Evans Crown Tarana

Unique Features And Strengths:: Granite in the Blueys?
Access Issues:: Evans Crown Tarana is a Nature Reserve so when climbing please keep your impact to a minimum so that NPWS doesn't ban climbing.
Approach:: From Sydney drive over the Blueys towards Lithgow and hang a left onto Rydal Road towards Lake Lyell. You'll eventually hit a T-intersection. Turn right and then left almost immediately onto Sodswalls-Tarana Rd - follow this for about 10 clicks until you hit Honeysuckle Falls Road - a dirt road.

About 1.5k up the road there's a small parking area in front of a "Evans Crown Nature Reserve" sign.

Head up the track for about 15 minutes until you bump into Deckout Buttress.
Ethic:: National Parks and Wildlife Service have requested the following:

Contact Bathurst district NPWS before climbing

No new routes to be developed

No cleaning of rock faces

No camping or fires within the reserve

No use of bolts, fixtures or identifying routes with paint
History:: Dave Tanner an old climbing partner of John Ewbank visited Tarana in 1971.

Joe Friend put up a bunch of routes in late 70s after which it lay dormant until 1987 when Crunch (John Smoothy) and Mark Colyvan went nuts and put up heaps of stuff.

Most activity ceased around the end of 1989.

Areas

	Name	Style	Climbs	Ascents	Height
1	Deckout Buttress Area	Trad,Sport	32	874	17m	5
2	Googolplex Crag Area	Mostly Trad	33	218	33m
3	Crown Buttress Area	Trad,? and Sport	45	331	29m
4	The Hamburger Stand Area	All Trad	1	1	20m
5	The Devils Agates Area	All Trad	3	2	23m
6	The West Side Ridge Area	Trad,? and other styles	16	24	16m
7	The Northern Slabs Area	All Trad	1	0	20m

	17	Up the Nose of Love
	18	Fuzzy Navel
	20	Six Days on the Toad
	19	Spare the Hammer
	20	Bloodbath
	21	Dr Marten's Boots
	21	Retreat from Moscow
	21	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
	21	God Help the Hash House Harriers
	21	Polkagris