Grade | Route | Gear style | Popularity | Crag | |
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17 | Mae West Direct Finish
| 40m | Victoria Range | ||
17 | Turn Of The Tide | 8m | Mount Beckworth | ||
17 | Overburden
Not positively located. Possibly 'The Joker' is a repeat of this route. This is not a major attraction. Start at the white outcrop of rock at the base of the cliff half way along. Up the weakness veering right near top to easier ground. FA: John Pawson & Wayne Maher, 1989 | 15m | NE Mt Zero Range | ||
17 | Invasion USA
| 10m | Victoria Range | ||
17 | First Night Nerves
At the right side of the cliff at a little arching flake line. This is about 12 metres right of 'Small Change' and just left of the second dead tree from the left. FA: Keith Lockwood, Tim Lockwood & David Spike, 1999 | 20m | Arapiles | ||
17 | Bonobo
The grassy corner at the right end of the wall. If you value ankles over a purist ethic perhaps clip the first bolt on LIB. DBB at top. FA: M. Johnston | 20m, 1 | Victoria Range | ||
17 | A Bun in the Oven
Cairned. The black buttress which is undercut on its right side and with a smooth orange wall below an overlap; near the middle of the cliff. Step up right from easy line on left, and then up (easing significantly). FA: Stephen Hamilton, Chris Baxter & Tony Maasakkers, 1993 | 25m | Halls Gap Area | ||
17 | The Khasi Of Kalabar
Chimney line 10m right of 'Carry On Up The Chimney'.
FA: Philip Armstrong & Jerry Maddox (alt), 2006 | 55m, 2 | Halls Gap Area | ||
17 | Back to Scraps
Arête at right side of wall, then step round roof. Loose territory above. FA: Marthijs Heuperman & Others, 1995 | 12m | Boreang Campsite Area | ||
17 | Cobblers
Follows the R edge of the central slab, starts in the large gully in the centre of the cliff, L of Peeping Tom. 3x50m Pitches. | 150m, 3 | Mt Cole | ||
17 | Hot Dog
| 10m | The Black Range | ||
17 | Master Of Sleaze
The short steep right hand crack FA: Peter Thomson & Andrew Corlass, 1993 | 6m | Dargo | ||
17 | Chicken Little
| 9m | The You Yangs | ||
17 | Decisions, Decisions
| 48m | Asses Ears Area | ||
17 | Mormon Tabernacle Choir
| 33m | Halls Gap Area | ||
17 | Lost Tribes
Start just left of Menlove Edwards Meets Conan Doyle. Follow the crack-line, step left at the top to pull through overhang. Belay here or step to the right. Scramble up and off or abseil. FA: Campbell Mercer, 1992 | 18m | Victoria Range | ||
17 R | Bitter Taste
Loose and poorly protected. Start: Start 3 metres right of "Sihaya" just left of the arete.
FA: Peter Treby & Peter Watling, 1978 | 50m, 2 | Victoria Range | ||
17 | A Whale Of A Time Variant
A good pitch but a bit out of place with only easy options for approach and finish. Start at second belay; this is also the second belay of "Beau Geste", at the top of the neat little corner. Climb orange wall up and right to arete and continue up arete until it joins the original line (crack curving in from left) and eases. Continue easily to belay. FA: Tim Lockwood, Keith Lockwood, Kieran Loughran & Norm Booth, 2010 | 25m | Arapiles | ||
17 | Axis Sally
Up the right side of the shield to horizontals near the top. Traveres left to the arete and up. Start: Start 18 metres right of the left end of the cliff. There is a shield formation forming a flake-line on each of its sides. FA: Glenn Donohue & Wayne Maher, 1995 | 18m | Victoria Range | ||
V0+ | Puddles
Scary slabbing. Starts behind the cypress pines in the small ‘cove’ on river left. Straight up the clean black streak. | Beechworth Area | |||
17 | Fairy Lands Forlorn
Overhang to the R. BR. BB. | 8m, 1 | Lal Lal Forest | ||
17 | Shitty Encounters
Start 10m left of Extinct at left side of large ceiling/corner with guano in it.
FA: Geoff Butcher & Mark Crisp, 1996 | 48m, 2 | South-Eastern Grampians | ||
17 | ★ Calabrese Salami Sandwich
A variant that links P1 of Calabrese into P2 of Salami.
FA: benwiessner & Lachlan Milne, 2 Nov 2022 | 2 | Arapiles | ||
17 | Senile Foxes
Direct version of 'Snorkler'. Needs checking out and cleaning up but could well be very good climb. Have given it a star for luck Start: Start at the open groove as for 'Snorkler'.
