Grade | Route | Gear style | Popularity | Crag | |
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20 | Secret Agent
| 8m | North Esk | ||
20 | Bonfire of the Vanities
| 9m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Alpha and Omega
| 8m | North Esk | ||
20 | Brute Force and Ignorance
| 12m | North Esk | ||
20 | Pioneer Chicken Stand
| 20m | North Esk | ||
20 | Blues Power
| 15m | North Esk | ||
20 | Courage and Stupidity
| 25m | North Esk | ||
20 | ★ Shooting Rabbits
| 30m | North Esk | ||
20 | ★★ Stuffed Quail
| 18m | North Esk | ||
20 | Wages of Sin
| 15m | North Esk | ||
20 | Abracadabra
| 15m | North Esk | ||
20 | Wad
| 10m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Goind to my Hometown
| 7m | North Esk | ||
Trad | |||||
20 | ★ When Pink Bubbles Go Ape
Nice finger crack (gear) to ledge, then three bolts up the corner and arete. DBB. | 15m, 3 | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★ Death on the Nile
A long abandoned Danny Ng project - recently revived after a scrub, and the addition of a couple of extra bolts and an anchor (located at the beginning of the blankness)…PS there’s no glory jug!! Climb the detached pillar (stick clip recommended), and onto the face via x2 U’s and x2 carrots. DBB. The originally conceived finish can still be attempted (take a blue walnut, or a .4 camalot) to the SOTT anchor, and is an open project. Go for your life… | 15m, 4 | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★ Break On Through
Above Skidrow Buttress. Easily accessed from the carpark. | 10m, 2 | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | No Rest for the Wicked
Second crack from the L | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | |||
20 | ★★ Dagenham Smile
Bridge your way up the thin pillar on the right hand side of the ledge until its possible to traverse left into the ripper finger crack splitting the top of the buttress. DBB FA: Bob McMahon, 1996 | 12m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★★ Humpback
| 60m | Ben Lomond | ||
20 | Cake Slice
| 20m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Game Set and Match
the next line downstream. the first ascensionists abseiled from the top and set up a hanging belay from the first jug. They proceeded to stand on the lap of the belayer to bypass the crux and lead to the top FA: Gerry Narkowicz & Norm Selby, 2000 | 17m | North Esk | ||
20 | ★★★ To the Crux and Beyond
FFA: closs & lewis, 1973 | 18m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★ Odyssey number 5
2 bolts. Small gear to DBB | 15m, 2 | North Esk | ||
20 | ★ The Mob Rules
| 10m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★★ Hidden Fingers
Obvious clean finger crack in dark coloured rock. Good finger locking directly up the crack. Harder if you avoid bridging onto the hanging arete on the left. DBB added Jan 2016. FA: Bob McMahon | 8m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Paranoid
| 14m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★★ The Onanist
The obvious clean offwidth on the buttress set back slightly from the track. Good climbing which actually doesn't require too much wide crack technique. DBB | 10m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★ A Thousand Shades of Darkness
Rappel from anchor located at the base of dreams of Broken Glass (down and right of lady midnight). Rappel to hanging belay. Climb out the shallow corner finger crack. Best done at low tide. FA: Gerry Narkowicz & Jacob Dean, 12 Sep 2022 | 9m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Depressed Fracture
| 15m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★★ Cowardice - Chicken shit variant
Start up cowardice and instead of going around the roof go left onto the face where there is one bolt and then natural pro. Reachy | 10m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Enjo
| 9m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Mark of Cain
Direct bolted finish to Depressed Fracture | 3 | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Brompton Oratory
| 9m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Neurotic
Bolted finish to Paranoid | 2 | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★★★ Fine Line, Hate to See it Go
| 15m | North Esk | ||
20 | ★ Dick Reach
Right hand side of detached pillar - #3 cams to start. FA: Gerry Narkowicz, jemimah narkowicz & andrew martin, 23 Oct 2016 | 12m, 3 | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★★★ Odyssey
One of the best trad routes on the Sunny Side! The prominent crack splitting the arete on the upstream face of the gully. Trends left into gully and traverses right using jugs through rooflet, finishing up crack to belay ledge. DBB FA: Hannah Rose & Patrick Munnings, Oct 2022 | 22m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Black Humour
