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Grade Route Gear style Popularity
Hornsby and the North Galston Gorge The North Cliff
14 Red Light District

Layback, Stemming, a few finger locks and a fist jamb finished off with a cool view from the top. The corner crack system right of IHP. Good gear but a little damp deep in the crack.

FA: ABatey & 2nd C.Sharples, 20 Jul 2014

Trad 11m
14 Healthy Habits

Avoid the Red Light District by climbing the wall to the right on good edges and breaks. Cams in breaks or corner crack.

FA: Graham Dowden, 27 May 2018

Trad 11m
Hornsby and the North Berowra Ladder of Gloom Area
14 The Mantle Machine

Start just right of the 'Barrelling section' of rock. Move up leftwards mantling the overhangs to finish just right of the Ladder.

Start: 4m right of 'Ladder of Death'

FA: Hayden Brotchie, 1996

Mixed trad 12m, 2
Hornsby and the North Berowra Kid Free Area
14 Too Cold For Shandy

Up LH ramp or take direct start. Pass rock hollow and up to chicken head. Mantel platform above. Take a few slings and get creative. DUB Lower off.

FA: Brendon Flanagan & Kerrylee Kirk, 27 Jun 2020

Trad 12m
14 Riding shotgun

Up orange wall with plenty of rests

Sport 5
Hornsby and the North Berowra Positive Ape Factor Area
14 Heidi Bloom

Cool trad line follows crack 2m Left on MT. Easy Climbing to face then bomber #2 protects the crux then use fixed gear to lower off and clean. Add a grade if you’re shorter. Might be historical but it’s anyone’s guess

FFA: Marcus Kumar & robin kumar, 3 Jan

Trad 10m
14 Kenneth's Climb

Plenty of good protection - med/large cams and nut placements in the top half.

Start: 2m right of DG, the crack.

There is often a python (Kenneth) hanging around.

Trad 10m
Hornsby and the North Crosslands
14 Green With Envy

Up wall as for PH past RB then tend right up shallow corner/ crack. Can be dirty at top.

Trad 12m
Hornsby and the North Mt Ku-ring-gai Faraway Wall
14 Peruvian love Child

Up left side of shorter wall, 2m right of cave. 2RB's to lower offs.

Start: 4m R of KAMU

FA: rod wills, 2004

Sport 9m, 2
Hornsby and the North Mt Ku-ring-gai Hidden Heights
14 Barabbas is my favorite Apostle

Left side of wall, move right at top to shared anchors with 5sob

FFA: rod, 13 Sep 2020

Sport 9m, 3
14 President Dump

Up face just left of orange face to anchors above bulge.

FFA: kevin van Tilburg, 22 Nov 2020

Sport 9m, 3
14 Purist Theory

Up right of orange streak on black face tending steeply left to anchors

FFA: kevin van Tilburg, 8 Nov 2020

Sport 9m, 3
14 Apathy is a Tragedy

Straight up slab to anchors

FFA: rod, 23 Jul 2023

Sport 7m, 2
14 Golden Ticket

Mantle up onto slab and straight to anchors

FFA: Kevin Van Tilburg, 16 Jul 2023

SportProject 9m, 3
14 The Drama of Original Choice

Straight up slab to anchors

FFA: rod, 16 Jul 2023

Sport 9m, 3
Hornsby and the North Mt Ku-ring-gai Lost & Found Wall
14 Ding bat

2m right of Lactose Free, up juggy wall.

FA: Kevin Van tilburg, 2005

Sport 11m, 3
14 Brokerib Mountain

Start: 2m right of Scorpion. Slab to short steep headwall. Clipping the rings is rather hard for a 14.

FA: rod wills, 2006

Sport 12m
14 Bill

Wide Flared Crack. mmmm, sounds great !

FA: Vanessa Wills, 2006

Trad 10m
14 Jihadi Wanker

Up short slab though flakes with mantle to anchors.

