Grade | Route | Gear style | Popularity | ||
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V12 | |||||
Cairns Barron Gorge Split Rock Area | |||||
V12 | ★★ Storm Chasers Low
Start on LH pinch and RH undercling, up through shouldery dihedral before finishing as for storm chasers. The wobbly block recently came out, but the boulder will still go at a similar grade. FA: Callum Mather | 3m | |||
Cairns Barron Gorge The Floating World | |||||
V12 | ★★★ Ukiyo
Sit start matched on the flat jug. Move up and right through heel/toe trickery on slick river washed edges and small seams. All time. FA: Callum Mather | 4m | |||
V11 | |||||
Cairns Barron Gorge Split Rock Area | |||||
V11 | ★★★ Super Princess Peach
Start matched on obvious flat hold. Tricky moves through slopey holds lead to tough move into the slot. Use small LH crimp to gain the big sloping rail, follow it left and up above questionable landing. Bush-bash to the top. Currently unclimbable due to recent flooding. The landing needs rebuilding. FA: Callum Mather | 6m | |||
Cairns Barron Gorge The Boulder Field | |||||
V11 | ★★ Amphibian
Start low on undercling, puzzle your way through the steep and finish as for Tadpole. FA: Callum Mather | 6m | |||
V10 | |||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Inner Circle The Stack | |||||
V10 | ★★ Globalisation Right
Sit-start just right of "Globalisation Left" on the low edge. One of Harvey's hardest problems. See the original guidebook for the starting holds. FA: Nick Larsen, 2007 | 4m | |||
Cairns North Wangetti Slip Cliff Point | |||||
V10 | ★★★ Shadow Fight
Sit start on jug, move right through thin seam before doing a big move to arete. Hold the barn door and mosey to the top. FA: Callum Mather | 8m | |||
Cairns Barron Gorge Calmer Waters | |||||
V10 | ★★★ Lowdega
Start under roof to the right of the seam on an undercling and low left facing edge. Join the crack via a big lock off move and finish as for Bodega. FA: Callum Mather | ||||
Cairns Barron Gorge Split Rock Area | |||||
V10 | ★★★ The Last Of Us
Squat start on slopey edge and pinch, head up and left to a tricky lip encounter. FA: Callum Mather | 6m | |||
V9/10 | |||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Inner Circle The Lower Terrace | |||||
V9/10 | Bug Piss Project
An outstanding hard line. | ||||
V9 | |||||
Townsville The Kitchen | |||||
V9 | ★★★ Dream catcher
Slightly over hanging face, start on the lowest point of obvious rail (slightly flexing be careful). Definitely use a pad on the slab for when climber is topping out. FA: Glen Hayford, 15 Sep 2021 | 5m | |||
Townsville Magnetic Island Rocky Bay Left Side | |||||
V9 | American Invasion #1
This is one of the original lines put up by Zimmerman. Original line used just the right layback seam, but would effectively make it an eliminate. the first move to the high layback puts you body in a position to use a compression move off of Reverie, then climbing both seams to the blank section. The Crux is from here to the top as originally described, But is considerably easier than the original grade of V9. Regardless, this is of equal quality to Reverie and is a must do. (Original description = Just to the R of "Highball #1" is a V9, with the crux at the top (start at the break and go up via lay offs to a thin section).) FA: Matt Zimmerman | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Three Brothers | |||||
V9 | ★★★ Engineered Scare Tactics
The line up the 45degree wall with a big move to get to lip, easier terrain after. Take lots of pads. FA: Glen Hayford, 16 Nov 2019 | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles Oddity | |||||
V9 | ★★★ The Singularity
Start on first boulders face to gain the bottom of the boulder sitting above, follow up crack like feature and up. Requires some commitment. FA: Glen Hayford, 19 Dec 2019 | 7m | |||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Bus Shelter The Serious Boulders | |||||
V9 | ★★ Donuts & Scratches
SS on LH flake. Powerful movements. | ||||
V9 | Low Society
SS for “High Society” | ||||
V9 | ★★ The Journey Man
