攀登 in New South Wales and ACT as Clean by Brendan Heywood

Not the best line at the cliff but another worthy line in its own right at the grade

After a few goes it looked like this thing might be way too staunch. Micro beta sorted it out, little far right side pull, lean left to chip and very careful match, then power through the slopers and up to the easier stuff before gravity realized what you did. It's hard to judge how many goes when you get shut down on the second move, maybe 5

So good, a couple spicy moves still but its all there

Toyed with a direct start, should scrub up into something

First climb again post covid. Felt very drained. Afterwards bashed down the gully to the kitchen through a jungle of thorns and stinging nettles, next time better to walk around the rim and drop in from the west

Hard start move and then balancy stand up and done

Benji getting some trad practice. This is a great route to learn trad placements on, bit of spice on the top out

Start is always exciting, love this route

Grovelly start is entertaining, a few solid jams and it's over. I stopped on the ledge and sussed out what I later figured out to be 'Maybe' which looks great. Then instead of finishing the crack I face climbed the pockets on the undulating wall

Fun and quite featured

Utterly stoked to second this clean, one of the hardest brawls I've had with a route. The first layback gets you warm quickly. Was able to rest properly this time in the first roof, busted across and then managed to find an almost comfortable full lie down rest with a knee bar holding me in. Pulled the lip expecting to pop and just held on breathing hard and trying to slow down for the rest. Just lay down for 5 mins at the top trying to breath and not dry retch

This thing is great. It looks offwidthy but has surprising side pulls and holds all over the place.

Everyone else said this was a bit loose and had broken things off, but by the time I got on it was all chalked up and everything I touched was fine. More traffic can only improve it.

Felt pretty desperate and fingery but managed to fight my way through it.

Exceeded my fairly low expectations, was a fun little adventure

This route is pure joy, much more to my liking

Plan was to pack up a couple top ropes everyone had done, so I ran a lap up this with my pack. Then suddenly everyone was packing up even though we still had an hour of sun left!

No grunting, clean. Was keen to have a red point attempt but got distracted

Linked into the top of 'Funky Monkey'

Really dig this

Good feet stances the whole way

Ben cruised this. It's a little daunting looking up into it, but jams are bomber and psyched to get through it and somehow cleaned gear mid crux without popping

Utterly frothing over this! Tried this a bunch over the years - the last time was at least a decade ago. Alan Ezzy worked it out, then Ben Vincent did it smoothly, then I went up with no (or low?) expectations, pulled on easily, forgot to unclip, unclipped mid crux statically, chilled out then moved smoothly through the awkward bit to the top rope. I've been so shut down on this before and I couldn't be happier. Probably should have done it again on lead like the others but stoked regardless.

Ben Vincent was a trooper on this thing, a couple of anxious moments belaying him. Much easier on second when you can use the face for feet with right chicken wing. Very cool end to the day

Great varied route

Stoked to clean this. Not sure how you'd protect the rooflet on lead

By far the best route of the day, theoretically hard but I found it the easiest. Much cleaner jamming and then cool move through the roof

My goal is to cleanly lead, chin up at lip, then cleanly unlead back to ground. Got to end and back to fourth bolt before I pumped out

Has one good move. Would be super staunch to eliminate the huge block on your left at the start