FFA: rod, 13 Sep 2015

Sport 8m, 3
14 Mother and the farting fig tree

Start as for Ficus, but step left and then head up wall, finishing just left of the small tree on double rings

FA: Emily Mayer, 8 May 2022

Sport 11m, 4
Hornsby and the North Mt Ku-ring-gai The Underworld
14 Shrinky Dink

Up crack stepping right onto face at 3rd bolt and up.

Start: 1m rt of crack up arete

FA: Kevin Van Tilburg, 2008

Sport 7m, 3
Hornsby and the North Ku-ring-gai Chase Green Snake Gully Auto Alley
V0- Quaker in Jamaica
Boulder 5m
Hornsby and the North Ku-ring-gai Chase Cottage Point The Fin
V0- Supportive Hose

A very short boulder (not a?) problem. Up over the overlap of the small boulder leaning against The Fin.

Boulder
Hornsby and the North Ku-ring-gai Chase Above the Boat Tier 1
V0- Esculentum

Start 2m left of Grotty Yachty, trending slightly right.

FA: Haley Rambles, 9 Oct 2021

Boulder 3m
Hornsby and the North Ku-ring-gai Chase Above the Boat Tier 2
V0- Champagne Sailing

Up the gentle ripples in the rock

FA: EileenDover, 9 Oct 2021

Boulder 3m
V0- Booze Cruise

Start 2m left of Champagne Sailing and up through the cave.

FA: Haley Rambles, 9 Oct 2021

Boulder 3m
Hornsby and the North Ku-ring-gai Chase Jurassic Park The Home Zone
V0- Office Space

Follow the line of largish holds up the back of the chimney to the top. Bad landing.

Boulder 5m
V0- Hunger Pain

Up the arete. Pleasant airy easy climbing. Makes a good down climb.

Boulder 5m
Hornsby and the North Ku-ring-gai Chase Challenger
V0- Challenger
Boulder 4m
V0- Enterprise
Boulder 4m
V0- Voyager
Boulder 3m
V0- Man on the Moon
Boulder 4m
V0- Pigs in Space
Boulder
V0- Mir
Boulder
Hornsby and the North Ku-ring-gai Chase Temple of Doom Trackside Slab
V0- Badly Packed Kebab
Boulder
Hornsby and the North Ku-ring-gai Chase Temple of Doom 3 Slap Area
V0- The
Boulder
Hornsby and the North Ku-ring-gai Chase Centre Track Harriets Rock
V0- Harriets Roof

The center of the rock has a fun easy, but maybe daunting to old farts like me, roof pull.

Boulder
Hornsby and the North Ku-ring-gai Chase Terrey Hills
14 Sundays Lawn Clippings

Start on right side of arete. Up wall, on to slab, Friend placement, plus manky bolt, climbing RHS of arete

FA: Jeffrey Crass, 1985

Mixed trad 7m, 1
14 EC

Corner at right side of smooth wall. Up the pleasant crack to DBB

FA: G.Bennett & Jeffrey Crass, 1985

Trad 10m
14 Better Than Hailstones

Start: Marked BTH. Left side of little wall

Dirty (now) wide corner crack, originally solo.

FA: R.Crass & Jeffrey Crass

Trad 3m
Hornsby and the North Eagle Rock The Crows Nest
14 Like a Sunday Morning

FA: Jason Piper & Ian Syphers

Trad 10m
Hornsby and the North Eagle Rock The Right Wing
14 Tackle

FA: Anthony Alexander

Unknown 20m
Hornsby and the North Sewerside Slabs
14 D

The route right of HSBA via three rusty carrots navigating your way through the branches of the fig tree growing over the rock.

FA: Unknown

Sport 15m, 3
14 E

The right most route on the slab, before the cave on the right hand side facing the toilet block. Three rusty carrot bolts then up the arete and over the figtree.

FA: Unknown

Sport 15m, 3
Sutherland Oatley Park
14 DumbPump

Up horizontal breaks on face to the right of Bah's Crack. Great moves. Belay off big tree next to railings.