Hard move on face with slab over the lip keeping it interesting, trends upward right on the slab. Might need to move some pads around. Another great line put up by Andy Lampard. FA: Glen Hayford FA: Andy Lampard | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Bus Shelter Lovely Legs | |||||
V9 | ★★★ Northern Exposure
An inspiring line with powerful moves. Start off the obvious RH ear and the crystallised LH sidepull. FA: Tully Rohrer | ||||
V9 | Planted
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Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Inner Circle The Upper Terrace | |||||
V9 | ★★★ Golden
A mega classic! Start just R of "Skippy With a Smile" with your LH on a high pinch and RH on a terrible slopey scoop. Up via small holds and two hard moves. If you jump start to right hand razor and skip the hard static start it's a V8. FA: SB, 2004 | 4m | |||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Inner Circle The Alley Way Boulders | |||||
V9 | ★★ Untextured Voltomic Volume
Face just right of Morning Glory following tricky gastons for a rounded mantle for top out. Watch your head on the large dead tree. FA: Glen Hayford, 5 Apr 2022 | 4m | |||
Cairns Crystal Cascades Redlynch Valley Crystal Clear Boulder | |||||
V9 | ★★★ Crystal Clear
Start off block, head straight through the roof to a big move before veering left and up. The top is very overgrown so feel free to use a vine to mantle. Amazing boulder! FA: Callum Mather Set: Jared Tyerman | 6m | |||
Cairns Atherton Tablelands Davies Creek | |||||
V9 | ★★★ Amethyst | ||||
Cairns North Wangetti Pretty Beach Grey And Balding | |||||
V9 | ★★★ Golden Age
Sit start on edges. Make your way right and up through a big deadpoint, finish up thin crack. FA: Callum Mather Set: Nick Murphy, 7 May 2020 | 5m | |||
Cairns Barron Gorge Calmer Waters | |||||
V9 | ★ Garden State
Start on wide edges with a left heel hook. Puzzle your way through the abundance of gastons and the assortment of edges and underclings to reach the lip and the tricky mantle that awaits. Finish rightwards up the tall slab. Currently unclimbable due to recent flooding. There's a rock in the way that could be moved by a couple people. FA: Callum Mather | 6m | |||
V9 | ★★ Night Owl
Sit start under roof on an undercling and low left facing edge. Out via good rail to a big move from the sloper into TOA, finish as for this. FA: Callum Mather | 3m | |||
V9 | ★★★ Bodega
Sit start in back of cave in ‘corner’ with pair of slots in crack. Follow crack up and to corner then out to cave's perimeter via big move. Work to top via series of holds along lip. Top out using upper slab holds. FA: Callum Mather, 4 Sep 2020 | 3m | |||
V9 | ★★ The Nutcracker
Sit start under arete with good LH edge and slopey RH crimp. Compress your way up the arete before making hard throw for RH edge under lip. Finish as for Black Swan. FA: Callum Mather | 2m | |||
Cairns Barron Gorge Split Rock Area | |||||
V9 | ★★ Killer Queen
Start just under roof on good sidepull and undercling, work your way up and out through big moves on good holds. FA: Callum Mather | 4m | |||
Cairns Barron Gorge The Floating World | |||||
V9 | ★★★ Vecna's Curse
Start low compressing between good hold and sidepull. Slap your way up the prow and mantle using big scoop jug. FA: Callum Mather | 3m | |||
V8/9 | |||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Bus Shelter The Serious Boulders | |||||
V8/9 | I am Beagle
SS 1m L of ‘High Society” awaits a ropeless ascent. Super low start that traverses in from the L below ledge is an open project. FA: Andy Lampard | ||||
V8 | |||||
Townsville Castle Hill Onyx Area Swiss Knife zone | |||||
V8 | ★★★ El Toro
FA: Glen Hayford, 2019 | ||||
Townsville Magnetic Island Rocky Bay Left Side | |||||
V8 | ★★★ American Invasion #3
About 25m further off the beach from "American Invasion #2" is a high cracked arête, and has a sloping slab to land on. FA: Matt Zimmerman | ||||
V8 | ★★ American Invasion #2
A V8 to the R of "American Invasion #1", a sit start off the pockets into the orange scoop. FA: Matt Zimmerman | ||||
Townsville Magnetic Island Picnic Bay | |||||
