Nodes in Tidbinbilla area

30 minutes from Canberra, the granite boulders offer a variety of climbing, mostly set in state forest

Nice swimming area with some scattered rock along the Murrumbidgee river.

Sit start left of the arete with left jug and right slope. Compress up and mantle.

Sit start on the right with good jug and big foot. Up through edges trending left to jug mantle.

Sit start on the right with good jug and big foot. Up slightly right through massive jug to mantle.

Poor climbing, but ok bouldering. Lost since the 90s It was found in an old issue of "Gripped Off Me Scone" and is recorded here for completionism

Several mid sized boulders litter this area and have some good bouldering.

As the boulders are right next to the river, after heavy rain the ground can be muddy and soft. Bring tarps to protect your shoes and pads.

Matched sit start on the main boulder with your back to the river. Lovely mantle problem.

Sit start between 'Kenny'[3396006819] and 'Wombat Routine' Head straight up the face.

Sit start, then head straight up above the wombat hole on the riverside of the middle two boulders.

Match start same as 'Wombat Routine' but go right after the first sloper.

Stand start, and up the crease all the way to the top. Quite tall especially for the grade.

Sit start on massive jug and work your way upwards on lots of nice holds.

Great line up the centre of the overhung face. Start low avoiding the loose block and head straight up the a shared topout with Skippy.

Start at the same place as Skippy, traverse left and join onto Edwina.

Very low sit start followed by steep climbing on plenty of sidepulls. Straight up the right part of the overhanging rock and trend left for the topout.

Sit start on low jug with right heel hook. Go up to the decent rail with both hands and bust for the gaston. Go left to the slopey holds and look for crimps and top out.

Linkup.

Start as for Edwina the Emu and traverse right through the overhanging face, through the big sidepull/gaston of Around the Twist and then finish at the top of Pistol Squish.

Stand start matched on the good undercling and up without using the 'flaunt' block behind you.

Sit start to Pistol Squish using small crimps and a big foot out left if you want it.

Matched sit start on left side of the arete on the crimpy sloper. Up using the crimp on the face and left arete.

Sit start matched on very low pinch, go left and up. super crimpy

A couple holds broke off as i trying moves. Possibly need a little bit more cleaning.

Sit Start right of Flaunt, on Left stoper and low right edge. Move to sidepull slot, and move to the top.

The following lines are on the left cliff, it's ~10m high, and is used for abseiling by the scouts and ha a few bolted climbs. It can be found at the top of a track marked with green tape just after the sign showing 2km to Casuarina Sands

Easily up wall on moss covered jugs

Open corner 2 meters right of A

Leftward slanting crack

up left side of brushed strip one meter right of C

up right side of brushed strip two meters right of D

Up the blunt arete passing to the left of the flake. Then up the moss above

Over the broken rock past two good jugs and onto the moss

Easy ascent/descent route

crack below the lower roof 3 meters right of H. Move left with difficulty then up wall just to the right of the crack. Hard moves past top roof and up arete

start as for I. Straight up lower roof with difficulty then up mossy wall. Move left and finish up the crack or straight up

Down and to the right of I between the cliff and boulder. Up the grass infested blocks veering right. Nice moves onto juggy slab

through the roof onto the slab above just to the right of the crack

hard move up onto slab

Hard move up onto slab pushing aside the blackberries

Nice thin climbing up brushed wall down from main cliff

20m further up river there is another face

Dismally up wall to right of main crack

Easily up arete

Up thin crack watching patches of moss

Up brushed wall however you see fit

Further to the right is another broken cliff face

Horrible cranking

Much the same as T

Nice easy cranking over roof, watch out for loose holds

Up the short mossy wall in whatever way you please

Lots of problems, and a lot of room for establishing new problems.

Large Granite Boulders on Scenic Ridges or tucked away in dense pine forests, only 30 minutes from Canberra or 3.5 hours from Sydney.

Laurel Camp Rd is the main north / south road that bisects Pierces Creek. There are many great sectors that can be accessed from the road including Tumblers, Sushi and Playboy.