Trad 6m
Sutherland Alfords Point Bridge North Side
14 Ada's Classic Traffic Escape
Unknown 28m
Sutherland Alfords Point Alfords Point Main Area
14 Bumbly's first

Corner and arete 4m L of 4moves3bolts

FA: Erwin Gamboa, 24 Nov 2014

Sport 8m, 2
Sutherland The Cathedral Main Crag
14 Jack and the Beanstalk

climb wobbly tree and then finish up one of the routes above Tarmac Traverse.

Sport 8m
14 Guerrilla Warfare
Unknown 8m
14 Shoot That Dog

The tricky looking Chimney

FA: Kent Heffernan, 1989

Trad 10m
Sutherland Bangor West
14 Get Tracked

Start: Starts at the crack 0.5m left of 'Andrew's Bulge'.

Trad 11m
14 Nananapper

Start 1.5m left of Whippersnapper in the squeeze, straight up wall to last bolt of Nana in the dark and on to anchors.

Sport 9m, 3
14 Get Walking

Start as for Grandma's Wheelchair, but straight up.

Sport 9m, 3
Sutherland Janali
14 Mystery Climb

Far right side of crag. Clip useless FH at waist then step off ground and up thin left facing flake.

Mixed trad 5m, 1
Sutherland Jannali Reserve
V0- Daddy's Ladder

Start on starting hold for Backwards T-shirt, continue right onto right hand face of boulder and make your way to the top

FA: Joel Kristensen, 25 Feb

Boulder 1m
Sutherland Barden Ridge
14 Gymea Lilly

At crack 1m right of SZ (behind the Gymea Lilly) below right end of high section.

Hard moves up crack to finish on ledge (old carrot and good cams). Please don't trash the Lilly.

Trad 8m
Sutherland The Wastelands The Vertex
14 King Kong's Bum

Up the dirty crack

FA: M. Fox, 1991

Trad 10m
Sutherland The Wastelands Aunty Dot's
14 Psychedelic Nightmare

left of F, Straight up past bolt and cam

FA: G. McGregor, 1992

Mixed trad 7m, 1
14 Temporary Insanity

two meters right of corner. Straight up

FA: C. Jeffs, 1992

Mixed trad 7m, 1
Sutherland The Wok
14 Beginner's Flight Direct

Start: left of M.D.

Directly up to horizontal break on B.F

FA: S. Pierce, 1988

Mixed trad 6m, 1
Sutherland The Fish Boulders
V0- Stemway to heaven

Behind the big tree, bridge your way up between Love Machine and Express.

FA: Martijn van Eijkelenborg, 6 May 2016

Boulder 4m
Sutherland Woronora Lookout
14 Son of Jeff's Traverse

Start just right of Zimmer crack and follow good break right and around the arete to finish up Thong Ridge. Good protection.

FA: Jeffrey Crass, 2017

Trad 13m
Sutherland Carss Park The Front Row
V0- Dipodium

Just left of arête. Like the name says: two feet and you're up.

Boulder 3m
North West The Balkans The Frontline Frontline Left Hand Side
V0- M.A.S.H.

Start in the bottom of the little flared crack and go up diagonally left under tree branch.

FA: Rob Saunders

Boulder 3m
V0- ?

Mantle up the slab

Boulder 4m
North West The Balkans The Frontline The Main Wall
V0- 'D'

Straight up the wall left of the corner.

Boulder 5m
North West The Balkans The Frontline Front and Centre
V0- B?

Straight up the slab next to the arete.

Boulder 3m
North West The Balkans The Frontline Area Q
V0- Almost A Case Of Trenchfoot

Up the crack.

Boulder 4m
V0- A?

Up the jugs.

Boulder 4m
North West The Balkans The Frontline Roadside
V0- F?

Start on the big ledge and go up over the prow.

Boulder 3m
North West The Balkans The Trenches The Outpost
V0- Yeah

From the break just to the right of the highest point

Boulder 4m
North West The Balkans The Trenches The Grant Kenny Boulder
V0- Breakfast Bar
Boulder 2m
North West The Balkans The Trenches In The Trenches
V0- Blood On Your Boots
Boulder 3m
North West The Balkans The Trenches Dead Man's Gulch
V0- Bang

Classic prow

Boulder 3m
North West The Balkans The Trenches The Caves
V0- Fizzle

Easy up the short buggy slab to the left of the big two trees on the way to the caves

Boulder
North West The Fear Factory The Courtyard
V0- The Exorcist

The 'Frankenstein' arete taken on the left-hand side. There is a bolt with a fixed hanger at the top of this boulder.

