Routes in Blue Mountains for selected grade

Up slabby featured arete moving right to shared anchors.

Up featured slab just left of corner to shared anchors

Left side of slab to shared anchors

Around corner from ABD, up left side of slab to shared anchors or top out and walk off

Small line up obvious features on the left side of the downside of Crèche boulder.

How do I delete this route???

They don't make them like this anymore, and that's probably a good thing. Another hybrid bush-walk slash rock-climb done by the 50s pioneers of choss and doodle. "Filthy. A vertical bushwalk. Take a trowel." [JME]

Start: Starts 2m left of The Cramps at vertical vegetated corner.

1. 20m (-) Scrub to ledge and tree belay.

2. 20m (10) Scrub to ledge, dirty crack and up to bush.

3. 13m (-) Scrub to ledge (seeing the theme emerging here?)

4. 12m (-) Right and up to ledge

5. 15m (-) Filthy chimney on left.

"One of the longest climbs on the cliff, and undoubtedly the most rotten. Absolutely appalling. A masterpiece of decaying chunder, mank and rubbish." [JME]

Start: At a creek, normally with water flowing. A huge black wall to the left.

1. Across waterfall to ledge ...

2. Up a series of rotten yellow walls, into and out of caves. .. Take an ice axe.

5-7) Minor improvements to top

Original description below

Varied climbing and short pitches.

The climb goes up the end cliff line.

Scramble down to red ledge. Continue down through scrub and gully to a scrubby ledge. Along this for about 100 yds around buttress to below big corner. Scramble to it and tree anchor.

1. 10m (Crux) Up 4m to left onto grass then delicate moves back right into layback crack. Peg runner then up layback 6m to tree anchor.

2. 35m Straight up to tree anchor on left.

3. 10m Up slab to base of chimney.

4. 10m Novel. Up four sided chimney onto ledge. Scramble off or finish up Slurp.

Start: 22m right of Subterranean, "at small cairn".

1. 10m Rising leftward traverse, through re-entrant corner, out onto nose, then directly up to good tree anchor via nose and wall on left.

2. 24m Move 4m right from belay. Climb wall and crack until immediately below a hollow-looking canopy. Pull-up past this overhang (crux) then right, around nose, and up wall to base of large green gully and tree anchor. Bolt runner offers protection on 'thin' part of wall above crux.

3. 12m Climb arete at right of gully, through to top of cliffs.

Start: 10m right of Conscious.

1. 22m Up middle of the wall as you will to below the overhang. Escape to right and belay.

2. 10m Left and onto the wall above the overhang, then up to belay ledge.

3. 12m Up broken wall, etc. as for Pitch 3 of Conscious.

"A good climb, with a great jig [sic] ridden slab. Start: Large blocks lay against face, approx. 30m right of Dry Sherry Pinnacle. The climb is about 5-6 pitches, the crux being getting off the blocks onto the wall and slab above. All protection is natural." [JME]

Start 15m right of NaB, right side of ledge.

1. 15m (crux) Ledge, overhang, slightly right to piton and bushy ledge, left up corner to thread.

2. 10m Up to cave.

3 & 4) Left, around nose and up wall to spike, up to top.

Start as for UNC.

1. 12m (crux) Up to piton, right through scrub to base of corner.

2. 19m Corner, left and up to tree below chimney.

3. 5m Up Chimney to belay.

4. 13m Traverse L along ledge, short corner, L to spike.

5. 22m Wall.

"A very classical chimney struggle"[JME]

Start: Below thin black chimney facing south.

1. 12m Easily up to base of chimney.

2. 25m "Uncomfortably" up chimney to past chockstone to another chockstone belay.

3. 10m "Worm up slanting chimney, aim for the sunlight, exit out of hole." [JME]

4. 10m Easily left and off.

Start past waterfall at corner under overhang.

"I feel I must rate Crud Climb as .. the most worthless climb in this [1967] guide .. the firm favorite, certain to win by a lead of 1 furlong, 80 yds." [JME]

1. 12m Up corner to below overhang.

2. Scramble left then right to up to main ledge.

3. Walk right for 300 yards, almost to next waterfall, then scramble up short grassy gully to top.

Additional unknown route marked F on right wall of this corner.

A pleasant enough climb (accurate details lost).

Start: 75m right of Pandora in leftward leading corner.

1. 18m Up comer and small face to tree belay.

