★ Mind and Body 22

Another good slab route. Getting to the first bolt is quite scary. Start just left of the 5-metre 'Silver City Highway' block.

1. 30 metres (22) - Move up trending right to a ledge and bolt. Shake your way up creaky flakes and some hard moves past three more bolts to the Zog traverse.

2. 10 metres - Can be combined with first pitch. Up the crack and slab above to the left edge of a large alcove (double bolt belay as for Psychosomatic).

3. 45 metres (18) - Straight up from the belay. Put in some sideways wires then teeter up the slab to a bolt about 10m up. Continue easily to the top.

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.