Routes in Sydney Metropolitan for selected grade

Start with hands on the top rock and glide all the way to around the corner.

Lowish start under low right hand arete with left hand in sidepulls. Move up and left to the middle of the face, then up. Sit start variant: Start matched on the right hand arete/undercling. Awkward thrutchy move to the pocket sidepull probably adds a grade.

Sit start with left in the pocket and right in the underling. Right one move wonder to the top and don't forget to say "Yeehaw!" As you mantle.

Start 2m left of Coke not Crack.

Up the obvious crack, finish in the cave.

Direct Line

Cave is out of bounds. Finish to right of tree.

Start at the side pull and large (very) sandy pocket then out to the large pinch left, to the large jug right then up. Weird top out.

Traverse from right to left without using the top edge. start 6m left of the crab puddle

Up to the flake and layback which makes up the left side of the window.

Start: Left side of east face of north boulder

As the name suggests, the diagonal crack system leading out of the start of 'She-Oak Crack'.

3m right of WiB. Hard start then up the slab, passing two rusted carrot bolts to a double bolt belay. Take wires for the bolts, since they're too big for normal bolt brackets.

Easier hand crack to the right of Kathy's Crack.

Left most route . before CR . order wrong . Walk onto slab from block and top out. Don't fall

Mantle up onto the thin ledge above the water line just to the left of the white vertical streak. Then top out, and jump off!

Start on the same ledge as C-section, but instead of traversing right, head straight up the wall.

3m right of LR. Right pocket to slab, walk up and hold right, end on pointy rock

Stand start and up on the right side of the crack.

Stand start and up with the left side of the crack.

2nd last arete on the left.

Stand start in the break and up.

Stand start on the arete, head up and over.

The obvious L to R and back agin traverse of the middle boulder. Take care stepping off onto the rock bed it can be wet and slippery.

Steep juggy/ledge prow

Right side of cave on big holds.

Start as for FC but go direct up onto easy arete.

Start matched in pocket rail, head left to perfect pocket then up

Right of “perfect pocket” match start on flake then follow seam up

Just left of 'Side Hug' is a sandy, rubbish left facing side-pull feature. Sit-start to top out.

Sit start and jam the crack. If you must.

Start just left of arete, any holds up to big jug and top out,

Sit start on ledge with two hands then, up to mantle.

Left-slanting crack 20 m R of Right wall.

Sit start on right hand side pull and lowest left hand (below the mega-jugs). Straight up and top out.

Grade to be confirmed

Starts just before the first cave. 3 jug sidepulls and topout.

Place preferred part of one foot on a small ledge high in the middle of the boulder. Execute a one leg stand-up, then a second to the top. No resting hands, arms or other body parts against the rock!

A quick, easy climb on the boulder to the left of Did It. Start with your left and right hands on either side of the arete, make your way up and top out on the flat ledge. Like a posh wank, it isn't that difficult, but fun for practice.

Start at the base of the fallen slab. Climb up and keep going to the top.

Start at the base of the fallen slab and climb up it.

Start: Left of broken slab. Slab and arete with giant chipped jugs - good news for the top-out into compost! Probably a teen top-rope test-piece in its time.

A really nice easy crack climb to the left of "Stick It".

Climb up the two ledges next to "Maxi Taxi" while using the edge of "Maxi Taxi" for holds. Extra points if you don't get too mad at the tree branch sticking into your back on the first ledge. Use the Maxi Taxi crack for protection.

Straight up to hold under roots.

Start: below big bolts. High, but easy gradient. Down climb "Climb 3" or rap off.

Easy warm up

Start on the obvious good holds. Straight up. Top out on the narrow ledge if you're feeling brave.

Right end of cliff just right of stump, up to the protruding blocks.

Straight up from standing on stump.

Ascend via slot chiseled in lowest course of blocks.

Straight up to gap between blocks at top via undercling.

Just left of 'Slot' via gritty slopes

Start 0.5m R of the block wall. Pull pocket shared with fig root and fork fern (Psilotum) without dislodging either, then up to sandy edge.

Climb the block wall 1m left of the end of the cliff.

Traverse along the prominent ledge 1.5m off the ground. For extra difficulty, avoid horizontals holds and use only drilled edges, side-pulls, up and down holes.

Start under the slight overhang to the left of the painted 55. Find the hidden undercling to make it fun and tap out at the iron stone ledge a meter or so above.

West side of northern pillar, head straight up, all green holds are in, top out finish.

Go up and over.

Easy mantle to practice. Very safe.

At the right end of wall is an arête. Climb up the left side of this to top out.

Start on the big side pull right on the tree. Up.

Climb holds seems to be old cut steps. Start from footpath jump onto rock no hands problem

Climb Pillar like tree route to topout. Descend via cave to the right.

Climb right side of tree route till cool hold 5m up

Climb let side of tree roots to cool hold 5m up!

Start at base of fig tree and climb to obvious jug branch finish

Match start on the double jug bottom-right of the bloc and tops out with a mantle using only holds on the right-hand face. Light sandy rock is out as are jugs on the other side of the face - only use holds on the right of the arete.

Up on jugs and ledges to a cautious top out.

start at the base of the slab (to the right of the offwidth) climb up to the left and to the top through the top section of the crack. Pretty average, good for noobs

Better than you would think, and the same difficulty wether you go left or right.

Easy climb with great views once on top, and even better once down the other side. Start at the side of the rock facing the shore, then move up and to the left.

Centre of shady side wall past the pockets.

Left end of shady side avoiding the pockets. Didn't recognise pic, so happy to delete if it's the same as Pinned Down !

Up the SE arete of the 2 boulder stack.

#lowtide Up the seaward arete with no hands.

Far left of sunny side up the gritty underclings.

Cautiously insert relevant body parts into this very rough off-width semi-chimney, then just as painfully extricate them for the summit. Beware bits both busted, and breaking off!

Move in from the left and follow the right hand.

#lowtide Straight up and through the summit scoop

Move in from the right and go up the middle. Take care with the questionable rock quality.

Start: Between wedge and iron spike. Up using foot pockets.

At the back of the sandstone pillar, start at the quarried incuts. Make your way up and tend right. Finish by tapping out on top with a view of the beach. Some hollow knocks on this problem, use caution when committing to the mid way holds.

Traverse the west (landward) side wall. Usually done left to right.

Black streak just right of Johannes Brahms. Harder sit start.

Sit Start, Leftmost climb past horizontal slot.

Straight up. Finish on high jug.

If not wet, provides easy descent for RS and GS.

Start as for orthogonal, but then keep on traversing right to easier topout.

Half a meter right of normal. Stand start on vertical holds, straight up.

Accessible at low tide only. Stand start from block

Undercling start