Departures (Upper) Crag guide

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Contributors

Thanks to the following people who have contributed to this crag guide:

lloyd wishart Jay trent Neil Monteith Will Monks Lee Cujes Campbell Gome Ben Jenga Vanessa Wills

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1. Departures (Upper) 12 routes in Crag

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Summary:: All Sport
Long/Lat: 150.295903, -33.535302
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	Welcome Alex 1st first route on the ledge. Follow the orange streak. Hard goey start ! FA: Jason Lammers, 2011	23	Sport 12m	Vanessa Wills 1 years ago Apparently first direct nonMcDougall start Jason Lammers 1 years ago ?¿
2	Project - Bye Bye Teddy Funky orange radness for 3 bolts and then link back into 'WA' FA: PROJECT - Jason Lammers,		Sport Project 12m
3	Freeway Just left of project starting at orange flake. Up flake, traverse left across break to stance - then up technical wall above. FA: Neil Monteith, 2011	23	Sport 16m	Vanessa Wills 1 years ago Made nice by a long draw on tricky to clip bolt, thanks Mike Neil Monteith 1 years ago Quite tricky
4	Impatient Transport Starts directly up from where the rope railing starts. FFA: lloyd wishart, FA: , 2008	24	Sport 12m
5	Destined for Grayness Starts to the left of the 24. Fun climbing. FA: lloyd wishart, 2009	23	Sport 12m	Neil Monteith 1 years ago Big, reachy horizontals in a crazy position. Loved it. Ben Jenga 1 years ago Splendid. Climbs like a gym route with the feel of a multi-pitch.
6	Feisty phasmid Left of the 23, up and thru the roof. FA: lloyd wishart, 2009	25	Sport 18m
7	Gushing gargoyles left of F.P. start at small tree, up wall and thru roof on to steep headwall FFA: lloyd wishart, 2009	28	Sport 18m
8	spent force left of G.G. up wall and thru roof with some rests. shared start with G.R. FFA: lloyd wishart, 2007	27	Sport 20m
9	Grave Rat Through the desperate roof and beyond FFA: Steve Grkovic, 2009	29	Sport 25m
10	Church Mouse Dyno thru the roof and save some power for the finish. start left of G.R. FFA: steve grkovic, 2010	31	Sport 25m
11	hokonui Henchman start at big flake and head up and right over bulge and in to blank overhanging corner and over the final roof FFA: lloyd wishart, 2008	28	Sport 18m
12	Lofty Lungfish far end of ropes with triple belay. up short wall then out the roof cracks to turn the lip and finish up steep prow. backjump to clean FFA: lloyd wishart, 2011	27	Sport 15m
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Grade	Name	Style
23	Destined for Grayness	Sport 12m
	Freeway	Sport 16m
	Welcome Alex	Sport 12m
24	Impatient Transport	Sport 12m
25	Feisty phasmid	Sport 18m
27	Lofty Lungfish	Sport 15m
	spent force	Sport 20m
28	Gushing gargoyles	Sport 18m
	hokonui Henchman	Sport 18m
29	Grave Rat	Sport 25m
31	Church Mouse	Sport 25m
?	Project - Bye Bye Teddy	Sport Project 12m

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