★★★ Exhibition Wall 21

Grade context: AU
Length: 30m
Ascents: 447

description

Either a visionary piece of bolting, or the start of a slippery slope depending on perspective. Birth of sport climbing in the Blueies. Originally homemade fixed hangers, has since been rebolted on huge, shiny mass-manufactured fixed hangers!

Route history

1979	First ascent: A.Penney & J.Smoothy

Warnings

Location

Lat/Lon: -33.55231, 150.22106

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Grade citation

21	Assigned grade
21	OZ Rock
21	★★★ Rockclimbs in the Upper Blue Mountains
22 [22 - 22] ++	grAId

ethic

Many and varied, please try to respect them all!

Retro-bolting has occurred several times over the years and is generally condemned and dealt with swiftly.

inherited from Mount York

Seasonality

Quality

Mega Classic
Classic
Very Good
Good
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Don't Bother
Crap

Overall quality 86 from 223 ratings.

Difficulty - 21

Soft Touch
Easy
Average
Hard
Sandbag

Based on 17 ratings.

Suggested Grade

21
22

Based on 17 ratings.

Tick Types

Onsight	67	67
Flash	23	23
Red point	52	52
Pink point	13	13
Tick	59	59
Top rope	3	3
Attempt	93	93

Comment keywords

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Selected Guidebooks more Hide

Blue Mountains Climbing Guide

Author(s): Simon Carter

Date: 2019

ISBN: 9780958079082

The latest comprehensive, latest and greatest Blue Mountains Climbing Guide is here and it has more routes than you can poke a clip stick at! 3421 to be exact. You are not going to get bored.

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Best Of The Blue Blue Mountains Select Guide

Author(s): Simon Carter

Date: 2019

ISBN: 9780958079075

Simon Carter's "Best of the Blue" is the latest selected climbing guide book for the Blue Mountains and covers 1000 routes and 19 different climbing areas. For all the sport climbers out there, the travellers, or just anyone who doesn't want to lug around the big guide that's more than 3 times the size - cut out the riff-raff and get to the good stuff! This will pretty much cover everything you need!

Buy

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