Nodes in Orchids Buttress

From the car park walk back down the road and onto the Ted Baker track as for Billy Woods wall. Turn left up the hill about 40 metres before Billy Woods wall and cross the ridge through a small notch buttress is immediately in front of you. Routes are described from lowest to highest (left to right)

Up slopey arete near large tree at left hand end of wall. Shares anchor with left bolted crack.

The left hand crack, trending left at the top ledge. Care getting to 5th bolt as it is run out- or take a finger sized cam.

Start up left hand crack, taking the right crack after the 4th bolt to the anchors of Cryptostylis, needs medium gear.

The right hand steep crack

Starting down low, left of the main wall. Up boulder to gain the wall above. Up the face just left of the arete. Anchors are over the back and may require abseil to get back down.

The fixed hangers on the left arete of the upper wall. Access by scrambling through cleft next to DendroKing then dropping down through leaf litter to climb carefully onto ledge. Belay off bolts with shackles.

First bolt can be clipped from coming in from the high right side with care, but the climb starts down underneath on the ground. Scramble up the slab section below first bolt to ledge. Bouldery moves to get off the ledge to gain the blunt flake. 2nd clip is a little tenuous, then head slightly up and right to via a tricky sequence to get to 3rd clip, Techie moves out left to get to a balancy 4th clip, then up slightly right to get to a very hard clip at 5th draw. On pumped arms head up and left to gain vague but good flake, up and back right to get to 6th bolt. Easier ground to Cold shut and U bolt anchor.

As for SOABD for first 3 bolts. Punchy move up & right to gain good rail and a slight stance. Pump on up using small edges to tricky redpoint crux move at last bolt. Skip or clip? After last bolt head across right to Talc anchors. Classic climbing

Awkward to get over inital buldge then reach out left to clip 3rd bolt from ledge, then punch hard!

Same start for the Fridge Thing, then awkwardly step left on ledge to 2nd bolt, use a long draw. Gingerly reach up to good jug at 3rd bolt. Crux can be done two ways, knee dislocator or double crimper. 4th ring was added after 1st ascent as a dogger. From 5th bolt head up slightly left then up to ring and then head up and right into diagonal crack system. Tricky moves and hidden holds lead to last ring. Step left and then straight up to anchors.

Stick clip hanger from the ground, bouldery move to gain a good ramp. Easy moves up and right to ledge, then step up and across left for a few tricky moves to get underneath “the Fridge”. Punchy move to get onto the Fridge, then step across left and up to bolt, easier moves to anchors.

Arete on ring bolts.

Re-bolted line of ringbolts just left of the chimney. A good introduction to climbing at Bulahdelah

Step off block onto arete then up flake and left to anchors

The rightmost route on the the west facing wall, starting from the ground. Up easy crack to ledge then a hard move over bulge to the right of flake