description
Pleasant, clean slab climbing on the upper pitches. Start 3m left of Tachyon below a prominent flake.
15m - Crux. Climb the large flake then up the slab past a bolt, then leftwards to the vegetated ramp. Belay behind a large flake.
15m - Climb the wall and slab above. Move right to belay on a ledge (shared with Sunstroke).
35m - Climb shallow corners immediately left of the twin Sunstroke cracks to the arete. Follow the arete to belay on the ledge as for Sunstroke.
Route history
| 4 Jan 1970 | First ascent: Ian Taylor & Tony Wood (#1) |
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Warnings
Location
- Lat/Lon: -35.55501, 148.99600
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Grade citation
| 16 | Assigned grade |
| 16 | ACT Granite |
ethic
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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