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1. Static Area 6 routes in Cliff

Summary:
Trad,Sport

Long/Lat: 150.248558, -33.593441

Description:

Routes described left to right, starting 10 left of the abseil in, about 20m right of CTW, facing in.

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.

RouteGradeStylePopularitySelected ascents
1 *** Static

Sustained, varied and technical climb up the obvious closed corner with fixed hangers and the trad crack above.

FA: G. Bradbury, G. Short, 2007

23
Trad 40m
Nick Clow 5 months ago

Unusual and gymnastic moves up closed corner, fortunately punctuated by some reasonable rests. A ...

2 Aretarama

Start at the closed seam of Static. Up and out on wall diagonally to arete. Up arete to ledge. Choice then to finish up the top crack of Static (18) with gear, 5.9+ (19) on bolts or Greased Lighning (13) on gear.

FA: G. Short, W. Williams, 2007

15
Sport 40m
Rod Smith 1 years ago

Tough and reachy for the grade. Combined it with the grade 18 fingercrack top half of Static (23)...

3 Project

FA: G. Short,

Sport
4 * 5.9+

Right-hand line of white (!) bolts - carrots and fixed hangers - left of Greased Lightning. DBB below ledge. Walk or abseil off.

FA: W. Williams, G. Short,

19
Sport 20m , 5
Rod Smith 1 years ago

Classic bit of steep slabbing. Nice. With Sandra P.

5 ** Greased Lightning

Starts at corner on right end of half-way ledge. (Just right of rap line). Crack/pillar to ledge. Take wires and small cams.

FA: G. Bradbury, G. Short, 2007

13
Trad 15m
Rod Smith 1 years ago

Quick exit after rapping down to retrieve a dropped draw as the 10,000th thunderstorm for the yea...

6 Retreat From The Wind

Start: Obvious crack/fault line between the rap and the waterfall.

  1. 15m (16) Up crack. Is now overgrown.

  2. 25m (16) Traverse right and up wall.

FA: W.Williams,J.Croker, 1988

16
Trad 40m

2. Index by grade

Grade Stars Name Style
13 ** Greased Lightning Trad 15m
15 Aretarama Sport 40m
16 Retreat From The Wind Trad 40m
19 * 5.9+ Sport 20m , 5
23 *** Static Trad 40m
? Project Sport