Showing all 71 ascents.
Grade | Route | Gear style | Quality | Climber | |||
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Mon 1st Apr 2024 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge South-Eastern Wall | |||||||
7 |
★ Orion
1
20m
2
25m
| 45m | Average | ||||
Sun 17th Dec 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Lower Cliffline | |||||||
22 | Crack glove ★★★ Tungsten Tips — 2 attempts | 12m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Wow! This climb is the absolute money! I had 2 attempts to do it clean and came off at the first crux both times, but then fought through to the surprisingly tricky top out. It's like the rock has been imported from the upper mountains! Doesn't feel like a regular gorge climb and I love it! Will be back to work the crux after much fingerboarding. The name tungsten tips is bloody accurate 💯😂
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Sun 12th Nov 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
11 |
★★ Annelid Crack P1
1
17m
| 17m, 1 | |||||
way too hot to climb in full sun, can’t wait to go back and send the top crack
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Sat 14th Oct 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge South-Eastern Wall | |||||||
22 | ★★ The Antivenom - with Tim M-S | 110m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
The quality of the rock ups the feeling of adventure by a significant level. Glue reinforced holds add a little confidence. Surprisingly sustained. Varied, interesting climbing. In short, not for the faint-hearted. An imposing-looking piece of cliff. Did not do pitch five as it was too dirty.
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Wed 13th Sep 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
11 |
★★ Annelid Crack
- with
Isaac Ramirez
1
17m
2
55m
| 72m, 1 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Psyched to get on this! Pitch one is meh but worth it to reach P2 - I didn't know the lower Blueys had a crack this good!
Isaac continued up past the end of P2 to an enormous tree with some tat on it, about a 55m pitch, to reach a stellar vantage point. It looked pretty chossy above that to top out. |
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Mon 11th Sep 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge South-Eastern Wall | |||||||
7 |
★ Orion
- with
Pete Jordan, Kate Emanuel
1
20m
2
13m
lead by
Pete Jordan
Pete went left and belayed from a different bloodwood, so I ran up the OG route afterwards.
3
12m
| 45m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Beautiful setting. Some fascinating sections for such an easy climb. Decent rock available all the way up.
If it was graded now it'd probably get at least 12. |
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Sun 20th Aug 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Lower Cliffline | |||||||
16 | ★ Hang Five - with Emily, Peta Somerville | 12m, 1 | |||||
Theoretically this is quite a fun route, with good protection and some interesting moves on the crack section. It is, however, covered in a fine layer of dirt and topped by a mess of shale and choss just waiting to be torn off the wall and shattered on the rocks below.
Was glad for the little adventure though and to give Emily some experience with (accidentally) trundling routes.
No Petas were harmed in the ascent of this route. |
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Sun 5th Feb 2023 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge South-Eastern Wall | |||||||
19 | ★ Free Mason - with Greg Ducky | 16m, 4 | ★ Good | ||||
Proud of this one. Definitely worth it. A worthy addition to a long lost crag 🙂.
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Fri 9th Dec 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Lower Cliffline | |||||||
17 | ★★ Artist's Crack | 10m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Great jams and for both hands and feet made it a lot of fun. Used some face holds but tried to stay in the crack as much as possible. Just wish it was longer!
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17 ~18 | ★ Pox — 2 attempts | 12m | ★ Good | ||||
Bouldery first moves to lay backing and super easy top out. Moves more committing than next door neighbour Artists Crack so probably should be 18. Needed a lot of cleaning but once the choss was removed was quite good. 👌
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Sun 13th Nov 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Lower Cliffline | |||||||
19 | ★★ Adrenalin Deficiency - with greg dziaduch | 17m, 4 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Got the moves dialed and ready to lead it next time. Might bring a 0.5 Friend for the traverse just for the added peace of mind.
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Sun 6th Nov 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
14 | ★★ Annelid Crack - with greg dziaduch | 40m, 1 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Thu 18th Aug 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge South-Eastern Wall | |||||||
22 | FA ★★ The Antivenom - with Glen Thomson, David Dearnley | 110m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
FFA. Sweet to get this one done despite the crux running with water. Awesome to finally have a small piece of real-estate on a wall that I've been admiring for some 15 years.