FA: Pitch 1: Ed Neve, Chris Dewhirst. Pitch 2: Roark Muhlen & Phil Cullen 01-02-1976, 1973 | 45m, 2 | Arapiles | ||
17 | Cataract
| 15m | Mount Buffalo | ||
17 | Jungle Warfare | 30m | Omeo | ||
17 | Driven
| 13m | The You Yangs | ||
17 | Clutching at Straws
Start: Start a few metres left of Commando Climb at a break in the overhang. There used to be some railings here but they have mercifully been removed.
FA: Peter Cunningham, Keith Lockwood & Peter Watling, 1981 | 75m, 3 | Mt Rosea | ||
17 | Alice's Restaurant
| 86m | Halls Gap Area | ||
17 | Plastic Perversion
| 39m | South-Eastern Grampians | ||
17 | Leeper
Clip Leeper piton L of Hieracherthium after pulling around bulge. FA: Simon Fenton & Ray Fenton, 1989 | 10m, 1 | Mount Beckworth | ||
17 | Terminal Cough
Start on the north side of the pinnacle at the left end. Up to the left crack and on to the top on rounded holds. FA: Dave Cherry & Richard evans, 1989 | 20m | Victoria Range | ||
17 | Carlton Variant Start
Looks quite daunting for the grade. FA: John Chapman & Peter Watson, 1976 | 42m | Arapiles | ||
17 | Crocks on the Rocks
Not positively identified Start: On the left side of the wall facing AABOR and WYSIWYG. Presumably R of 'Yo Ho Ho'. From ledge, scramble off right over buttress to abseil tree. FA: Wayne Maher & Derek Vissor, 1995 | 18m | South-Eastern Grampians | ||
17 | Real Life
Traverse right then up to gain right-veering crack. Up crack to take bulge on left. Start: Start 4 metres right of "The Cut-Throat Business Of Haberdashery" FA: Peter Campbell & Jamie Serle, 1994 | 20m | Victoria Range | ||
17 | Century Box
A smooth small wall facing north east approximately 70m up and right of Shattered Buttress. Climb to small sentry box. Take the right hand edge. FA: Mike Totterdell & Pete Holmes, 2012 | 10m | Arapiles | ||
17 | You Should Be Dancing
Starts up the shallow groove at the L hand side of the main face. Up the scoop (jugs on the L are out) to the ledge, and on to the bottom of the triangular hole (hard to see from the ground). Up L and take the thin crack to the ledge. FA: Richard Smit & Wayne Thompson, 1986 | 48m | The Cathedral Range | ||
17 M1 | Exposition
| 160m, 2 | Mount Buffalo | ||
17 | No Jugs
| 35m | Corryong | ||
17 | ★ Aquajet
| 20m | Mt Kooyoora | ||
17 | Anddo
| 10m | Summerday Valley | ||
17 | Tank Tracks
| 30m | Henham Track Area | ||
17 | The Shrew Direct
Where 'The Shrew' traverses right at 10m, climb directly up corner to ledge. Directly up wall. FA: Anton Bartlett, Simon Murray & Andrew Wilson, 1996 | 48m | South-Eastern Grampians | ||
17 | Oh God
Beautiful slab but a bit contrived. The finish was originally done as a variant finish to "Savage God" possibly by Hugh Foxcroft. FA: James & Melanie McIntosh, 1992 | 35m | Victoria Range | ||
17 | Cold And Flu
Slope up the wall and climb the bulge. Continue up the wall and finish directly over the top overhang. Start: Start 4 metres right of 'Lizardry' below a cracked bulge at 4 metres. FA: Terry Tremble, Kieran Loughran & Paul Vlahovic. Winter, 1984 | 23m | Victoria Range | ||
17 | ★ Child's Play | 10m | Mount Beckworth | ||
17 | Isabelle's Fan Club
| 35m | NE Mt Zero Range | ||
17 | Sticky Fingers
Tacky. Take the easy crack 8 metres right of Restless until it blanks. Traverse left along break, up past tree to corner and up this. Gully walk-off is awful. FA: Peter Watling, Ceri Law & Kieran Loughran, 1979 | 35m | Victoria Range | ||
17 | Sidetrack
Where the seam thins down, climb wall on the left until the line can be regained.Onwards up line to top. Start: Thin seam between 'Rocky Road' and 'Hump The Bluey'. FA: Noel Whiteside, Keith Lockwood & Peter Canning, 2003 | 18m | Arapiles | ||
17 | Carcassonne And Cassoulet