| 10m, 1 | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★★★ Airbourne
Second route on the left end of the upper cliff. 20m approach pitch up the tree/gully (about grade 8) to the base of the beautiful finger crack with DBB. 15m up finger crack to ledge (DBB), don't belay here, instead continue for another 15m directly up the bolted arete to the top. Rap chains on the bolted belays. Abseil from chains at the top of Mills Route. FA: Andrew Martin & Gerry Narkowicz, 2014 | 50m, 2, 5 | Mt Blackwood Summit | ||
20 | ★ Crick Crack
Finger crack on LHS of lower tier. | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | |||
20 | Blubberguts
FA: Gerry Narkowicz, Alex Wilson & Alex Wilson, 2001 | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | |||
20 | ★ Anal Fist Fuck Four
| 12m, 3 | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★ Gothic Line
| 60m, 2 | Ben Lomond | ||
20 | Soft and Wet
The central crack line of the three starting from a left trending diagonal or laybacking the crack FA: Patrick Munnings, Irene & Mikey, 2024 | 7m | North Esk | ||
20 | Battle of Leipzig
FA: Bon McMahon & Gerry Narkowicz, 1983 | 35m | Mt Blackwood Summit | ||
20 | Todd Beamer
FA: Alex Wilson & Gerry Narkowicz, 2001 | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | |||
20 | ★★ Tulip Variant
Up the face past two bolts as for Road to Moonarie, then continue up the nice crack. FA: Tiz & Dennis | 12m, 2 | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★★ Danzig Corridor
| 50m, 2 | Ben Lomond | ||
20 | ★★ Thin crack
The thin crack splitting the buttress. Very obvious when walking along the shady side track. The original name and first ascent details seem to have been lost in the mists of time. The crack takes good gear, or could reasonably be protected with a couple of boulder pads to cover up the talus. | 6m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★★ Road to Moonarie
Directly up the face and right hand arete. Bring a medium cam for the horizontal break between the second and third bolt. DBB FA: D. Kearnes | 10m, 3 | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★★ Shoes, Glue and Almost No Can Do
On seperate downstream buttress. 2 bolts and DBB | 8m, 2 | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★ Penetration
Trad corner, broken by a ledge. | 15m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Reminiscent of Wolfe Tone
Finger crack up corner. | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | |||
20 | ★★ Gates of Hardened Steel
Thin corner R of Chimney | 10m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | The Double Cure
A huge girdle starting on the far left and following the obvious weakness all the way right. | Hillwood (private land) | |||
20 | Psycho-Sexual Mutilation
| 10m, 2 | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★★ Refiners Fire
Left of HoG. Start in chimney, and left onto bolted face. Tree belay. | 3 | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★★ I'm Married to my Bulldog Mack
| 10m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Affecting Cruxifixion
Climb the face on horizontal breaks and flat holds, between Crystal Laces and Stanley Pub. Chopped bolts. | 13m | North Esk | ||
20 | Blockbuster Crack
A rare remaining trad route - up through the bulges | 10m | Hillwood (private land) | ||
20 | Terrorful
| 100m, 4 | Ben Lomond | ||
20 | Panzer
Thin seam into chimney, which needs a bit of a clean. | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | |||
20 | ★★★ Hidden Secrets
A total classic, one of the best pitches on the mountain and well worth the walk. Starts just left of unclimbed fused corner. Up the groove, pull over rooflet with the help of huge hidden jugs. Continue briefly up corner above, then make an exposed traverse right across bottomless corner to a big flake (crux). Continue up groove with spaced but adequate protection to the top. | 40m | Ben Lomond | ||
20 | ★★ Northern Man
The thin crack then twin finger cracks on the left hand side of the buttress. Takes very good small wires and cams. One bolt near the top. | 19m, 1 | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★ The Passing Parade
| 30m | Ben Lomond | ||
20 | Just for Fun
The short bolted arete just downstream of Kiwi Fruit Jam Gully. No anchor | 2 | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Spirit Of Place
| 35m | Ben Lomond | ||
20 | ★★ Expecting to Fly
The obvious diagonal crack line on the right hand end of the cliff. DBB. | 12m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Norm's Drainpipe
| 8m | Hillwood (private land) | ||
20 | The Company You Keep
| 90m | Ben Lomond | ||
20 | ★★★ Rigaudon
Classic corner, but for many the chimney is the crux!
