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Umina The Attic | |||||
V7 | ★ Bump in the night
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V7 | ★ Skeleton Key
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Umina The Brown Room The Pergola | |||||
V7 | ★★ Red October
FA: dan, 2007 | ||||
V7 | ★★ Hot Rats (top out)
Start matched at the Hueco as for Hot Rats. Up to the big jug but send it up and left. Top moves are classic and tricky. Finish at the break 3/4 way up. Drops off. FA: Daniel da Silva | 5m | |||
V7 | ★★ Causes
Starting at slopey break. traverse below the lip of the roof on well formed pockets and crimp high on lip. Finish at pocket jug a few moves after the two finger pocket. | 4m | |||
V7 | ★ Slow Moves
FA: Daniel da Silva, 2006 | ||||
V7 | ★★ Knob Jockey (top out)
Tops out the same as 'Hot Rats (top out)'. FA: Antho | 9m | |||
V7 | ★ Power Station
Electric pergolas into Generator FA: Dan | ||||
Umina The Brown Room Brownroom proper | |||||
V7 | ★★ Brown Wings
Start on the right side of the cave at good left and split pockets for right. Traverse left along the roof via edges and pockets to finish as for De-Fib. The big foot ledge is out until you reach the De-Fib start holds. FA: Ben JengA, 18 Jul 2014 | ||||
Umina The Brown Room The Grey Area | |||||
V7 | The Coin Slot
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V7 | ★★★ Cognitive Resonance
Start left and right in large pockets. Punch up to sloper and stand on small crystal to crimp, top out. | 4m | |||
Bouddi National Park Hawkes Head Cave | |||||
V7 | ★★ Mad Max
Start in slot jug on the left, jump (reach if tall) to next slotted hold. Traverse right and finish up Mel Gibson Memorial FA: Tom Hodgson | 6m | |||
V7 | ★★ I'm Too Old For This Shit
Lethal Weapon but with the Mel Gibson Memorial top out up left. Jug rail is out. | ||||
Bouddi National Park Wagstaffe - Bouldering The Top Cave | |||||
V7 | ★★ Dab Meister
Start matched on undercling on the far right of cave moving up and right to finish matched at the obvious break. Set: Gabriel Grimison | 3m | |||
V7 | ★★ Universal Soldier
Start as top shelf and climb into broken boy soldier FA: Daniel da Silva, 2007 | 7m | |||
Blackwall Underworld | |||||
V7 | ★★ Dr Bob
Starting on the finish jug of "Room With a View" and head directly up through a long move to the crimp rail, continuing straight up to top out. FA: Sam Healy | ||||
V7 | ★★★ Room with a View
Sit start at the back of the cave, and follow the line of holds arcing out to the right. Finish matched on a ledge around the lip after some cruxy moves. Back to the upper level. This is the boulder problem under the roof that sits above Nice climb for the Kids and Little Gem. When you come the collapsed roof system and crawl thru to the other end of the cave you will come to a roof system about 1.5m above ground level. "Room with a view" starts in the back of the cave and goes all the way to the lip and finishes on the headwall. Set: julian hurrel FA: Julian Hurrell, 30 Jul 2015 | 7m | |||
Blackwall Kit Kat Wall | |||||
V7 | ★★★ The Crow
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V7 | ★★★ Flaminco Dance
FA: Daniel da Silva, 2008 | ||||
Woy Woy The Fort Roof top | |||||
V7 | ★★★ Sinner
Sit start as for plastic messiah but head directly out prow to pinches. FA: Daniel da Silva, 2005 | ||||
Woy Woy Road House The Watermelon | |||||
V7 | ★ Squoze
Sit start using the two pockets left and right of the hollow in the boulder. Use some trickery to work right and up the slimpers to nice mantle press. Keep shoes on, there is some broken glass on the ground. FA: Liam Johnston | 2m | |||
Woy Woy Road House Break Down Lane Right | |||||
V7 | ★★ Road Side Assistance
Undercling the crack and smear your way up and left to gain the horizontal break. Lock off and reach for the slopey top out. classic Start: Sit start at crack below little rooflet FA: Daniel da Silva, 2008 | 3m | |||
V7 | Castle Who?
