Grade | Route | Gear style | Popularity | ||
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Albany Dog Rock | |||||
V2 | ★★ Doggie Style
Start as for The Black Dog, but from the pockets traverse right past the tree then top out through the bulge. | ||||
V2 | Junkyard Dog
Avoids the fun part of Doggie Style but has the same slightly desperate finish. | ||||
V2 | ★ Parvo
Climb the arete and left face. | ||||
Albany Mt Melville Boulders Cooinda Park Boulder | |||||
V2 | Diagonally Across The Face
FA: Local Crew | ||||
V2 | Scooped Arete
FA: Local Crew | ||||
Albany Mt Melville Boulders GL95 Boulders | |||||
V2/3 | ★★★ Blade Runner
Sit start at the base of the obvious overhanging prow. Slap up to glory and an easy top out. Short and sweet - an instant classic! FA: Michael Taran, 27 Aug 2019 | 3m | |||
V2 | Wage Theft
Rounded arete FA: Kym.H, 21 Oct 2019 | ||||
Albany Mt Melville Boulders Summit Boulders | |||||
V2 | ★ The Lookout Wall, Right
Stand start. Up the slab to the right of the groove. | 7m | |||
V1/2 | Looking Sharp
Sit start. Traverse right then topout. | 2m | |||
V2 | Carrier
Stand start. Up trending right. https://vimeo.com/126374382 | 3m | |||
V2 | ★ Sneak A Peak
Sit start. Up the juggy prow. https://vimeo.com/126374382 | 2m | |||
V2 | Rickys Dick
Sit start. Up and left along the dong into an awkward topout. Avoid the boulder to the right. Named after graffiti that was on the boulder from back in the day. | 3m | |||
V2/3 | Off Widthing
Stand start, up the obvious crack. | ||||
V1/2 | ★★ Lowe-ball
Stand start with the crimps on the left, long moves up with decent feet. Up the slab next to the path. High and easy. Not so easy to get off... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnhmankwUhs FA: Pete Lowe, 1986 | 5m | |||
V2/3 | ★★★ Deliverance
Stand start. Up the slabbiest section of the boulder. Gets thin up high! https://youtu.be/hnhmankwUhs?t=90 FA: Pete Lowe, 1986 | 6m | |||
Albany Mt Melville Boulders Pinnacle Boulder | |||||
V2/3 | ★★ Montgomery Wick. SDS
Sit start on the right with right hand on obvious arete pinch. The original sitter. Adds a couple of harder moves on small holds. | 4m | |||
V1/2 | ★★ Montgomery Wick, Variant
Sit start on the left of the face to gain the prow and top out straight up. Slightly easier than the original sitter. | ||||
V2/3 | ★ Slip, Slop, Slap
Sit start in the crack. Up the slopey bulges to topout straight up. FA: Kym.H | ||||
Albany Mt Melville Boulders Rehab boulders | |||||
V2/3 | ★★ Snakes in the jungle
Stand start on crimps. Smear and mantle your way up the arete and onto the slab.. | ||||
V2 | ★★ (name unknown)
Climb the right arete and slab.. FA: Clay Varley, 1 Mar 2018 | ||||
V1/2 | Detox
Sit start low with left hand in the pocket and right hand on the arete. Squeeze you way up on sharp crusty holds. Vomit when you get to the top. | ||||
Albany The Silo Boulders | |||||
V2 | ★★ Port
Sit start. Traverse the rising arete rightwards. | ||||
Albany Point King Boulders The Politics Boulders | |||||
V1/2 | ★ Campus Kings Can’t Climb Slabs
Sit start with pockets. Up to jugs then onto the slab. FA: Woody133, 29 Dec 2019 | 4m | |||
V2/3 | End of Hoogeness
Stand start with right hand undercling and left hand jug. FA: Woody133, 23 Nov 2019 | ||||
V2/3 | Hoogenation
Stand start with crimp on the face. FA: Woody133, 23 Nov 2019 | ||||
V2 | Matt's Slab
Stand start FA: Matthew Roberts, Jul 2023 | ||||
V2/3 | ★★ Diplomatic immunity
Stand start on obvious crimp up high on the face. Up to the lip. If you are shorter it will be a jump start and closer to V3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odNp6mmIgkk FA: Michael Taran, Mar 2019 | 2m | |||
V2 | Barnacle Real Estate
Stand start with good left hand. Weird moves. FA: Justin Hannig, 8 Dec 2019 | 2m | |||
V2 | ★★ Deception
Sit start with flat jugs. Up the crack system FA: Michael Taran, 26 Nov 2019 | 2m | |||
V2 | ★ Crossing the Floor
Sit start with the left face laying back the holds. FA: Justin Hannig, 8 Jan 2019 | 2m | |||
V2 | Cross Bench
Sit start and up the blunt arete. FA: Michael Taran, 8 Dec 2019 | 2m | |||
Albany Point King Boulders Lighthouse Boulders | |||||
V2 | Delicate Dance
Stand start. Up the tall slab. FA: Michael Taran, Aug 2020 | 5m | |||
V1/2 | ★ Believe the Lie
Sit start on the arete with edges, up and trending left to top out on jugs. | 4m | |||
V2/3 | Paranormal Activity (sit)
Sort of a sit start with the left hand low on the arete with left heel hook and right hand jug. | 5m | |||
V2/3 | ★★ Octonauts!
