Routen in The Cathedral Range für ausgewählte Schwierigkeit

The middle crack splitting the blocks

Good lead

1. 48m Start up Junglescope

2. 30m Up the R side of the buttress, belay above a scrubby ledge.

3. 30m Up, keeping L of the gully. Traverse 15m towards the arete and pass over a small overhang.

4. 30m Head upwards.

"Poorly protected, and a waste of time." From 1988 Eastern District Guide and I doubt it has improved with time. Start at the RH edge of Central Buttress.

1. 34m Up to the old bolt on Mein Kampf.

2. 9m Up to a small stance and piton below the overhang.

3. 34m Surmount the overhang then diagonally left into the crack. Up, then left into gully.

4. 27m Grovel up.

5. Continue grovelling.

Goes from the bottom of the left side, up and around avoiding the steepest/hardest bit of the face.

Goes up the middle of two rocks to prop against and onto the top of the boulder.

Start at the foot of the next buttress (the 2nd last buttress and the first without an overhanging start) Take an axe and a compass.

1. 46m Up the buttress to a ledge.

2. 46m Up the buttress to a tree.

3. 14m Up to the top of the pinnacle. Not No obvious abseil points.

A traverse / girdle from the lower slabs of Sugarloaf, across flypaper wall, main wall and eventually finishing at the very top of Sugarloaf itself. Most of the climbing is easy grade 2-6 traversing, with the sections from baghdad to black streak being slightly harder grade 8-10. There are many variations and belay oppertunities but would be best simul climbed.

From the lowest slabs, or you can even start from the 'Left Route' and climb up and over some blocks, start traversing 5-10m above the ground until onto the main face. From here trend a bit higher and try hit the bolt on baghdad. From here follow some seems and breaks over Cherry flake and black streak. Follow your nose and you will likely find yourself just above the black streak DBB. After this there is a bit of jungle bashing before a very nice clean streak of rock to the top.

Likely done before but recording here for budding adventure climbers. Probably worth 1.5 stars due to novelty and length in a nice position.

Starts in front of boulder to the right of where the track meets the main face below the point of two ramps. 1. (35m) Straight up till you reach the flake. Follow left till you reach the diagonal ledge. You should be able to see the FH identifying the Baghdad belay further up to your right. 2. (45m) Continue up and Right till you see a L facing flake. Stay to the right of this all the way to the top.

6m R of boulder against cliff (forming step). 1. 16m (8) Up and left passing BR to get to big flake. Follow flake to DRB and lower off or continue the next pitches. 2. 26m (11) Up and L to follow flakes to stance. 3. 24m (6) Straight up to the top.

At second pitch traverse 7m L. Then go up and left making sure to stay R of a small overhang. Over overhang go up and R to rejoin main line.

Start as for Cherrys Flake and go straight up to DBB, don't deviate.

Shared start with Cherrys Flake. 1. 25m (5) Up to spike, then step R to gain small ramp which is followed L and up past BR to a DRB belay. 2. 35m (4) All the way up.

1. 22m (6) Start below the chimney, up to it till a good ledge.

2. 28m (8) Follow to top of crack

3. 20m (5) And up to top of cliff

Wanders up and left from the start of Elixer to a ledge and first belay. Then on up and right towards Webb's crack and the second belay. Finish up this route.

A short distance down the access ramp, a tree grows out of a horizontal crack below a couple of mossy lines (they were clean in 1980) Up the cracked wall L of the tree to below the L hand line. There are no anchors and the stances are poor. The hardest bit is the start.

A suus name for a suss climb lol. Starts about 15m R of DV on the R hand side of a tree. Follow the line of jugs. Descent is down the ramp above GAB.

All routes on Foggy Bottom are described from left to right

2m Right of Bush Bash which is the first easy crack after the broken section.Climb widish crack through bulge.

next wide crackwith nice moves through first steepness

Crack 1m right of Rainbow

Crack 2m right of Next Gen. step Right at horizontal and up next crack.

Easy crack 4m right of Beater Blockers

The first climb in the area. The curving chimney on the top pinnacle.

Finding this place was pretty tricky and in true Cathedral Range style involves going the wrong way and a fair amount of bush bashing. I cant believe I went to so much trouble to climb a 17m rating 6! It was all for my 8 year old son who loved it. FYI the mushroom rock itself looks pretty dangerous