Boulder 4m
North West The Fear Factory Kennedy Wall and Beyond
V0- Anwar

Juggy fun right of the cave.

Boulder 4m
North West Dural Top Teir
14 Inteferon is my Kryptonite

Up left sided flake , onto face to anchors. Note anchors setback a bit so if precious with rope rap off.

FFA: Rod Wills, 19 Jul 2015

Sport 8m, 3
14 Lepto

Start on the left side of the the small wall. Squeeze past tree up the orange arete on way to summit jugs.

FA: Graham Dowden, 12 Aug 2016

Top rope 6m
14 Second Thought

Straight up middle of wall to shared anchors.

FFA: Kevin Van Tilburg, 9 Aug 2015

Sport 7m, 2
North West Dural Lower Teir
14 Moist Myrtle

Same start as for LLBQ, moving right following three bolts to shared anhcors

FFA: Ian Reynolds, 6 Dec 2015

Sport 10m, 4
14 Memoirs of my Anxious Self

Same start as BC, left at shared 1st bolt and then straight up.

FFA: rod, 3 Jan 2016

Sport 9m, 3
14 Advanced Case Of Chronic Patheticism

Up initial crack stepping right onto slab and up.

FFA: Rod Wills, 29 May 2016

Sport 8m, 3
North West Dural Big Wall Environs
14 Cutting the Crap

The obvious (3rd up) horizontal break across almost the entire cliff.

Start: Up 'A Momentary Lapse of Sanity'

  1. 5m Left to semi-hanging belay from lower-offs of Flaked.

  2. 25m Continue traversing left along break with excellent natural pro and finish up to belay at Banksia.

FA: Graham Dowden & Angus M, 22 Apr 2018

Trad 30m, 2
North West Dural Campground
14 Bewilder beast

Follow the crack left of Galston High to belay off the tree. Good gear the whole way on solid rock. Worth taking a couple of bd 4’s.

FFA: Jara Johnston-Anderson & Richard Stubbs, 11 Jan 2018

Trad 22m
North West Mystery Rocks area k
V0- Skewered
Boulder
V0- The Conqueror
Boulder
North West Mystery Rocks area n
V0- Water Hammer
Boulder
V0- Access
Boulder
North West Mystery Rocks area o
V0- Day of the Triffid
Boulder
North West The Hive Slabs
14 Honeycomb

Start at bottom left edge of the large flake beside Mud Slice and follow the edge of the flake up and right to lower offs.

Top rope 9m
North West The Stables The Stables
14 Chicken Stuffing

Straight up featured wall, 3RB's, walk off

Start: In access gully.

FA: rod wills, 2007

Sport 8m
14 Clipz

Up short orange face to jugs, 3Rbs to lower offs.

Start: Shared start to TPOG, tending right at first bolt

FA: Kevin Van Tilburg, 2007

Sport 10m
14 Yoink

A good climb up the prominent flake in middle of wall. 3 U's to lower offs.

FA: Andrew Morrison

Sport 10m
North West The Stables Otherland
14 Black Hmong Corn Cobs

Trad crack on the right side of the crag.

FA: Josh Caple, 2004

Trad 8m
North West The Stables Upper Trackside Boulders
V0- 2.58 to Penno

Up middle via jugs.

Boulder 3m
V0- Pebble Wrestle

Mantle up right side of boulder

Boulder 2m
V0- Problem 1

Mantle up short free standing boulder

FFA: rod, 28 Jul 2019

Boulder 4m
V0- Problem 3

Up right side of face and crack

FFA: rod, 28 Jul 2019

Boulder 4m
V0- Constant Cheerfulness

Start in crack then up on the right.

Boulder 4m

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