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Grade Route Gear style Popularity Crag
17 Mae West Direct Finish
Trad 40m Victoria Range
17 Turn Of The Tide Unknown 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

Trad 15m NE Mt Zero Range
17 Invasion USA
Trad 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

Trad 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

Mixed trad 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

Trad 25m Halls Gap Area
17 The Khasi Of Kalabar

Chimney line 10m right of 'Carry On Up The Chimney'.

  1. 40m Start in the back of the chimney and chimney up and out to front. Up line to big ledge below steep walls.

  2. 15m [crux] Steep wide crack in back corner of bay.

FA: Philip Armstrong & Jerry Maddox (alt), 2006

Trad 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

Trad 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.

Trad 150m, 3 Mt Cole
17 Hot Dog
Trad 10m The Black Range
17 Master Of Sleaze

The short steep right hand crack

FA: Peter Thomson & Andrew Corlass, 1993

Trad 6m Dargo
17 Chicken Little
Unknown 9m The You Yangs
17 Decisions, Decisions
Trad 48m Asses Ears Area
17 Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Trad 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

Trad 18m Victoria Range
17 R Bitter Taste

Loose and poorly protected.

Start: Start 3 metres right of "Sihaya" just left of the arete.

  1. 37m (17) Follow a flake on the arete onto the right wall. Continue over a bulge to a slab below the roof and traverse back left to the arete. Climb the dubious flake on the arete and move left to belay.

  2. 13m (-) On up the line.

FA: Peter Treby & Peter Watling, 1978

Trad 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

Trad 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

Trad 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.

Boulder Beechworth Area
17 Fairy Lands Forlorn

Overhang to the R. BR. BB.

Unknown 8m, 1 Lal Lal Forest
17 Shitty Encounters

Start 10m left of Extinct at left side of large ceiling/corner with guano in it.

  1. ?m Dirty, right-facing corner to small ledge.

  2. ?m Corner past guano stain to small roof. Left, then head wall.

FA: Geoff Butcher & Mark Crisp, 1996

Trad 48m, 2 South-Eastern Grampians
17 Calabrese Salami Sandwich

A variant that links P1 of Calabrese into P2 of Salami.

  1. 35m (17) Up Calabrese P1 until the comfy ledge at about 20m (optional belay, as for Calabrese). Instead of stepping right to the flake as for Calabrese, continue up the thin intermittent crack, to join the sharp undercut flake on P2 of Salami. Once past this, build an anchor.

  2. 20m (-) Dawdle to the top.

FA: benwiessner & Lachlan Milne, 2 Nov 2022

Trad 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'.

  1. 15m (17) Climb up to the bulge at 10 metres and go directly into the base of the 'Snorkler' corner.

  2. 45m (17) Up the 'Snorkler' corner and continue up the corner rather than traversing off left. Move up lichenous walls and finish up an open corner.

FA: Pitch 1: Ed Neve, Chris Dewhirst. Pitch 2: Roark Muhlen & Phil Cullen 01-02-1976, 1973

Trad 45m, 2 Arapiles
17 Cataract
Unknown 15m Mount Buffalo
17 Jungle Warfare Unknown 30m Omeo
17 Driven
Unknown 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.

  1. 25m (17) Pull through overhang and go up and step right into left of two parallel grooves. Go up to below overhang.

  2. 30m (-) Up right over loose block and up short groove. Step left to square-cut groove and climb it to next overhang. Crack above to bushy ledge below corner.

  3. 20m (-) Corner, then crack on right wall. (? is this pitch Bernie's Open Book?)

FA: Peter Cunningham, Keith Lockwood & Peter Watling, 1981

Trad 75m, 3 Mt Rosea
17 Alice's Restaurant
Trad 86m Halls Gap Area
17 Plastic Perversion
Trad 39m South-Eastern Grampians
17 Leeper

Clip Leeper piton L of Hieracherthium after pulling around bulge.

FA: Simon Fenton & Ray Fenton, 1989

Mixed trad 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

Trad 20m Victoria Range
17 Carlton Variant Start

Looks quite daunting for the grade.

FA: John Chapman & Peter Watson, 1976

Trad 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

Trad 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

Trad 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

Trad 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

Trad 48m The Cathedral Range
17 M1 Exposition
Aid 160m, 2 Mount Buffalo
17 No Jugs
Unknown 35m Corryong
17 Aquajet
Unknown 20m Mt Kooyoora
17 Anddo
Trad 10m Summerday Valley
17 Tank Tracks
Trad 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

Trad 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

Trad 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

Trad 23m Victoria Range
17 Child's Play Unknown 10m Mount Beckworth
17 Isabelle's Fan Club
Trad 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

Trad 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

Trad 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

Trad 35m Victoria Range
17 Modern Times
  1. 25m As for 'Ancient Times' to R-hand end of the ledge. Progress to block at top of slab. 2) 35m (crux) Up and R across wall on in-cuts to base of juggy crack in steep wall. Motor up (sling runners) to a rest on the lip. Cross 'Ancient Times' to finish directly up the steep, juggy head-wall.

