It is maybe a 3km walk from the car park but it is almost exclusively through the undulating scree and boulders. If anyone in your party doesn't like that (which was the case for my partner), then it will take about 3 hours to get to the start of the climbs. If you're comfortable in this terrain, then the guide book estimate of 1 hour is about right, probably a a bit longer. It is worth roping up for the last 10m of scrambling required to get to the start of the routes.
The climbing itself is good. Protection low down is spaced out and improves a lot the higher you go, but there's loads of good holds and at the grade it was pretty cruisy, even accounting for the occasional loose block wedged into the face.
Given the approach had become an epic, morale was low so we stopped after that one route and bailed to the car.
Jugs for days, stellar exposure on quality rock. Bit of dodgy approach but you can rope up if you must. We hauled our bags up to the highest belay ledge
Absolute stunning climbing! an amazingly unique piece of climbing for the Ben and Tassie, a sort of make your own adventure of movement through some of the best dolerite holds your monkey mitts will ever feel!
Well the jugs start coming and they don't stop coming, rack full of nuts and I hit the wall running, didn't make sense not to climb for fun, my fingers got worn but my arms got strong, so much to find, so much to climb, so what's wrong with taking the plumb line? You'll never climb if you don't show, you'll never send if you don't blow.
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Ally
The climbing itself is good. Protection low down is spaced out and improves a lot the higher you go, but there's loads of good holds and at the grade it was pretty cruisy, even accounting for the occasional loose block wedged into the face.
Given the approach had become an epic, morale was low so we stopped after that one route and bailed to the car.