V8 | Terrifying
A terrifying V8 somewhere in the bay. FA: Tully Rohrer | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Three Brothers | |||||
V8 | Porcelain
Starting under overhung dihedral move up and left to the obvious rails, follow right to finish. Beautiful white rock. FA: Andy lampard | ||||
V8 | The Reluctant Gardener
Starting low, moving up the underclings. Shoot for the pocket on the right-hand side of the arete, then left and up the arete to finish. FA: Andy Lampard | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Lonesome Boulder | |||||
V8 | Butter Tastes Better Than Margarine
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V8 | Lone Ranger
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Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The West Bank The Dark Side | |||||
V8 | One Inch Punch
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Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Bus Shelter The Serious Boulders | |||||
V8 | ★★ Gutter Halo
Start with opposing sidepulls, up R to a terrible sloper and blast to the jugs. | ||||
V8 | ★★★ The Grusome Nothingness
Tips, underclings and tiny scoops - hard! FA: Tully Rohrer | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Bus Shelter The Black Boulders | |||||
V8 | ★★★ Kaffir
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Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Bus Shelter Lovely Legs | |||||
V8 | ★★ Dan's Arête
The obvious steep arête with two cruxes, the higher of which is pretty terrifying. FA: Dan the Man | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Gallery Alley Of The Giants | |||||
V8 | ★★★ Pickpocket
Super classic arête from the low start adds 4 moves (starting position shown in guidebook). FA: SB | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Gallery The Red Boulder | |||||
V8 | Riot Act
A broken foothold has made this a little harder. Sit start (you may need to crouch if you are too short) off LH pinch and RH crimp. Up via good edges with big moves. Classic. FA: SB | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Inner Circle The Upper Terrace | |||||
V8 | ★★★ Best In Tension
The steep highball arête on the top L side of the boulder. Up via underclings and slopers to a crux rockover at about half height. FA: Madoc Sheehan, 2002 | 4m | |||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Inner Circle The Pass By Boulders | |||||
V8 | ★★★ The Nerd
An arete with fantastic body tension. | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Inner Circle The Stack | |||||
V8 | ★★ Super flash
Lower start to “Rice Bubbles” on side pull and low knob. | ||||
V8 | ★ Globalisation Left
Sit-start the left-hand arete of the steepness. Starts with right-hand pinch and left-hand on arete. Up into Global. Two pads used for the sit-start on first ascent. FA: Steve Baskerville, 2004 | 4m | |||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Inner Circle The Fun Parlour | |||||
V8 | Subtle Manipulation Sit
Add the sit-start, with the lower of the two left-hand sidepulls and a right-hand sidepull barely off the ground, for a tough, thin and sustained problem. FA: Steve Baskerville, 2003 | ||||
Cairns Fitzroy Island White Rocks | |||||
V8 | ★★ Gelateria
Sit start on good flake, make your way out the scoop via underclings. Follow the lip left before mantling up the nothingness. FA: Callum Mather | 3m | |||
Cairns Port Douglas | |||||
V8 | ★★ Abyssal
Start as for Snappy but immediately break left, following the seam to the arete through a set of small crimps and a big move. Roll over and top out up slab. FA: Callum Mather | ||||
V8 | ★ Coral
Sitstart on double underclings, move up through crack (tape up - painful!). Exit without using adjacent boulder. Good features for topout. Approach from Rex Smeal Park (see Approach). FA: Peter Reynolds | 2m | |||
Cairns North Wangetti Pretty Beach Grey And Balding | |||||
V8 | ★★★ Blinding Rage
Start as for Golden Age but escape left via big move to the slopey rail. Mantle as for Golden Age. FA: Callum Mather | 5m | |||
Cairns Barron Gorge Calmer Waters | |||||
V8 | ★★ Schism
