Ascensões em Gold Coast

This was a better warm up and easy climbing. Quite enjoyable looking back at the dam. Lots of ants up at the anchor. This one shares an anchor with the climb to its right. This is graded harder than ‘Attack of the Marshmellows’ somehow.

This was the best climb we’ve done. Lots of great holds and a nice heel hook at the beginning. Definitely made us realise how valuable a stick clip would be. Off to buy one this week lol. Didn’t fall at all on this route but had to take about 4 tests on the rope. Not used to outdoor vertical climbing …

Climbed at the end of the day and was a bit tired. Ended up going off route twice and clipping into bolts on my right after some two finger pocket pulls. I had to take off my gear and down climb a bit to get back on route. Also ran out of draws on my rhs of harness so had to take a fall when clipping second bolt on vertical section which stuffed me.

Was a great climb but ended up calling it and left a Mallon on one of the hangers. Will be back to give it another go now I know where the route is.

Warm up for the day. We haven’t done many outdoor climbs and are only comparing to andromeda and the climbs of the day here but this climb is surely harder than 15. It was very awkward at times and the face climbing at the top was a bit confronting for a new lead climber. Two small holds to lean across to a far right foot. It was also hard to top rope with the offset anchor.

Still a good climb and was more mentally challenging than anything.