Tackles the faces and roofs of Venom Wall (mostly) on gear (though with the odd bolt to keep it sane), with some gripping, old-school climbing and runouts. A worthy companion route to The Venom, in my opinion. |
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Wed 10th Aug 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge South-Eastern Wall | |||||||
21 |
★★ The Venom
- with
Glen Thomson
1
18
40m
2
17
20m
3
21
30m
4
18
15m
| 110m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Surely one of the best lines in the Gorge? Even quite wet today (after all the rain) this was really rad -and quite gripping. Though untrafficked and a touch loose (it is Glenbrook Gorge, after all) the rock is generally pretty good, and the route takes the plum line up the proudest part of the raddest wall.
Onsight but for P2, which I'd actually climbed previously as part of another route. I definitely found committing to the crux on P3 quite intense, as it's not obvious where it goes. All I'd say is: follow the gear. |
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Sun 7th Aug 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Boulders Bouldering Cliff Line | |||||||
V2 | Zonin' | ||||||
Sat 30th Jul 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge South-Eastern Wall | |||||||
24 |
★★ Wokker's Roof
- with
David Dearnley
| 45m, 1 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Second shot on in-situ gear.
If you ignore the faff (read: choss and doddle) to get to the roof, and the fact that the roof itself is comically short, the climbing itself is bloody outrageous -especially given the era of its first ascent. Rather bouldery roof moves to gain the offwidth, after which the climbing is weird (read: fully-inverted feet-first climbing), but not too hard. The rock itself was surprisingly good for Glenbrook Gorge. |
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Sun 26th Jun 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Boulders Bouldering Cliff Line | |||||||
V6 | FA ★★★ Code of the Streets | 5m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
Sun 5th Jun 2022 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge South-Eastern Wall | |||||||
14 | ★ Orion - with boulderduck | 50m | ★ Good | ||||
Definitely rap off at the anchors at the BBB . Scramble is not worth it and there is no good rap point at the top. Crux was about a 16 but the rest of the climb was about a modern 14. The 7 grade was from a long gone era and I wouldn't want anyone making it their first trad multi pitch thinking that it will be an incredibly easy outing.
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Fri 17th Jul 2020 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge South-Eastern Wall | |||||||
11 | ★ Orion - with Paddy James | 50m | ★ Good | ||||
A slow onsight, except for a sling wrap around the bendy tree, to help over the crux at the end of P2.
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7 | ★ Orion - with dropnuts | 50m | Average | ||||
Mon 11th Jun 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge South-Eastern Wall | |||||||
15 | Orion - Twin Cracks Variant - with Angus M | 45m | Average | ||||
Despite inspection from ground and on 2nd pitch, failed to see final upper headwall cracks, so traversed left to intermediate tree. Bummer, they look bold. Medium cams and good solid rock and jams to there. And as always, a lovely aspect above the stream.
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Sat 3rd Mar 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
11 |
★★ Annelid Crack (Annelid Crack P1)
1
11
15m
| 15m, 1 | |||||
Did first pitch but decided second pitch wasn't for us without more/bigger gear.
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Wed 7th Feb 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Lower Cliffline | |||||||
17 | One Perfect Day | 12m | |||||
Convinced ourselves this was the first pitch of Annelid Crack - or rather that the corner was, but the corner wasn’t very protectable. Neither was the top of this, and we ended up bailing and retrieving gear on rap. But it was a good after work adventure.
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Sat 16th Dec 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Lower Cliffline | |||||||
19 | ★★ Adrenalin Deficiency | 17m, 4 | ★ Good | ||||
Pretty classic for the gorge! Good rock, good climbing!
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Thu 19th Oct 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge South-Eastern Wall | |||||||
15 12 | ★ Jack Murphy's Climb - with Ben Young | 100m | ★ Good | ||||
An after work lap solely for the purpose of marking the top of the cliff on my GPS. Ended up taking about 4-hours car-to-car (we walked back down via the main Mount Portal walking track... which took over an hour in itself), mostly due to my climbing partner coming down with Heat Exhaustion and struggling to stay lucid enough to belay me.
