Darwin Buttress

Description:©: This is the low line of outcrops beyond the scree slopes at the end of the North Buttress. The climbs are described from the right.

"There are a few climbs here, although why anybody would do them given what lies within pissing distance is beyond me." - Richard Watts
Approach:©: Access is by the track running along the top of the 'North Buttress' from the top campsite. Descend the broken hillside and traverse right to the foot of the rocks.
Ethic: inherited from Booroomba Rocks: The ethic at Booroomba is generally staunchly traditional. Most climbing goes either entirely on gear or gear with bolts for those walls where there is insufficient gear to protect climbs. Climbs are occasionally rebolted, but retro-bolting would be considered vandalism of the lowest order.

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Routes

	Route	Grade	Style
1	Slim Fingers Crack At the extreme right. Up the twin cracks, finishing to the left. FA: Peter Cocker, John Armstrong, 1971	11	Trad 15m
2	Argonaut The obvious crack eight metres left of 'Slim Fingers Crack'. FA: John Armstrong, Peter Cocker, 1971	8	Trad 30m
3	Deadwood Crack The rightwards leaning crack four metres left of and joining 'Argonaut'. FA: Tony Wood, Peter Sands, 1971	6	Trad 30m
4	Toblerone Start as for 'Deadwood Crack'. Step left onto the wall and follow the rightward leaning V groove to the top. FA: Mike Law-Smith, Paul Daniel, Noel Ward, 1986	20	Trad 15m
5	Ape Chimney The undercut cleft just left of 'Deadwood Crack'. Climb to the overhang, move left and up the chimney and wall above, traversing right to finish. FA: Peter Cocker, John Armstrong, 1971	12	Trad 30m
6	The Trojans Climb the black water streak with one bolt, left of 'Ape Chimney'. FA: Adam Blizzard, David Jenkins, 1971	19	Trad 15m
7	This Wheel's on Fire At the far end, 75 metres left of 'Ape Chimney'. Starts at a thin crack to the right of an obvious square cut gully. Two nuts for aid then up to a ledge. Continue up a corner past a tree. May well have been freed. FA: Bill Wilson, R. Warner, 1973	15 M0	Aid 20m