Awkward sit start on obvious flake, up to the jug then you may as well traverse right for a few moves. | 4m | |||
V2 | ★★ Call Me the Breeze
Sit start. Classic steep jug haul. | 3m | |||
V1/2 | ★ Widdershins
Sit start with left hand low ear shaped flake and right hand side pull. High right heel and up. | ||||
V2/3 | ★★ Tomahawk
Located on the waterside boulder and best tried on low tide/swell. Sit start in cave on obvious rail, traverse right into a pumpy layback sequence that leads to jugs. Rad! | 4m | |||
V2 | ★★ Face 1
Climb the face up the right side of this boulder. | ||||
V0 - 2 | ★ Offwidth
Climb the crack without using the hidden flake or face holds for a harder variant. | ||||
V2 | ★★ Face 2 sit
Sit start in compression. Up into the stand. Avoid the boulders on either side. | ||||
V2/3 | ★ End of the Line
Sit start, up flake/crack. | ||||
Albany Point King Boulders The Middle Ground | |||||
V2 | ★ Sea of Thorns
Stand start wide with good left hand and right hand on good low slopey dish on arete. Fun FA: Michael Taran, Nov 2019 | 2m | |||
V2 | ★ Soggy Bum
Sit start on opposing sidepulls. Up with cool sidepull flake. Fun. FA: Michael Taran, Oct 2022 | 2m | |||
Albany Top Rocks Main Area | |||||
V2 | ★ Crystal Skull
Stand start matched on the crimp. Up to slopey top. FA: Michael Taran, 22 Apr 2021 | 2m | |||
V1/2 | ★★★ Scratching The Surface
Stand start with the obvious bomber jug. Straight up into a heady top out with crystals. Radical. Make sure to topout directly and left-ish with crystals and flat dish and avoid escaping left or right traversing the foot rail FA: Michael Taran, 28 Dec 2021 | 5m | |||
V1/2 | ★ La Forêt
Sit start with the crack. Up the slab. Cool. (Stand FA'd by Kym H) FA: Michael Taran, 22 Apr 2021 | 4m | |||
V2 | ★★★ Little Dipper, Sit
Sit start with left hand crimp and right hand sidepull undercling. Slap up to glory. Classic. Stand FA by Jim N. FA: Kym.H, Mar 2021 | 3m | |||
Albany Top Rocks Ground Zero | |||||
V1/2 | ★ Tree Huggers
Sit start perched on the rock on the left. Up using slopey holds. Cool FA: Michael Taran, 30 Nov 2021 | ||||
V1/2 | ★ Full Value
Climb 'Cake Walk' but extend further right avoiding the vertical crack to topout at the far right arete. FA: Kym.H, 2021 | ||||
Albany Top Rocks | |||||
20 | Clarence Crack
Clarence crack is up in the bush on its own behind Albany high school. Park at the corner of Burt and Hare Street and walk up the dirt track until you see the boulders. https://www.climberswa.asn.au/topic/clarence-crack-albany/ Clarence Crack 10m(Gr 20-21?)- Start in the tight but short chimney until you hit the small roof. hand stack, fist jam and grunt your way through and over the bulge. Hand jam your way to the top as the crack narrows slightly. Abseil down the opposite side or down climb the back gully. 2br on top for belay (need hangers). Protect with medium to large cams. A great little crack for practicing your jamming techniques. taping highly recommended.P. Maher and D. Reed 03-02-2014. | 10m | |||
Albany Mutton Bird Approach Boulders | |||||
V1/2 | ★ Surfer Joes
Sit start and up the sharp arete (right of the crack) avoiding the left boulder. FA: Unknown | ||||
V2/3 | It was there
Sit start Right hand side pull left hand good crimp. Awkward. | ||||
Albany Mutton Bird Main area All Time Boulder | |||||
