Sooty Crag Crag guide

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

Kyle Dunsire Anthony Knittel Rod Young Mark Ashmore Graham Jones Will Monks Campbell Gome Mic M.Warren Michael File

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1. Sooty Crag 13 in Crag
2. Index by grade

1. Sooty Crag 13 routes in Crag

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Summary:: Mostly Sport
Long/Lat: 150.273932, -33.670691
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	Scorched Earth FA: S. Bell, 2003	22	Sport 20m	Nick Clow Absolutely great (have done twice)
2	Abbey Road (aka Chimera) / Chimera Initialled start. Climbed on natural gear originally. Now bolted by some-one who thought it was a new route! FA: Rod Young, Mark Burton, 1980	18	Sport 20m	Jim Croft 3 years ago Bolted line. Nathan Bolton 5 years ago A good climb at a Junk crag !
3	Chimera Extension Originally led on natural gear as one pitch of 40m. as Abbey Road Extension (not Chimera Extension) FA: Rod Young, Mark Burton, 1980	23	Sport 40m	Rod Young 32 years ago Actually the top of Abbey Road.
4	Filed Away FA: M. Rofe, 2003	20	Sport 20m	Tony Williams 8 years ago fell off the start first go. Adam Bramwell 8 years ago varied
5	Wildfire FA: M. File, 2003	24	Sport 20m	Stephen Hawkshaw 9 years ago flash pump
6	Vulcan FA: S. Bell, 2003	22	Sport 25m	Nick Clow 4 years ago x 2 Adam Bramwell 8 years ago rest at 1st bolt. superb rock, climbing and positions
7	Soo FA: M. Rofe, 2003	19	Sport 25m	Tony Williams 8 years ago Good slabbing. Did the exciting hand traverse over to the anchors on Sooty to set up toprope Chris Yeomans 8 years ago Nice, technical climbing
8	Sweep FA: M. Rofe, 2003	19	Sport 25m	Vanessa Wills 6 years ago in the rain. Tony Williams 8 years ago more good slabbing.
9	Windy Row (aka Sooty) / Sooty Climb to lower-offs at 20m, or continue to top. FA: Rod Young, Mark Burton, 1980	16	Trad 25m	Jim Croft 3 years ago Trad corner, good line. Mike Patterson 6 years ago Bloody Classic, three stars
10	Updraft FA: M. File, 2004	23	Sport 15m
11	Project FA: S. Bell, 2000		Sport
12	Sooty Requires gear to lower-offs. FA: S. Bell, 2003	16	Trad 25m
13	Chimera Extention makes it 23 and gives it another *! And adds 15m! FA: M. File, 2003	18	Sport 20m

2. Index by grade

Grade	Name	Style
16	Sooty	Trad 25m
	Windy Row (aka Sooty)	Trad 25m
18	Abbey Road (aka Chimera)	Sport 20m
	Chimera	Sport 20m
19	Soo	Sport 25m
	Sweep	Sport 25m
20	Filed Away	Sport 20m
22	Scorched Earth	Sport 20m
	Vulcan	Sport 25m
23	Chimera Extension	Sport 40m
	Updraft	Sport 15m
24	Wildfire	Sport 20m
?	Project	Sport

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