Routes in Townsville

Rising traverse, topping out at the right-hand arete. Super classic and a fantastic warm up.

Tackles the concave face, not using the left-hand arete and finishing via the jug at the top.

Swing start dyno (start with one foot on the wall and jump) using right-hand on arete, to jug.

Essentially “Mr Angry Head” without the swing start; In other words establish yourself on the rock and then dyno for the top. Technical and fun.

Obvious bear hug arête, like holding refrigerator block.

Super classic sit-start to “Bear Huggies” and very pleasant for the grade. A Harvey's Marbles must do!

Same sit-start as “Squatting Bear”, only move right into 'Trixter', moving right along crimps to the slab and up this. Technical and good.

Start off the pair of edges on the right-hand arête of “Bear Huggies”. Across to and up the face just right to finish.

A short cruisy face and arête with some nice scoops.

A nice beginner problem that can be started from numerous holds and heights, but it's best started low off on opposing sidepulls.

Up steep wall on downhill side to jugs and then traverse left along the crack to finish. The scary direct mantle is still to go.

Start as for Pikers Variant but after getting the halfway jug, head up and right to finish above the little gully.

Hard slab with some very technical footwork. Start from lowest level.

Standing start, move up through the dihedral using thin crimps and sidepulls. A high jug gives a small reprieve before topping out on slopers.

From small crimps move up to good edge and then chunky flake.

Up to layback. Finish direct. Scary.

Up from slopey holds at lip of roof. Sit start under the roof with crimps. See also “Poached Variant”.

Same as “Poached” but using big flake for feet.

Sit-start open project

The obvious overhung arete with a standing start.

Note: The starting left side flake broke April 2024. The climb has since been repeated and remains at the same grade.

Sit-start to screamer. Classic and sustained up a steep arete. The convenient block/flake is not in as a starting hold for the right foot.

Note: The starting left side flake broke April 2024. The climb has since been repeated and remains at the same grade.

Face and arete with a long floaty dynamic crux. The small block directly below the arete is in for feet at the start.

Note: the right-hand start hold broke mid-2022. The problem still goes at around V10.

Slab starting from ground level left of small block, then moving out right.

Contrived. Same start as “Out of Reach” only keeping left of small block, except for starting right-hand hold. Straight up through some desperately sloping holds.

Just right of “Soft Pockets”’ on the blank looking wall. Hard move to pop to a multitude of mono's (swing start ok) and then to up via a slightly better micro-pocket!

The blocky arête between 'Live's Pockets' and 'Soft Pockets'. Up via a very cool right-hand pinch at the crux.

The tricky right-hand end/arete of the big slab, covered in lichen. Starts above the big foothold. Really interesting and climbs better than it looks.

Starts just to the right of “Strictly Ballroom” above the big diagonal foothold. Up on multiple mono pockets. Balancy and tough.

Starts in center left of slab, moving up and out left to a small foothold and then up.

The direct start to “Strictly Ballroom”.

The face and arête with an undercut start to a balancy finish. Excellent.

The blank face with the good starting hold at about half height. This and a pathetic slope are it though. Harvey's Marbles first V5 problem.

The face and arête just left of tree. Start standing on the flake embedded in the ground, with slopey sidepull for left-hand and incut tooth for right-hand. Reachy and hard move up and right to the sidepull and up. Reach dependant start.

The small corner on the downhill face starting from the left. The hard sit start is the obvious line and is yet to go.

Traverse along the front slabby face of the boulder, with a crux top out. Start as far left as possible.

Short sit-start. Broken hold has made it harder.

That is how much it cost Dan Radford to do the second ascent. Up from edges to slopes and mantle.

Steep face from a standing start. Sit-start will be hard!

Obvious layback.

Start just left on the bigger footholds, just right of the crack, moving right to finish as for “Banded Burritos”.

Middle of the face going straight up through some thin moves.

Face 1.5 metres left of the arete. Now with a missing hold which has increased the grade. Up via some tricky moves, moving onto the arete for the top half. (Grade has been raised from V2 -V3 to reflect difficulty increase.)

The arete starting from lowest level and slightly left. Great beginner problem.

Do the sit-start for “Smokey the Supercat” then traverse left to top out “Winter Woolies”

Loads of fun for everyone. Various problems up the friction slab.

Sit start the left-hand most slab, just right of the arete, moving onto the arete to finish.

Balancy slab starting in the narrow gap between the two boulders, starting from lowest level.