V1/2 | ★ Sketch Artist
Sit start with good left hand. Up with jugs then the crack. Sketchy landing! | ||||
V2 | ★★ Daves Slab #1
The slab on the left side of the All Time boulder. Tricky and tall. FA: Dave Mcnamara, 1998 | ||||
V1/2 | ★ Daves Slab #2
To the left. Avoid escaping to the scoop on the left FA: Dave McNamara, 1998 | ||||
V1/2 | ★ No Dynamics
Sit start on the jutting feature and then up the arete and escape right. | ||||
Albany Mutton Bird Main area Prow Boulder The Corridors | |||||
V1/2 | Breaking and Entering
Low sit start with good flake and up. Awkward. | ||||
Albany Mutton Bird Main area Prow Boulder | |||||
V1/2 | Polishing Turds
Sit start matched on the crimp (probably a crouch if you aren't tall...). Kinda awkward... but it's another one for the circuit.... | ||||
V2 | ★★ Ride Em Cowboy
Sit start in the mini-cave around the corner. Follow the obvious traverse crack rightwards and under the obvious prow to finish up the warm up. | ||||
Albany Mutton Bird Main area Ridge | |||||
V2 | ★★ High Times
Sit start then up with good holds to an easy top out. Flows really well. | 3m | |||
V2 | ★ Bread and Butter
Sit start on slopey sidepulls as 'The Windmill' and trend right up the slab to a heady top out. | 5m | |||
V1/2 | Sun Safe
Stand start with quartzite right hand sidepull and the lowest of the left hand sidepulls on the arete. Up the face. FA: Ron Master, 2003 | 3m | |||
Albany Mutton Bird Main area Junior Area | |||||
V2 | ★★ Embala
Fantastic easier classic. Sit start low in scoops under the roof and move straight out of the steep with underclings and flowy sequences. Top out up the slab. Great value. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNw-xEvGhSQ FA: Shania Peters, 2020 | 6m | |||
V2 | Rock Pool
Sit start then up to easy jugs. | 2m | |||
V1/2 | ★ Crystal Cuts
Sit start on the diagonal hold on the right. Up on sharp but positive holds trending left. Stand start on the left (VB) done by J Nevin in the early 2000s | 3m | |||
V2 | ★★ Undercling vol#2
Stand start on the undercling, smear feet and bust up to the flakes. Tricky part is the start. | ||||
V1/2 | Silicon Dioxide
Sit start on the low break. Up and right-ish. Easy enough... Vdunno. | 4m | |||
V2 | ★ Back Door
Sit start. Follow the crack system up. Dodgy landing but the moves aren't too hard. | 4m | |||
V2 | ★★★ King Canute
Sit start on crimps, then traverse right on underclings into the jugs on the right arete to top out as 'Fun' FA: Dave Mcnamara, 1998 | 3m | |||
V1/2 | ★★ Middle
Sit start on crimps, then into the under clings then straight up to the top. | 3m | |||
V2 | ★★ Junior Arete
Sit start. https://youtu.be/KwLzohGPYeQ FA: Ronald Master | 3m | |||
V2/3 | Turd Burglar
Sit start. Low left hand on good edge and right and sloper. Pretty awkward... | ||||
V1/2 | ★ Unknown
Stand start the slab to gain the high flake then straight up to finish. FA: Patrick Kirkland, 1998 | ||||
V2 | ★★ The Snatcher
Stand start with high crimps. Tricky smears to snatch the thin right hand flake into an easy top. | ||||
Albany Mutton Bird Main area The Jumble Boulders | |||||
V2 | ★ The Scratch Backer
Up the middle of the slabby face behind 'From The Deep' following the crack. | 3m | |||
Albany Mutton Bird Wave wall area | |||||
V1/2 | ★★ Strange one
Sit. | ||||
V2 | Wavewall #4
