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*** Archimedes' Principle 26 Edit route

  • Style:Mixed
  • Height: 60m
  • Bolts: 2
  • Pitches: 3
  • Ascents: 8

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"Any object, wholly or partially immersed in a fluid, is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object." Routes like this are why you travel for hours/days to get to the 'Grampians'. Often worked in 1 pitch from the ground.

Start: Start under a low bolt at the base of the most impressive part of the wall.

  1. 20m (22) Up past the bolt then R along a break to a semi-hanging belay.

  2. 30m (26) The grey line of holds up the otherwise blank wall. Sucks up dozens of med-large wires. Often done on preplaced gear which probably drops a grade.

  3. 10m (26) A little boulder problem around the roof past a bolt. Nobody seems to bother with this.

Route History:

  • First Ascent: Keith Lockwood (p1), Steve Monks (p2&3), Feb 1991

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Route Grade Citations

26 Principal
26 *** RockGUIDE: Victoria
26 *** Grampians Selected Climbs
26 *** South Western Grampians (Gariwerd) Interim Climbing Guide
26 *** *** ACA Route Register
22,25,26*** *** Will Monks

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