Routes in Northern Tablelands for selected grade

Start up CT Slab & Crack, trend left into Cola! RHV reversing it into and finishing up Cola! Multiple sections of serious landing, good rest before the highball/solo finish, absolute cracker.

Link up, start by climbing Winchester Arete, downclimb the main crack back on to the slab and finish via On the South-West. Minute or so at the no handers to shake out and get your breath back if needed, long and technical.

Lots of thin sharp stuff facing the wrong way and then a nice cresent way up high

Glued on hold near top.

Starts on the steep face a couple of metres left of NE22 and goes straight up gastons and crimps, finishing to the right roughly as for NE22. Looks like a harder straight up finish over the lip is possible as well.

An absolute doozy. Traverse in from the chute until you reach the swallows nest then head up until you hit the ceiling. Save a dry pair of shoes for this one.

The ending we'd all been hanging out for! Extends 'SS' out left all the way to the richly decorated jugs. Now all that remains is the rest of the epic linkup...

The holy grail complete link up of 'SS', past the wasp nest and through 'TIAB' in reverse. And seeings you've come this far why stop now? Complete the trifector by tacking-on TST.

Instant classic, not exactly Sharma but still very tasty. Sit start in the corner, up through crimpy side pulls then reach to right gaston and mantle. Eliminate the face side pulls is around V5.

SDS through the sloper steps, then traverse right and around the corner to the rail and then either up or across the face

Starts 1-2m of Evacuation station on the great flake. Up flake, into horizontal roof crack and then grunt around the rooflet into the open. A stellar jamming test piece.

Sit start with left hand on good arete and right spanning to poor sidepull sloper (the lowest 'hold' on the right side), slap up for jug off some pretty bad feet. Stack pads at your discretion, obviously gets easier with more pads.

Stand start on some marginal crimpers, set feet and punch to top.

SDS left on sloper, right on pinch, then up arete while trying not to barn off right and into the mini canyon.

Delicate start up a rounded rail. It looks scary but gets better and easier and the fall isn't as bad as you think. V5 is for the 2 crimp moves into the rail, but if you start on the rail it's much easier.

Squat start on good left hand and rail, slapping up to jug then hard top out. Needs a quite low water level.

Instant classic: Sloper start, up through crimps to sloper, then zig zag to compression moves to top.

Start on low fist jams, somehow pull on and wrestle your way to off width victory.

Sick burly arete problem. Start left hand on high pinch, high feet and and pull like a dog! hands off the features on the face to the right.

Up right on thin glued holds

A harder sit start to 'Pseudoephedrine', semi dyno off a marginal pinch to sloper then link up.

The steep arete from a sit. Follow the line of good crimps and sidepulls to a big move to the lip. The foot block to the left is out.

On the left end of the wall, climb the arete.

High start holds, up side rail then right and committing but easy rockover and finish up slab. Awesome. Can be top ropes from a single bolt.

Fridge slapping goodness up the large column on the left

Sit start at very bottom end of worm hole (cave). Writhe, grovel and squirm your way towards the light without dabbing. Take a headlamp. *This little low-ball ripper is also Gara's 1000th logged route.

Sit start 1m left of OLS. L-hand side pull feature & small R-hand crimp. Bomber rail for feet. Up to tiny R-hand sidepull & big L-hand move up to slopey/crimpy mantle features.

Thin layback moves up arete

Sit start on undercling with high foot up to edge. Traverse right along sloping lip to edges then up into corner and top.

Alternate start avoids the undercling and starts at the traverse.

Excellent problem, has more than 4 moves!!

V5 rating is a guess for the sit start, and starting at the traverse would be V2 (ish)

Sit start under overhang on left side on well chalked undercling/sidepull. Go straight up on crimps to mantel top-out.

As for 'Catacomb roof' until the middle crimps, then bust right and traverse through burly underclings saving enough juice to dyno to the good nubbin.

Layback and then nothing?

Slightly over hang wall to the right of the corner.

Left side of Improbable Mantle Boulder. Sit start up into rooflet, out to lip and up to top.

High start and follow the crack

Start as for Spiderskin, but climb the obvious feature to the left where it ends. Then a very long reach to the left onto an slopey sidepull, then up to edge and then mantel finish.

The spicy extension finish to 'Facehugger'. Start as for Facehugger and continue on from the obvious layback rail up & R into seam and top out. Chockstone footer block is out.

Start: In the middle of the main wall right of Slackers And Robbers.

Up thin seam, past FH then up to the easier corner. Good #0.3 in horizontal break to the right and if using double ropes there is also a good 0.2-0.3 in horizontal break on the left. Continue up to anchors on block at top.

As for Tipitina. Up the steep wall trending left along seam then back right and up to chain in Fingertip Control (placed there by misunderstanding - but left there). Four bolts in total.

The route with the big block hanging out of it. 3 BRs, small wires, large stopper, #2 Friend, big muscles.

Up an easy slab then some tricky moves to the cave under the roof. Clip the 1st BR then move out and up to the top of the block, clip 2nd BR then step onto the block, clip final BR then swing out an up to slab finish. Chain anchor or top out.

At the end of SA Buttress and just before Inertia is a cave made by a boulder stacked on two other boulders. To get to 'Inertia', you must scramble down into the entrance to the little cave these boulders create.

Sit start under the cave on a large slopey pinch and head directly out the cave on sharp crimps to a slopey mantel top out.

Water level needs to be fairly low. Fantastic juggy start then progressively harder through the face, a big dyno, then probably head left up the arete.

