★★★ Reigning Steel Extension 25

Grade context: AU
Length: 27m
Bolts: 13
Ascents: 160

Access: Parking meters have been installed

Blue Mountains City Council has installed parking meters at Sublime Point in December 2023. If you are not a resident of the Blue Mtns LGA the costs are $12/hour or $38/day if you download the Paystay app and purchase a daypass. You cannot purchase a day pass from the meter - you must use the app (which takes several minutes to configure once downloaded). Time limits are 12 hours. We understand these rates are very steep and you may wish to park further down the road for free. Try and avoid parking on grass lawns and be careful not to cause traffic issues by blocking this narrow road with larger vans. ACANSW has been in discussions with Blue Mtns City Council about the possibility of cheaper parking rates. This will not be resolved until early 2024 at earliest.

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description

The epic 5 bolt extension past the lower anchor to finish up Sadomastication for last 2m. A great mix of crimps and sidepulls with an ever increasing pump to the very end. Hard 25 or easy 26.

Route history

23 Mar 2014	First ascent: Neil Monteith

Warnings

6 Dec 2023	Warning Access: Parking meters have been installed

Location

Lat/Lon: -33.73516, 150.33731

Some content has been provided under license from: © Australian Climbing Association Queensland (Creative Commons, Attribution, Share-Alike 2.5 AU)

Grade citation

25	Assigned grade
25	★★private
25 [25 - 26]	grAId
26	private

ethic

Sublime Point is an old climbing area, with many routes dating from the 1950s and 1960s. Aid and mixed climbing was the fashion then, and the easier routes can be pretty bold for a modern climber. In the last 10 years there have been a lot of well protected sport routes added. This has been seen as controversial by some climbers who consider the crag a 'mixed' climbing venue.

inherited from West Face (Main Area)

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Overall quality 80 from 71 ratings.

Difficulty - 25

Soft Touch
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Sandbag

Based on 6 ratings.

Suggested Grade

Based on 6 ratings.

Tick Types

Onsight	8	8
Flash	2	2
Red point	35	35
Tick	3	3
Pink point	10	10
Attempt	48	48

Comment keywords

face pinch rest feet cruisy technical reachy undercling bad easy dynamic pockets crimpy tough pumped strenuous desperate hard crux sustained rad amazing fun fantastic good awesome wicked cool nice enjoyable super great fall tricky

Selected Guidebooks more Hide

Blue Mountains Climbing Guide

Author(s): Simon Carter

Date: 2019

ISBN: 9780958079082

The latest comprehensive, latest and greatest Blue Mountains Climbing Guide is here and it has more routes than you can poke a clip stick at! 3421 to be exact. You are not going to get bored.

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Best Of The Blue Blue Mountains Select Guide

Author(s): Simon Carter

Date: 2019

ISBN: 9780958079075

Simon Carter's "Best of the Blue" is the latest selected climbing guide book for the Blue Mountains and covers 1000 routes and 19 different climbing areas. For all the sport climbers out there, the travellers, or just anyone who doesn't want to lug around the big guide that's more than 3 times the size - cut out the riff-raff and get to the good stuff! This will pretty much cover everything you need!

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