Two pitches of trad adventure squeezed into between the foreboding caves of the 'Ruined Castle'. Starts at polished yellow handcrack at left end of the Second Tier overhangs. Belay in cave halfway up. Step right then up wide layback crack to roof. Traverse out left to finish. FA: Neil Monteith & Kathy Dicker, 2006 | 35m | Victoria Range | ||
17 | Modern Times
FA: Ylva Wakefield & Tim Day (alt), 1996 | 60m | Victoria Range | ||
17 | Farewell to Decorum
Right seam. FA: David Gairns & Chris Baxter, 1995 | 15m | Halls Gap Area | ||
17 | Bird On The Wing
FA: Greg Aimer & Chrissy Freestone, 1994 | 35m, 2 | Bundaleer Area | ||
17 | Sacrfhead Soup
Start just L of the cave. Up to the next cave and a good thread runner. Pull through the overhang and continue to the top. FA: Michael Hampton & Andrew Corlass, 1996 | 21m | Dargo | ||
17 | Squall
| 35m | Wilson's Promontory | ||
17 | Department Of Consternation And Mutual Masturbation
Down on the main wall. Follow the crack and bulges up the main wall that start out of the main cave. Pass the peg (placed by another older party) and watch out for the wasps. FA: Andrew Corlass & Peter Thomson, 1993 | 21m | Dargo | ||
17 | President's Day
| 8m | The You Yangs | ||
17 | Pawson Climb
Balancy face-climbing. Start: Start at the back of the pinnacle, just R of L arete. FA: John Pawson, Chris Baxter, Wayne Maher & Meg Taylor, 1994 | 15m | Flat Rock | ||
17 | Hunting for Crack
Right side of tunnel. Crack Half way up veer left up thin crack. Finish under roof | 11m | Asses Ears Area | ||
17 | Wallace and Grommet
| 33m | Halls Gap Area | ||
17 | Safe Sex
Start as for Looking For a route to the steepening then take the right-leaning crack to the top. FA: Gary wills & Peter Megens, 1990 | 16m | Victoria Range | ||
17 | Gibraltar
There is a huge block 60 metres downhill from Iago. On the NE side of the block is a steep slab. Step off the ground just left of centre of the face. Traverse right to the centre of the face and up. Allegedly adequate protection. FA: Campbell Mercer, Mark Poustie & Andrew Lynch, 1993 | 17m | Victoria Range | ||
17 | Stockwhip
R and up at top. Start: Start R of TFoC. FA: Richard Smith & Paul Hoskins, 1995 | 15m | Arapiles | ||
17 | Jurassic Park
Not to be confused with the climb of the same name at Stapylton. Start at the next west-facing wall up and right of Knights In White Satin from a block leaning against the face. Up to prominent right-leading diagonal break. Follow this to some cracks through the overhang and take the right-hand crack to the top. FA: Wayne Maher & Peter Cunningham, 1996 | 35m | Victoria Range | ||
17 | Slated
Just R of arête, and without using it. 4BR. DBB | 10m, 4 | Lal Lal Forest | ||
17 | Methane Magic
Up Whiplash (Cheesecake) for 2½m. Traverse up left on stepped flake. Finish up middle break in wall to bushy ledge. Descend as for Whiplash. FA: Jack Lewis & Rob Martin, 1999 | 28m | South-Eastern Grampians | ||
17 | ★ Unknown
There is a grade 17 crack on the block 40m below 'On Remand' facing back toward the main cliff (i.e facing east). FA: unknown | Mount Buffalo | |||
17 | Sleep In Peace
| 30m | Mount Buffalo | ||
17 | Retrograde Amnesia Direct Start
| 14m | The You Yangs | ||
17 | Jiggery Pokery
Major choss starting up 'Bus Stop' and finishing up the prominent corner to the left. Start: Start as for 'Bus Stop'.
FA: Andrew Bowman & Chris Baxter (var), 1973 | 120m, 3 | Mt Rosea | ||
17 | Dan the Man
Tiered, R leading crack. Up short L facing corner beside block then traverse L to line. Up FA: Stephen Hamilton & Nick Tapp, 1990 | 25m | Halls Gap Area | ||
17 | Desperate Dan
Wanders its way up the ground (the word is used deliberately) right of 'Epicurian' in search of rock that will stay attached to the cliff.
