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1. Courtyard Area 22 routes in Area

Summary:
Top Rope,Trad and other styles

Long/Lat: 151.090636, -33.735629

Description:

The main area of Browns Road. Many of the climbs here are Boulder or Top Rope problems ranging from 7 to 12m. Its worth taking some gear for the cracks. Most of them require some big gear and some offwidth skills.

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History:

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RouteGradeStylePopularitySelected ascents

Follwoing routes are on the main wall to your left when coming down decent gully. Most of these routes have bolts for top roping. Back up any suspect anchors as there is some old stuff around down here.

1 Dirty Hand Crack

Crack on left when heading down decent gully

Trad 8m
2 JP

Up slab between DHC and CB

Top rope 12m
3 CB

Hand crack to start up, on to block step right then finish up offwidth.

17
Trad 10m
4 Fingers & Fists

Thin finger crack to start leading to offwidth.

17
Trad 10m
5 K

Up Slab 1m right of FF

Top rope 11m
6 K2

Up slab 1m left of SS

22
Top rope 12m
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RouteGradeStylePopularitySelected ascents
7 * Sexy Sue

The obvious Offwidth half way along main wall.

16
Trad 10m
8 JR

Up slab between right of SS

Top rope 10m
9 Sardine

The finger crack at right end of main wall

16
Trad 10m
10 Project 1

3m right of sardine. up right leaning feature over bulge to finish. Cleaned and Top roped. Would make realy a nice climb with rings and lower offs

19
Top rope 9m

The following routes are located on The Block starting facing in on the north eastern corner of the courtyard. Most routes have dbb or ring bolts on top of the block and can be accessed for top roping if roped up and stepping across. Some routes have Bouldering Grades from Nick Clow and have been duplicated and listed as sport becuase they contain BR's

11 'D'

Chimney / Arete at end of block

V5
Boulder 9m
Nick Clow 6 years ago

solo - inspiring arete, more than 25 feet high

12 * P
V3
Boulder 6m
13 ** PTT
V2
Boulder 7m
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RouteGradeStylePopularitySelected ascents
14 PTTP

Up face past single BR to ddb on top of block.

Sport 8m , 1
Scott Lacey 2 days ago

Led it though had to rest on the rope at the bolt. Has a couple of hardish moves on fairly small ...

15 LON

Start Marked. Up face past one BR to DBB on top.

Sport 9m , 1
16 Veronica

The offwidth on the block

16
Trad 10m
17 TO or TC ?

face climb left of Veronica

Top rope 10m
18 LE

Arete left of TC

Top rope
19 Bolt Free

Face climb on southern end of block.

Top rope 12m

Head through the chimney at the northern end of courtyard to reach the following climbs

20 BC

Chimney on west face of block

13
Trad 12m
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RouteGradeStylePopularitySelected ascents
21 S

Left side of slab on north end of block (would be a nice sport route if equiped)

17
Top rope 10m
22 T

Right side of slab on north end of block (would be a nice sport route if equiped)

16
Top rope 10m
Grace Wong 12 days ago

Had a couple of attempts at it. First go had to try and work out the top move and second go to do...

Scott Lacey 12 days ago

Nice fun easy climb. Big holds down low and one harder move to gain the top

2. Index by grade

Grade Stars Name Style
13 BC Trad 12m
16 Sardine Trad 10m
* Sexy Sue Trad 10m
T Top rope 10m
Veronica Trad 10m
17 CB Trad 10m
Fingers & Fists Trad 10m
S Top rope 10m
19 Project 1 Top rope 9m
V2 ** PTT Boulder 7m
22 K2 Top rope 12m
V3 * P Boulder 6m
V5 'D' Boulder 9m
? Bolt Free Top rope 12m
Dirty Hand Crack Trad 8m
JP Top rope 12m
JR Top rope 10m
K Top rope 11m
LE Top rope
LON Sport 9m , 1
PTTP Sport 8m , 1
TO or TC ? Top rope 10m