Nodes in Shiralee Wall

Shiralee Wall is the substantial orange buttress below Touchstone and bounds the lower left side of the broad gully - Nameless 'Gully' between the 'Northern Group' and the 'Far Northern'.

Emergency Location: Mount Arapiles, Kachoong Area

The good section hardly makes up for the horrible start and way off.

Start: At lowest point on wall.

Better than AGFTG despite sharing the start and much the same finish

Start: As for A Gift From The Gods.

1. 25m (19) Up the mossy slab then take orange diagonal on the steep wall just right. At the top of the diagonal, step right and up through overhang to ledge.

2. 25m (-) Line on right wall of gully.

Start: As for A Gift From The Gods.

1. 25m (18) Diagonally right up moss to ledge. Climb wall above a faint rock scar, thence up left into lichenous weakness and back right to stance.

2. 25m (-) Straight up, heading right at top.

Not worth the star. Protection is a bit fiddly to get though it is good on the hardest moves.

Start: Originally started as for A Gift From The Gods but is better as for 'Dingbats'.

1. 20m (17) Go up to ledge. Step right and go straight up compact orange rock being careful not to stray right into 'Dingbats'.

2. 30m (-) Up slightly left on good rock to easy finish. Better would be to traverse easily right for 10 metres to the Shiraleee abseil anchor.

Start: 4 metres left of 'The Shiralee'.

1. 20m (14) Straight up then step left to gain ramp leading diagonally right.

2. 30m (14) Step left and climb bulging groove on good rock.

Tenuous climbing into the orange scoops that would have been very scary before microcams. Deserves to be climbed more often and might be now that the abseil anchor has gone in

Put up in a rainstorm during which a child almost drowned in Central Gully!

Start: Start below line of orange scoops.

1. 25m (15) Climb easily up just left of the smooth face to orange rock and up into the line to the overhang. Traverse right and then back left above the overhang to rap-anchor.

2. 30m (9) Abseil off of follow jugs up the line.

A direct start and finish to 'The Shiralee' makes for a very good climb. Take some tiny cams and a #3 (blue) Camalot in your rack.

Start at short crack 6 metres right of 'The Shiralee', up blank wall past pocket (crux and no gear) to crack in overlap then up wall. Quite good climbing on spaced gear. Traverse R to chains on I Am An Expert on Bananas

Takes the deep crack not quite reaching the ground right of Crumpet then step left and up wall past 2 bolts. Traverse off to anchor on Banana Expert

Take right hand line through overlap right of Tallness (the flake on left line is hollow), up past bolt through bulge then easy ground to nice wall. Step left and finish as per Tallness past 2 bolts. Traverse R to chains.

Up black and orange clean streak left of Cold Episode of Influenza, 2 bolts plus gear, take micro cams and a 3 camalot. Rap anchor.

Takes the low angled groove at right end of wall. Shares anchor with I am a Banana Expert.

The Beatuitiful Possiblities of the Northern Group! Ok, maybe not quite, but it is a delicate line up the front of a buttress. Gear is fiddly. Up seam right of Cold Episode, continue up front of buttress and through overlap at top. Traverse to anchor on Banana Expert

Up wall left of easy crack, past 2 bolts and small bulge. Take a 2 RP.

Up easy crack in centre of wall, cross left over I will build a great wall to next easy crack.

Up wall left of Unauthorised Mice to small ledge, crank through bulge and up. Fiddly to protect below bulge and on top wall. There is a good cam above bulge on the left that you can't see from under it.

The right arete of the orange wall uphill from Tea is Full of Good Things.