FA: Chris Baxter, Keith Lockwood & Mike Stone, 1974 | 60m, 4 | Halls Gap Area | ||
17 | Ned Shredder
| 55m | South-Eastern Grampians | ||
17 | Introspection
| 24m | Asses Ears Area | ||
17 | Greyhounds In Space
The right end of the north face. Up to the righthand crack and up it. FA: Isa Davis & Peter Megens, 1989 | 20m | Victoria Range | ||
17 | Uncertain Daze
Start: Approx 100metres right of 'Peanuts', which places it somewhere near 'Blackfoot', is a small cairn at the base of a nice crack, which takes good wires to a horizontal break at 4m. Dance between twin cracks to unlikely looking steep bulge, which is well protected (0.3+0.4 BD) and much easier than it looks on good holds. When on the Face above move left to large ledge with tree abseil. Rap approx 25m to ground from tree. FA: Josef Goding & Stephen Holloway, 2001 | 25m | South-Eastern Grampians | ||
17 | Ki Jaye
Start 2 metres left of "I Used To Be etc". Climb on small edges to horizontal break then straight up wall to ledge. Walk off left to gully. FA: Geoff Butcher & Tanya Freeman, 1997 | 20m | Victoria Range | ||
17 | Triad
Steep climbing on generally good rock. Start 4 metres left of Android Dreaming's belay. Straight up wall to short corner. Up to horizontal break then pull through onto steep headwall. Step right, to finish just left of Android Dreaming. FA: Geoff Butcher & Michael Hampton, 2000 | 30m | Victoria Range | ||
17 | Velveteen
Blunt arete 2m right of Vibrio Parahaemolyticus. 1 BR FA: Peter Stebbins & Ben Holko, 1992 | 10m, 1 | Black Hill | ||
17 | Pearl Harbour
| 25m | Corryong | ||
17 | Pumpernickel
Chimney behind boulder of DP. Old BR and PR. | 34m | Bundaleer Area | ||
17 | The Rattler
| 100m | South-Eastern Grampians | ||
17 | Prestidigitator
| 170m | South-Eastern Grampians | ||
17 M0 | Who Can It Be Now
Start at the base of Savage God, on the right wall. The crack through the vertical black stain to the arete. The arete to the top. Aid used by leader was not required by second. FA: Campbell Mercer, Julie Nitschke & Mark Nitschke, 1990 | 30m | Victoria Range | ||
17 | Tattle Tales
Up line 1.5 metres right of "Blowing Gum" to overlap and through FA: Greg Aimer & Chrissy Freestone, 1996 | 14m | Victoria Range | ||
17 | Concave
| 18m | Halls Gap Area | ||
17 | Creep Show
This route takes a black groove at the right hand end of the ledge. Belay at ledge from where it is possible to walk off right. FA: Pritchard & Hoskins, 1994 | 15m | Arapiles | ||
17 | Born to fly
Two great corners with exposed traverse. A fun well protected climb under two small orange roofs. Bridge or stem up grey corner to orange corner then across right under small orange roof with seam down the centre. Once up and under larger orange roof, lay out left placing gear and find your way up using two finger slot. Finish at rap station. FA: Damien Heath & Steve Hollaway, 2006 | 18m | Victoria Range | ||
17 | Black Lace Bra
Third line from right end of left cliff, with tree at 12m. From top of crack step right and climb middle of buttress. FA: Chris Baxter & Geoff Gledhill, 1996 | 30m | Halls Gap Area | ||
17 | Trench Foot
Start as for Old Tech, then continue up the crack on the right edge of the buttress. Abseil from a tree at the top. FA: Philip Armstrong & Jerry Maddox, 2006 | 45m | Eastern Mt Difficult Range | ||
17 | Days of Wine and Roses Direct Finish
From final overhang, hand-traverse right. Pull through bulge, then short wall above. FA: Kieran Koughran, Chris Baxter, Sue Baxter & Meg Sleeman, 1994 | Bundaleer Area | |||
17 | Tunnel Of Love
Large crack/corner right of Peters Out To Nothing
FA: Richard Smith, Phil Wilkins & Alan Hope, 1986 | 130m | Wilson's Promontory | ||
17 | Zinno
| 20m | The Black Range | ||
17 | Sinking Rat
| 50m | Mount Buffalo | ||
17 | Hillbilly Cat | 60m | Buchan | ||
17 | A Face Worse Than Death
| 8m | The You Yangs | ||
17 | Wusses In The Light Weights Room
R-leading diagonal for 2m. Delicately up and follow L line. Start: On the steep, yellow buttress most prominent from the road, just behind (south of) Pangaea Wall. Start 4m L of undercut arete. FA: Michael Gidding, David Burnett, Rohan Schaap & Paul Watson, 1991 | 15m | Mount Zero | ||
17 | A Kind Word And A Gun
| 60m | Pohlner Track & Smith's Rd Area | ||
17 | Condemned to Live
| 16m | Bundaleer Area | ||
17 | Kind to Dogs and Children
Brittle rock. Scramble up 8m to belay on prominent block 40m R of GB and at R end of scrubby slab. Thin L slanting line. FA: James McIntosh & Melanie McIntosh, 1990 | 24m | Halls Gap Area |