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	Grade	Route	Gear style	Crag	Quality	Climber	Date
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	21	★★★ Stiletto	Mixed trad 90m, 11	Wolgan Valley	★★ Very Good	Will Dameron	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	21	★★★ Stiletto	Mixed trad 90m, 11	Wolgan Valley	★★ Very Good	Nick Clow	2007
Should be 21
	21	★★★ Stiletto	Mixed trad 90m, 11	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Classic	Paul Frothy Thomson	Sat 28th Sep 2013
P1 - Clean 2nd; P2 & P3 (linked) - Onsight. Much better than Day of the Long Knives. Pitch 1 is a sustained endurance test piece, with two distinct crux moves that keeps you fighting to the belay 45m off the deck. Technical and demanding. Pitch 2 is bold at the grade, with two hard moves a long way above the gear, and spaced bolts in-between. I linked it into Pitch 3 (the top 20m of Scimitar) necessitating challenging 2-rope management to avoid drag from the 15m traverse in the middle. Great!
	21	★★★ Stiletto	Mixed trad 90m, 11	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Classic	geordie	Tue 15th Sep 2020
Classic! First pitch off the ledge superb and well protected. (I used 11 BRs and one 1 no 1. camalot) Second pitch a tiny bit easier but quite scary. Cams down low, and 4(?) BRs. Last pitch joins Scimitar.
	21	★★★ Stiletto	Mixed trad 90m, 11	Wolgan Valley		Aaron Jones	Fri 1st Jan 2010
Did this a long time ago, recall it being stout for the grade.
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	20	★★ The Day of the Long Knives	Trad 92m	Wolgan Valley		Stuart McElroy	Sat 4th Mar 2000
with Cate
	20	★★ The Day of the Long Knives	Trad 92m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Classic	Tony Williams	Sat 23rd Feb 2008
Led all. Sustained good climbing. Not much broke off. Classic Wade route.
	20	★★ The Day of the Long Knives	Trad 92m	Wolgan Valley	★★ Very Good	Nick Thatcher	Fri 22nd Feb 2008
	20	★★ The Day of the Long Knives	Trad 92m	Wolgan Valley	★★ Very Good	Paul Frothy Thomson	Sat 28th Sep 2013
With Gene. P1 - Onsight, P2 - Clean 2nd. P3 - Onsight. P4 - Clean 2nd. Predictable climbing (lots of small ironstone edges) but generally quite sustained and in an awesomely exposed location. Some bad rock, but we didn't break off much. Tricky route-finding with the other nearby routes (eg. central direct) which necessitated a re-belay when I ended up at the wrong belay. Pitch 2 has the hardest single move of the route, but P3 is quite sustained thinness. Classic in an old-school vein.
	20	★★ The Day of the Long Knives	Trad 92m	Wolgan Valley		Andrew Glover	Sat 8th Jul 2017
	20	★★ Uprising	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley		Keith Davison	Sat 25th Nov 2017
	20	★★ Uprising	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley	Average	Oliver Story	Sun 1st Apr 2018
Good position and some good climbing. But poor rock in some places, with potential for catastrophic consequences if there were a bolt failure, mean I wouldn’t recommend this climb. For example the first aid bolt on P1 is close to the lip of a chossy sandy roof. If it failed you’d hit the deck from 15m.
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	19	★★ Dirk	Trad 50m	Wolgan Valley		duanne white	Sat 1st Oct 2005
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	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Bill Begg	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley		Nick Davis	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Laef Hosking	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Classic	adam steer	Wed 29th Dec 2004
The chimney - the chimney! After trying to stem the outside, there's one less foothold, and one more scar on my ankle... ouch! Luckily, the gear is solid...
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Stuart Hankin	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Adam Bramwell	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Classic	chris fitzgerald	2002
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Ravi Pannell	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		holly	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley		jameswcroft	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Stephen Parker	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Classic	Lee Cujes	Fri 1st Dec 2000
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Marcus Loane	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley		holly	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley		James Hardy	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley		Marcus Loane	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley	★★ Very Good	Nick Clow	2007
Lead p2 + 4
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Mark Wood	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley		Stuart McElroy	Sun 5th Mar 2000
with Cate
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley		Mike Garben	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Classic	chris	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Paul W	Wed 29th Dec 2004
direct start 18?
