Grade | Route | Gear style | Popularity | ||
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Port Stephens Harbour Boulders | |||||
V1 | ★ C
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V0 | D
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V0 | Ice climb
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V2 | ★★ Crack the ice
Nice hand jam crack | 4m | |||
V2 | Freezer block
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V3 | ★★★ Frozen
Pad on ledge | 4m | |||
V2 | ★★ Disney
Pad on ledge | 4m | |||
V0 | Elsa
Up arete, sit start the big undercling | 3m | |||
V0 | Anna
Sit start to the big hole | 3m | |||
V0 | ★ Olaf
| 3m | |||
V1 | Kristoff
Traverse low then up. | ||||
V1 | White horse
Sit Start at diagonal right of arete, follow to arete then easily up. | 3m | |||
V2 | Painful pockets
Sit start under arete and pull on by pocket just left of arete. Feet up. | 2m | |||
V4 | ★★ Hans
Ocean side sloper arete | 3m | |||
V1 | Sven
Left side up arete and slab | 3m | |||
V0 | Cranky giants
The centre of the wall with all the huecos SS.chose hold carefully | 3m | |||
V1 | ★ Tiny Ripples
Up the middle of the black slab on tiny feet | 3m | |||
V1 | ★★ Battered Whiting
Sit down start, up arete trending right | 4m | |||
V0 | ★ Fire Escape
Nice climbing on positive holds between Battered Whiting and Hips & Tips | 3m | |||
V3 | ★★★ Hips & Tips
layback the thin seam from a sit down | 3m | |||
V2 | ★★★ The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
Sit down start- the leaning corner, might be V3 if you are short | 3m | |||
V0 | Sea Foxes
sit down start trending left | 4m | |||
V0 | Black Slab 1
Up the slab just right of the leaning flake. | 5m | |||
V0 | Black Slab 2
| 5m | |||
V0 | Black Slab 3
Up the faint crack in the middle. | 4m | |||
V0 | ★ Black Slab 4
| 4m | |||
VB | ★ Black Slab 5
| 4m | |||
V1 | Black Slab 6
Traverse right onto slab above overhang | 4m | |||
V0 | Zawn me
Up the middle of the slab in the zawn. | 8m | |||
V0 | ★★ Flaked Out
Follow the very long flake up. | 7m | |||
V1 | ★★ Jagged Arete Land Side
Start on the shelf and go further up using the arete. | 6m | |||
V1 | Jagged Arete Ocean Side
Up mantle step left to arete and up | 5m | |||
V0 | Square Arete Land Side
Yes you can stand on the broken flake up high. | 5m | |||
V3 | ★★★ Square Arete Ocean Side
Climb the highball arete to the broken hold shelf, then top out slightly left. | 6m | |||
VB | Fin chimney
Chimney left of fin arete with rock fins | 6m | |||
V3 | ★ Fin Arete Land Side
| 4m | |||
V3 | ★★★ Pinch me now
Straight up the fin, pinching the fin edge only. | 4m | |||
V3 | ★★ Fin Arete Ocean Side
| 5m | |||
V0 | Monitors Ahoy
Start 10 m to the right on block and traverse left on side of platform, rising into offwidth corner crack to top out | 12m | |||
V1 | ★★★ Fine Line
Climb the ridged line on the face using the edge and some perfectly placed pockets. Great ocean views and exposure. | 6m | |||
V1 | Corner eliminate
Up fused corner avoiding diagonal | 4m | |||
VB | Diagonal
Up into Left rising diagonal line | 4m | |||
V1 | ★ She-elves arete
| 4m | |||
V0 | ★ She-elves
Left of wing span. Sidepull start and up the little shelves. | 4m | |||
V4 | ★★★ Wing Span
very fun and very morpho boulder. Stand start hands on either side. | 4m | |||
V1 | Blue cam crack
The wide hand crack | 4m | |||
V0 | Sprayed
Left facing corner before next step up | 4m | |||
V2 | Cracked
5m right of Wing Span on little platform. Sit start and up short crack | 3m | |||
Port Stephens The Slot East Wall | |||||
17 | ★ Fellatio
| 10m | |||
18 | ★ Crystal Clear
| 18m | |||
20 | Wilde Ride
| 11m | |||
24 | ★★ Sun Dance
| 15m | |||
21 | ★ Splash
| 17m | |||
16 | ★ Stumbleine
| 15m | |||
16 | ★ Big Girls Blouse
| 18m | |||
17 | Mixed Reactions
| 10m | |||
21 | ★ Pinch The Rib
| 18m | |||
23 | ★★ Bug Storm
| 19m | |||
23 | ★★ Brass Monkey
| 20m | |||
22 | ★★ Hazy Dayz
| 19m | |||
24 | ★ Second Chance
| 19m | |||
21 | ★ Park Life
| 17m | |||
21 | Johns Project
| 17m | |||
23 | ★ Wolverine
| 15m | |||
23 | ★ Blade
| 15m | |||
21 | ★★★ Crash Landing
| 30m | |||
21 | ★★ Lubricated
| 12m | |||
Unknown 1
| 8m | ||||
Unknown 2