Sit start with obvious low jugs below the large, rounded and vertical sidepull. Climb through the steepness to gain sloping edges at base of the headwall, finishing up the scooped slab with opposing vertical rails. Cameron Whycherley Glen Hayford Callum Mather FA: Cameron Wycherley, 19 Nov 2018 | 4m | |||
Cairns Barron Gorge Split Rock Area | |||||
V8 | ★★ Wandering Albatross
Start low matched on deep scoop in bottom left corner of boulder. Move right via big moves and finish as for Venus. Currently unclimbable due to recent flooding. Would need to dig out the new landing to access the start holds. FA: Callum Mather | 3m | |||
V8 | ★★ Squashed
Start on LH crimp slot and deep RH two finger pocket. Up on pocket and crimps, finish as for Squish 'em. FA: Callum Mather | 3m | |||
V8 | ★★★ Storm Chasers
Starting from wobbly block in the corner of the rooflet, work out right and over the lip via slopey holds. The wobbly block recently came out, but the boulder will still go at a similar grade. FA: Glen Hayford, 24 Jan 2020 | 3m | |||
Cairns Barron Gorge The Secret Garden | |||||
V8 | ★★★ Neanderthal
Start LH good edge and RH small nubbin crimp, move right and up on incut sidepulls. FA: Callum Mather | 3m | |||
Cairns Barron Gorge Down from Mackas | |||||
V8 | ★★★ Brainiac
Crouch start on crimps, campus up and move left through edges and a pinch before throwing for the jug. Stunner! FA: Callum Mather | 5m | |||
Cairns Barron Gorge The Boulder Field | |||||
V8 | ★★★ Decompression Sickness
Start low on the arete and on lowest good edge in the steep, compress your way through the sickness to glory. FA: Callum Mather | 3m | |||
V8 | ★ Leap Frog
Start on set of small crimps, traverse left through big moves on good edges, then finish as for Tadpole. FA: Callum Mather | 5m | |||
V8 | ★★ Weeping Angel
Start in the corner, move left and finish up arete. Trust those feet! FA: Callum Mather | 4m | |||
V8 | ★★★ Spick and Span
Sit start with slopey edge low on arete and the hold just above big undercling. Slap slap slap and finish as for the stand start. FA: Callum Mather | 3m | |||
V8 | ★★ Malevolent Forces
Sit start crossed on diagonal crimps. Make your way left and up on a series of diagonal edges and an underling. FA: Callum Mather | 4m | |||
V7/8 | |||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Gallery The Happy Boulder | |||||
V7/8 | The Influx Mantle
Crimpy sit start with diagonal LH and small RH. Straight up. Hard. FA: SB | ||||
Cairns Barron Gorge The Zen Garden | |||||
V7/8 | ★★ From Within
The extension to Intuition. Start ~2m underneath roof with good undercut edges above the freestanding boulder below. Using this boulder for feet, move through series of edges on roof to gain the sloping lip. Traverse L through crux into -and finish - as for Intuition. FA: Cameron Wycherley, 20 Sep 2018 | 3m | |||
V7 | |||||
Townsville Magnetic Island Balding Bay East Side | |||||
V7 | ★★★ Coconut (s)
Sit start | ||||
Townsville Magnetic Island Alma Bay | |||||
V7 | ★★ Bleeding edge
From the jugs, throw big to the tiny slanting crimps. Crank and commit to the easier slab finish. FA: John Newby, 2015 | ||||
Townsville Magnetic Island Rocky Bay Whale Boulder | |||||
V7 | ★★★ Whale Song
Stand start on slopey pockets, straight up to tough and slopey mantle, reminiscent of Castle hill. Classic! Route grade, name and description may need revising. | 2m | |||
Townsville Magnetic Island Rocky Bay The Middle Boulders | |||||
V7 | ★★ Quart de Siècle
Up the runnel to the sidepull and slopey topout. FFA: Tristan Salson | 4m | |||
Townsville Magnetic Island Rocky Bay Backpackers Boulders | |||||
V7 | ★★★ Dan's V7
Start matched on obvious rail, head straight right then up. | 3m | |||
Townsville Magnetic Island Picnic Bay West Side | |||||
V7 | Stone Moves
FFA: Mike Maddox | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Three Brothers | |||||
V7 | ★★★ Pie Face
