The flake around to the Left of 'Anal Crank'.

FA: Martin Lama (solo), 1991

Anal Crank

The first quasi-decent sheer orange face you get to after coming down the stairs.

Up from the cave then L to the arete.

FA: Mike Law (solo), 1984

Start as for 'Anal Crank'.

Straight up the faint seam in the middle of the orange wall.

FA: aided pre. Free details unknown., 1976

Start 2m Right of 'It'.

The corner.

FA: Norm Booth, Keith Lockwood, 1970

As usual CB commandeered the blunt end for this "extreme" piece of climbing.

Start 9m R of 'Brutus'.

The L corner.

FA: Keith Lockwood, Chris Baxter, 1971

Up the crack 2m Right of 'Execution' to broken blocks at the top.

FA: Keith Lockwood, Chris Baxter, 1971

Start at small cave 1m Right of 'Persecution'.

Up the arete between 'Persecution' and 'SPQR'.

FA: Nick Reeves, 1977

Inexplicably given 3 stars in previous guides.

Start 1m R of Consul's arete.

Up the R sloping crack then R up larger crack.

FA: Bernie Lyons, Steve Craddock, Gary Lovejoy, 1971

Pull out of cave(4m R of SPQR) and up right side of large scoop. Step R and up to to big pockets. Straight up widening cracks in the headwall.

Start 1m Left of 'Cuniculum'.

Up to ledge then R and up.

FA: Martin Lama, Graeme Smith, 1991

Start 10m Right of 'SPQR'.

The rotten line.

FA: Peter Jacob, John McMahon, 1971

Start 2m Right of 'Cuniculum'.

Up the black streak then Left along the easier crack.

FA: Hugh Foxcroft (Toprope), 1977

FFA: Kevin Lindorff, 1978

Fairly respectable by Werribee standards.

Start 2m R of 'Ebony'.

The face the L to the arete.

FA: Andrew Cannon, Andrew Stevens, 1988

Slave Girl

Good climbing. The gear is adequate but very fiddly; it regularly sees gear-popping falls.

Start 2m L of 'Conscientious Pontius'.

Shares French Revolution's first bolt.

Up orange wall then R to vertical seam.

FA: Hugh Foxcroft,

FFA: Keith Lockwood, Norm Booth, 1970

FA: Hugh Foxcroft (Aid M3), 1977

Conscientious Pontius

2 star hand jamming ... for about 3 moves.

The obvious hand crack to the ledge and then up the flared crack in the orange face above.

FA: Keith Lockwood, Norm Booth, 1970

A much better quality finish, though you have to pretend the block on the R isn't there.

Start 2m R of 'Conscientious Pontius'.

The finger crack with forks at the top. Take the L fork.

FA: Peter McKeand, Andrew Thomson, 1971

One move wonder, but still ok.

Start 2m R of 'Conscientious Pontius'.

The finger crack with forks at the top. Finish R up the ramp and corner.

FA: Peter McKeand, Andrew Thomson, 1971

A shite sandbag squeeze job.

The bolted line between 'Hadrian' and 'Big Ears'.

FA: Brad Johnston, Marnie Pascoe, 1999

One of the best easy routes here.

Upgraded from 15 when a block came off. There's another still there at about 6m which might go someday so don't put your gear behind it.

Up the broken corner 3m R of 'Hadrian'.

FA: Peter McKeand, Andrew Thomson, 1971

Snatch and Grab

This good little number is polishing it's way up through the grades.

Start 2m R of 'Big Ears'.

Suspiciously "uniform" incuts to gain sidepull flake, nice moves over black bulge. Optional trad at the top.

FA: Glenn Tempest, Jeremy Boreham, Rod Young, 1978

Contrived, but the moves up high are quite ok.

Start 3m R of 'Snatch and Grab'.

The flakey line to the arete. Climb L side of the arete. Resist the urge to stem L or R.

FA: Simon Parsons, Russell Crow, 1988

Start 4m R of 'Snatch and Grab'.

Loose scary corner/crack.

FA: Keith Lockwood, Norm Booth, 1971

Start as for 'Sweet Chariot'.

Hug up the arete between 'Death Gate' and 'Sweet Chariot'.

