Routes in Hornsby and the North for selected grade

Start at crack, then up and over.

Start right side of slab wall. Obvious easy holds to the top.

Nice warm-up, stick to the right side of the boulder.

About 5 metres on jugs. Slabby and easy.

Up the left side of the boulder, another very easy warm-up.

Pretty straight forward, up the pillar-like wall.

Warm up for your warm up

A climb for grandma

Start down right and finish with the other climbs on this boulder. I projected this for years, every day and every night. I tremble thinking about it.

Side start, move up jugs mantle to top out.

Stand start on the ledge and use the holds in the roof and then on the left arete to top out.

Sit Start with right hand laybacking the left side of the crack. Move up and top out.

Crouch start to the right of the crack with hands on the first decent holds midway up the wall. Crack out right is off for feet.

Sit start and climb the jugs up the corner. Beautiful warm up.

Climb up right side of the rock and avoid the slab at the top. Very very easy. If you cannot climb this, please consult a medical professional.

Up wall on jugs past 1 bolt, 0.5-1 Friend in break, then up on thin moves past 2nd bolt. DRBB on top.

Easily up twin cracks and exit via counter-intuitive move through twin chockstones directly above as for "Needs Nuts Not Bolts". Solid stoppers and cams all the way with a cowbell or large cam in the final split.

Easy but reachy. Up to ledge , hard move then R to arete and jugs and L to anchor. There is a harder variant moving left to the centre of the wall clipping one bolt. 19?

Anchors replaced 2017, then after breaking biners, replaced again 2020.

Jug haul up past rings. Start: right side of buttress 30m left of 'Cenotaph Corner'. Now has loweroffs.

Starting from the left hand side, climb almost diagonal towards the hole near the top. (Where a nice no hands rest is available). From here its just a matter of standing up to reach a jug and then over the top.

Finishes a little left of the Hidey-Hole.

Start 1m right of 'Slabby Staircase'. Smaller holds and some more balancey moves

Start 1m right of 'Double Headed Snake'. Small jugs to crimps, a little balancey. Very chossy.

Wall 3m L of Savage Cabbage. Start on gently rocking boulder.

Up crack system, fiddly gear in poor rock, so don't fall

Reachy boulder the DS straight up to the first bolt on the ramp of death. Then reachy finsh through to higher anchors.

arete right of Jessica's, Pull out your guns for the top. Have the belayer keep a snug rope on the last moves as you are close to the ledges and there's a 10m of rope to stretch.

Juggy line on hangers up small overhang.

Up the black wall using very marginal gear placements.

Start: 8m left of 'Grumpy Old Men' (sounds like the FA of Prowl and Prejudice)

Left side of arete, mantel out left and walk R to arete and up. Traverse left to lower-off. Stay off after rain as the arete is pretty hollow. Strong climbers will rip holds off, definitely hide and wear a helmet while belaying.

Starts just right of the crack between "Covfefe" and "Lechon Kawali". From the undercut start pull onto the vertical wall above. Take care with the topout.

Start on jugs above the lip

Straight up the arête.

Starts left of the Arete.

1m right of LI

1m right of II.

Sit start at low sidepull and up using holds on the face only

Corner

Short thin slab with 2 RB and DRBB. 1m left of LTN. Rock has crumbled in several places possibly making this pitch harder

Over large block then up slab to DRBB. 2m right of LTN.

Right hand end of big sandy cave. Up wall passing BR to ledge the head left and up wall using cams and wires.

Same start point as PV. 3 RB, straight up to DRBB.

Right of the hand crack, feel free to use it

Up short wall. 2 RB's to lower offs.

Start: Just right of descent gully.

Rising traverse following ledge/break/crack all the way to finish anchors for 'Ruddock the Ring Wraith'. Done in two pitches, belay at Captain Underpants.

Start: As for 'Legoland'

A good route for people starting to lead as all the bolts are easy to clip. Up obvious line of several ledges. 4RB's to lower offs.

