Nodes in St Helens - Bay of Fires

Plenty of granite boulders from St Helens to Binalong Bay to Bay of Fires. A few are developed, but heaps to go.

Small area just north of Binalong Bay. Probably the best area known to date.

In the drooping sheoaks just south of the car park.

Climb the arête with help from some face holds. Stand start.

Sit or stand start the open arete squeeze to the left of absolution, looks possible but very hard.

Sit start left hand low drag, right hand pebbly pinch and good feet. Bump up to jug and press up the bulge direct. Escaping via left ramp is out.

Start as for Arb. moving right via slopers and crimp to toput via the finger jug in the centre of the slab.

Start as for Arb then moving right along the lip of the boulder via slopers and crimps to join into and up Abalone.

Sit start from rocky shelf hands on side pulls, bump up to the rail and navigate your way onto and up the hanging slab. Continue down the slabby ramp to an awkward low traverse into Arboreal for a V6 tick.

Sit Start with left hand on the good crumbly side pull and right hand on good jug, head up and left

Sit start on good jug, head up and left

From the cosy corner north campsite you’ll find the boulders to the left of the beach, hop some rocks and you’ll find the little closed off area that eventually gets flooded from the tide

Left hand in crack, right on crimp, traverse low and finish as per Inflate the Tires. Wet in high tide!

Sit start (for full value sit-start from the sand rather than sitting on a pad). Climbs the left cracks on this and tops out. Has a great pinch feature. Wet in high tide!

The middle of three climbs on section of wall. Sit start in the middle and top out. Wet in high tide!

Climbs the arete on the right. Sit start with cracks and work your way to top out. Wet in high tide!

Starts around the corner from ITT in the obvious finger crack. Sit start at base of crack and top out. Watch your back on the wall behind. Sit start from the sand for full value.

Stand start with good side pull, climb to top

Scoot your way up the chimney.

Sit start from sand for full value. Butterfly/jam your way up the off-width. Maybe v4 as I don't climb off-widths.

Sit start and fridge the two aretes, delicately over bulge to pleasant finger crack. Watch your back

Sit start from sand level with sharp arete for your left hand. Top out of spike.

Sit start at the base of the crack, only the seam and the small ledge halfway are in. Top out

Sit start on juggy crack, up and mantle to the left.

Stand start on obvious hold, traverse right via good sloper, finish up slab.

Sit start, Left hand starts above the head on the lower sloper of the two, right hand starts on the bulge, bumps to a crimpy side pull, continue up and top out. Ledge and large crack on the right side are out

Sit start to the right of SS on the massive jug. Mantle onto jug and carefully climb over the top out. Be careful of the drop below.

Sit start on the obvious flake. Move left and mantle.

Starting on the two small ridges with one foot on a small ledge at the bottom, bump straight up with the left hand to the sloper and top out

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Sit start both cracks

Sit start with rail.

Compress your way up the boulder

Small summit consisting of a collection of stacked blocks. North of paddling pool boulders

Climb the splitter block. Excellent rock. Solo FA.

Many locals continue to use community run website thesarvo.com for crag/route updates and noting any access issues. The associated app can be downloaded and used offline!

http://thesarvo.com/confluence/display/thesarvo/Tasmania

Gerry Narkowicz also produces hardcopy guides to numerous venues across the state via the 'Climb Tasmania' website

https://climbtasmania.com.au/collections/frontpage

Many locals continue to use community run website thesarvo.com for crag/route updates and noting any access issues. The associated app can be downloaded and used offline!

http://thesarvo.com/confluence/display/thesarvo/Tasmania

Gerry Narkowicz also produces hardcopy guides to numerous venues across the state via the 'Climb Tasmania' website

https://climbtasmania.com.au/collections/frontpage

Low traverse of the slab between '133bpm Left' and 'The Heart Beat' in either direction.

Stand start. Climb the slab on the far left.

Stand start to the slab.

Balance up the pedestal and follow the flake up to a mantel.

Might be possible, but would be pretty hard and technical underclinging.

Sit start. Climb up the cracks with good opposing jugs.

Sit start the left arête.

Hang start the right arête.