The climb itself is a true alpine adventure. Lots of vertical gardening, loose rock, big run-outs, doddling... But sections of great climbing and awesome rock. And regardless, you can't deny that it's a "prominent line". So, since I'm not the biggest fan of Alpine-style climbing, I'll rate it "good", and regard it as solid gr15 by todays standards. I enjoyed the various wide/offwidth/chimney sections of this route. Suitably thrutchy for this sort of adventure. |
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Fri 8th Sep 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Boulders River Blocs | |||||||
V2 | ★ Creek Arete | 3m | ★ Good | ||||
Maybe a first ascent but probably not. Pretty rad.
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VB | Easy Creek Route | 3m | |||||
★ Project 1 | 3m | ★ Good | |||||
Hard
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Fri 8th Sep 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Boulders Bouldering Cliff Line | |||||||
V2 | ★★ Getting Handsy | 3m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Probably not a first ascent but also maybe?
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Thu 31st Aug 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge South-Eastern Wall | |||||||
13 | ★ Orion - with Graham Dowden | 50m | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Although situated in an area ritch with veins of chunder this climb proceeds upwards on some clean, interesting moves. Great belay stances, stunning view. At today's rates, somewhat above a 7, grade inflation since '52.
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14 7 | ★ Orion - with Angus M | 50m | ★★★ Classic | ||||
What a cracker! Not only does it deserve a Classic rating from it's age (65th anniversary ascent in 2017) but because it is actually very enjoyable. Interesting moves, solid hexes, a few cams as a nod to the modern era, classic tree belays, and a fantastic aspect above the gurgling stream in a sheltered gorge!
Grade doubled to deal not only with actual difficulty, but grade deflation - what was the hardest thing in Aus in '52? And lastly, apologies to the pioneers: BA there's no chunder, and JME, the line is clear! |
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Fri 30th Jun 2017 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge South-Eastern Wall | |||||||
15 | ★ Jack Murphy's Climb - with Al Bradley | 100m | Average | ||||
What better way for two men to celebrate EOFY17 and their mutual ages by ascending a '56 model climb?
P1 offered little pecuniary interest apart from beating around the bushes to see the wood from the trees, between which bits of rock enabled solid upward progress. P2 required significant expenditure of both time and energy to surmount the "Grade 12"' crux ... which taking into account inflation was now at least a stiff 15. Grit and imprecations flew in equal measure, inversely proportional to the value of the protection of the life assured. Al attacked P3, retrospectively deciding the corner strategy was flawed by loose rock and low yield dividends, which could only be saved by serious fiscal misconduct. P4 offered the prospectus of a nicely angled little grey slab before COB, however, the presence of a large black snake asleep at the base of it put the small investor into a panic. In any case the coffers had just about been emptied, capital had been significantly depleted, and we were both amortised, superannuated, battered and bruised by repeatedly disapppointing ROI, so we closed the books and walked off the job. As for Quality, both Classic and Crap can only be applied in equal, indivisible, shares. |
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Fri 23rd Sep 2016 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
14 |
★★ Annelid Crack
- with
Ngaire Beckett
1
11
lead by
Max
2
14
lead by
Max
| 40m, 1 | Average | ||||
Super chossy and flakey first pitch, not great climbing or great pro. Second pitch is much nicer, a solid off-width crack. Definitely take some large cams (c4 4's &5's) for the off-width to avoid a sketchy runout. Tricky to find and not really worth it.
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Sun 1st Nov 2015 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Lower Cliffline | |||||||
16 | ★ Hang Five - with liam | 12m, 1 | ★ Good | ||||
Dirty but fun
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Sun 1st Nov 2015 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
11 | ★★ Annelid Crack - with liam | 40m, 1 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Ther is one bolt ot the start of the offwith
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11 | ★★ Annelid Crack | 40m, 1 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
Sat 13th Dec 2014 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
11 | ★★ Annelid Crack - with so tras | 40m, 1 | |||||
So hard, so trad, so scared
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15 | Pigs on the Wing - with Ryan Hanvey | 25m | |||||
I think this is what we did. Fun, when you look back on it. Just.
