Ascensões em Illawarra and Shoalhaven por Josh Ellis

Fuck that heel hook!

Bloody pumpy warm up!

Good route. Techie edges. Much better edges than I was expecting for the grade at the angle.

Tried real hard on my flash go but couldn’t quite make the distance, each go after that got worse. Need steel fingers like Jordan Edwards! Awesome but if rock through the crux.

Not sure it gets much action, no chalk and pretty bloody rough on the skin. Nearly bloody punted at one point. Might be a bit friendlier with more traffic.

Hadn’t planned to climb this one as the tips were screamin’ but had to go up to get the draws down. Bit choss on the bottom but lovely rock up top.

Great route, pretty pumpy with good moves on good holds where you want ‘em!

Interesting, thought provoking climbing throughout. Pretty tricky onsight I reckon!

Mega classic! Arapiles quality rock and moves.

1.1x goes for me, fell off the first move, lowered then went to the top. 99% onsight still doesn’t count unfortunately! Seemed to be the theme of the day, everyone blew their first go on something silly. Oh well, we had a lot of fun!

2 stars for the amount of laughs, screams and general tomfoolery. Onsight was a shambles, didn’t even finish. Second go at the end of the day, felt pretty cruisy. Crux is definitely the 21!

Horrible conditions on the first go but did all the moves pretty quick. Condies improved second shot, did the undercling to sloper move but the top suddenly felt nails. 🤷‍♀️

Thought I’d salvage the day when I realised “Brother” wasn’t going to go down. Felt pretty chill with the beta and some fresh skin!

Mega fun roofiness! Thought I was on for it second shot but punted near the end so had to give it a third to finish it off. Probably more like 26 if your kneebar game is strong! Bit of excitement when Stanislav Likane broke a draw!

Misjudged the sloper on the ony (as I’m sure many people do!) went pretty easy second go. Fun, gymnastic climbing.

Got sucked into going right at the crux on the ony. Got pretty scared on my my second attempt going from 2nd to third bolt. Got even more scared when I started lowering off 3rd draw to re-work section and it sounded like the draw was shredding my rope. Checked draw to find draw was really worn with a pretty sharp edge. I removed and left at bottom of climb (draws were already on) hopefully the owner of the draw reads this and retires it. 3rd go I was just totally gassed.

So many burns, so little sending. 😂

Pumpy warm up.

Nice to turn this dog into a tick from last time. Felt pretty chill today.

Good fun!

Jordan Edwards was the sacrificial beta lamb, just scraped through the crux thanks to his sacrifice. Great route.

Great route!

Nice to put away a few dog faces from last trip.

Still hard even in good condies! Try not to look at the state of the anchors when lowering off.

Warmup, great to be back on rock. Been a hot minute.

2 ties-ins. Thought I had the ony when I fought through the undercling crux first go but couldn’t figure out the second crux. Frustratingly fell a couple of times on the first crux on my second tie-in. Beautiful route.

Tried it a few weeks back, felt do-able but kept stuffing up my beta. Returned with more skin, new belayer and still psyched. Punted off right at the anchors second go then got it on my third. January is definitely not the optimal season for it but too excited not to try it again!

Nowra James put the draws on and gave me the beta. Whacked the knee pads on for two double knee bar-no hands rests, making it very achieveable. Good fun though.

Bit out of mental condtioning to commit to this one, be nice to go back and get it sometime...

Went alight at the bottom, couldn't commit to the spooky slopers at the top!

Sequencey, fingery and bloody hard! Felt more like 24!

Did it at dusk before at night sesh on Cowboy's, awesome!