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Explore 34,166 climbs in Australia. Check out www.thecrag.com, a project to create a global index of rock climbs as an online resource for rock climbers. Members use the site for trip planning, recording climbs they have done, tracking their progress, getting in touch with other climbers and sharing with their friends. As at 18 Nov 2006, thecrag.com has indexed 156,964 climbs and manages 299,215 distinct climbing ticks on behalf of its members (190,061 ticks in Australia).
Crag Snapshot (the best of Australia)
Get your Crag Snapshot for rock climbing in Australia.
If you are new to Australia, you might want to take a look at our two page Crag Snapshot PDF publication for rock climbing in Australia. This publication is based on 190,061 climbing community ticks in Australia. Among other things, Crag Snapshot gives you a summary of key climbing statistics for an area including, highest quality climbs, busiest climbs, iconic climbs for each grade and graphical profiles of climbs by grade, ticks by grade, ticks by season, climbing styles and overall climb quality.
Sub areas for Australia Climbing
By becoming a member (it's quick, free and your email is optional) you can explore are 3,735 areas and 34,166 climbs in Australia. Below is a list of the direct subareas to Australia. Note that you will have to become a member to see the climbs listed for Australia.
Members can add sub-areas and climbs online.
Become a Member
There is heaps to experience on the site once you have become a member, tens of thousands of climbers have already become members. Becoming a member is free, it only takes a minute, access is instant and your email is optional. Use the 'Create Account' button below to become a member.
If you area already a member please use our standard entrance page to log on.
Share Photos
Share photos, see photos of climbs, follow photo tours of photographers and climbers and much much more.
10 things to do on the site
- Get in contact with climbers who have climbed in a particular area (or climb).
- Keep track of the climbs you have done and chart your progress.
- Fast electronic searches across multiple guidebooks for climbs of particular grades, height and/or guidebook star ratings.
- Keep in contact and up-to-date with what your friends are doing.
- See how your climbing is going compared with the rest of the community.
- Find guidebooks that cover an area (or climb).
- Find out what the climbing community really think about a climb (member tick comments and climb quality ratings).
- Get an overview of an area by creating Crag Snapshot two page PDF area summary.
- Create personalised lists of climbs (Crag Planners) including 80 busiest climbs and 80 highest quality climbs for any area.
- Get climb suggestions for an area (climbs that match your climbing profile).
Beta Net
Beta Net helps you get in contact with climbers who have climbed in an area. Members who have a a question about an area, can send a message to the accounts of other members who have climbed in that area. Responses will be delivered to your account.
Guidebooks & Local Businesses
Below is a list of rock climbing guidebooks for Australia (number of climbs they cover for the area in parenthesis) and businesses that have listed in the sites business directory. Note that publishers may list their guidebooks for free, but business have to pay for listings. Log onto the site for more information about each listing.
Guidebooks
- Upper Blue Mountains, SRC (2,501)
- Craglets (2,085)
- Blue Mountains Climbing, Simon Carter & Martin Pircher (1,999)
- Arapiles/Djurite, Louise Shepherd (1,934)
- Sun, Surf and Sandstone; A Rockclimber's Guide to Sydney (1,214)
- ACT Granite (1,109)
- Blue Mountains, Simon Carter & Martin Pircher (1,064)
- Arapiles, Mentz & Tempest (1,026)
- South-Eastern Grampians, Chris Baxter (1,008)
- North Grampians, Bill Andrews (969)
- Mt Buffalo, Boreham & Brereton (703)
- Grampians, Mentz & Tempest (703)
- Interim SW Grampians, Talbett & Mcintosh (685)
- South Coast Rock, Shane Richardson (607)
- Nowra, Rod Young (602)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, Sydney & Sea Cliffs (589)
- Rockclimbing in the Hunter Valley (517)
- Melbourne, Eastern District, Tempest & Smith (509)
- Moonarie Online Guide (496)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, The You Yangs (495)
- Nowra, Rod Young (old version) (484)
- RockGUIDE, New Climbs Nowra Update (484)
- Point Perpendicular - a climber's guide to the Beecroft Peninsula (478)
- Adelaide Hills (453)
- North Grampians Update, Bill Andrews (447)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, The Wonderland Range (431)
- Wolgan Valley, Wade Stevens (428)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, Mt Geryon & The Acropolis (410)
- The Victoria Range, Kieran Loughran (390)
- The Original Queensland Climbing Reference (383)
- Northern WA Rock, Shane Richardson (380)
- Eastern Victoria, Simon Todman (370)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, Kaputar (368)
- Perth, Shane Richardson (356)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, Frog Buttress (355)
- The Blue Mountains, Michael Law (347)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, New Climbs Perth Update (328)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, New Climbs in SE Grampians (303)
- Victoria, Chris Baxter (298)
- Mt Difficult, McIntosh & Andrews (288)
- Townsville and Magnetic Island, Douglas Hockly (283)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, Cosmic County (276)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, Black Hill, Camels Hump, Hanging Rock (271)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, The Rock (255)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, New Climbs Blue Mountains (254)
- Northwest Victoria, Watson, Andrews & Hampton (246)
- Margaret River, Shane Richardson (239)
- Mount Stapylton Ampitheatre, Kieran Loughran (234)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, The Warrumbungles (224)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, Werribee Gorge (224)
- Kangaroo Point, Darrin Carter (218)
- The Black Guide, Bill Andrews (218)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, Black Ians Rocks, Central Grampians Update (210)
- Wonderland Range, Bill Andrews (210)
- Kangaroo Point, Neil Monteith (208)
- Jonathan Nermut's Tasmanian Climbing Page (206)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, Melbourne's Best (205)
- Red Centre Rock (189)
- OzRock, Alastair Lee (186)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, Evans Crown Tarana (112)
- Strangeness & Charm, Mike Law-Smith (57)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, Frenchmans Cap (51)
- Pocket RockGUIDE, Thailand (34)
- A Guide to the Three Sisters, Roger Collison (32)
- Crag X (31)
Climbing Gyms
- Sydney Indoor Climbing Gym, 4C/1-7 Unwins Bridge Rd St Peters 2130, 02 9716 6949
Websites
- qurank, Brisbane ,
- Safer Cliffs Victoria, , 0421994290
- To Keep You From Falling - Matt Boulton, PO Box 1503 Fortitude Valley 4006, 61 411 864 111
Stores
Guiding & Instruction
Accomodation
Eating Out
Gear
- qurank, Brisbane ,
- www.climbinganchors.com, , 0422 105 510
- Sydney Indoor Climbing Gym, 4C/1-7 Unwins Bridge Rd St Peters 2130, 02 9716 6949
Tourism & Travel
Other
- Safer Cliffs Victoria, , 0421994290
- To Keep You From Falling - Matt Boulton, PO Box 1503 Fortitude Valley 4006, 61 411 864 111
Other Area Links
Below you will find other links for Australia that are not included in the business directory but do participate in www.thecrag.com's Reciprocal Links Program. If you want your website included, then follow the process outlined in the program notes. As well as being included here, you will linked into thecrag.com's climbing community and global index of climbs.