Begehungen in Belougery Spire

Lazy start today, rambled up the approach which had epic views of the bungles and an incredible view of cornerstone rib which had us pretty chuffed with what we had done the day prior. Greg led the first pitch and overshot the belay slightly, though it wasn't too obvious where the intended belay was meant to be. Entirely in the shade it was like climbing on ice in the wind. I geared up for my lead which I expected to be cut short as we were half way up pitch 2, I instead returned the favour by getting completely off route and completing the entire climb in a ~55m rope stretcher pitch, surprisingly little drag considering. Was epic climbing even though we were completely off route. Wonder how it compares to the real vertigo.

Rap down was entirely in the sun, and doing 30m raps on ropes without a halfway marker isn't so fun when you're layered up in the heat. Accidentally threaded the rope through my atc and didn't realize until Greg was down, Fuck. Pull the rope, throw it, rope utterly tangled in a tree, Fuck. Pull the rope entirely, thread the second rope through, deal with no middle marker faff, free the other rope, scramble home. The ability to watch Jack and Yim summit caucus from the hut was pretty epic. Might've set a record for beta spraying the rap audibly from a kilometer away.

Drove down, hiked up to camp and climbed this in the evening as our introduction to Bungles climbing and it was a great way to start!! Scored two nuts which was great and there was a small cam we couldn't get out (for you booty fiends) too. The descent was far more straightforward than expected as well which was nice as we were doing it in the dark - if you scramble straight down from the end of the last bolted rappel and then abseil off some trees you end up right in the ascent/descent gully and can then walk off with ease. An awesome experience topping out with the sunset on a high quality route!!

Lucky last on the birthday link up with Bluff Mountain and Crater Bluff - 15 hours and 55 minutes car to car. Also better than I remembered. We managed to find the base in the light which was nice as the scrambling was more involved than I remembered. Climbed the whole route in the dark and then rapped down etc etc yay we are done. Walked back to the car and ate some left over pasta my dad had made. Then we got in the car and left. A fun 21 hours in the Warrumbungles with 3 hours of sleeping and 18 hours of walking, eating, faffing, and rock climbing. I always say birthdays are for suffering but this one was really just silly and fun. Thanks for skippin’ school Haz.

Got too keen on the walk in and started climbing before getting to vertigo, ended up doing a link up of "if spirit..." into the top chimney of this climb. quite chossy and not so nice. the first half of this climb involved squeezing through a small hole behind a precarious boulder all while battling the very spiky bush that occupied said hole. this move required removing the backpack to push though the hole first as it was very small. all round good adventure, but terrible route

Quick run up with Jase and Cristof after driving up from Newie

Did from the half way ledge via spectacular exposed traverse (3 pitches) to upper 3 pitches

Lead first half. Fantastic climbing.

great exped. fun descent

first 'bungles climb

Again on 9/4/05. Fun route. Good place to collect lizards for lunch!

followed Simon

Totally rad. First multi-pitch.

Swinging leads with MickyB - Fantastic. Sometime in the early 90s.

scary but so worth the views

Highly recommend, very fun climb.

Thought this line looked like a cruisy grade 15 ish for a ground up first ascent.... in classic bungles style it proved vastly more involved.... after navigating and cleaning off loads of snappy holds as I went, and huffing and puffing for an age below the crux trying different sequences and pulling all those holds off, I had to take a rest with a stonking pump.

After a sit and a think I was able to get through the cryptic and commiting crux and almost got spat off fighting my way into the final streno moves and finger crack ! Super.

Can't wait to go back and do it when the rock is all solid as it's a super fun and engaging sporty trad route.

FFA. So hard to tell what the grade on Bungles rock will be !! haha

Launched up this as my eye was caught be the the finger crack and corners high up on the second pitch.

On this my 4th trip in the Bungles I felt like I found a little bit of Bungles rock one-ness and was comfy enough to quest up through some appauling rock and dicey moves.

Rick did a steller ground up ascent of the first pitch through some similarly dicely and loose and committing moves.

As the description says, a worthwhile intro to Bungles climbing. Also just a fun route, and not to be taken too lightly at the grade. Jenny combined P1+2, should have combined P3+4 but Hayden generously gave me the glorified scramble pitch to the top!

Twin ropes well worth it out here.

We definitely were on P1 (solid lead by Jenny, especially bulling around the bulge!) That move in particular felt more than 14, but that's part of the fun around here. After that, no idea what happened to the rest of the route.

I led P2 onwards, but didn't find anything resembling a thread anchor. Pushed up through the shrubby gully, stepping left onto the top slab to catch some of the morning sun - and eventually just topped out battling heinous rope drag due to the bad choice of clipping both ropes below the small gully.

Still good fun, especially P1 - might give it another go next time and try to climb it properly!

Such a great intro to Bungles climbing - thoroughly recommended if this is your first time here, especially given the short length and straightforward descent.

P1+2 are worth linking, start is pretty direct.

Weather was looking questionable but passable - until just below the Tourist Traverse, where we got utterly punted by a storm system and finished the climb in sideways rain. The clouds cleared briefly as we topped out - before setting back in and pelting us with hail all the way down! We were very, very happy to see that some hikers staying at Balor hut had started the stove, and were able to dry out our sopping gear and ropes.

Bit of an adventure for such an simple plan!

good steep climbing on solid rock

Deserves way more love! Has some super memorable moves, crazy exposure and the rock gets better the higher you climb. A great day out, get on it!

Old school - should have had a hemp rope with Martin Drennan

Fun scramble - hit the summit on sunset

Perfect day out, felt in total control the entire day! Ran up Bluff Mountain after to enjoy the views I didn’t get after being benighted 2018 on ‘FOTP’ back to the car in under 6hrs

3rd time up Belougery, fun approach! 3/3

17hr20min car to car

Nice climbing and much better rock than Cornerstone. 2 pitches. Hard to get too but worth it for the peak bagging

Well worth the 6.5km walk in