Originally a very dangerous route with the possibility of decking at the crux. Has since been rebolted to satisfy the trembling hordes. An absolute bum-stinger! Start: As for Sweet Surrender. Directly up from first bolt on S.S. then trending left from second bolt to third then up (fourth bolt) to exit up groove. Double-bolt belay.

Painfully thin and technical. Use double ropes, as the third bolt could be an ankle-breaker. Up trending right past four bolts to chain.

Across the water from the Jumping boulder. Perfect sculpted castle hill problem.

Sit start on side pull, slap up to dish, then pebble wrestle your way up.

It’s all over if you can hang in there for the first 7m.

Start: The thin crack.

Through the roof and up the crack on tenuous locks until a tricky move puts you on the ledge. Left, then up the short crack.

Start on the right most ok holds then traverse / campus left to the jug and exit left

One of the best lines at Gara! The crux is the starting moves. At very low water start even lower and a meter right and then up and traverse in.

Start down on very small ledge (build a semi hanging belay). Follow easy ramp slightly right to first rooflet. Short boulder through this and up easy slab crack into the big main roof. Bust out this through the lip turn (crux). Continue up pumpy headwall then tackle the final third rooflet boulder problem to topout at DBB.

Original aided at 20 M1 and exited left through vegetated alcove, must do third rooflet for the full tick.

Start: The second line of bolts, the direct line.

Straight up through bulges to lower off sixth bolt.

Also short and powerful Start: about 10m right of Ravage.

Grunt and thrash past three bolts to lower off fourth.

Start: the face and flake left of S.F.

Boulder problem start gains the flake. Up this to a final stretch for the top. Two bolts and an SLCD placement.

“The last laugh should last forever”.

Start: The steep slab about 5m down right from ‘Moral Decline’. Marked and with a bolt anchor at the start.

Up the slab past 4 bolt runners to chains on the ledge.

A superb line up the left arête of the dome, giving sustained hard climbing.

Start: At the base of the dome on the left side. Either Abseil in or do 'Labour Force'.

Up the left aide of the arête past a bolt runner then swing around right and up past three more bolts to top with another bolt at top. Tie off trees on mainland for anchor.

Start: Towards the right hand end of the lower tier.

Left hand crack line to seam, past one bolt on slab to tree belay. A couple of aid rests were used.

Keep traversing then hard mantle on angular slopers

incut edge for left hand, poor pinch for right hand, slap to sloping rail and campus moves to cool mantle

Awesome moves up the technical arete, a classic. Low sit start off opposing sidepulls, pull up to the crimpy flake, then up the chiselled arete feature.

Technical face climbing on incuts and then intricate arete and wall to get to the top of the boulder. Classic. May be easier/harder but who knows how to grade blunt arête slab cruxes?

Left Arete. Awesome. Start on sharp fin then straight up.

Very thin slab direct off the floor. Boulder up to the good right hand pocket at about 4m, or carry on up the route for the full tick (and give yourself a solid 24).

Arete with features down low and a totally blank topout

Up Tending Left

Start 2m right of Mini, matching a sloper on the lip. Up right to holds in the thin seam, then mantle onto the slab with difficulty. Frustrating yet addictive.

Awesome looking highball, opposite side of the boulder to Sharingan. Start on high crimps. Potential for a lower start.

Sit start on the obvious low rail. Hard, dynamic moves gain holds on the lip, then continue up blunt nose and slab. Brilliant!

Start: The arête immediately left of ‘International Womens Year Cracks’.

Extremely technical climbing up a blunt vertical arête.

Up past three fixed hangers to a slight rest and a small cam placement (Alien or TCU). Continue past a fourth fixed hanger to top.

Belay off tree further back.

Thin slab at start tending towards M6 to finish

Jump to the large edge then a couple of hard moves then easy to the top. Please dont hurt the plant.

Stars standing on the ground with boulder close behind

Same as gordo's bloc but with direct finish

Left hand crimp, high right hand edge for move up face.

Climb the hand crack to the undercling head left, then straight up to top on features. This is a guess, it looks like it should go, just needs a light scrub. Most likely been done already.

A fantastic problem, stand start on the right side, around the lip and up groove.

A nice compression problem with a slightly desperate finish to the right of the arete

Cramped sit start in the scoop, bust out left and into Four. Can be done with a fun balancey sequence, or just crimp hard and brutalise it.

Start on left side and climb up the face and left arete before gaining right arete and mantling straing over at the point

Problem at the far left hand end of the wall. start on the side-pull and up to the sloppy crimps. Start foot will need some glue at some point. Old tick marks suggest it has been tried/done before.

Stand start dyno off the jug, it's a long way and the top hold has gotten smaller over the years.

Abseil down from tree with sling at top of dome down about 15m towards dead tree. Look for 2 bolt anchor with rings beside tree on small ledge. Abseil again from anchor 20m to slab.

Route takes the orange vertical face on thin crimps to a slight bulge with incipient seam through it. Once through bulge angle eases to anchor.

No bolts are in place yet, just the anchor.

Sit start in the base of the ULAR corner crack and traverse R until you're standing at the base of the next crack.

A sharp short face which ends on the upper level. Has one hanger at the top for top rope.

SDS, Thin roof holds, right heel hook then up

Awesome pinch problem with very bad feet up the obvious arete.

SDS on lip holds. deadpoint throw to decent crimp and mantle

Amazing problem. Sit start on rail and go straight up. The first rail is flaking and will come off, getting someone to hold it in works

Big move off the giant sidepull then tricky high step mantle

Sit start in small cave, then up onto face on thin holds moving slightly right to finish straight up wall.

Obvious prow. Campus first move, heel hook and gun for the jug at the top.

Route up seam on tier above Wilde wall. Some razor sharp crimps. DBB on slab above.

Up the right side of the arete