Routes in Pierce's Creek for selected grade

Stand start - up the face in the gap.

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 Rift Zone, and traverse straight across and then up, to finish at Tectonics.

Stand start, and straight up the flake features. A few different sequences are possible, all around the same grade and quality.

Visible on the boulder down the hill from Rift Zone. Sit start at the jug, then up the nice fin.

Sit start just right of the arête, then up.

Tricky stand start up into scoop, then more easily to the top, staying right of the arete the whole way.

Straight up into the scoop. Also serves as a good descent from this boulder, jumping from the scoop onto a pad.

Up the slabby bulge, smearing, directly opposite Public Enemy. Real slabbing technique needed, no real holds here.

Take the blankest line possible near the end of the boulder. Don't use the flake.

Start on the highest chipped holds you can reach (above the traversing problem Rinaldo), then mantle over the bulge using some reasonable holds and walk up to top out. A lower start is possible which could go from the same start as Rinaldo, and would be significantly harder. Named Dandruff for the exfoliating nature.

The easiest of the 3 no hands problems. Can be done with a running start in sneakers to much hilarity.

Sit start, right of the arete. Straight up the wall with good crimps.

Low sit start just right of Goldfish with left hand in crack and right hand around the blunt arete. Traverse left to finish up Tadpole.

Stand start on the opposite side of the block to Flying Fish. Straight up, finishing with some good crimps high on the second block. Avoid the temptation to escape left...

SS, Up the left arete of the huge flake to a top out in the middle, it seems solid, but the name isn't to be taken lightly

Start up the crack, then follow it out through the roof. Stand or sit it makes little difference

Stand start on jug just left of the blue spot, and use a toe hook to do the mantle, do you need an explanation?

One of best problems in the ACT!!! Highball crack line, stand start up the arete using the corner for feet to gain the crack, then up the crack to the top and mantle up to top out. If you add an awkward sit subtract 2 stars and give yourself an extra grade.

Descent by jumping to the next boulder then down the chimney. May have been the first boulder problem done in Pierces in the 80's when the crack's were climbed.

Up the opposite side of the crack to Wasabi. Sit start on the rock at the bottom.

This side is a little shorter and harder.

Crimp up seam with no room for era - boulder seen 20m from Laurel Camp rd

Stand start and up the crimpy wall and seam.

Low sit start at the crack, left of Sticky Fingers. Big holds but awkward climbing up the flake/cracks.

Sit start on the left side of the wall, with the narrow start ledge. Up with crimps to the sloping top, then up and over. The stand start goes at around v0.

20m or so along the ridge from the Paint it Black boulder, heading right/up when you reach the barbed wire. This boulder is down on the left after a few metres. Sit start on the left side of the arete, and then up using the horizontal seam and holds on the arete. Beware the top stacked block round to the right on the way down, as its quite wobbly.

Visible ahead slightly to the right, when approaching the Play with Fire boulder. Sit start with good compression side pulls, then straight up.

Stand start left of Stone Age at the blunt end of the block, then traverse right around to finish at She's a Rainbow.

#historic

#historic

Sit start on the lowest possible holds and up the sketchy hollow flake feature.

Stand start to the right of crack using broken low flake for feet. Pulling on the low flake hard would be a bad idea.

On the boulder down the hill a few metres from Time Is Running Out. Compressed sit start and up the water groove.

Stand start from arete and undercling and go straight up.

Sit start from the slopers below the big blocks, top out Binge Watch. Careful of the big blocks (marked with on topo).

Sit start from the ledge and head straight up the blunt arete.

Starting from the big blocks around Binge Direct, traverse anticlockwise without using anything on or above the break for feet and squeezing past the tree. Finish by topping out once you return to your start point.

Stand start right hand arete. Climb up and top out.

Sit start from incut jug on back of boulder then climb up and top out.

Stand start on the opposite end of the boulder to Indulgence, climbing up the left hand arete and face.

Start as for Nicole's then traverse right and top out on obvious ledge. (Watch out for that tree)

Stand start then climb up and top out.

Sit start and up. The good but detached low footer is out.

Stand start on two small crimps, then up to more crimps and an easier mantle.

Stand start then climb up and top out.

On the boulder up and right (looking up), from the Cuddles boulder. Stand start at the arete/rib that forms the left side on the scoop. Straight up the rib and slab above on crimps, slopers and small crystals.

Stand start from left side of arete then climb up and top out.

Stand start from flake then climb up and top out.

Sit start then climb up and top out.

Another problem looking blank and flanked by trees since the fires. #historic

Sit start. #historic

Up the wall right of Animal Train. Destroyed. #historic

Sit start. #historic

Sit start #historic

Sit start on the large sidepull feature in the middle of the block, do a hard gaston move and top out straight up.

Stand start on good crimps and go straight up. This boulder is 20m behind and 10m to the left of the main overhanging boulder.

Stand start from small ledge, where cut tree stump is, straight up using some high feet.

Start on the left side of the face. Traverse right along the break till it fades, then up via small scoop feature.

Sit start the crack. Up, then straight over the capping boulder with a few holds over the lip to help.

Stand start with lefthand on arete then climb up and top out.

Sit start on left side of crack then climb up and top out. Righthand block is out.

Hand crack that closes down to tips towards the top. Sit start with wide feet and obvious jams.

Cracked Voudee Boulder - Dynamic move to an obvious rail - mantel then carefully up slab.

One of the best highball finger cracks at Pierces - sit start up vertical finger crack!

Up the right diagonal overhang from a sitstart to matching on the rail. The direct topout would be a serious undertaking, but would at least complete the problem

Thin crack that packs quite a few moves into a small space. Avoid using the granite block behind the start. Takes .3, .2, and .1 BD cams. The final move to the summit is unprotected and on crispy rock so be very careful.

The rising leftward traverse. Take care not to damage the grass trees (xanthorrhoea) at the base.

Grab the intruding rock and a small incut for your left hand then mantel up.

Stand start right side arete then climb up and top out.

The gently overhanging finger and hand crack on the uphill side of the split boulder.

Not bad and a good top rope if you're just done Mercenary Swine or Ronin. The dished face 6 metres around to the left of Mercenary Swine. Start off lower left end of huge detached flake and follow edges and flakes up and a bit right to finish straight up steep slab a few metres left of Mercenary Swine.

The flake crack 50m W of the summit boulder.

Off-width 150m NE of summit boulder

Hand crack in cave below EO.

Sit start at low jug on the lower right hand side of the boulder. Follow the jugs around left until the tree is in the way the up and over the top.

Sit start the same as the low. Make one move left then dead point to the top of the boulder, then traverse left using the jugs as foot holds until you can top out the same as the low.

Up through the crack-line statically.

The obvious crack line with a wide finish.

50m south of the kazbah is a boulder with a thin finger crack

The largest boulder has two impressive cracks in it. The wider, right hand one is Matricide. Approach the boulder from the downhill side to avoid a barricade of logs. Burly, overhung fist-corner crack with an off-width start. Takes blue and grey cams most of the way. Gear belay on top, then scramble off the back.

The thin, right leaning finger crack on the boulder on the left of GOMS. Originally 23 but easier since the demise of a large flake has opened up the crack.

Dirty. Start up right about eight metres from Discount For Heroes.

1. 20 metres (18) Climb the short crack then up left past a flake.

2. 25 metres (21) Up the crack (as for Never Get Famous) and through the roof.