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The Afterthought Area All Trad climbing 6 routes in sector

Grade context: AU
Photos: 1
Ascents: 15

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A motley collection of routes for the Cloisters aficionado and other bushwalker-climber hybrids.

Access issues inherited from Australian Capital Territory

If you have benefited from climbing access and infrastructure in the ACT, please consider joining the Canberra Climbing Association (CCA). The CCA spends considerable behind-the-scenes time and effort managing access for the climbing community to ACT climbing areas.

Membership is inexpensive and provides a great way to keep up-to-date with access issues, codes of conduct and general goings on in the ACT climbing community. Membership also provides discounts for local outdoor retail and climbing gyms.

For CCA details visit: http://www.canberraclimbing.org.au/

Approach

From 'Silk Degrees' a large egg-shapped boulder is clearly visible across an open gully. Walk across the gully to this boulder. From here:

go uphill to get to 'Shaolin' boulder
walk below the boulder to 'Overkill'

To get to 'Skin Flick' and routes beyond, walk past 'Overkill' then veer right over boulders and down a 20m gully.

Ethic inherited from The Cloisters

Although these days there are a number of excellent sport climbs, the original ascentionists were staunchly traditional, having this to say:

"We, as discoverers and first ascensionists, have not and will not tolerate the use of bolts, pegs, shady aid or chalk. Attempt to use any of these and be prepared to answer to us. We have respected the natural state of the area and expect that you will also."

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Good. On the valley side of the huge boulder above the 'Afterthought Area'. Up the tenuous flake to a steepish slab with two bolts.

FA: Adam Blizzard & Neil Montgomery, 1990

Starts at the large flake 10 metres right of 'Shaolin'. Up this and onto the slab past a bolt.

FA: Adam Blizzard & Neil Montgomery, 1993

Beckons as a finger crack but is really an off-width.

FA: Humzoo, Ray Lassman & John Smart, 1978

The thin crack just left of 'Lay Lady Lay'. A hard start and it doesn't let up. Now very overgrown.

FA: John Smart, 1978

The beautiful layback flake 10m right of 'Skin Flick'.

FA: Humzoo, John Smart & Ray Lassman, 1978

A hand traverse along a crack under a roof, using all sorts of old-school tricks. To reach it wander 20m right of Lay Lady Lay, past a square-cut mossy slab and round the corner to a wall capped by a large overhang. Scramble up to the right end of the wall to start at the entrance to a cave. Take camalots 1-6, with doubles in the large sizes.

FA: Oliver Story & Daniel Gordon, 2013

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