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley		Adam Bramwell	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Classic	Aaron McKenzie	Sat 1st May 2004
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Stuart McElroy	Sun 1st Apr 2001
with Dave Filan
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	michael batchelor	1995
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley		Jim Croft	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Classic	russ	Tue 8th Apr 2003
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Mic	Tue 20th May 2003
me (1,2) w/ CM (3,4) & DD
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	NathanIrwin	Sun 1st Mar 2009
awesome
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Nick Davis	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Tristan Webber	Mon 23rd Dec 2002
best route I have ever done!!
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		shaunm	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley		Stuart Hankin	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Classic	gavin murray	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Luke Merrett	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Rod Smith	Sat 28th Nov 2009
Led P1 and P2 (crux). Carl P3 and P4..
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★ Very Good	Tony Williams	Sat 26th Dec 1998
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley	★★ Very Good	Dave T	Sun 6th Feb 2000
With Hethos
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		James Hardy	Tue 13th Apr 2010
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Rod Smith	Sat 26th Feb 2011
Second trip up this brillant route. Led P1and2 as one pitch, led P4. Rick led P3. Climbed Secret Swinger on lower cliff.
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Peter Davis	Sun 17th Apr 2011
Superb climbing. Good pro, sustained. P2 is one of the best pitches of climbing around. I led pitches 1,2 and 4.
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	duanne white	Wed 30th Nov 2011
Candidate for the best long trad route in the blueys. Minimal choss, great position, great gear.
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Classic	Paul Frothy Thomson	Sun 12th Dec 2010
12 December 2010.
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley	★★ Very Good	Marty Doolan	Fri 8th Mar 2013
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Marty Doolan	Thu 1st Nov 2012
	18	★★★ Central Direct - with Marcus and Boydo	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Simmo	Mon 1st Sep 2014
I rebolted this in '07 but this was the first time I climbed it. Its a total classic ! P3 is super. Double ropes were good.
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with Carrie	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Classic	John Drake	Sat 25th Oct 2014
Excellent and diverse climbing.
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with Paul	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Matt Short	Sat 25th Oct 2014
Great crack, loved every bit of it.
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Classic	Simon	Sat 10th Oct 2015
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with Eamon Colley	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Alastair McDowell	Mon 2nd Nov 2015
Best route I've done in NSW so far. Awesome climbing the whole way, linked it up with Room to Move (16) on the lower tier and some 'bush-rock' climbing' up to the base of Scimitar. Great views and excellent climbing.
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with Alastair McDowell	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Classic	Eamonn	Sun 1st Nov 2015
First multi-pitch seconding. Great route!
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★ Good	Jason McCarthy	Tue 16th Feb 2016
Pitch 1/2 OS, Pitch 3 - 2nd Clean, Pitch 4 - OS. Didn't live up to the hype though still great climbing up an impressive line.
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with Azhar 1 lead by Nik 2 lead by Az 3 lead by Nik 4 lead by Az	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Nik Williams	Mon 10th Oct 2016
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Gee Rad	Wed 12th Oct 2016
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with Chris bull	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Daniel D	Thu 5th Jan 2017
chris linked pitches 1+2, 3+4.
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★ Very Good	Josh Mackenzie	Fri 21st Apr 2017
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Andrew Glover	Sat 8th Jul 2017
	20 18	★★★ Central Direct - with Andrew Stevenson	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley	★★ Very Good	Matt Short	Mon 25th Sep 2017
We had an interesting time on this climb. P1 felt very hard for 18 (probably closer to 20) especially the moves around the diagonal left leaning ledge. We belayed from the same anchors as you use for the rap descent. P2 looked quite hard up to the first bolt which was about 5m off the belay, managed to put gear in the break and fiddle some interesting gear into a hole before getting to the bolt. There was a fair run out to the next bolt which I didn't see until it was right in front of my face and then I could see no more bolts. I moved up carefully and still didn't see any more bolts or gear so decided to head up what looked like an easy looking ramp to a crack/corner where I hoped there would be gear. Luckly I found some which was nice because I was about 12m run out at this point. I climbed the arete of the corner and turned the small roof before making it to the left hand side of the large cave where I set up a belay with the minimal gear that I had left (only took a small amount as I was expecting bolts). At this point we had a read of the guide and figured that we were at the top of pitch 3 and had somehow skipped a whole pitch. Last pitch was pretty much as described, traversing out of the sandy cave and crimping on sandy ledges was not fun but we made it to the top in one piece. A great adventure climb up a sea of rock, just don't come expecting a grade 18 sport climb, think grade 20 trad climb with thought provoking run outs and you will be fine (we found a couple more bolts that we missed on rap but they were fairly hidden).