Stand start. Sit may be possible with the large obvious holes down low - long first move. FA: John Herlihy | ||||
V2 | Wavewall #5
Sit start on obvious rails. FA: John Herlihy | ||||
V2 | Wavewall #6
Stand start. Sit may be possible? FA: John Herlihy | ||||
V2 | Wavewall #8
Stand start. FA: John Herlihy | ||||
Albany Mutton Bird Barefoot and Pregnant Sector | |||||
V2 | ★ Scrambling
Stand. | ||||
Albany Mutton Bird The Hilltop Circuit | |||||
21 | ★★ Blazing guns
*Blazing guns(21)12m– Great little line! Corner on the far right hand side of the face 1 metre left of the corner. Pull up on the vertical crack line and crimps. Head directly up using horizontal breaks and shallow pockets. Very sustained and balancy 5 BR(need hangers). DBB on the top as for DIO. D. Reed & P. Maher Nov 2013 | 12m | |||
Albany Mistaken Boulders | |||||
V1/2 | One Mistake
Sit start. One move. | ||||
Albany The Gap Far Plateau | |||||
V1/2 | ★★ Alone
Sit start on the jug. Up with a tricky transition over onto the slab. FA: Michael Taran, Apr 2020 | ||||
Albany The Gap Atlantis Boulders | |||||
V1/2 | ★★ Terraforming
Sit start with jugs. Up the easy face | ||||
V2 | ★ Jam Hock Benedict
Start in the back of the mini-roof with the crack. Up following the crack. FA: Michael Taran, 2020 | ||||
V2 | ★★ Flake City
Stand start with very high holds on the face and poor feet. Up to the big jug flake and up. FA: Unknown | ||||
Albany The Gap First Plateau | |||||
V1/2 | ★ Up The Dose
Sit start with the flake and smeary feet. Tricky first move and finish straight up. FA: Justin Hannig, 28 Jan 2020 | ||||
Albany The Gap Swiss Bloc | |||||
V2/3 | ★ Timekeeping
Start on the left and traverse the flake right then straight up. | ||||
V1/2 | ★★ Swiss Watches
Sit start. Up the obvious crack on the wall left of the swiss bloc. Nice way to warm up before hitting the classics! | ||||
V2 | ★ Swiss Cheese
Stand start on obvious flake and up the slab | ||||
Albany The Gap Natural Bridge Area Whalestooth Area | |||||
21 | ★ Tiger Snake
S-shaped flake on short overhanging wall on large boulder in center of Whalestooth area. Access via Natural bridge and Orca sectors. Climb starts virtually at sea level however is protected from waves by Mousetrap boulder. Still, only climb on very low seas. Always be aware of King waves. FA: Andreas Roilo, 1989 | 7m | |||
21 | Mousetrap
Diagonal corner crack on boulder that protrudes out from the ocean. Getting off the boulder is not easy and is part of the climb. Only climb on very calm days and always be aware of King waves. FA: Andreas Roilo & Tom von Burg, 1990 | 8m | |||
Albany The Gap Natural Bridge Area Orca Wall | |||||
20 | ★★ Dolphin
FA: Tim MaCartney-Snape, 1985 | 14m | |||
21 | ★★ Bronze Whaler in Memoriam
Start one meter right of 'Orca'. Up crack to small no-hand-rest at the arrowhead ('fin'). Traverse left (crux) to shallow corner crack and climb out as for Orca. Note: There are two variations as to how crux can be climbed - a low traverse (as in FA) and a high traverse. Both options are of similar difficulty. FA: Andreas Roilo, 1988 | 14m | |||
20 | ★ Flake
FA: unknown | 10m | |||
20 | ★★ Mondo Trasho
FA: M.Colyvan & G.Pritchard, 1983 | 12m | |||
20 | ★ Multiple Maniacs
FA: M.Colyvan & G.Pritchard, 1983 | 10m | |||
Albany The Gap Natural Bridge Area The Bowl Area | |||||
20 | ★ Flaked Out
| 12m |