Echo Gully Crag guide

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1. Echo Gully 27 in Crag
2. Index by grade

1. Echo Gully 27 routes in Crag

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Summary:: Mostly Trad
Access Issues: inherited from Blue Mountains: The Blue Mountains are a World Heritage listed area. The Grose Valley, the cliffs around Katoomba and much of the Narrow Neck peninsula are part of the Blue Mountains National Park which is managed by the NPWS. The Western Escarpment - where most of the climbing is - is Crown Land managed by the BMCC. While the NPWS Plan of Management nominates several locations in the National Park where rock climbing is deemed appropriate, the majority of the climbing remains unacknowledged. To maintain access our best approach is to 'Respect Native Habitat, Tread Softly and Leave No Trace'.
Ethic: inherited from Blue Mountains: Mixed-climbing on gear and bolts has generally been the rule in the Blueies. Please try to use available natural gear where possible, and do not bolt cracks or potential trad climbs.

Because of the softness of Blue Mountains sandstone, bolting should only be done by those with a solid knowledge of glue-in equipping. A recent fatality serves as a reminder that this is not an area to experiment with bolting.

If you do need to top rope, please do it through your own gear as the wear on the anchors is both difficult and expensive to maintain.

It would be appreciated if brushing of holds becomes part of your climbing routine - do it with a soft bristled brush and never a steel brush!

The removal of vegetation - both from the cliff bases and the climbs - is not seen as beneficial to aesthetics of the environment nor to our access to it. Generally it's best to leave all this sort of stuff to the local climbers.

