Routes in Lowdina

Thin fused crack to right of arete. Thin protection.

Up crack on buttress left of the Ape Chimney. Around small rooflet on right and then to top following the crack system. Scramble off the back of buttress.

Up arete for 3 m left of Wetcheck. Place gear and follow leftwards rising traverse (a little run-out) to fixed piton and wires / cams. Follow thin crack (crux) to mantle and easy crack to top. DBB.

the obvious offwidth right of OPAN. Bring big gear (#5 and #6) or run it out in the upper part

Thin crack up the front of the buttress, trending left from the RHS.

The loose and dirty chimney on buttress left of Anzac Day.

Arete right of Hooter. RP's or a big cam handy for the middle section.

Climbs groove / layaway on right until you can step onto face to climb slab (crux - RPs and micro-cams). Then follow crack to DBB. Gear for the slab is bomber and abundant but not obvious from the ground.

Excellent hand-crack past bulge to DBB.

Up slab using the crack on the right to first roof, hand traverse to left to crack-line. Up crack to second roof and past this on the right. Follow wall and cracks above to DBB.

Wide crack.

The short, thin finger-crack in a groove. Very weird, very cool moves. Step right to DBB lower-off.

Up arete past two bolts and some natural gear (RPs and cams). Past another bolts and more cams to DBB.

Climb to the roof (gear in horizontal underneath), reach up to clip a bolt, then continue past roof on arete to the next horizontal. Continue up groove above to top and DBB. Doubles of RP3 essential. Gear is good but spaced.

Crack-line and face right of Anzac Day. DBB shared with Anzac Day.

Poorly protected face right of Wetcheck.

The short hand crack 2 m right of The Contortionist to DBB lower-off. Worth doing if you're already here.

Up middle of face to DBB. Good pro despite looks (make sure to step right to place gear in the Ants Pants every now and then when the pro fizzles out on the face).

Follow fist crack to ledge. Then up hand-crack and through bottomless chimney to DBB lower-off.

Up easy face from ledge to stance below the groove. Place RPs and then follow groove up face to top and DBB. Micro-cams useful.

The slab above Morning Sun, past a #4 cam, single bolt and RPs and micro-cams in the fused seam. DBB lower-off. A good introductory route to RP and micro-cam placements before tackling the more challenging routes here in this style.

Crack / chimney to DBB.

Adventurous chimney.

Follow the fist crack to top, left around arete and up to DBB.

Leftward trending chimney / cracks. Currently dirty but supposedly classic.

The slab above Morning Sun, past a #4 cam, single bolt and RPs and micro-cams in the fused seam. DBB lower-off. A good introductory route to RP and micro-cam placements before tackling the more challenging routes here in this style.

Slab / face past 2 bolts, with RPs above bolt (offsets handy).

Australia's first 23 (and hard at the grade). Follow the layaways or traverse in from right to a delicate mantle. Up reachy smooth face to crack-line. Follow overhanging crack (crux) to top and DBB.

Follow the easy, gentle angled hand crack. Rap-off trees at top.

The short face just right of Chook Fever, finishing up the fist-crack.

Follow crack-line 1 m left of Bismark to roof, traverse right once under roof and into Bismark for DBB.

If the LOTF is too scary for you this is your alternative to get to the top. Watch out for the loose flakes half way up

Finger crack / layaway corner to DBB.

To the left of Yoda is an obvious clean crack-line. Stem the initial chimney corner, continue up on good hand jams and then move right onto the arete and fist crack at the top to avoid the grassy gully. Continue to DBB at the top of Chocolate.

Bridge up corner left of buttress, layback flakes on LHS of buttress then trend right past bolt, then up face via 4 m runout at top to DBB.

The wide crack / chimney on the front of the buttress. DBB.