Belay from black rock at the base just inland from 'DWS wall'. Up 4 ring bolts and top onto 2 ring bolts. | 8m, 4 | ||||
Port Stephens The Slot West Wall | |||||
21 | ★★ Torn
The great flake on the south/western side. Needs some lower belay bolts. | 21m | |||
21 | Licked
Nice crack lower down, moving left halfway or so to finish at the biggish pockets. Single carrot near the top. | 20m | |||
21 | Slot Machine
The flaring but good crack on climber's left/south of Licked. Just below and to the left of the single top carrot. Start on the obvious platform. Grade is all in the hard last move. FA: John Hollott, 16 Sep 2019 | 12m | |||
Port Stephens The Slot The Slit | |||||
North East Arete
Triple Hex Bolt Belay on north side, east end. | |||||
14 | BridgeClimb
South side Triple Hex Belay. Opposite eastern-most bolt. Bridge. | 8m | |||
22 | Slit of the Tongue
South side Triple Hex Belay. Opposite Eastern-most bolt, FACE only, to right of mini arete feature. | 8m | |||
15 | Ex Step Father
South side Triple Hex Belay. Opposite western-most bolt. Bridge. | 8m | |||
21 | Freudian Slit
South Side Triple Hex Belay. Opposite western-most bolt. Face only. Crimps to hollow sounding flake (take care) to duo pocket and up. | 8m | |||
12 | Science Technology Engineering Maths
Top rope from trees and cracks on northern side, 2 metres inland from the triple bolt belay. Where bedrock basalt meets the sand. Bridge. | 8m | |||
22 | Slit Lamp
From Toprope belay as for STEM, follow the series of flakes (security not guaranteed!). FACE ONLY. Starts from the basalt on the floor where it peaks. | 8m | |||
12 | The Narrows
Bridge the narrowest part of the slot. 3m inland from STEM and Slit Lamp. Toprope anchor from shrubs and cracks. | 8m | |||
18 | The Bosphorus
From toprope anchor of The Narrows. Right side, following large side pull feature. FACE only. | 8m | |||
15 | Dire Straits
From toprope anchor of The Narrows, left side through easy. FACE only. | 8m | |||
21 | Single Slit Interference
Use trad anchor and follow side-pull features on south wall opposite Dire Straits. FACE only. | 8m | |||
Port Stephens The Slot DWS Wall | |||||
22 | DWS 1
| 10m | |||
19 | Gazza
| 10m | |||
17 | DWS 2
Climb on high tide, boulder underwater quite shallow | 10m | |||
18 | DWS 3
Traverse from bottom right to top left past 'DWS 1' | 10m | |||
Port Stephens The Surge | |||||
21 | ★ Vlad the impaler
Double ropes and small wires and C3s handy. Crux well protected. Note that the topo in the Haasnoot guide is incorrect. Vlad goes direct through the towering blocks (the spikes with which one impales). Someone has placed DUB anchor. FA: Vanessa Wills & David Gray, 2019 | 12m | |||
21 | ★★ Stephan the Barbarian
The right line. Nice moves to some thin crimps. FA: Leigh Harper | 10m, 4 | |||
23 | ★★ Power Surge
Start as for STB, but move out left after the first bolt on fixed hangers. Set: Corey Sawyer FA: Brendon Fraser & Tim Haasnoot | 10m | |||
28 | Surge'n
The corner in the middle of wall to thin face moves Set: Jason Piper FA: JP, 5 Feb 2020 | 12m, 4 | |||
24 | ★★ Re-surgance
Start up flakes to new second bolt, then past horizontal break to DBB FA: Tim Haasnoot | 12m, 4 | |||
★ Project
Start as for Resurgence but go left on small RBs. | |||||
25 | ★★ Sir Charge
The left hand route. Tough start then some nice thin moves to top, anchor has 2 figure 8's through U bolt.. FA: Jason Piper | 12m, 5 | |||
Port Stephens The Surge The Surgery | |||||
18 | ★★ Insurgents
Hex bolts from platform on north facing wall, just to right of easy corner. Double carrots at top and bottom. Access by jumping across the water, using a plank to cross, or abseiling in. | 10m, 5 | |||
13 | ★★ Dill Pickles
Fixed Hangers. Abseil in or carefuly walk down the slab on the left hand side | 12m, 2 | |||
18 | ★★ Surgery
6 Ring bolts. Abseil in or carefuly walk down the slab on the left hand side. Belay from first the two ring bolts on the small platform above water. | 12m, 6 | |||
18 | ★★ Left of arch
Top rope anchors only. Belay from the two ring bolts on the small platform above water | 14m | |||
Right and over arch. JP project.
Access from North side (The Surge side). FHs. | |||||
Port Stephens The Surge The Surge DWS | |||||
17 | ★★ DWS 1
Climb the left side arete | 8m |