★ Backdraft 18

Grade context: AU
Length: 22m
Bolts: 7
Ascents: 227

Route history

8 Jun 1996	First ascent: Rod Young & Sue Young

Grade citation

18	Assigned grade
19 [18 - 19] ++	grAId

Mostly developed as a sport climbing and bouldering area. Some trad climbing exists, mainly the pure cracks. If developing new areas keep an eye and and ear out for Aboriginal cultural heritage, including cave art.

inherited from Nowra

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Overall quality 55 from 124 ratings.

Difficulty - 18

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Tick Types

Onsight	73	73
Flash	20	20
Red point	17	17
Pink point	5	5
Tick	37	37
Attempt	18	18

Comment keywords

overhung crux pumped tired hard challenging enjoyable rad exciting cool great classic nice good fun tricky committing slabby slopey technical face fingers cruisy jugs steep rest short traverse interesting

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Nowra Climbing Guide Book

Author(s): Simon Carter, Carlie LeBreton, Rob LeBreton, Neil Monteith, Rod Young

Date: 2016

ISBN: 9780994278449

The new Nowra guide is the most comprehensive guide to one of Australias largest sport climbing destinations. Coincidently it also includes New Nowra or Braidwood Park as it is now known which contains 650 routes in itself. With over 1500 routes all up it will be impossible to run out of projects to get yourself spanked on ever again.

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