Lazzaro's Staircase 16

The wide crack three metres left of Functor; it overhangs 20 metres up giving an exposed finish.

1. 16m - Climb the crack, move to the right of the large flake and belay in an alcove. An unnecessary bolt replaces the original piton below the flake.

2. 14m - Up the back of the alcove and delicately to the top of the blocks. Left then over a block and up the corner to Hortensia.

3. 20m - The second pitch of Hortensia - up the slab and then desperately up the chimney past a flake.

The ethic at Booroomba is generally staunchly traditional. Most climbing goes either entirely on gear or gear with bolts for those walls where there is insufficient gear to protect climbs. Climbs are occasionally rebolted, but retro-bolting would be considered vandalism of the lowest order.