FA: Ylva Wakefield & Tim Day (alt), 1996

Trad 60m Victoria Range
17 Farewell to Decorum

Right seam.

FA: David Gairns & Chris Baxter, 1995

Trad 15m Halls Gap Area
17 Bird On The Wing
  1. 20m Thin wall 2m right of Swamp Harrier. Traverse 4m left at sloping ledge.

  2. 15m Knobbly crack (poor pro).

FA: Greg Aimer & Chrissy Freestone, 1994

Trad 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

Trad 21m Dargo
17 Squall
Unknown 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

Trad 21m Dargo
17 President's Day
Unknown 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

Trad 15m Flat Rock
17 Hunting for Crack

Right side of tunnel. Crack Half way up veer left up thin crack. Finish under roof

Trad 11m Asses Ears Area
17 Wallace and Grommet
Trad 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

Trad 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

Trad 17m Victoria Range
17 Stockwhip

R and up at top.

Start: Start R of TFoC.

FA: Richard Smith & Paul Hoskins, 1995

Trad 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

Trad 35m Victoria Range
17 Slated

Just R of arête, and without using it. 4BR. DBB

Sport 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

Trad 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

Trad Mount Buffalo
17 Sleep In Peace
Unknown 30m Mount Buffalo
17 Retrograde Amnesia Direct Start
Unknown 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'.

  1. 42m (17) As for 'Bus Stop'.

  2. 38m (-) Left to wide line, up a few metres and right onto face. Diagonally right, step right, straight up to ledge, left to belay.

  3. 40m (17) Left into big corner. Up corner to rotten rock. Crack on right wall to overhang (? multiple peg runners, loose blocks). Dirty moves into clean corner. Up to top with a deviation onto right arete.

FA: Andrew Bowman & Chris Baxter (var), 1973

Trad 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

Trad 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.

  1. 12m Little corner 6m right of 'Epicurian' to grassy ledge. Up line then step right to arete.

  2. 18m Traverse left and up into shallow flaring chimney (big loose flake on left). Up this chimney and exit right over more loose blocks. Up easier crack to step right udner prow.

  3. 18m Corner right of prow. Bush and dirt leads to crack above and up until able to traverse right to below twin cracks.

  4. 12m Twin cracks then exit right. Wall, overhang and short crack.

FA: Chris Baxter, Keith Lockwood & Mike Stone, 1974

Trad 60m, 4 Halls Gap Area
17 Ned Shredder
Trad 55m South-Eastern Grampians
17 Introspection
Trad 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

Trad 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

Trad 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

Trad 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

Trad 30m Victoria Range
17 Velveteen

Blunt arete 2m right of Vibrio Parahaemolyticus. 1 BR

FA: Peter Stebbins & Ben Holko, 1992

Mixed trad 10m, 1 Black Hill
17 Pearl Harbour
Unknown 25m Corryong
17 Pumpernickel

Chimney behind boulder of DP. Old BR and PR.

Trad 34m Bundaleer Area
17 The Rattler
Trad 100m South-Eastern Grampians
17 Prestidigitator
Trad 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

Aid 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

Trad 14m Victoria Range
17 Concave
Trad 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

Trad 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

Trad 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

Trad 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

Trad 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

Trad Bundaleer Area
17 Tunnel Of Love

Large crack/corner right of Peters Out To Nothing

  1. 40m Climb slab using back against roof or layback the edge

  2. 40m Step right over overlap (crux) and up the flake to surmount the next bulge. Up the slab to much easier ground above. Belay on the knob

  3. 45m Straight up o the top. Belay on trees.

FA: Richard Smith, Phil Wilkins & Alan Hope, 1986

Trad 130m Wilson's Promontory
17 Zinno
Trad 20m The Black Range
17 Sinking Rat
Unknown 50m Mount Buffalo
17 Hillbilly Cat Unknown 60m Buchan
17 A Face Worse Than Death
Unknown 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

Trad 15m Mount Zero
17 A Kind Word And A Gun
Trad 60m Pohlner Track & Smith's Rd Area
17 Condemned to Live
Trad 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

Trad 24m Halls Gap Area

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