it, I pulled past the second bolt and took a regulation fall. The dogbone of my draw on that bolt had rubbed sufficiently on the rounded edge just below the bolt that when I fell it snapped. The bolt below that then pinged off the wall, and I fell nearly 10 metres. Fortunately I bounced off my heroic belayer's shoulders and slammed into some rocks. This accident could very easily have been a lot worse.

The nature of the bolting on this route lends itself to either the rope or the quickdraws rubbing against the coarse rock. There is no way to protect this route without the potential for large swings that grind your life-saving equipment against jagged edges.

I would suggest taking extreme caution to protect your draws and rope before trying this route. Extending the draws mitigates the rope drag on the edge, but you should also consider a protective material between the dogbone and the rock.

You will also need to replace the first bolt, due to its rapid departure from the wall.

Amazing route - well worth doing on its own if you can find the top of it. Have to say it felt exceptionally sustained for a 15. There's a decent 12 to 15 m section of continuous jamming/laybacking with no rests. I had to bump a few cams and if you told me it was a 17 I'd believe you! Made it about halfway up before resting. The top stays very wet after rain and I basically bellyflopped onto the slick belay ledge for a break. Jason did a sterling job grunting his way up, spurred on by threats of having to rap back down to the bottom and walk out! Starting P2 is also much more challenging after rain. Everything was glassy smooth but somehow neither of us came to grief. Awesome experience and one for the repeat tick list if I ever get stronger.

Insanely good day out! Arrived to find the bottom gate closed, which added an extra 6 km of hiking to our trip but helped burn off those Christmas calories. Crashed about at the top looking for rings and eventually rapped down what turned out to be Nothing Left. First two pitches were immense. Can't be many climbs where you get to jam, layback, bridge and then slab all in the first 40 m! Made a minor error overkeenly reading the topo description and thought I had to climb the thin crack splitting the slab to reach the layback section. Made for a nice bonus pitch coming back down and I'd say is similarish in difficulty. The traverse on P3 was epic and made sure Jason's first multi will be remembered. Pitch 4 is not to be underestimated... The diagonal rightwards crossing of the break is tricky to get on and off, and I couldn't figure out any way to protect it against a ledge fall. In hindsight I'd recommend putting something in on the left before starting out, even though it feels way off line, but I might have missed something. After that it's miles of bush-bashing that had me wondering what was going on, but then I saw P5 and everything made sense! P5 is brilliant - more on that below. The whole thing was very much worth the trek, but in retrospect I'd hesitate taking a beginner up it again, even if they are strong like Jason.

What a line. Need to come back! Kate nailed the OS!

Fun times, thin crux which I need to sort out the feet/stem for. Wild times!

Left a draw on due to a rain storm that appeared mid-send burn. If anyone goes up there, please leave the draw. I'll be back.

Banger, keen to get back to the dog

it's very good

Sweet climbing, although the beginning is absolutely buggered. Everything I touched promptly fell off. Interested to learn why adding bolts to the start was so controversial. You'd have to be doubly hard-as-nails to even think about leading it now.

Top roped. Went the wrong way so missed the 'flash'. Must have been an amazing lead by John Smart. I find it hard to fathom the runout up to the first bolt, but then I am a chicken. Beautiful climb, bit of crack, lot of smeary face.

Lead almost all of it, with a few scary runouts in the rain.

Lead pitch 1 of trachy Matt lead a short pitch 2. I followed, thought "this is easy" and a second later fell. Lead final pitch almost a full 60m as the rain started

Exposed finish to possum. Fell on the scary traverse over but just happy to get across

I am actually really loving cracks now!! This crack was hard but so fun. Thankful I had Dylan to lead and hype me up through the crack! Even got a couple of hand jams - crack addict!!

First time climbing in Canberra!! Dylan led the whole climb and went up a super skinny crack - hard but a good challenge! The run out slab was scary - one day ill lead it but for now was very happy just to be on top rope haha

Pretty cool line with three sections of varying climbing styles. Got through the crux but got pumped and didn't want to take a decent fall on a shitty micro-cam.

Fully psyched to finally try Integral today but foiled by a stiff southwesterly seemingly blowing straight off the Ross Sea... This was a good, interesting and above all warm line. Worked out a more rotator-cuff friendly layback option up the final groove second time around.

Took a while to figure out the crux but it’s not too bad once you know what to do.

Two sits on the rope to get through crux.

Fell at the last move, talking sh@t with Cookie

It’s all coming together

Yeah legit what an adventure. Picture this (dont picture this if youre going for the onsight): you know the anchors above your head somewhere, youre in a little corner on a thin ledge with a roof over your head and a smooth slab to your right. Where do you go? You consider your only other direction. Left. A blank arete. Nothing there. Unless.. you look around the corner and see a flake with a finger crack in the back that goes o the top. A footer appears on the arete that wasnt there before. This crazy escape might yet be possible. Stuff a couple golden rolands into a pin scar and tell yourself itll hold a pendulum, pull around the corner with right toe pinned to stop the barndoor. Finger lock slash gaston left hand bomber. Inhale. Pull right hand around arete, making sure not to hit self in the face, and tip into layback. A sequence as unique as the after the goldrush traverse in freycinet. Integral crack was less unique but super elite as its reputation suggests. An elderly couple on a hike got a shock with timmy taking a cartwheel off the crux just as they arrived.

Definitely a slab

Amazing! Got to the crux 1st shot & stuffed the left hand beta. sorted it out and got in 2 sits - let the siege begin (Carl I have your wire)

Got scared on the slab... it’s been too long

x 2! Icy grips on me, in the running for the hardest 20 in Canberra

Bold line, didn’t have the beans

Wrong shoes warm up

Stoked to start trying hard again! First crack at a 23 on gear as well. Few falls on this due to non-commitment but its all there and all goes, start is a bit of a goey boulder problem