Many locals continue to use community run website thesarvo.com for crag/route updates and noting any access issues. The associated app can be downloaded and used offline!

http://thesarvo.com/confluence/display/thesarvo/Tasmania

Gerry Narkowicz also produces hardcopy guides to numerous venues across the state via the 'Climb Tasmania' website

https://climbtasmania.com.au/collections/frontpage

Many locals continue to use community run website thesarvo.com for crag/route updates and noting any access issues. The associated app can be downloaded and used offline!

http://thesarvo.com/confluence/display/thesarvo/Tasmania

Gerry Narkowicz also produces hardcopy guides to numerous venues across the state via the 'Climb Tasmania' website

https://climbtasmania.com.au/collections/frontpage

Many locals continue to use community run website thesarvo.com for crag/route updates and noting any access issues. The associated app can be downloaded and used offline!

http://thesarvo.com/confluence/display/thesarvo/Tasmania

Gerry Narkowicz also produces hardcopy guides to numerous venues across the state via the 'Climb Tasmania' website

https://climbtasmania.com.au/collections/frontpage

On the north facing side of the huge orange rock is a fantastic thin slab. Climb it past two glued carrots. Trad belay.

Excellent continuous crack climbing with a few face features. Solo first ascent but it looks like the gear would be good.

Easy climbing on great rock. Follow the crack line up starting on the platform just above sea level. Solo first ascent, but appears that there would be good gear for a trad lead.

Start at right side of boulder and work your way left to the apex of the boulder and then top out on jug. Fun!

Excellent long side-pull pocket feature. Start at bottom pocket and work your way right ton big jug feature. Carful of the drop below.

Sit start on undercling/sidepull. Finish up the juggy lip.

Stand start, directly up and over the large flake.

Many locals continue to use community run website thesarvo.com for crag/route updates and noting any access issues. The associated app can be downloaded and used offline!

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Gerry Narkowicz also produces hardcopy guides to numerous venues across the state via the 'Climb Tasmania' website

https://climbtasmania.com.au/collections/frontpage

Stand start, though sit would go.

Stand start

Sit start

Sit start

Stand start

Stand start

Stand start

Steep and slopy arete would go.

Mantle the hanging blankness

Stand start, lay off the arete all the way up.

Stand start

Stand start

Stand start the diagonal crack

Sit start on juggy rail just around from VE crack. Up on nice holds to east mantle. May have been done before

This is an extension of the Bay of Fires to the south of Georges Bay and includes various granite boulder fields scattered around St Helens Point. The rock is more smooth here than further north.

Beerbarrel Beach is all granite bouldering. Best at low tide but still good whenever. Has some really cool slabs and faces.

A large collection of vertical and slabby walls

Hand crack, stand start then move up crack and face to top. Base gets water at high tide. Waiting for a sit start variant.

Stand start on good holds, mantle, then nicely up and over steep part of the face. Could be water at the bottom at high tide.

Start hanging on the ledge, mantle, and then up the gentle slab.

Start matching on rail and big move to horn then top out. Note, can't use chockstone.

Pumpy traverse L to R. From V1 crack hands along the horizontal break, then past little red horn and along breaks, finish on the fat detached flake rock - you can use the block under the little horn for your feet. Best at low tide to start.

Start hanging on the small red horn, rocket up and mantle, no feet on blocks/ boulders underneath, just hand and go!

Reverse of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Start Matching on the rail, traverse L, past nice face holds, the Red Horn, then drop town to ledge, traverse staying low then finish up the V1 hand crack.

Slab and little to left, top out.

Up the steeper orange slab, avoid holds to the right. Grab the flake over the top as best you can and caterpillar your way over the top.

Walk up slab with no hands.

Sit start on rail and move up and slightly to the L, fun mantle move to top out.

Stand start, move up keeping to the right of Dung Beetle, mantle with fancy palm work, and top out.

Sit start on pinchy cracks then follow them up to topout.

Sit start with good feet laybacking the crack. climb up the face with fun moves and topout over the bulge on juggy hands.

A corner with a vertical and slightly overhung wall. located just opposite The Sleeping Caterpillar.

Start hands in crack L of Prize Novel follow crack up to top out.

Small bulge then up centre of the face and L arete. Over the top to finish. Less a grade if you exit R at half way.

Sit start on crack and climb up.

Stand start bridging between both walls. v1 if you don't use the two large cracks for hands.

Thin crack on R face. Using only the crack and a couple of foot nubs down low. Shoot for flat jug at top.

Stand start on sidepull, travers left until you hold a set of three baubles then pull up throw for side pull and top out to the left.

A collection of easy climbs fit for a beginner.

Start on sidepull, traverse up and to the left. Only use holds on the face.

Start on small rail then head up and top out.

Sit Start on sidepull and traverse R only using holds on face

Sit start on rail and traverse the nook then top out.

Start on arete and traverse across the "Musketeers"