Access from the carpark at Cotswold Rd. to the National Park is across gazetted private land - from the sluice gate:
East Face - Sluice gate
walk up roughly 400m to the National Parks sign:
East Face - Maroon National Park boundary
This is the start of the National Park. Visitors are urged to stay on the path or use established tracks, rather than blazing a new trail.
Google Map of Viewpoint Buttress.
Follow the hiker's track up the mountain, for about 15-20mins. Keep an eye out for 3 logs across the old path. About 50m past this are co-joined twin gums, in a clearing, one was burnt in the 2007 fire & is now just a stump.
Viewpoint Buttress - Twin gums - 1.5
The turn-off is about 100m past this. You'll come to a long, thin log, embedded in the track as a retainer:
Viewpoint Buttress - VPB turn-off point
head out right here & you should soon pick up a faint trail leading into Viewpoint. If you see a large rocky knoll ahead of you, on the hiker's trail (20m high) you've gone too far, head back down the track a little ways.
© (gremlin)Sport bolting is a big no-no here. If you place a bolt here, you'd better have a damn good reason, even then, expect it to be chopped.
First developed & named by Rick White in 1969. He was attracted mostly by the big walls on Maroon, but did establish a couple of routes here. Most of the development has been by Robert Staszewski. Scott Camps did establish a couple of routes here in the 80s. Scott put in 4 carrots to protect his classic "Sticks And Stones", receiving some criticism from Rob which lead to the naming of the route. Scott also established the hardest route here: Thins (24). Herb Brandmeier established 4 routes here in the 90s with Paul Wright. One of his sports routes (21) was literally within arm's reach of Valkerie & the offending bolts were soon removed. Mark Gamble established a handful of routes here in the 2000s.
The crag has now been superseded by other (mostly sports) crags, but still has a lot of valuable trad routes to offer the trad enthusiast.
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