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley	★★ Very Good	Oliver Story	Sun 24th Sep 2017
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Oliver Story	Sun 24th Sep 2017
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with Alastair McDowell	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Steffi Quijote	Tue 3rd Oct 2017
super interesting climb - had very thing from jams to face climbing, overhangs and chimneys. Felt much easier than the Ghoul.
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with Peter Webster	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Lachlan	Sat 21st Apr 2018
Amazing route!
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with Lachlan	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Classic	Peter Webster	Sun 22nd Apr 2018
Did in 2 pitches, great day!
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with Mitch	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Roman	Mon 23rd Apr 2018
epic!
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with Donald Gibson, Roman, Mitch	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Tim Osborne	Sun 27th May 2018
so good! leading out through the roofs had some awesome moves including a blind over/behind the head fist jam to get back on the face! continued crack and chimney climbing on great rock to make it an awesome day
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with Tim Osborne, Roman, Mitch	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Donald Gibson	Tue 29th May 2018
What a classic! Swung leads with Tim. Finished and abseiled off in the dark. ‘Interesting’ proposition, especially with four of us one the two-bolt anchor in the middle of the face.
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Keith Davison	Sat 6th Oct 2018
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with Richard	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Match	Fri 18th Jan 2019
Mega line, Mega exposure I felt it was spot on at the grade a must do for aspiring trad leaders. 9 hrs car to car.
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Classic	hugh sutherland	Fri 12th Sep 2014
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Luke C	Tue 20th Aug 2019
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley		Luke C	Tue 20th Aug 2019
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Flynn Howley	Sun 24th Nov 2019
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Patrick Chambers	Mon 28th Oct 2019
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★ Very Good	Volten Schwing	Wed 4th May 2016
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Mark Feeney	Fri 10th Jul 2020
	18	★★★ Central Direct 1 18 108m 2 3 4	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley		Roman	Mon 31st Aug 2020
Linked p2+3.
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with Anna, anna 1 16 91m lead by Lorraine 2 18 lead by Lorraine 3 17 lead by Anna 4 17 lead by anna, Anna	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Lorraine	Mon 14th Sep 2020
Soooooo good. A lady ascent!
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with Lorraine 1 16 91m lead by Lorraine 2 18 lead by Lorraine 3 17 lead by Anna 4 17 lead by Anna	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Anna	Mon 14th Sep 2020
	18	★★★ Central Direct	Trad 110m	Wolgan Valley	★★ Very Good	Bert B	Thu 20th Aug 2020
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with Tim M-S	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Lisa Vitaris	Sun 4th Oct 2020
Superb line. Too many gear placement opportunities. The best nut placements in the whole region.
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with lew	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Classic	Dylan Tubaro	Thu 22nd Oct 2020
Exposed jug run. Idk where it gets the grade. Good fun, lead in two pitches
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with Dave Burt	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★ Very Good	Nick Roach	Mon 2nd Nov 2020
Lots more face holds and more 3D climbing than I expected. We climbed it in two pitches
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with Jacob Stone	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Knox Low	Mon 9th Nov 2020
Excellent climbing with some of the best exposure in the valley. Did in 2 pitches which worked well and sped things up
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		Nathan Murdoch	Fri 20th Nov 2020
	18	★★★ Scimitar	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley		ale_bog	Sat 3rd Oct 2020
	18	★★★ Scimitar - with pat	Trad 91m	Wolgan Valley	★★★ Mega Classic	Ben Taylor	Sat 5th Dec 2020
Superb.

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