The Bus Shelter, Bouldering

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1 Lovely Legs 2 The Grill 3 The Neglected Boulders 4 The Black Boulders 5 Floyd Boulders 6 The Serious Boulders

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Description

The Bus Shelter & The Gallery both contain some of the very best problems of Harvey's Marbles and have a more adventurous feel than The Inner Circle.

The Bus Shelter features a mix of tall and more moderately sized problems, all on wonderful granite and some of the wildest features at Harvey's Marbles.

The Bus Shelter contains a huge assortment of classics at all grades. It is also home to some of the most significant test pieces at Harvey's Marbles.

Any high grade tick list should include "Northern Exposure", "Dan's Arete", "El Destructo", "The Grusome Nothingness" and "Gutter Halo". At the opposite end, "Lovely Legs" is appropriately lovely and the arête and slabs R of "The Grusome Nothingness" are also must dos. In between these grades, "Anxiety" and "Life is Beautiful" offer a fantastic pair of V3s.

The area is named after "The Grill" boulder, which resembles the front of a bus. In general the rock in The Bus Shelter tends to be some of the most featured at Harvey's Marbles. This manifests itself almost perfectly on The Serious Boulder, which is probably the best boulder at The Bus Shelter and has just the right amount of holds to be covered in hard problems and projects.

Access issues inherited from Harvey’s Marbles

Allowed

Stay well away from the rifle shooting range (http://www.tmrc.com.au/). This is private property and potentially extremely dangerous.

Approach

5-10 min

To get to The Bus Shelter from "The Gallery", cross the rocky slope at roughly the same height with a tricky step through and then follow the track down as below left. Keep walking down to the next saddle. This is a junction and allows you to access The Bus Shelter or The West Bank.

Ethic inherited from Harvey’s Marbles

Please respect the local ethics and at all times, look after the environment. This means definitely no chipping, use your wire brush sparingly and only on the holds that you are using, leave the trees alone (it is often possible to pull them aside temporarily if they are covering a problem), and of course take out everything that arrived with you. The rocks are covered in beautiful paint-like lichen that for the most part doesn't interfere with climbing. If you need to clean lichen from a problem, remove only what is essential, and preferably as little as possible.

Harvey's has innumerable very high lines, such as Spenser's "Deliverance" and "Walk The Line". Despite this, Harvey's Marbles remains a bouldering crag and therefore no bolting is allowed. Top roping is fine if you want to do something that is too high for you to boulder.

This is private land and we are very lucky to have permission to access it please follow some simple rules:

No bolts
Keep to the walking trails where possible.
Take all rubbish with you.
Protect the environment; try to leave as much of the moss growing on the rocks as possible.