Start 1-2m to the right of the crack with left and right hands in two dimple pockets, smearing the seam. Hop up left hand to a bad slopey hold and press your way out. (How do you grade a mantle?) FA: Tom Hodgson | ||||
Woy Woy Road House Break Down Lane Left | |||||
V7 | ★★ Dragged Along
Sit start at the right most point of the horizontal break under the rooflet. Traverse left a few moves, then break out to the lip. Using the series dishes on the face for hands, kick the feet over to the arete and mantle over to join "Shin Splints" and top out. FA: Tom Hodgson, Oct 2019 | 4m | |||
Woy Woy Road House The Dug Out | |||||
V7 | ★★ The Extended Line
Crawl way down in the back of the cave, all the way down there in the little stream. Follow the rail leftish to the big pocket,then some tricky moves back right lead back into the establish line. Finish as this problem. Start: Way down the left hand side of the cave 'matched' at the base of the toilet bowel scoop. can be sit started if it's not too wet FA: dan, 2000 | 8m | |||
V7 | ★★★ The Established Ball
Start for the Established Line. Climb straight into the mushroom and finish as for Curve Ball. Drop a grade if you use holds on the established line for your feet. FA: Liam Johnston, 6 Jul 2021 | 5m | |||
Dark Forrest Monkey Cave | |||||
V7 | ★★★ Trip Master Monkey
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Dark Forrest The Happy Place | |||||
V7 | Dirty Drowning Man
Start: Sit start as for 'dead bolt' and climb up into the pocket roof then move right across the buldge below the top ledge and into the next little cave to finish up hydraulic. FA: Daniel da Silva, 2000 | ||||
V7 | ★★★ Dead Bolt Direct
As for Dead bolt but from the feature on the face move left to the bad slopers under the block (avoids the good break farther right). Top out around the left side of the block. Start: Sit start "matched" on the farthest left hand end of the big low rail FA: Daniel da Silva, 2000 | ||||
V7 | The Golden Pinch (variant)
Climb “Rigor Mortis” into “The Golden Pinch” . | ||||
Koolewong Lara Street Boulders Emperor's Tomb | |||||
V7 | ★★ Ming The Merciless
Start as the ming Dynasty to the big jug, then drop down and traverse low to the good slopey rail on Jade emperor, match it then finish as for that problem. All the higher holds above the line of the good slopey rail are off FA: Dan Da Silva | 3m | |||
Koolewong Lara Street Boulders Pitt Brick | |||||
V7 | ★★ Rusty Platter
Sit start on the lowest lip hold at the little cavelet before the arete. Bust up left to a crimp rail, and start trending up and right before a slabby/layback style top out. Keeping on the face of the boulder until the end. (Starting mega jugs of the arete problem are out) FA: Tom Hodgson, 6 Jun 2021 | 4m | |||
V7 | ★★★ Mick's Arete
Sit start on the bottom corner of he arete and follow slopes and shallow pockets on the right hand of the arete. Slam the top slopes and commit to the scary top out. Classic FA: Mick Yuen, 2009 | 4m | |||
Koolewong Lara Street Boulders Bikini Cave | |||||
V7 | ★ Bikini Right
Low sit start, up the right side of the bikini feature to finish on the half way break. Topout still not linked? FA: Al Choi | 5m | |||
Point Clare The Ridge Hall of fame | |||||
V7 | ★★★ Eclipse
Sit start matched on large incut slopey sidepull. Pull up into large slot jug then straight up. Top out. | 4m | |||
Point Clare Little Asia Whale Cave | |||||
V7 | ★★★ The White Whale
Sit start at the sandy slopers at the edge of the right hand side of the cave, move up and left through large pockets before dropping into an undercling and sloper on the lip. From here slap up to the top of the boulder to top out. | 3m | |||