2. 18m Up rest of comer behind.

A classic layback start.

Start: 7m left of Zodiac Crack in obvious layback crack on ground level.

1. 9m (crux). Up crack and traverse right 6m to piton belay.

2. 23m Traverse right to arete and up to bushy ledge and tree belay.

3. 12m As for Zodiac Crack.

One of the easiest sport climbs in the Blue Mountains. Good one for the kiddies.

Start: 8m left of gully

1. 13m (9) up to bolt belay.

2. 17m, up.

Start: In chimney/corner 30m left of Fruitless.

1. 20m (crux) up to bolt runner, traverse right and up to piton and bolt belay.

2. 13m, traverse right, up break in overhang and back left to bush.

3. 14m, through bulge with piton runners and slight crack on right to top bolt belay.

Start: Grey-green corner marked ED 20m right of CC.

1. 40m Up chimney/corner to ledge. Smaller chimney and easy overhangs to bollard.

Start at crack 7m right of Easy Oasy.

1. 20m, crack and arete to tree.

2. 20m (9) overhang then slightly right and up to tree.

Start: At break 3m right of 'Troika' marked Q, below obvious lengths of gal chain.

One grade 9 move up break then up easy grade 4 gully and rambly slabs, passing old iron eye bolt on slab and DRB under niche which might be the top of some line of carrots. Tree belay with superlative 180 degree views of cliffs from ZigZag to Shipley and the valley below.

Old Description

1. 14m Crack, traverse left and up to tree.

2. 16m right leading chimney.

Start: Middle of giant recess in small corner 100m right of 'Knees'

1. 13m Corner and piton.

2. 6m Corner and traverse left to tree.

3. 20m left to arete and tree.

4. 17m Right and up overhang.

The route to do here if you have to! Take care!

Start: Right of 'Caterpillar Girl'. Below the big red roof. 10m above the track. To freedom.

Start: The corner. 2 pitches.

This and the next 2 routes are from the good old days.

Start: Chimney left of Haggis (probably between Master's Eggs and One of the Best).

1. 27m (9) Scrub to chimney.

2. 30m (9) Ramps to back of chimney, traverse left, chockstone, then up through hole in roof.

3. 12m (9) 'Small' slab.

Not too bad but pro is sparse.

Start: ? At the "H" at the bottom of 'Licking Holes Creek'.

Start 10m left of Charlie Brown on slabby face - very faint square and PP just visible on rock.

P1 - up slab to large ledge with dead trees (30m) P2 - up face on jugs to top. (30m)

Take care on the top pitch, rock quality is iffy

Marked PP.

P1. Overgrown Chimney to ledge.

P2. Up left from ledge, then trend right along slab following the crack to top. Walk out.

Take lots of slings. All natural anchors.

Start at parallel cracks 3 meters left of direct start.

Awesome old school route, use anchors for SF!

Another chimney

Start: 27m right of PF. Chimney - chockstones and a bucket that was rusty in 1974!

Up chimney/corner, rightwards to shallow corner and up to tree. Through the tunnel to top.

Start: Chimney/corner about 55m right of CA.

Solo of course!

Start: The offwidth. Would be nice with a lower off.

Sit start left side of boulder, short traverse to same mantle exit as TNIHAM

1m left of SC. Start up past blocks moving right to crack. (needs ddb on top)

First climb on the right of the descent gully.

Josie climbs her age on her first project.

Low-angled corner with plenty of placements, and more to be cleaned. Burnt tree anchors above wall of burnt scree. FA please name and claim.

Arete on right of the yellow wall

Centre of grey wall

Short offwidth corner 50m right of M&MM

Chimney 60m right of Ross'

From the start of the scramble to Thailand Taxi Driver, follow the base of the block towards the gully entrance. Evident short crack. Tree belay.

"Not really the Leper's finest hour. The kind of route that gives The Leprosarium its name....the few hard moves getting off the ledge give this climb its grade."

Start: 10m right of TI. Big black wall.

Crack on left wall of corner. Right across choss to ledge, through roof to ledge, overhang, right to vorner, up to ledge. Right wall and slab to scrubby ledge, scramble through vegetation to gully and up.

Start: 12m right of AC.

2m rt of BW, next obvious blunt arete tending left at top to shared anchors

Up left side of slab, to shared anchors

2m left of GTMTDI- up ledgey slab.