FA: Mark Rewi, 2005

Far superior to SPQR. Good jamming and interesting moves all the way up the nice corner.

The corner crack 1m R of 'Death Gate'.

FA: Norm Booth, Keith Lockwood, 1970

Squeeze job with worthless pro, but good moves, so skip the hero act and just top-rope it.

Start at the corner 4m R of 'Sweet Chariot'.

Up the corner to the rooflet then R and up.

FA: Reg Marron, Nic Taylor, 1974

Climb 'Vulcan' to the flake. Go R and around arete, then follow the crack in the upper L wall.

FA: Keith Lockwood, Norm Booth, Ian Ross, 1970

Tina the Ballerina from Pasadena

One of the few Werribee routes that deserves the star it was given in the printed guide.

Start 1m L of 'Barbara Streisand'.

Up to flake then straight up the middle of the face. Add points for style if you finish direct over the middle of the overlap, otherwise finish up Vulcan.

Step R to descend from Barbara's chains.

FA: Kim Carrigan (top-rope), 1970

FFA: Wayne Jensen, David Coulson, 1990

Barbra Streisand

Did a singer ever have more appropriate initials?

The bolted line L of the prominent arete.

FA: Kim Carrigan (top-rope), 1970

FFA: Mike Law, Ian Ravenscroft, Jim Thomas, 1982

The crack just Right of 'Barbara Streisand'. Finish up the ramp.

FA: Keith Lockwood, 1970

Start as for 'Hannibal' the short crack on Left to ledge, Left and up.

FA: Ian Ross, Keith Lockwood, 1971

Start 6m Right of 'Barbara Streisand'.

Up flakes to ramp then Right into the orange corner.

FA: Chris Dewhirst, David Neilson, Michael Stone, 1971

Start as for 'Hannibal' then Right to steep Right leading corner/crack.

FA: Ian Ross, Geoff Gledhill, 1972

Previously given 2 stars ... what the?! For poor rock-starved Melbourne-ites, it'll eventually be worth doing ... but not even they could seriously give this route any stars.

Start 5m R of 'Hannibal'.

The hand-crack through the bulge, then the wider crack above the ledge, finishing up crack on L.

FA: Peter McKeand, 1971

Start 3m Right of 'Androcles'.

Up flakes to corner crack then overhang. On through blocks and ledges.

FA: Andrew Thomson, Tim Hancock, Peter McKeand, 1971

Start 2.5m Right of Cicero.

Up broken flakes to overhang then crack over blocks. Right beneath summit block to crack.

FA: Bruno Zielke, Bob Connell, 1971

Start 3m Left of 'Golgotha'.

Up arete to the ledge below Octavia's crux, then Right and up grooves to ledge. Up cracks then Left to finish up Octavia's final crack.

FA: Ian Ross, Michael Stone, 1971

Golgotha

This offwidth corner crack has a fan club of thrutchaholics.

Start up the ramp on L then into and up the imposing corner-crack.

FA: Norm Booth, Keith Lockwood, 1971

Start as for 'Golgotha'.

Go halfway up the corner-crack then Right at the rooflet, follow the seam across to finish up Redex's finger crack.

FA: Greg Child, Kim Carrigan (top-tope), 1970

FFA: Simon Parsons, Matt Barrett, 1988

Nero on the Rampage

Start as for 'Redex Irlont Sudano' then continue straight up when Redex goes Right.

FA: Wayne Jensen, 1990

Redex Irlont Sudano

Possibly the best route at Werribee, and a nice easy tick at the grade.

Start 3m R of 'Golgotha'.

Easy slab, over bulge, then traverse R along lip. Up face 3m L of arete to gain finger crack finish. Lower-offs are on the R just below the capstone.

FA: Mike Law, Ian Ravenscroft, 1982

Holiday Sidewinder

Excellent and seriously underrated in previous guides.

Start beneath the proud arete 3m R of Redex.

The crux bulge down low is easier than appearances suggest, but very technical...and no piking off to the R! Above that is an awesome airy sustained arete, stay on the R side at first, but move to the L side at the cave, and at the top step L to Redex's loweroffs.

FA: Mike Law, Steve Howden, 1991