	Route	Grade	Style	Selected ascents
1	Ichabod Ichabod Chimney. Start: This and the next 4 routes are on the right side of the gully heading down. FA: J.Lorinez,B.Blunt, 1974	11	Trad 30m
2	Crow FA: W.Moon,B.Cameron, 1980	20	Trad 30m
3	Paragon FA: A.Prehn,R.Young,G.Hill, 1980	19	Trad 23m	Rod Young LED with Ant 1980
4	Holy Catfish FA: A.Prehn,R.Young,K.Brown, 1980	15	Trad 20m	Matt Webster 8 years ago Used Commercial party rope... Tricky move down low, and looks like it has thin pro Rod Young seconded Ant 1980
5	Tex Arcana FA: J.Smoothy,C.Martin, 1984	20	Trad 15m	Niall Doherty 2 years ago Well rebolted classic. Rod Smith 2 years ago With Niall. Mixed gear.Felt easy but definitely reachy.
6	Hullaballoo Brackets to lower offs FA: Mort-Short Team,	21	Unknown 15m	Rod Smith 2 years ago With Niall. Techy and crimpy moves. Well protected on bolts and No. 4 Friend. Second shot. End of... Niall Doherty 2 years ago More like 22. Thin and sequency.
7	Micron Start: This and the next few routes start from the track on the left side of the gully coming down. FA: D.Grey, 1986	21	Trad 13m
8	Hollow Echo FA: B.Blunt,J.Lorinez, 1974	9	Trad 15m	Phil Ward 3 years ago Easy climbing with walk-off Dan Lukis 4 years ago Dan Roe led this for a warmup, not worth uncoiling the rope for.
9	Grey Power FA: D.Grey, 1986	22	Trad 12m
10	Second Echo FA: B.Blunt, 1974	12	Trad 18m	Phil Ward 6 years ago Easy throughout. The beginning is effectively large stairs; the top is very slightly overhung and... Ben Salmon 9 years ago Dirk's lead.
11	Echo Point FA: A.Penney,J.Smoothy, 1982	15	Trad 20m	12 years ago Dave and Geoff second. jameswcroft led
12	Blonde at Both Ends FA: C.Cuthbertson, 1980	22 R	Trad 17m
13	Resonance FA: J.Smoothy, 1979	18	Trad 20m	Vanessa Wills 3 weeks ago Tricky start. Feels similar to the 2 routes to the right in grade but at least hasnt been too ret... Leanne 5 months ago Enjoyed moving around on this climb.
14	Tintinnabulation FA: J.Smoothy,A.Penney, 1984	19	Trad 20m	Rod Smith 4 days ago Beautiful, delicate slab climbing. All sport. No trad gear required. Mic 9 years ago shunt
15	Ablutions FA: J.Smoothy,A.Penney, 1979	19	Trad 25m	Neil Monteith 4 years ago Crap start Mic 9 years ago shunt
16	Misjudgement The blunt arete at the base of the gully. FA: A.Prehn,R.Young, 1983	18	Trad 27m	Leanne 5 months ago Interesting start. Would have been harder on lead. Enjoyed slabby start with little dish for ri... Taib 5 months ago Nice climb, a bit run out if you don't have the headspace.. and not very good gear.
17	CC Rider On the Block opposite 'Misjudgement'. FA: B.Turk, 1983	15	Trad 9m	Rod Smith 4 months ago With Sean. Rod Smith 1 years ago With Si. In the rain.
18	Safety in Numbers FA: G.James,D.Grey, 1985	22	Trad 25m	Vanessa Wills 3 weeks ago Rap down and give it a good brush. David Barnes better than you think and would improve more if cleaned up
19	The Obituary Corner crack. popular. FA: B.Blunt,J.Lorinez, 1974	14	Trad 30m	Sam May 9 weeks ago A great little trad climb. Rod Smith 4 months ago Another lap. With Sean.
20	Atomic Punk Face to the right of O. FA: R.Young,A.Prehn, 1983	20	Trad 25m	Rod Smith 4 days ago Two more tries. Why do I keep stuffing up the crux? Taib 2 weeks ago Great climb, on good holds. well worth doing.
21	Oblivious Start up AP and head up arete on hangers and gear to lower offs. FA: G. Sort, P.Mort,	21	Trad 20m	Taib 2 weeks ago The crux spat me off. High step, gets me every time. enjoyed the climb, mixed climbing is alw... Nick Clow 9 months ago one hard and uninspiring move
22	Oblivion Quite a serious lead. Even Mikl cant remember how or why he did it or where it finishes! Start: As for AP, then traverse right around prow and up slab with very little gear! Has a varient start to the right of the choss (S.Moon) which may keep going up the arete - carrots - or may not? Too many drugs in those days! FA: M.Law,.Penney,J.Smoothy, 1978	20 X	Trad 30m	Tony Williams 7 years ago Deserves stars now its been rebolted
23	Oblivion Variant Start	22	Unknown 20m
24	Moss' Effort Up and to the right of 'Oblivion'. FA: S.Moon,J.Smoothy, 1983	22	Trad 25m
25	Confessions of a Wannabe	22	Unknown 15m	Tony Williams 7 years ago Waste of stainless and glue
26	Refusal Corner to the right of ME. FA: B.Blunt,J.Lorinez, 1974	14	Trad 25m	Sam May 9 weeks ago A sweet splitter corner to airy but dirty chimney. Surprisingly technical and sustained - I think... Scott Godwin 6 months ago First route in the Bluies! Not exactly mind blowing but not bad either.
27	The Knights of Nee FA: J.Smoothy,F.Lumsden, 1984	17	Trad 20m	Lucas 9 years ago Arm Jams all the way. Darren Leech Scary on arete...

2. Index by grade

Grade	Name	Style
9	Hollow Echo	Trad 15m
11	Ichabod Ichabod	Trad 30m
12	Second Echo	Trad 18m
14	Refusal	Trad 25m
	The Obituary	Trad 30m
15	CC Rider	Trad 9m
	Echo Point	Trad 20m
	Holy Catfish	Trad 20m
17	The Knights of Nee	Trad 20m
18	Misjudgement	Trad 27m
	Resonance	Trad 20m
19	Ablutions	Trad 25m
	Paragon	Trad 23m
	Tintinnabulation	Trad 20m
20	Atomic Punk	Trad 25m
	Crow	Trad 30m
	Oblivion	Trad 30m
	Tex Arcana	Trad 15m
21	Hullaballoo	Unknown 15m
	Micron	Trad 13m
	Oblivious	Trad 20m
22	Blonde at Both Ends	Trad 17m
	Confessions of a Wannabe	Unknown 15m
	Grey Power	Trad 12m
	Moss' Effort	Trad 25m
	Oblivion Variant Start	Unknown 20m
	Safety in Numbers	Trad 25m

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