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Grade | Route | Gear style | Popularity | Crag | |
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21 M1 | ★★★ Hotel California (8 pitches)
Pull thru on gear on first pitch and go up escape gully to avoid choss at the end of pitch 8. | 290m | Blue Mountains | ||
20 | ★★★ Contented Cows/Hotel Cali link-up
Lots of fun and still an adventure, top 3 pitches of Hotel California are fabulous! You want to be solid with exposure! Start first two pitches of CC. First pitch to ledge at 40m but don't stop here, go up through bush then up 5m wall to DDR belay (60m). Second pitch 40m to ledge then traverse right along ledge onto last 10m of 3rd pitch of HC. Follow Hotel California from there. FA: Mike Law & Co. | 330m, 9 | Blue Mountains | ||
2000 | |||||
18 | ★★ Amoeba
The Original, Classic, Epic. FA: Batty / Allen, 2000 | 330m, 14 | Blue Mountains | ||
2001 | |||||
22 | ★★★ Hotel California
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22
45m
2
20
30m
3
17
40m
4
10
35m
5
17
30m
6
19
50m
7
20
30m
8
18
25m
9
20m
10
16
20m
10 pitch sport route (all rings or homemade stainless hangers, which some odd-ball fat nosed biners struggle with, but take bolt plates for the carrots instead incase, and for the anchor above pitch 3, and in case the belays get too crowded). Rap in as described above, then walk right past pinnacle at 40 m, hit base of cliff at 100m, drop down, then go up to cliff (near start of Big Nose). Walk round the base of buttress and drop down a bit, then go up and you can see a 8m pinnacle/flake leaning against the steep face. This is the start. About 350m walk. There is a much easier variant to the first 3 pitches by starting up Contented Cows, all rings at 17, 8 (12m), and 19. There is a blue emergency bin below Pitch 5, with some water, food, clothing, torches, and basic shelter. Don't call 000 just because you are benighted, so the police don't have to go out at night to babysit you. Please arrange to replace anything you use.
To exit, see notes above. FA: Mikl Law & Ness Peterson Shaz Clarke, 2001 | 330m, 10 | Blue Mountains | ||
2003 | |||||
26 | ★★★ Big Nose
Awesome 'finger-pickin' fun, or 23 M0 Start at pillar beside track before reaching California's buttress.
FA: Stephen Hawkshaw & Mikl Law, 2003 | 250m, 8 | Blue Mountains | ||
2005 | |||||
18 | ★★★ Bunny Bucket Buttress
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18
20m
2
18
20m
3
18
40m
4
8
30m
5
8
40m
6
18
40m
7
18
40m
8
13
40m
Used to be a carrot patch for the sports bunnies, with an awesome final wall. Now it has rings all the way. Carrots are still there, so take some brackets if you need to share a belay. Don't go as a party of 3 unless you are experienced, it eats too much time. If you have a pack, haul it on the second rope if you're getting tired. Don't leave toilet paper or rubbish, you're in a National Park, behave accordingly and don't get on routes like this if you don't know what that means. People have stupid epics on this all the time. Please read :- http://www.chockstone.org/Forum/Forum.asp?Action=DisplayTopic&ForumID=15&MessageID=26665&Replies=58&PagePos=0&Sort=#NewPost Generally safe, but run-out at times, with a few loose patches of rock. Take helmets as belayers are lashed to small ledges and can’t dodge shrapnel. Take 2 50m ropes (for rapping down, or retreating), 16 draws and a few slings. There is a blue emergency bin below Pitch 6, with some water, food, clothing, torches, and basic shelter. Don't call 000 just because you are benighted, so the police don't have to go out at night to babysit you. Please arrange to replace anything you use. ACCESS: It’s halfway to Hotel California from Mirrorball. Rap in as described above then walk along the track to the right (facing the cliff). After 30m, drop down around the base of Old Skule (clean arete on next pinnacle) and go 70m horizontally right thru the scrub till you hit an orange buttress. Continue down a bit and about another 70m to red rope and BBB sign: ★★★ Bunny Bucket Buttress 18 - 20220101_075236.jpg Now scramble up and right to a ledge 15m above the track, right of a chossy white patch, just right of a short squeeze chimney. Walk 10m right on the ledge till you see the bolts at the boulder problem start. (If you go down hill to a big fallen boulder, or see a 30m high black then orange corner (Randy Rabbit Ridge), or traverse beneath a choss cave, you've gone too far). Print out topos and route description or save them to your phone, as you probably won't have reception down there.
FA: V Peterson & M Law, 2005 | 270m, 8 | Blue Mountains | ||
2006 | |||||
22 | ★ Contented Cows
The first three pitches were retrobolted January 2011 entirely on RBs/UBs/FHs, so no brackets are required, although it's wise to take a couple in case you have to share belays. The first three pitches (17, 8, 19) of CC linked into the top of HC makes for a sub-20 outing.
FA: Michael Law, Vanessa Peterson, Mark Wilson & Zac Vertrees, 2006 | 280m, 7 | Blue Mountains | ||
2016 | |||||
20 | ★★ Randy Rabbit Ridge
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20
25m
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20
20m
3
20
25m
4
18
40m
5
17
25m
6
20m
7
18
15m
8
20
30m
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17
20m
10
18
30m
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20
30m
A more funky version of BBB, with a bit more variety, but pumpier and more climbing. If you waste time on belays this will take a long time. Start in big black corner leading to orange wall 20m R of BBB, and 10m left of a huge sloping boulder sticking out of the ground near the track. If you are benighted, go left to the Blue emergency bin on BBB around pitch 6. See notes on BBB.
FA: Michael Law, Eugene Mak & Jeffrey Crass, Feb 2016 | 280m, 11, 99 | Blue Mountains | ||
2023 | |||||
25 | ★★★ Cheeky Chinchilla Crack
Obvious roof crack 5 metres right of Bunny Bucket’s pitch 6 start. Use the first 3 bolts of BBB’s pitch 6, climb up to ceiling and then traverse right (size 6 cam to protect) to enter the roof crack. Requires two 5s and one 6 size cams. Climb easy face and finish at trad belay on obvious ledge (BD 2 and small wires). Rope drag is manageable on a single rope with 1-2 roller carabiners and several long slings. Rappel from trad anchor to clean face (60m rope is fine). Re-lead and then back clean roof and traverse. FA: Matthew Robbins & Ondra, 27 Apr 2023 FFA: Matthew Robbins & Ondra, 14 May 2023 | 30m, 3 | Blue Mountains | ||
25 | ★★★ Cheeky Chinchilla Crack
Obvious roof crack 5 metres right of Bunny Bucket’s pitch 6 start. Use the first 3 bolts of BBB’s pitch 6, climb up to ceiling and then traverse right (size 6 cam to protect) to enter the roof crack. Requires two 5s and one 6 size cams. Climb easy face and finish at trad belay on obvious ledge (BD 2 and small wires). Rope drag is manageable on a single rope with 1-2 roller carabiners and several long slings. Rappel from trad anchor to clean face (60m rope is fine). Re-lead and then back clean roof and traverse. FA: Matthew Robbins & Ondra, 27 Apr 2023 FFA: Matthew Robbins & Ondra, 14 May 2023 | 30m, 3 | Blue Mountains |
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