Start: 15m right of PPP

A good link up (or escape from UM crux). Up as for UM then step left after mantle at 3rd bolt, to finish up 'Legoland'. 4RB's to lower offs.

Start: As for 'Unguarded Moment'.

Up corner crack (RB), then to up easy corner, placing gear if neeeded.

Start: At corner rt of PW.

Start in grotto/cave thing left of 'Goofy Foot', onto the ledge, up into the crack, which is fists through the roof followed by an awkward mantle and then up small gulley tending left over boulders to top.

Be careful as rock quality is poor and gear may pull. Respect the X rating, it is a hand full of sand climb.

#4's is helpful and watch out for rope drag.

First Ascensionist was Colin Larter originally gave it Aid grade 15A2

Start as for open project, (cam in break if needed) then traverse right across slab (RB) to corner crack then easily up to lower offs.

Start in cave, swing up and out of cave then up crack. Very little protection for top half.

Start: 2m L of Peruvian Love Child.

Pocket to edge then up jugs, nice moves. Add a grade if you're short. 2 RB's to lower offs.

Start: 3m R of CIC

Start at ground level, (not on access ramp) tending slightly right on face over short slab to anchors.

Bouldery start with jugs all the way to anchors. Take a grade or two off depending on the size of the cheat cairn you use.

Same start as 5sob, tend right up to anchor left of crack

Steep fun start onto arete, end of wall right side

Up left side of face off ramp onto ledge and short face to shared anchors

Straight up wall right of crack

Up right side to shared anchors

Up crack to the tree then head left. Lower off gum tree.

Up the crack to the tree and then head right. Lower off the gum tree.

Step off boulder into pocket and up blunt arete....add 3-4 grades if starting from bottom excluding block.

Scramble up short chimney to top of block. Up seam to top.

Start: At base of big block 3m left of 'Goblin Horde'.

Start up right, move left then straight up

Trad route up a nice looking crack

Start 2m right of F. Up obvious crack tending left to finish up arête of Foundlings. Crack eats medium nuts. 4 meter run out scramble to arete.

Obvious off width roof crack. Not the most glorious of routes, but fun little moves and surprisingly easy.

Start: 20m left of Bill.

Mantle start, straight up blunt arête. Shared lower offs with Evolution.

Straight up middle of slab.

Around corner at same level on next wall. Up slab onto short face to lip and anchors.

Left side of cave onto blank slab.

Start: 10m rt of Pr-Kev,

Start at the right hand end of the main wall. Up crack to ledge and tree then continue up chimney.

Up middle of first wall, harder than it looks

Right side of block just left of mossy streak. Tricky start getting easier the higher you go.

Start in middle of face, up onto small knee high ledge right of evident scoop and left of first bolt.

2m Lt of H, bouldery start up short technical face.

2nd most left route on detached bolder.

Left most route on detached boulder, using arete and face.

The corner crack behind the detached boulder. Up corner to ledge, then right and up, taking care with the loose stuff.

The crack in the middle of the wall. Step left on ledge to anchors for "Sweet 'n Tasty".

1m left of "Sweet 'n Tasty". Up and over obvious angled corner feature to shared anchors.

Traverse left along low angled feature onto arete and up to shared anchors, can go straight up as well from below first bolt @ the same grade.

Start at right of large block, beneath obvious small L facing corner at break. Up to break (BR) then easily up corner to slab. Take care clipping 2nd bolt

Stand start up arete

Stand start on crimps and make way upards.

Cute. Up the jugs right of the scoop, sit start.

Start at the base of the overlap, then up the relaxing slab - if you don't mind a loose hold or two.

Up the feature on the Northern end of The Fin.

The right hand side of the Orange scoop. Jug your way on those big holds.

Just left of the gully. Find your way via the big pocket with relief towards the top.

Start low (or sit start) with both hands on the obvious seam, then straight up with a balancey finish. Don't cheat and use the tree to top out.

Delicate start left of tree, then straight up.

Start on obvious crack 1m left of Pinchy and straight up

Up the left side of the boulder.