Nodes in Sooty Crag

A lovely remote orange face with a good collection of wall routes. Shade until midday in summer.

Excellent technical slab and vertical wall. Far left bolted route 2m to the left of Abbey Road and finishing at that routes anchors. Climb direct to the anchors via pockets - don't bail right at horizontal break.

This landmark right facing bolted flake crack is the best warm-up at the crag. Originally climbed on natural gear in 1980 and accidentally retrobolted in 2003 (where is was named Chimera).

Ignore first set of anchors and mantle onto ledge. Stem madly up brilliant retrobolted corner crack to loweroffs. This extension was how Rod's original trad 1980s route was done.

Not the best route here but totally worth a go. Funky start through opening bulge then stop start featured wall above.

Spectacular pocketed orange face guarded by a damn hard chimney and bulge down low. Apparently a hold broke off in this lower section in 2017 and it is now quite desperate. Alternatively stem up the nearby tree and step onto the rock.

Info unknown. Potentially this is the bolted extension to Wildfire up the arete?

Fantastic arete that shares the first two bolts of Wildfire then breaks right. The chimney start is not grade 22 however after a hold broke in 2017. Stem up the tree or batman to first bolt.

Continue up past the anchors to a short tricky crux.

The left of the two routes on the wall left of Windy Row. Stick-clip bolt out left of Windy Row's corner (or place trad) and layback up crack for a couple of metres to start.

The sport route up grey face just left of Windy's corner.

Mega corner crack that would have to be one of the best 16's in the Blue Mountains. Worth lugging a rack here just for this route. There is a convenient lower-off at the top of the first pitch. The second pitch seems very vegetated and unclimbed.