Fantastic wall. Very high with a cruxy finish.

Up arête and crack to higher arête on left.

Start on arête. Follow crack right to finish.

Up face and thin crack.

Start in middle of face with low edges, moving up and left to a tough finish. Face was uncovered after a large fire destroyed a tree in front of the face.

Start low, matched off the diagonal edge. See also “Weighting Gains”.

Start in middle of face with right-hand on rising lip, left-hand on diagonal edge. Move up and mantle. See also “Weighting Gains Variant”.

One of the few cracks at Harvey's.

High ball. Up the obvious flaky face, staying left of the arete for nicest moves.

Sit-start just left of the tree. Move right traversing the lip and passing around the tree. Continue and mantle about 1m right of the tree. Easy for the grade.

Same as “The Good Shorts” but traverse all the way to almost the end of the boulder.

Same as “The Good Shorts” but alternatively go straight up and left from the sit-start.

Sit-start at the left-hand end of the overhang and traverse right along the slopey lip, finishing as far right as possible on the massive right foothold. Great low fun.

Variant to “More Value For Your Crag”. Start sitting on the block in the middle and mantle straight up via some slopers.

Right-hand side of wall. Up, with a terrible undercling and a small mono to start.

Small 1m boulder. Sit-start with feet on small edge, hands matched on obvious lower rail. Mantle up and top out on boulder

Sit-start from lowest point of arete. Move directly up on large pinches and crimps onto slab and finish.

Great dynamic problem up the steep blunt arete.

Sit-start the left-hand arete of the steepness. Starts with right-hand pinch and left-hand on arete. Up into Global. Two pads used for the sit-start on first ascent.

Sit-start just right of "Globalisation Left" on the low edge. One of Harvey's hardest problems. See the original guidebook for the starting holds.

4 meters right of "Globalisation Right". Up the pleasant face from the brake.

The face with opposing gastons and up. Starts with a few mats stacked to reach the higher left-hand gaston.

Steep and sharp, but still loads of fun. Grunt your way up the obvious overhung flake. The dead-hang pinching the base of the flake is another fun challenge.

Steep, crimpy and sharp, but also loads of fun. Up steep wall just left of tree, (1m left of "GMO”), starting crouched. Pop to jug and mantle.

2m left of "GMO" and just left of tree. Start with left-hand edge and right-hand sidepull and big move to the good edge.

Actually just left of the black streak. Up the slab starting from the flake in the ground.

4m left of Black Streak Slab. Starts at the far left-hand end of the long flat wall, beneath the juggy flake. Up off good edge, slap for flake and top out.

Arete tackled from the left-hand side.

Face above the big, crumbly foothold. Good left-hand and tiny low right-hand scoop.

Vague arête with good left-hand sidepull.

Squeeze into the gap and start with the big sidepull. Straight up. Watch your back.

Tall black slab just right of Cruise Control.

Easy highball following flake line to the top. Down climb or chimney against other boulder.

Good. Start at the thin crack 1.5 m left that disappears quickly. Up through bulge, moving right to join Cruise Control towards the top.

Contrived face starting from 2 very small high crimps. Straight up, avoiding big holds to the left.

Lower start of "Spaceman” still to go.

Another classic highball 2m left of "Spaceman". Starts using the obvious flake jug, then moves right up the face.

Long arête from a sit-start.

Tackles the rooflet straight on. From the starting jug move up right into the roof and straight up to the top. Classic fun!

Variant of “Karma Sutra”. From starting jug go straight up.

The crimpy face just right of “Kama Sutra” is still to go.

The high face using holds on the right-hand vague arete. Up to jugs above middle of wall and then mantle.

The direct start from the seam "G 2" is a project and will be very tough.

Thin slab starts off good knob at lip then up on small holds and shallow pockets.

Lower start to “Rice Bubbles” on side pull and low knob.

Sit-start to “Rice Bubbles” using the underclings.

Move right to the arête over the increasingly spooky landing.

Sit-start off good holds either going straight up or out left to the flake.

Crouching start off the good edge directly in front of the grass tree (spikey plant). Crimpy moves on gritty edges, straight up.

Start sitting on the block, beneath the vague arete. Hard move up to lip and mantle.

Powerful sit-start on good holds but with poor feet at the start.

Thin mantle 2m left of above problem, starting off the high right-hand hold.

Great thin face on vague arete starting just to the right of small tree on opposing high slopey holds. Slap for jug then mantle up and left.