Well, I thought I'd get in first. Belinda and I climbed the three sisters last Thursday. We didn't leave Sydney till 9:30am as Bindi had to enrol at uni. We arrived at echo point just before 11:00am, cursed at the cost of parking ($2/hour), so drove the car just around the corner for free all day parking.

Off we set towards the three sisters with ropes on our backs. The first bit down the giant stair case made me feel giddy as usual - the mantleshelf looked positively horrendous.
As we raced down the stairs we had various sort of Australian sounding Hi's followed by "climbers" in a multitude of different languages. At the bottom our legs felt like jelly, so in the hope of a quick recovery we plodded around to the base of the eroded track to the bottom of the climb. Up we scrambled and quickly located the climb. Despite a break with some sugar and drink I still felt shakey. The first pitch was quickly demolished - easy climbing with indifferent pro to an eroded scramble. The second pitch has a severely overhung start that I struggled with, followed by a pleasant well protected corner. Bindi pulled off the start easily and followed to the belay ledge. we still felt shakey from the walk in.
After some more drinking and munching I think we were starting to feel normal again. Bindi polished off the third pitch in style. I got lost on the fourth pitch and after close to 50 metres of climbing stopped to belay Bindi up. The pitch was quite pleasant. The bolting was bizarre - right next to bomber cam and nut placements!
We scambled up to the base of the fifth pitch only to find another group in the way - a chance for a break in the shade. Bindi lead the pitch in style - again there were bolts next to natural placements with some big runouts in between - odd!
At the base of the sixth pitch we wasted close to an hour whilst the group in front wasted time battling with squeezing bags up the chimney, tangled ropes and tying figure eights(!!!!!). i squeezed my way up the grovel chimney and then past good pro to the cave between the 2nd and 3rd sisters.
From there it was easy roped scrambling to the top of the second sister. By this stage we had run out of water an hour ago and were dying for a drink. So we said no thanks to the mantleshelf and ran back to a bubbler at echo point for a drink. It took 6 and 1/2 hours all up.
The climb itself is OK, it doesn't really have any majorly exposed moments and a lot of the climbing is very trad type grovelling, corners and juggy choss. It has one all important thing going for it - location, location, location.......