Point Clare The Armoury The Armoury Boulder | |||||
V7 | ★★ Halberd
Same matched start as Bec De Corbin but instead of moving right from the flake, move left and up to mantel just to the right of Ōdachi. | 5m | |||
Rumbalara boulders Bulbasaur Boulder | |||||
V7 | ★★★ Vine Whip
At the front left side of the cavelet, standing start with left hand in thin deep slot on the face and right hand undercling on tiny edge under lip. Move out right to good slopey edge then up to left crease. Move up from sloper on the buldge to good hold, gain the lip before sketchy mantle just right of the plant over arete. Set: Murray Taylor & Pat mills FA: Tom Hodgson | 3m | |||
Apex boulders Lilly boulder | |||||
V7 | ★★★ Agapanthus stand
Stand start R/H on flat edge, L/H wide on high sidepull flake, bump R/H to arrow head pinch feature before tricky heel or toe to gain high R/H gaston, gain the jug break then out to lip and mantle FA: Tom Bucknall | 2m | |||
Forresters Beach | |||||
V7 | ★★★ Nobody`s Poet
Shared start with Write to me and escape but move out right after the drop down move, topping out in the middle of the face. Bring lots of pads to cover the death pit below the topout. FA: Stephen Rawls, 25 Feb 2023 | 6m | |||
V6/7 | |||||
Chapman's Hill The Sietch | |||||
V6/7 | ★★★ Hunter-Seeker
Start matched on brain hold shared with SSSS, move left using rail and jug into crack. Finish same as Shai-Hulud. FA: Ashley Grundy, 12 Nov 2023 | 7m | |||
Bouddi National Park Hawkes Head Cave | |||||
V6/7 | Fatman
Sit start under the small prow on the low left hand crimp and right hand low on the sloper rail. Right heel up and continue directly up the prow and mantle in the little cavelet. Ledges and back wall for feet are not in. One of the best lowballs going. FA: Tom Hodgson | ||||
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Umina Pearl Jam Caves | |||||
27 | ★★★ Our Modern Needs
FA: Jason Piper | 20m | |||
Bouddi National Park Wagstaffe - Lobster Cave | |||||
27 | ★★★ The Red
Start on the face left of the block. Out roof then traverse left to anchors on Roast Lobster. FA: Jason Piper | 11m, 8 | |||
Joll's Bridge Upper cliffline | |||||
27 | ★★ Scarface
Traverse in from the R to the steep weekness and up passing a huge incut. Rap anchor. FA: paul, 1997 | 10m | |||
Joll's Bridge Lower cliffline | |||||
27 | ★★★ Heart of Stone
Starts 8m L of Monkey in the Soul at the L end of the cave at a double bolt belay. Move R across the overlaps up into the corner than further R across yellow hanging wall, out to the lip and up to rappel station. 1 fixed hanger and 6 rings. A good one in the wet. FA: paul riviere, 1994 | 15m, 8 | |||
The Bluffs Right Bluff High Wall | |||||
27 | ★★★ One over 1,000
Start as for 'The last post', joining 'Run for your life' after the roof FA: M. Tonon, 2019 | 40m | |||
Popran | |||||
27 | ★★★ Sir Serpent
Weird and wandery (with some interesting rope-management challenges) but tackles some nutty terrain on the best rock here. Start as for Rehabilitation, but instead truck left for days to a cave-rest. Then switch gears and throw yourself at the power-endurance headwall, moving left at the last bolt to climb the arete on its right side to gain the anchors. FA: Jason Piper | 30m | |||
27 | ★★★ The Extra 3%
Climb 97% mitch free, but move left to the small cave on the steep wall. Head straight up from here to lower offs at very top! FA: Jason Piper | 24m, 8 | |||
V6 | |||||
Chapman's Hill The Sietch | |||||
V6 | ★★★ Weirding way (sit)
