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Super good shorter multi, and with all the pitches being a little squishy at the grade, one that should really see a lot more action than it does. The first pitch is the money with sustained and continuously interesting climbing on excellent rock with no real hard moves. The second pitch is also excellent, with really funky stemming to great pumping up a steep feature. The chain hanging off the anchors on this pitch is nonsense though. I pulled on it following the information from the guide book and then felt a bit robbed upon clipping the anchors and seeing an abundance of good little edges that the chain was sitting on top of and obscuring. The moves seem to go free at a fairly straightforward 22 or 23 (Neil didn't use the chain) and make for a nice finale to the pitch, but in its current state it can be quite difficult to work around the chain. Following this, pitch three is great with a few exposed and powerful moves and pitch four is a totally inoffensive wander up a corner.

All up a great afternoon!

We stumbled around the cliff tops foolishly for an hour or so on the walk in until I saw climbers below me on Hotel California! Then stuck the coordinates in Google maps and finally took the left fork (which Andrew had suggested an hour before) to the beautiful elliptical rock formation.

No doubt the most adventurous day of climb for me so far. Also one of the most beautiful places in the blue mountains that I have seen, the view is simply incredible. Definitely a summer climb, we were feeling cold even in a hot day.

First Rappel - We used a 67m fixed line for the first abseil which wasn't enough to skip the second rappel, so we ended up having to do 3 abseils. A 80m rope would do the job.

Second Rappel - (not needed if the first fixed line is 80m long). Less than 30m

Third Rappel - The 70m rope was just enough, even though it did not totally reach the ground, we could swing to a taller rock and get to the ground (if you do this be careful not to let the 2 ends of the rope go when the last person finishes the abseil, it would be a pain if not impossible to recover it.

We were 2 groups of 2, started around 8:30am from the car park and back to the car around 8pm, definitely a big day and the wondering around also added to it.

Rusty bolt heads a bit suspect. Great climb, tricky first pitch.

Really good climb, can't believe is not a classic. Fell on the crux of the 22 though.

The easier pitches are solid for the grades. Pitch 5 and 6 are the money pitches I reckon. Thanks for the beta Chris. The last pitch felt more like an easy 19.

Beautiful climb. Truly epic with large swells and high winds to build the atmosphere.

IMPORTANT

While I was belaying my partner up the final pitch, sitting on the edge of the cliff, I believe one of the locals called the police as they feared that I was a suicide risk. This resulted in the police arriving and fining both me and my partner for 'crossing a national park boundary'. Not sure if the fine will eventuate or not, and I intend to dispute it if it seems legally feasible, but it's worth putting in the record that fines have been received at this location.

Awesome Multi!

Rock surprisingly dry. Great climbing, some stiff moves. Cheers Brandon

First pitch was super cool climbing on geometric holds. Second a thrilling traverse that took a little to work it out and commit. Third is some classic splitter hand jamming (take a few larger cams). Awesome.

So fun, efficient swing lead with beautiful rock and views.

P1: A little bit of pump from the earlier climbs and I couldn't do the starting move with the backpack on, had to downclimb and leave it with Jess. Thanks Jess!

P2: found the traverse left a little tricky on second with the rope tugging me off balance, but there are great jugs around the arete.

P3: Got too focused on the climbing and completely forgot to take in the exposed position, oops. Nice views from the belay ledge though.

P4: second crux of the climb at the bulge, I went left on easier jugs after seeing Jess struggle with the direct line above the bolt.

P5: I somehow wandered onto the U bolt at the top of 'SMPU' after running the rope out 15m over a bunch of sharp, rope-dragging plates. Not sure I was on route, but it was a pretty poor pitch if so.

About 2.5 hours bottom to top, with a bit of time wasted waiting for other parties and trying to find the carrots. Caught the sun on P5 but fortunately the wind kept things cool.

Flash coz I did climb the first few metres last time. A bit more exciting after rain - all the good, protectable crack bits were dry but the ledges were muddy. P2 was probably the longest successful lead of my life, mostly getting on to the vegetated ledge - something like climb up, fondle wet ledge, downclimb, apply chalk, try another wet hold, that was a waste of chalk, downclimb, shake out calves, upclimb... eventually found a hidden root that seemed strong enough to pull on! On the plus side, the 'thought provoking' finger crack felt very easy after that, being all dry. Cedric was glad for the #6 on p3, that overhanging offwidth is wild! Took doubles, an extra #1, 2, and set of hexes, which all came in handy.

Shit hot. Pitch 2 looks like it could be done direct as well, will come back to have a look!