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Description

Slabby to vertical wall up to 15m high.

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Access issues inherited from Lower Blue Mountains

Be sensible.

Ethic inherited from Slab World

Sport - heavily bolted with lines of stainless glue-in rings and twin lower-offs. A few trad corner and crack lines. Please do not bolt potential trad lines.

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Routes

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Up obvious crack line on arete.

  1. 15m (12) Follow the right seam up the arete placing gear as you go, traversing left to tree and ledge beneath blank face.

  2. 5m (6) Scramble up dirty gully.

FA: Rod Wills & Kevin Van Tilburg, 2000

Up rightmost seam on arrete as for Chicken Run to the little cave. From here continue directly up the corner crack. Tree belay well back from edge. A No. 4 Camalot helps near the end. Watch out for loose rock at the top. To get off, walk right through spikefest for 15m and rap from tree.

FFA: T. Chaffey & M. East, 21 Apr 2017

4m right of CR.

Line of ring bolts up orange streak finishing at double rings above bulge.

FA: Kevin Van Tilburg, 2001

Start 3m right of Knuckles.

Line of ring bolts on left side of 'Arete', finishing up WW on slab. 4 ring bolts + DRBB

FA: Rod Wills, 2002

Follow line of ring bolts up arete to slab finish. DRBB

FA: Rod Wills, 2000

The wide arching crack between WW and NSU.

FA: Warwick Williams & Stu Dobbie, 2012

2m right of the big crack (BF). Follow line of ring bolts up thin face, to hard move over bulge (crux). Finish up slab to lower offs.

FA: Kevin Van Tilburg, 2001

Up arete 6m right of NSU. Laybacks and crimps with crux after second ring bolt

FA: Rod Wills, 2002

Up crack and some loose rock down low to great top half. 1m right of small cave. DRBB.

FFA: David Filan, 2011

Up crack as for the start of GEITM, follow crack rightwards to the top anchors of TWBT. Nice easy crack, plenty of pro and you can clip the first couple of bolts on GEITM if you want.

FFA: T. Chaffey & M. East, 21 Apr 2017

Short bouldery route. DRBB.

FFA: Rod Wills, 2011

Up clean streak over slab to shared lower offs

FFA: Kevin Van Tilburg, 2012

Start is at grade then easier moves from ledge to ledge.

FA: Arlo, 2013

Juggy start to slabby finish.

FFA: Rod Wills, 2012

On faint arete, Juggy face to sloppy top

FFA: Kevin Van Tildburg, 2011

1m right of Paperbag, Reachy start up juggy face tending slightly right to shared lower offs.

FFA: Rod Wills, 2011

Hard start jamming up crack, getting easier after the second bolt to shared anchors

FFA: Rod wills, 2013

Just left of groove, Balancey reachy start, through 3 varied mantles to the top. Drop a grade or two if your tall

FFA: Rod Wills, 2013

1m rt of AGS, balance and smear up tricky slab and then layback to glory.

FFA: Rod Wills, 2013

Layback up right side of flake, step onto wall and up slot between the walls

FFA: Rod wills, 2013

Onto attached flake, step right across onto face and up over juggy bulge.

FFA: Kevin van tilburg

2m rt of A, Straight up face, over bulge to top.

FFA: Kevin Van Tilburg, 2013

2m rt of TWSS, again straight up face over bulge to juggy face

FFA: Rod Wills, 2013

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Date: 2019

ISBN: 9780958079082

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Date: 2019

ISBN: 9780958079075

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