Sit start with RH on lowest side pull, LH on small crotch height rail 2ft out left, move up RH side pulls into top out. FA: Ashley Grundy, 22 Feb | 5m | |||
V6 | ★★ Vicarious
Starting on the sloper rail between Shai Hulud and SSSS find easy pinch before moving onto sloping crimps, stand up tall with poor arete side pull to finish up on highest point of the boulder past no hands slab. Set: Michael Velsigne, 6 Oct 2023 FA: Michael Velsigne, 6 Oct 2023 | 3m | |||
V6 | ★★★ Shai-Hulud
Sit start low on bulge matched on side-pulls around either side, follow seam up and to gain crimps on the face and proceed to top out towards the highest point of the boulder. FA: Ashley Grundy, 9 Oct 2023 | 5m | |||
V6 | ★★ Re-entry And Decompression
Start as for Re-entry moving left from the jug along crimps to finish Decompression Set: Michael Velsigne, 6 Oct 2023 FA: Michael Velsigne, 6 Oct 2023 | 2m | |||
The Skillion | |||||
V6 | The limpet
Sit start with left hand on left hand sloper and right hand on right side sloper. Move directly up to jug then to the left crimp and sloper. Use the small pocket on the far left to top out. | ||||
Brooklyn The Bend | |||||
V6 | Sponge Bath
FA: Simon Stevens, 2007 | ||||
V6 | Gutbuster
FA: Richard Sonnerdale, 2007 | ||||
Umina The Gold Fields The Golden Section | |||||
V6 | ★★★ Goldie Horn
Sit start at the horn. Out to the lip to finish on the edges. | 3m | |||
V6 | ★★ Midas Touch
Sit start on the ramp, sloper traverse up and left to mantle into the scoop. FA: Daniel da Silva, 2007 | 3m | |||
Umina Riverbed Riverbed Left | |||||
V6 | ★★ Rubber Bullets
FA: Daniel da Silva, 2007 | ||||
Umina Mantlemania | |||||
V6 | Tuckshop Arms (project)
Stand start in the double hueco ledge and go straight up – use the "victory" hold out right as per 'Gobshite'. | ||||
V6 | ★★ Nipple Cripple
Sit start as for Penrith by the sea and traverse the lip all the way to finish as for slippery nipple. FA: dan | ||||
V6 | ★ Sandflies When You’re Having Fun
Start on the smiley hold, up left then desperate mantle over top, staying out of 'Gutted'. FA: Anthony Alexander, 2000 | ||||
V6 | ★★ Tuckshop Arms
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V6 | ★★ Gobshite
Sit start and up easily along obvious left diagonal to hideous mantle. FA: Jason Smith, 2000 | ||||
Umina Cut Away | |||||
V6 | ★★★ Sleeping Giant
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V6 | ★★ The Stitch
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V6 | ★ The Witch
FA: Daniel da Silva, 2006 | ||||
Umina The Brown Room The Pergola | |||||
V6 | ★ Push the button
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V6 | ★ Generator
Eliminate the lay away block on power pergolas FA: Dan | ||||
V6 | ★★★ Electric Pergolas
Starts left of Power Pergolas. Very thin and powerful. FA: Anthony Alexander | ||||
Umina The Brown Room Brownroom proper | |||||
V6 | ★★ Baby Brown Snake
Starting way down in the Veranda take the line of least resistance through the roof coming down and through the low eliminate block and reversing the 'Low Traverse' finally finishing up 'Love Jugs'. 50+ moves of awesomeness and probably around a 26ish as a sport route. | 20m | |||
V6 | ★★ Quadriplegic
Start 1-2m left of Paraplegic and head more directly towards lip of cave and join 'Paraplegic'. Should be done with lots of mats and some good spotters at avoid falling on the sacrificial altar, otherwise known as the Widow Maker. Hard variant: Finish on 'Persistence Resistance' (unknown) FA: Anthony Alexander, 2002 | 9m | |||
Bouddi National Park Tallow's Boulders | |||||
V6 | ★★ Astro Boy