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Fri 20th Sep 2013 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
11 |
★★ Annelid (Kippax) Crack P2
2
| 40m, 1 | |||||
Sat 11th May 2013 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
11 | ★★ Annelid Crack (Annelid (Kippax) Crack) | 40m, 1 | |||||
11 | ★★ Annelid Crack (Annelid (Kippax) Crack) | 40m, 1 | |||||
Fri 10th May 2013 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
11 | ★★ Annelid Crack (Annelid (Kippax) Crack) | 40m, 1 | |||||
Wed 19th Dec 2012 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge South-Eastern Wall | |||||||
12 | ★ Jack Murphy's Climb | 100m | |||||
Take to 60s to rap off easier
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Sat 8th Jan 2011 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Lower Cliffline | |||||||
16 | ★ Hang Five | 12m, 1 | |||||
actually a really cool finger crack with good gear, then gets a bit wider at the top. if it was cleaned would be a good direct start to Kippax Crack
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Sat 8th Jan 2011 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
11 | ★★ Annelid Crack | 40m, 1 | |||||
Sat 8th Jan 2011 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Lower Cliffline | |||||||
16 | ★ Hang Five | 12m, 1 | ★ Good | ||||
08 Jan 2011. Probably one of the better Glenbrook Gorge routes, if it weren't for the horrible Shalebank topout. Makes a great direct start to Annelid Crack.
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Sat 8th Jan 2011 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
11 | ★★ Annelid (Kippax) Crack | 40m, 1 | ★★★ Classic | ||||
08 Jan 2011. With Aaron. Absolutely layback classic.Has one manky Carrot Bolt on it, to protect the rest of the pitch you need BD #6 or Big Bros.
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Thu 20th May 2004 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
11 | ★★ Annelid Crack | 40m, 1 | ★ Good | ||||
Mon 10th Jun 1996 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
11 | ★★ Annelid Crack | 40m, 1 | Don't Bother | ||||
Mon 10th Jun 1996 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Lower Cliffline | |||||||
13 | ★ Inspiration Crack | 10m | Don't Bother | ||||
Fri 8th Dec 1995 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
11 | ★★ Annelid Crack (Kippax Crack) | 40m, 1 | ★ Good | ||||
don't fall!
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1995 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
11 | ★★ Annelid Crack (Annelid (Kippax) Crack) | 40m, 1 | |||||
And a few others , not sure which . . .
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11 | ★★ Annelid Crack (Annelid (Kippax) Crack) | 40m, 1 | |||||
And a few others , not sure which . . .
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Sun 21st Oct 1990 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Lower Cliffline | |||||||
16 | Inconclusion | 10m | |||||
Sun 29th Jul 1990 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Lower Cliffline | |||||||
18 | Last Grasp | 10m | |||||
16 | Inconclusion | 10m | |||||
19 | ★ Cosmo's Tasmanian Devilry | 10m | |||||
1989 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Lower Cliffline | |||||||
17 | ★★ Artist's Crack | 10m | |||||
19 | ★ Cosmo's Tasmanian Devilry | 10m | |||||
1988 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
11 | ★★ Annelid Crack (Kippax Crack) | 40m, 1 | ★★ Very Good | ||||
1988 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Lower Cliffline | |||||||
13 | ★ Inspiration Crack | 10m | |||||
Wed 7th Apr 2021 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge South-Eastern Wall | |||||||
7 | ★ Orion | 50m | |||||
Thu 19th Apr 2018 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Boulders Bouldering Cliff Line | |||||||
V2 | ★★ Getting Handsy | 3m | |||||
Tue 13th Apr 2010 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
11 | ★★ Annelid Crack | 40m, 1 | |||||
11 | ★★ Annelid Crack | 40m, 1 | |||||
11 | ★★ Annelid Crack | 40m, 1 | |||||
Tue 13th Apr 2010 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Lower Cliffline | |||||||
17 | ★★ Artist's Crack | 10m | |||||
13 | ★ Inspiration Crack | 10m | |||||
Tue 13th Apr 2010 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Main Wall | |||||||
11 | ★★ Annelid Crack | 40m, 1 | |||||
11 | ★★ Annelid Crack | 40m, 1 | |||||
Tue 13th Apr 2010 - Blue Mountains | |||||||
Lower Blue Mountains Glenbrook Gorge Lower Cliffline | |||||||
19 | ★ Cosmo's Tasmanian Devilry | 10m |
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