Open Project for the bold and reckless. Needs further inspection of the flake whether it will stay in place. Start with the finger crack below the roof, reach to the hold on the edge of the roof, Continue up the groove and layback the big flake to the ledge. Continue up the finger crack on the face above

Brilliant arete climbing. Tricky, thin and spaced protection. RPs are placed blind so abseil inspection is recommended.

Climb the wide crack just down from Zundapp on the 'stage'.

Up face / arete to DBB past FH.

Arete right of Bismark past 3 bolts. Finishing to DBB at top of Bismark.

Up the offwidth. Take a #4 and #5

Climb the short corner crack left and around the corner from Perchance to Dream. DBB lower-off.

Hand to off-width crack in corner. DBB at top.

The steep arete past 3 bolts and trad gear

Takes the leaning hand-crack to an easy chimney. Traverse from top of buttress to DBB above Bulging Biceps.

Recommended crack beauty when in the area. Start in the groove as for TTAH. Take the left trending crack that gets harder and smaller with every move. Finish with hard moves up the finger crack to reach the ledge on top. Carefully scramble down the gully on the left

Cracks / face to top. Walk-off.

Climb 'Topless on 24s' to the horizontal break, go left and up the left-most groove. Bonus points if you sling the dead branches emerging from the crack.

Short crack in LHS of gully.

Stick-clip bolt from gully, up face with powerful moves to some RPs and microcams. Then up crack to DBB.

Climb up to the base of the steep orange corner via the slab (be wary of the suspect flakes) and gully to the right. Some nice moves up to the roof let then a grovel leftward to finish up CC. RP's useful.

Climb 'Topless on 24s' to the horizontal break, go left and up the middle groove.

The obvious clean fist-sized crack line, made for learning to jam. Two micro cams are nice, stonker gear to the top.

Start on left side of buttress, trend right around it and then follow crack to top of Tim's excuses for DBB. Half-ropes useful.

Bouldery start to small ledge and bolt (no pro before here). Past this (crux) to finger crack and over chockstone to top. Trad belay and easy walk-off to right.

The cracks on the LHS of the Papillon buttress. A bit loose.

The bulging line left of Albatross that looks 3 grades harder. Up the corner to a stance below the bulge and strenuously layback through this. Up the interesting shallow chimney to a finger crack. Traverse right at the bushes to finish up the Albatross hand crack.

A fun filled 5 meters all by itself. Stonker gear and a few good moves makes it a good warm up before wailing wall, which is a further 40m down the hill.

Follow thin crack to DBB.

Face climbing on buttress using RP protection.

The flake on the LHS of the Papillon Buttress.

The direct start to Bulging Biceps, and the way to do the route.

Climbs face trending left from the RHS. RP protection.

Up the groove, follow the hand-crack and then trend right to the cracks above to DBB. Good pro.

The loose and awkward chimney.

Up face on slab past some small cams and RPs to horizontal. Above bulge and cracks to top and DBB.

Take the direct line up the slab into the dihedral. Swing over the rooflet to a jug. Hollow flakes lead to a RP seam which terminates at the tree.

Up wide crack left of Psoriasis, then trend into hand crack left of prow. Traverse left into Psoriasis and finish up this.

The smooth arching corner crack. Nice route for a beginner. Big gear not needed.

Face on the left of the Virag Buttress. RP protection.

Beaut hand-crack / corner. Trend left at top of corner to DBB above Snoober. Watch for suspect blocks at very top in chimney.

Follow crack to pedestal, then leftwards to DBB. Take RPs and microcams.

The face right of Tormentil. Run-out with a critical RP placement.

Crack-line on left of buttress starting at the base of the gum tree. Fist jamming through bulge to stance. Then up steep hand-crack to ledge. Up face and arete to DBB above Virag.

Short finger, hand, fist crack above Papillon Buttress. Walk-off left.

Poorly protected arete left of Greenknowe.

Chimney to first roof, past this on right to face. Then past second on the left to top and DBB.

Up crack to block (not going anywhere). Up crack/groove to bollard belay. Walk-off around back (grade 2).