A slightly overhung boulder with safe landings. Start on a ledge on the far left on the boulder, then the big move to a slight break before the lip then traverse along the iron band then top out. The block to the left and the bottom plate are out. FA: Nathan Hingee, 12 Apr 2020 | 3m | |||
Bouddi National Park Mt Bouddi Bouddi Beastmaker Boulder | |||||
V6 | ★★★ Cowabunga
Sit start matched on a rail just right of the arete, climb directly up the face on scattered small holds. Finish as per Chicama, up high. FA: Nathan Hingee, Dec 2023 | 4m | |||
V6 | ★★★ Chicama
Start under the overhanging arete, crimp your way up to slopey rails and reachy moves to top-out high and right on the face. FA: Nathan Hingee, Dec 2023 | ||||
Bouddi National Park The Artist Cave | |||||
V6 | ★★ William Turner
Sit start on the jug lip and head directly out the cavlet through some jug before encountering a crimpy crux and huck to the lip. Top out slight left beside the boulder.Back ledge isnt in FA: Tom Bucknall | ||||
Bouddi National Park Wagstaffe - Sea of Tranquility | |||||
V6 | ★★★ Float on
Start on decent left side pull on the left face and right hand on arete, straight up to edge with a fun mantle. FA: Tom Hodgson, 26 Apr | ||||
Bouddi National Park Wagstaffe - Little Lobster Cave | |||||
V6 | ★★ Brown Snake
Lie down start matched on the knobby structure in the middle of the sector. Right heel hook to start and continue straight up to a high top out on jugs. First move hardest move. FA: Martijn van Eijkelenborg, 23 May | ||||
V6 | ★★★ Roast Mountain Lobster
Lie down start on jugs under the arete at the end of the wall. Traverse left to the sloper shelf and up via right pinch and a knee bar to jugs under mini roof and topout. Shares start holds with Mini Lobster, but traverses left at start. FA: Martijn van Eijkelenborg, 14 May | ||||
Bouddi National Park Wagstaffe - Bouldering Botanical Wall | |||||
V6 | ★★★ Wildflower
The most obvious line up the middle of the wall. Stand start on an incut rail. Following the series of edges up to the big pocket feature high up before topping out further right. FA: Tom Hodgson | 8m | |||
Bouddi National Park Wagstaffe - Bouldering The Top Cave | |||||
V6 | ★★ High Calibre
Starting on the top break at the end of Broken Soldier Boy, follow the fine line of solid holds through the sea of choss topping out the boulder walking off left before the mini overhang. WARNING. Be very carefully especially higher up where a lot of the solid looking holds are quite loose and will break off quite easily | 5m | |||
V6 | ★★ Broken Boy Solider
Slap the big sloper then punch directly back out and around the lip to a bad pocket then back rightish via various bad crimps and edges to finish at the break above. The big slot to the left is off for hands. Classic hardy Start: Sit start below sloper under lip FA: Dan, 2000 | 3m | |||
Bouddi National Park Wagstaffe - Bouldering Frenchman's Hat | |||||
V6 | ★★★ Pontifex
Match start on flat wall at back of cave facing water side, moving out on large pocket jugs on right wall before reaching back into the crimp rail and moving out and mantling the lip. | 5m | |||
Bouddi National Park Wagstaffe - Bouldering Psycho Ant Wall | |||||
V6 | ★★ Bag of Otter's Noses
Intense traverse across wall from L to R, finishing up Larks Tongue. FA: Jason Smith, 2000 | ||||
Blackwall Underworld | |||||
V6 | ★ Kangaroos on the verandah
Start and finish as for ‘Slugs on the wall’. Move up to left hand slot and right hand flat side pull. Yeet to the break and mantle over. No feet on the wall to the right. FA: Liam Johnston | 3m | |||
