Routes

One of the taller problems on the Ridge, this is a lovely crack, and great for a bit of practice if you're a burgeoning crack fiend.

Sit start beneath vertical seam, climb seam and top out.

Sit start on left side of the obvious flake, then straight up flake to top.

Up face crack on right side; boulder is second (of three) on right hand side facing the lake coming down the unpaved road.

Up the crack and its nearby features. Bonus points if you use only the crack. Sit start.

Sit start crack, top out.

A few variants of this are possible through the various crack-lines at the front and back of the boulder holding 'Zac's Arete', including down-climbing #17.

Up the crackline using the arete/crack to ascend.

Stand start the overhanging diagonal finger crack.

About 50m downhill from the The Lorax. The thin crack that has a large flake at the bottom of it.

A deceptively hard start up to the notch at which point things ease. Small footers.

Sit start.

Sit start.

Up the crack, switching sides halfway through to get established for the top. Crux may be holding on while moths fly into your face.

A tricksy start then easygoing layback to topout.

Stand start from arete in corner then climb up and top out.

Similar to the problem around the corner, this is a bit of a crack climb that peters out into slab. One chipped hold.

Up the very good easy feature. A good beginner or kid's problem, with an easy descent off the back.

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

Sit start, then up the crack using jams

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.

Sit start on the layback 2m left of Ginger root and follow it up to the same topout

Awkward moves from a sit-start up the right crack and corner

Sit start in corner, follow crack.

Directions from ACT granite, starting from the Kazbah area. I suspect this is Wasabi. It seems the most likely, it's in the right area, about the right height, on the other side of Laurel camp road, and drains into the water catchment, If someone can independently have a walk/look around to confirm that'd be great

Things now get worse... Follow the track downhill to an intersection, turn right and keep rallying back uphill through the pines. You may eventually come back out onto the cleared ridgeline to the main access road. Turn back right onto it and continue until nearly back to the original narrow turnoff to the knoll. There is a small group of boulders in the water catchment area on the opposite side of the road to the knoll.

The hand crack amongst these

Sit start as for Skipping Stones, but follow the seam to finish around right.

Sit start and up the crack

Sit start with feet on pedestal and hand in the bottom of the crack. Pull on, do a few jams and top out. Check the crack for the resident blue tongue before setting off.

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

Stand start and up the obvious corner, a couple of metres round from Learning to Fly.

3m boulder with a crack going right up the middle, sit start. Be warned it's very sharp.

The obvious crack line, starts at hands and flares out as you go up.

Up the thin corner crack 20m right of 70s flare. Sit start to finger crack or laybacks

Start with a high right jam between the boulders. Struggle upwards. Question your choices. Two stars if you're into offwidths, minus eight if you're not.

Stand start from base of diagonal crack then climb up and top out.

The obvious corner. The easiest descent from the whole boulder is to down climb the top of this and jump to the rock or a mat

Highball crack with little room to land. The problem is pretty easy, but hitting the pads wouldn't be (Take it as Grade19/20 trad)

Sit start the steep crack. A test piece for well 'ard crack climbers. You can try and layback/undercling this, but if you aren't Arnie or can't jam you're likely to fail. Eat your wheaties.

King line of Cohiba. Follow the crack through the roof and up the slab to finish. Hopefully you have the perfect hand size.

Dane Evans | David Cook

Up the very nice easy corner

Sit start from left hand crack then climb up and top out.

Sit start from base of crack then climb up trending leftwards and top out through groove.

50m up the hill from Fundamental block. Stand start at the base of the semi-detached flake. Climb the flake using your preferred combination of laybacks and jams. Mantle the flake and climb the committing but easy slab above.

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.

Up the lower leftward diagonal break. It gets high, and looks rather hard

The higher of the leftward diagonal cracks. Looks easy enough, but its high, and the rock may be suspect

Up the crack and mantel.

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

The gently overhanging off-width on the down hill side of the split boulder.

Not your usual boulder problem. A V0 chimney. Up and over. If you head right to the back it's shorter. If you want to add a bit of spice, top out on the big mushroom on top with a heel hook so you feel really insecure. Just don't fall off from there because you'd probably kill yourself impaled on a tree. Also, I take no responsibility for any stupid decisions you make.

Could go as a boulder problem, assuming someone is willing to down-climb it. Up the wide to start then thinning off-width. Possibly too big for most gear.

A nice little crack line, with a bit of an arete to rest against if you get freaked out. The crack itself provides bomber laybacking with amazing friction and some reasonable incuts inside the crack to give extra confidence.

Up a virtual curved chimney. Very easy terrain.

The obvious crack line with a wide finish.

Flaring crack into a seam and then several hook moves to gain the horizontal crack and stepping right and up using the horizontal crack.

A highball, very height dependent. Sit start. Sink a jam (if you can) up high and use a small notch for your left hand to campus up and get your feet set. That's the hard move, the rest is grade 14. For shorties, it's going to be more difficult but there's a reasonable number of holds. You can get off the back of the boulder, if you're careful. Obviously, don't use the tree... (it actually is quite tempting when you're trying to get the side-smear!)

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 first crack you'll see when approaching from the downhill side. The best line at Pierce's Creek, classy climbing. The first 6m is easy but involves a pair of huge hollow flakes with questionable pro (be gentle). The business is the thin hand crack above on sound rock. Take plenty of red cams, and a few other assorted things. Blue and grey cams are best for the belay, but other options are available.

On the right-hand boulder is this climb, the left leaning hand crack with a wide finish. Previously world famous as the name of the ACT's Pritkin Climbing Rag. The hand crack with the wide finish.

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.

Crack and corner on the right of the main face

Along the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve road are many small and some larger granite boulders. This climb is on the obvious "coffe bean" boulder 400m behind the reserve vistors centre. It is the wide crack clearly visible on the main face.

Another fine jam crack about three metres right of Pure Poison.

About 500 metres past the Visitor's Centre, a finger crack on the left has been climbed.

The crack about 10 metres right of Unnatural Acts starting (crux) next to a tree. Up the crack and straight on up the fang above.

Sit start and then go diagonally left up the seam. Falling at the end would be bad.

The crack.

Layback the flake to the left up onto the boulder, then top out to the right.

Sit start as per #3. Once at the top of the first boulder, follow the seam up and right.

Sit start round to the right. Follow the good layback flake up and left round the tock, and top out straight up once at the 'ledge'. Downclimb over the back.

Sit start. Up crack in corner, trending right and round onto the top.

Straight up a mossy crack. Nothing difficult.

Sit start from bottom of crack, climb crack and top out.

Sit start from base of left hand crack, climb crack and top out.

Slab and thin crack between descent and Fridge lift on the face near the road.