Routes in Snowy Mountains for selected grade

A girdle traverse of the cliff – so far only covering the first part of the cliff – awaits completion. Offers some interesting situations. Start as for Entrenched.

1. 20m. Climb the groove as for Entrenched to a good ledge and belay.

2. 13m. The steep wall on the right is climbed on good holds until a swing can be made onto the slab. Traverse delicately right and down 3m crossing a small corner to a good ledge.

3. 14m. Follow ledge to stance on Pad-Nag.

4. 14m. Up onto slab, right to peg on Turdus. Down to good ledge.

5. 17m. Across to a narrow sloping shelf, delicately around corner to ledge.

6. 22m. Around to Dihedral Corner, up corner for 5m then right to ledge.

7. 20m. Up onto sloping platform. Ascend the crack using layaway holds until a lodgement can be made in a small groove. Easily to top.

Sustained, strenuous, technically interesting, with poor pro. Start in the same recess as Entrenched, at the prominent chimney crack on the right. Follow the crack for 16m then through the overhang, continue up the thin crack.

A well protected, thoroughly enjoyable classic. Straight up the low angle corner.

There is a chain around a block at the top for abseiling (January 2021). Take care with 60 meter rope as the rap is more than 30 meters.

May have been freed, but who knows? Start at the right corner of the buttressbelow a large corner leading to an overhang. Up the corner through two overhangs, then up a crack to a small ledge at 20m. Easy crack to the top.

Loose crack climbing. Start in Glissade Gully below a section of broken rock jutting out from the cliff.

1. Move right over broken rock to belay on a ledge at 20m.

2. Climb either of the two steep cracks behind the ledge.

FA: Left crack: , . 1966

FA: Right crack: . 1967

A pleasant long route. Start as for Warm Up.

1. Up the short wall then left across the slab to a good ledge.

2. Follow diagonal crack up wall then easier cracks to the top.

FA: P. Aitchison, N. Anderson. 1968

A rather obvious line. May be wet and loose. Start at the foot of the chimney.

1. Follow the obvious fissure, best to belay somewhere along the way.

FA: P. Aitchison, A. Wood, l. Raine. 1968

A classic line, but doesn't see a lot of sun, so is often wet. Start in Stag Gully where the left wall of the buttress joins the steep slab.

1. Follow the obvious crack line. Can be split at a couple of ledges, one at about 15m and one at 30m.

FA: A. Wood, P. Aitchison. 1968

Quite good climbing with a few jams, jugs and some stemming. Just pick a day when the moss is dry. Start just right of Blue Lake Crack up the wide-looking fissure. Once you reach the ledge at 20m, step around the corner to the right and scramble up ledges and grass onto The Terrace.

Not a lot to recommend it. Start below a wall at the base of the chimney on the nose of the buttress.

1. Up the wall then follow the wide crack/chimney to the top.

FA: A. Sargent, R. Eckesley. 1967

Start 7m right of Fluey.

1. Follow cracks to a ledge then right. Down and to the left to a ramp. Move to a short chimney then to the sloping shelf. Follow the groove leftward then up.

FA: A. Wood, I. Raine. 1968