V6 | ★★ Cold Blooded
Start on smooth slot at the beginning of the left hand arete. Climb the arete all the way out to finish topping out the same as Sloths in the attic. FA: Michael Tonon, 26 Sep 2015 | 7m | |||
Woy Woy The Fort Pit lane | |||||
V6 | ★★ No way thats street legal
FA: Daniel da Silva, 2005 | ||||
V6 | ★★ Jesus built my hot rod
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Woy Woy Road House Odyssey Block | |||||
V6 | ★ Grippn, Slippn, Trippn
Sit start low using bad holds on the arete. 'Snatch' the little break on the right hand face then up. Start: This problem climbs the little sharp arete on the block just to the right. FA: Dan, 2009 | ||||
Woy Woy Road House Break Down Lane Right | |||||
V6 | ★★ Bump Stops Sit
Sit start as for Road Side Assistance. Follow the crack to the right and up same as Ridin on the Bump Stops. FA: dan | 3m | |||
Woy Woy Road House Break Down Lane Left | |||||
V6 | Tic Tac Toe
Climb up and right on super slopey features avoiding the crack on the left. Classic subtle sloper pulling Start: Standing 1m right of the hole just before the rooflet, starting with a slopey R/H edge FA: Rich Sonnerdale, 2000 | ||||
Woy Woy Road House The Dug Out | |||||
V6 | ★★ The Established Line
Sit start low in the back of the cave and follow out the obvious line of incut edges to the big horn. Slap around to the slopey top out. slighty easier if you finish a bit over right but often wet. Start: At the back of cave matched on first incut edge | 4m | |||
V6 | ★ Strike Three
This problem starts as for the Established line but heads left, reversing the start of Extended line to gain the big rounded hole. Confused yet? I am. Now move around to the left face and fire up for the top of the groove to top out. Start: As for Established line FA: dan | 3m | |||
Dark Forrest Monkey Cave | |||||
V6 | ★★ Funky Monkey
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Dark Forrest The Happy Place | |||||
V6 | ★ Bridge of Life and Death
Sit start as for happy pyramid, and traverse low right to large span move, not using any of the higher jugs in the cave. Then finish for dead and alive. FA: Michael Tonon | 3m | |||
V6 | Another Clone
Climb the little prow to finish as "dead bolt" Avoid the twin pockets right or moving left low into the roof. Start: Sit start below the little prow FA: Daniel da Silva, 2000 | ||||
V6 | ★ Yummy Noodle
Start: Sit start as for 'Rigor mortis' on low underclings. Fire up right for the tufa feature, match it and finsih straight up to the ledge. FA: Daniel De Silva, 2000 | 3m | |||
V6 | ★★ Dead Bolt
Follow the low rail right, press up into the pockets in the little roof then gain the feature on the face. Move up to the break below the boulder on top by either a big move right or by using the thin little pinch out right. Tops out over the right side of the block. Super! Start: Sit start "matched" farthest left hand end of the low rail. FA: Daniel da Silva, 2000 | 3m | |||
V6 | ★★ The Golden Pinch
A variant of "Dead or Alive" that avoids using the big hueco and stays a little more left and climbs then faint rib. Take the low R/H side pull, cross left hand to the golden pinch then make a hard move with your right to gain a another match box looking pinch. Finish matched on the ledge. Classic Norwegian power! Start: Sit start on the R/H cave wall as for "we'll never make it out alive" FA: Tor Viker Rise, 2000 | ||||
Copacabana | |||||
V6 | ★★ Cowabunga
Start as for slopey bread loaf in the middle of the wall, mini hop to weird pocket and top out FA: Nathan Hingee | 3m |