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Logan Brae

  • Contexto de grado: AU
  • Fotos: 11
  • Ascensiones: 5,421
  • Aka: Eagle Head Lookout
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Descripción

Short, steep and pumpy.

The access to this cliff is through private property and the situation is delicate. Privacy, environmental impact, safety and the parking situation are of serious concern to the landowners. They are allowing access to continue for the time being but their patience is surely being tested. See "Access issues" below. The conditions of access and the parking restrictions are not optional. Please don't stuff it up.

Remember, the land owners are not inviting you onto their land; if you enter take full personal responsibility for yourself and your actions (and any accidents). Almost all routes here require a hefty stick-clip of a high first bolt. There is nasty drop below most routes - either the climber or belayer should be clipped into something at all times to avoid a major catastrophe.

Need a toilet? Never crap at the crag or around the carpark. Please use the brand new public toilet located at Hargraves Lookout (2.3km past the Logan Brae carpark).

Thanks to Simon Carter for providing this information from the 2019 Blue Mountains Climbing guidebook. Check https://www.onsight.com.au/bluemtns/ for latest information.

© (mjw)

Restricciones

The landowners currently are allowing access but ONLY under the following conditions.

  • Stay on the track, no shortcuts.
  • Do not enter any other part of the property.
  • Do not damage vegetation. Respect regeneration.
  • No dogs.
  • No littering.
  • No fires.
  • No cairns.
  • No camping.
  • No overnight parking.

PARKING RESTRICTIONS: Please also strictly adhere to the parking guidelines, these are not optional:

  • Strictly, no more than four (4) cars are to park in the main parking area. No large vans.
  • DO NOT park at the pull-off 80m back down the hill towards Blackheath
  • DO NOT park anywhere further up the hill!
  • And DO NOT park anywhere on the right (northern) side of the road!

Consider car-pooling. If the parking spaces are full go somewhere else!

If we observe these guidelines, then this access might remain usable for longer. Educate your mates.

Note: There is absolutely no access to the crag via the gated fire trail which goes through 'Berridale', further up the road, under any circumstances. Info in the 2010 guidebook, and earlier editions, is out of date, see https://www.onsight.com.au/bluemtns/ for latest information.

© (mjw)

Acceso

From Blackheath drive out on Shipley Road (past the Centennial Glen turnoff) and out onto Shipley Plateau. 4.5km from the Blackheath traffic lights there is a fork in the road, now stay left (signed to Hargraves Lookout) and drive 220m up the hill and park at a small pull off at the second power pole on the left.

Observe the parking restrictions:

  • Strictly, no more than four (4) cars are to park in the main parking area. No large vans.
  • DO NOT park at the pull-off 80m back down the hill towards Blackheath
  • DO NOT park anywhere further up the hill!
  • DO NOT park anywhere on the right (northern) side of the road!

Consider car-pooling. If the parking spaces are full then go somewhere else!

The track to the crag is located the right side of the entry area (no lazy 'shortcuts, please).

There is absolutely no access to the crag via the gated fire trail which goes through 'Berridale', under any circumstances.

© (mjw)

Ética heredado de Blue Mountains

Although sport climbing is well entrenched as the most popular form of Blueys climbing, mixed-climbing on gear and bolts has generally been the rule over the long term. Please try to use available natural gear where possible, and do not bolt cracks or potential trad climbs. If you do the bolts may be removed.

Because of the softness of Blue Mountains sandstone, bolting should only be done by those with a solid knowledge of glue-in equipping. A recent fatality serves as a reminder that this is not an area to experiment with bolting.

If you do need to top rope, please do it through your own gear as the wear on the anchors is both difficult and expensive to maintain.

At many Blue Mountains crags, the somewhat close spacing of routes and prolific horizontal featuring means that it is easy to envisage literally hundreds of trivial linkups. By all means climb these to your hearts content but, unless it is an exceptional case due to some significant objective merit, please generally refrain from writing up linkups. A proliferation of descriptions of trivial linkups would only clutter up the guide and add confusion and will generally not add value to your fellow climbers. (If you still can't resist, consider adding a brief note to the parent route description, rather than cluttering up the guide with a whole new route entry).

If you have benefited from climbing infrastructure in NSW, please consider making a donation towards maintenance costs. The Sydney Rockclimbing Club Rebolting Fund finances the replacement of old bolts on existing climbs and the maintenance of other hardware such as fixed ropes and anchors. The SRC purchases hardware, such as bolts and glue, and distributes them to volunteer rebolters across the state of New South Wales. For more information, including donation details, visit https://sydneyrockies.org.au/rebolting/

It would be appreciated if brushing of holds and minimisation/removal of tick marks becomes part of your climbing routine. Consider bringing a water squirt bottle and mop-up rag to better remove chalk. Only use soft (hair/nylon) bristled brushes, never steel brushes.

The removal of vegetation - both from the cliff bases and the climbs - is not seen as beneficial to aesthetics of the environment nor to our access to it.

Remember, to maintain access our best approach is to 'Respect Native Habitat, Tread Softly and Leave No Trace'. Do not cut flora and keep any tracks and infrastructure as minimal as possible or risk possible closures.

For the latest access related information, or to report something of concern, visit the Australian Climbing Association NSW Blue Mountains page at https://acansw.org.au/blue-mountains/

Algunos contenidos se han facilitado bajo la licencia de: © Australian Climbing Association Queensland (Creative Commons, Attribution, Share-Alike 2.5 AU)

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Autor(es): Simon Carter

Fecha: 2019

número ISBN: 9780958079082

The latest comprehensive, latest and greatest Blue Mountains Climbing Guide is here and it has more routes than you can poke a clip stick at! 3421 to be exact. You are not going to get bored.

Autor(es): Simon Carter

Fecha: 2019

número ISBN: 9780958079075

Simon Carter's "Best of the Blue" is the latest selected climbing guide book for the Blue Mountains and covers 1000 routes and 19 different climbing areas. For all the sport climbers out there, the travellers, or just anyone who doesn't want to lug around the big guide that's more than 3 times the size - cut out the riff-raff and get to the good stuff! This will pretty much cover everything you need!

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