The most developed area in Pierces at the moment. The problems are densely packed on good quality granite.

Dirt roads, but all 2wd usable if you are slow and careful

The large wall of boulders on the left side of the atrium

Straight up the pillar, on the opposite side to The Nose. Balancy start, and up straight over bulges using slopes and side pulls.

Stand start and up. Step across to the top of the main block or bridge between the two blocks to descend.

Stand start - up the face in the gap.

Stand start and up, immediately right of the blunt arete.

Stand start. Up crimps and vert features.

Stand start up brown trousers, up a few moves then pull left onto the face and up on thin crimps.

Stand start from arete in corner then climb up and top out.

Stand start from arete in corner then climb up and top out (block on right is out).

Stand start from face/arete right of corner then climb up and top out.

Stand start from face/arete right of corner. Done on face crimps. Or the Warner version of a classic arete dyno to flat jug.

Stand start and up.

Thin crimps up the highest line at the Tumblers.

Stand start, and up slightly left.

Stand start as for Hot Cocoa, then move right to finish.

Not sure if re-climbed?

Stand start. Up and across to the rails above the steep face, and up to finish. A sit start at the undercut arête also looks possible, but harder.

Stand start and straight up, using the hanging flake feature.

Stand start and up slab. Thin start, then a diagonal line of good quartz edges.

Traverse the back side of the Asia Block. Start up Taza, and traverse at mid height to join the top of Tip Toe Arete.

Straight up the slab, starting directly below the small scoop feature. Thin hands to start. Finish between Taza and Beker RHV.

Stand start at low blunt edge, then up slab tending slightly left, using the obvious scoop feature towards the top. Can sit start, at same grade.

Straight up, in front of the tree between Beker RHV and Crystaline

Up the face, in the alcove right of Beker. Some nice quartz edges. Sit or stand start (slightly to the right), at around same grade.

Slabby arete immediately right of crystalline. Sit or stand start, at around same grade.

Sit start with a layback up the flake, continue up and across the arete to a mantle at the top

Stand start just around the arete from The Drop (i.e. round the back of the bloc), matched on the diagonal rail. Move up and left to the juggy scoop, then up.

Stand start a couple of metres right of Chalice etc, right at the end of the wall before the ground steps down. Up the arete and scoop-ey wall.

Sit start with slopers/crystals for left hand and a decent side pull for the right, then up to grab the good side pull higher on the right. Basically one hard move to start, then more easily up.

Sit start on good low holds, then head up and right to finish out on easier terrain.

Sit start (as for #15) and up, finishing via a good rail high on the left. Excellent gymnastic moves on decent holds down low to a technical finish.

Sit start as for Chalice, on the lowest holds, then top out to the left through a wafer-thin crimp. Matching on that (or using the other crimp for your left hand) and throwing to the rail is the crux. Possibly a minor variant of what was Pizza Knob (V4) which got damaged during the fires and is rated V8 in the new guide, but topping out on the same tiny holds.

Sit start and up with big moves on small crimps, with a tough topout.

Dirt roads, but all 2wd usable if you are slow and careful

One of the only warm ups at the slab area. Sit start and head up right on the ramp.

Sit start, and top out on the right.

Sit start, and straight over the nose of the block using crystals/small edges.

Sit start and top out on the left.

Dirt roads, but all 2wd usable if you are slow and careful

A loop track through this area starts behind the metalheads on Asia block, goes past the Phoenix boulder, and a few others to come back out behind the Trackside boulder. So far, only the boulder with Phoenix has been redeveloped since the fires, but there are several others along the loop track.

Currently blocked by fallen trees

Currently blocked by fallen trees

Sit start on the right side of the plate, and up.

Up the double scooped wall, immediately left of Continental Plate. Sit start, using the left edge of the plate and then heading slightly left.

Stand start and up, just right of the scoop.

Up the slabby scoop. Downclimbing this and/or jumping onto a pad is possibly the easiest way off this boulder.

Stand start, with a good handhold on the left. Up the face past a good sidepull high on the right, then good edges on the high slab to finish.