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An unprotected variant of the second pitch of 'Equilibrium'. There are almost no handholds and it’s an enjoyable exercise in smearing if you top-rope it from somewhere between Counterbalance and Equilibrium.
Climb the brown slab directly above the belay, moving right (or left) to avoid the lichen when the slab eases off.
Entropy was the result of Chris Largue not spotting the bolt when he first set off to climb Equilibrium! To pacify his whingeing seconds (in those days the belay was a single piton) he taped a sling over a rounded knob using tape from the handle of his hammer (the knob would probably hold a falling mouse).
It's harder than Equilibrium and unprotected unless you have really really sticky tape.
1974 | First ascent: Chris Larque, Damien Jones & Peter Mills |
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17 X | Assigned grade |
17 | ACT Granite |
The ethic at Booroomba is generally staunchly traditional. Most climbing goes either entirely on gear or gear with bolts for those walls where there is insufficient gear to protect climbs. Climbs are occasionally rebolted, but retro-bolting would be considered vandalism of the lowest order.
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