The gently bulging face on the Middle Brother, the shortest of the three boulders. A highball on perfect granite. It starts with steep and powerful moves off a chunky, in-cut flake, followed by a series of vertical cranks on small but positive edges, which guard the crux mantle onto a slopey narrow rail at two-thirds height. Blankness and weirdness above the rail gets you to a thin seam just below the more amenable top-out. It's one of Harvey's aesthetic highball jewels. FFA: Andy Lampard, 2016 | 7m | |||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Lonesome Boulder | |||||
V7 | I
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V7 | Woodstock
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V7 | Acid Drops
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V7 | Eric The Viking
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Townsville Harvey’s Marbles Andromeda Epitome of a Man Boulder | |||||
V7 | ★★ Hardly even a Boy
On the other side of this boulder from "Epitome of a Man". SS off the block. | ||||
V7 | ★★★ Epitome of a Man
FA: Spencer Tang Smith | 5m | |||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles Andromeda Slow Service Boulder | |||||
V7 | Slow Service
FA: Spenser Tang-Smith | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles Andromeda The Pins | |||||
V7 | Nick's Face
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Townsville Harvey’s Marbles Andromeda The She Oak Boulders | |||||
V7 | One Handed Bogan
Crouched start on obvious crimp. Straight up to slopers and then press L into scoop. Desperate! FA: MS | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles Roadview | |||||
V7 | ★★ The Roadview Classic
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Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The West Bank Saddle Sector | |||||
V7 | ★★ Elastoman
Slopey, crimpy and hard. Classic Steve sandbag. FA: steve Baskerville & Steve Baskerville | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Bus Shelter The Serious Boulders | |||||
V7 | Deforestation
FA: Tully Rohrer | ||||
V7 | Star Power
L of “Curved Arête” SS off edge on low boulder. | ||||
V7 | Rail Supercomplete
FA: Steve Baskerville | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Bus Shelter The Neglected Boulders | |||||
V7 | B
Technical | ||||
V7 | ★ Chuck E. Cheese
FFA: Christopher Glastonbury, 12 Aug 2018 | 4m | |||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Bus Shelter Lovely Legs | |||||
V7 | El Destructo
Sit start the obvious steep feature. Up into a technical top. Also see El Destructo Stand Start. FA: Rob Saunders | ||||
V7 | Extend The Grain
Start a little further left on the little crimps and link into Against The Grain. Soft. FA: SB | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Gallery The Hidden Arêtes | |||||
V7 | ★★ Stitch 'n Bitch
Start on the little cairn to reach the seam and up. FFA: Christopher Glastonbury, 2013 | 3m | |||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Gallery The Happy Boulder | |||||
V7 | The Campground Project
Tiny arete from a sit. FA: MS | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Gallery Alley Of The Giants | |||||
V7 | ★★★ Hail To The Thief
The original problem, staring a little higher on the arete. A little easier, perhaps even soft for the grade. (Starting holds shown in the guidebook). FA: Tully Rohrer | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Gallery Walk The Line | |||||
V7 | ★★ Turkish Delight
Start straddling the tree and follow the thin, overhanging flake left to a slopey finish. Watch the block that makes the landing awkward. FA: Nick Larsen | ||||
V7 | ★★ All the young fascists
As for above problem but then move R via some small slopey holds. FA: Alistair Robertson | ||||
V7 | ★★★ Walk The Phat Line
The low start of Walk The Line adds about 4 tough moves. Starting holds - RH crimp, low LH undercling. FA: Nick Larsen | ||||
Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Inner Circle The Upper Terrace | |||||
V7 | The Testicle Mantle Low Start
The low start to The Testicle Mantle. Done with RH on edge and low LH pinch. FA: SB | ||||
V7 | ★★ The Incred-Eye-Ball Mantle
Mantles the LH side of the eyeball. Move up the arete till you get your LH on the good crimp, and then a hard move moving L onto the slab. FA: Rob Saunders, 2002 |