| 70m, 3 | Ben Lomond | ||
20 | ★ Prison to Praise
Up crack/flake to immediate L of Sawsea, moving left to join Joy at overlap. | 12m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Roger Casement
| 80m | Ben Lomond | ||
20 | Arete Direct
Start in the yellow corner, up to break, finish on arete. Bolted lower off. | 8m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Outlaw
2m right of International Brigade. Straight up the face with minimal pro. FA: Gerry Narkowicz & Marc Tierney, 1985 | 15m | North Esk | ||
20 | ★★★ Cuchulain
Perfect jamming up the magnificent corner on the 2nd pitch. | 130m, 3 | Ben Lomond | ||
20 | ★★ Kurtz
| 110m, 3 | Ben Lomond | ||
20 | ★★ Zoot
Bridge the fused corner and then nice finger crack above. | 9m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Fat Sumo Bitch
| Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | |||
20 | ★★ My Brilliant Career
Beautiful slabby arete. Reaching the first carrot bolt is a little scary. Gear anchor. (retro-bolted by Danny Ng) FA: Gerry Narkowicz & John Fry, 1984 | 15m, 4 | North Esk | ||
20 | ★★★ Laendler
FA: R.Thomson & B.Kennedy, 1978 | 170m, 5 | Ben Lomond | ||
20 | ★★★ Ruwenzori
| 180m, 5 | Ben Lomond | ||
20 | ★★ Crab Spread
| 10m, 1 | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★★ Dead Man's Revenge
On the small cliff 40m right of Airfix - on upper right tier. Pocketed finger crack. | 10m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★ The Nek
| 25m | Ben Lomond | ||
20 | Sam's Route
The LH crack several lines to the left. | 20m | Ben Lomond | ||
20 | ★★ Dead Zone
Fun, technical climbing up the thin crack line starting from the sloping ledge. There is a good small wire (RP or peanut) to protect the balancy high step move near the bottom. FA: Fantini & Smith, 1982 | 12m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★ Gerry’s Face
Extreme left face. Originally a solo. FA: Gerry Narkowicz, 1985 | 8m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★★ Chunnuk Bair
| 30m | Ben Lomond | ||
20 | ★★ First Disadvantage
The obvious overhanging offwidth located immediately above the first 'pitch' of Skidrow. FA: McMahon & Wells, 1989 | 10m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★ Cold Chat
| 9m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Never Going Back
Thin diagonal crack rising right of Missing Josiah to the arete. | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | |||
20 | ★★★ Cypress Avenue
Amazing arete on left end of amphitheatre. Starts on orange rock and follows juggy arete and crack to the top. FA: Neale Smith, Mick Ling, Gerry Narkowicz & Bob McMahon, 1983 | 25m | North Esk | ||
20 | ★★★ The South Side Of The Sausage
| 130m | Ben Lomond | ||
20 | ★ Nebraska
Blank corner with tree part way up on RHS | 12m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★★ 12 O'clock Noon
The Furthest line left starting on a narrow ledge. The arete right of the top of SOTNC and left ASU. Exposed and technical face and arete climbing FA: Neale Smith, Bob McMahon & Gerry Narkowicz, 1982 | 20m | North Esk | ||
20 | Getting Dark, Too Dark to See
| 8m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | Invertebrat
Thin crack with a slight overhang to start. Finger pocket starting hold into the thin crack at the top. FA: Shayne Leslie, 1995 | 6m | Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||
20 | ★★ Tecumseh
50m right of Caprichos Crag. Face with thin seams in the middle, widening to a finger crack. FA: Bob McMahon, Cameron Evans & Gerry Narkowicz, 1999 | 12m | North Esk | ||
20 | ★ Bomber Command
| 45m | Ben Lomond |