Grado | Vía | Estilo de equipamiento | Popularidad | ||
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Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Roadside boulders | |||||
V6 | ★★ I touched his face, I felt the gift
Climb the arête from a stand-start. Pinchy moves lead to a throw to a good hold. From here head left to finish up the slab. PA: Peter Reynolds & Peter Reynolds, 2010 | ||||
V6 | ★★ Extended Moon
First move as for de ja vu then right reversing Sidney Crosbie and finishing up Babymoon. No use of the top until exit up BM. Will also have an extension into LOR. PA: Zach Azeez, 13 Sep 2022 | ||||
V6 | ★ Nature's Nation
Sit-start on the lowest two side-pulls and climb the overhanging face on positive holds. Holds right of the arête (on the slab) are out of bounds for hands and feet. Low square notch on the arete is in. Top out to finish. PA: Peter Reynolds & Peter Reynolds, 2010 | ||||
V6 | ★★ Armchair Tourist
Sit-start on the largest holds in the low break (not quite at the far right-hand end). Traverse leftwards, slapping and heel-hooking, until better holds permit a reachy rock-over to finish. Nice line but tricky to keep your feet off the ground. PA: Pete Reynolds & Peter Reynolds, 2010 | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Crystal Creek Hell West Wall | |||||
V6 | ★★ Fast Draw
Sit start with left hand on undercling as for HW&C and right hand in the bottom of crack. Up crack to dynamic move to join top of LS&2SB. PA: Matthieu Burgess, 16 Jun 2023 | 3m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Crystal Creek Last Stand | |||||
V6 | ★★ Lucky Sit
Obvious thin crack located 60m southeast and across creek from Hispaniola. Sit start with left hand high in crack and right hand low on side-pull. Tough start leads to easier top out. PA: Matthieu Burgess, 16 Jul 2023 | 3m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Crystal Creek | |||||
V6 | ★ Diminished Returns
Low sit start to OLLs using the two lowest layaways. A couple of tough pulls to gain its start. | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Kingdom Boulders Upper Kingdom | |||||
V6 | ★★ Toe the Line
Sit start with pinch and small edge. Make a big move out left to good slot, then continue along seam to top out on slopers. PA: Liam Jones, 9 Mayo 2022 | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Kingdom Boulders | |||||
V6 | ★★ Parallel Direct
Stand start and climb Parallel Lives but top out to the left not right, PA: Peter Reynolds & Peter Reynolds, 2013 | 4m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Outer Kingdom The Monster in the Forest | |||||
V6 | ★★★ Black Wind
The glorious arete on the left end of the orange face. Stand start and compress to gain jug at 2/3 height. 2 mantles see you home from there. Has a directional bolt for TR above finish. ABSEIL DESCENT. PA: Mark Rewi | 6m | |||
V6 | ★ Red Rocket
Sit start matched on the good low jug. Gaston, heel hook, and sharp edges up the arete. No rocking over early - top out at the apex. A little bit gritty but the moves are decent. | 2m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Outer Kingdom Meteor Hammer Boulder | |||||
V6 | ★★ Meteor Hammer
Sit start and climb up the prow. PA: Garry A Williams, 2020 | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Spirit Boulders Den of Spirits | |||||
V6 | ★ Viking Soul
Stand-start and climb the wall and arete. Sustained and fingery. PA: Peter Reynolds, 3 Sep 2019 | 6m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Spirit Boulders Near the Quarry | |||||
V6 | ★★ Stoneface
Located on a boulder on the edge of quarry. Sit-start on the obvious notch/hold and then climb the sharp arete. Tricky in full sun! PA: Peter Reynolds, 31 Ag 2019 | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander The Goldfield | |||||
V6 | Moss Side Story
Stand-start and climb the arete on the right hand side. Mantle over arete to finish. PA: Peter Reynolds & Peter Reynolds, 2014 | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Wabbit Wocks Inquistion Boulders | |||||
26 | ★★ Reformation
Burly but not sharp tips finger crack. Move right when it ends and join up with topout for Inquisition. PA: unknown | 15m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Wabbit Wocks Lawnside boulders | |||||
V6 | ★ Pathology
Sit start and climb the rounded arete/wall. Can be done from a stand start at around V2. This boulder is just in front of The Crack boulder. PA: Peter Reynolds, 2013 | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Western Front | |||||
V6 | Adrift in the Shallows
Allow both hands to bite into the high crimp rail on the wall/arete. With feet on nothing make a long reach to the crack on the left wall. Finish up here. PA: Peter Reynolds, 10 Abr 2019 | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander High Fells | |||||
V6 | ★★ Stop-Point-Motion
That moment in a rock over where if you stall you end up 2 feet short of the hold. Cute little line left of MC. Start LH on slope rail, RH on good low hold then up via slopes crimps and slimps to Gaston into the scoop. Finish straight up. | 4m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Land of the Overhangs Coffee Bean Area | |||||
V6 | Scarlet Robin
Stand start and climb the arete. Finish with a mantle on the left hand side. PA: Peter Reynolds, 18 Ag 2021 | ||||
V6 | ★ Meditation, mindfulness, and secret weapons
From the crimps on the lip, head up and left through small sharp holds and heel hooks. PA: Mike Hitchcock, 2016 | 5m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Land of the Overhangs Land of the Overhangs Boulder | |||||
V6 | ★★ Shipbuilding
Start as for Arlo and Jez Build a House. Sitstart and then move left to the large leaning rail feature. From here traverse left and up following the seam until topping out at the highest point. The landing slopes away which is a bit disconcerting. Crux is the first half of the traverse. Eases with height. It's a great line. EDIT (17/10/19): Changed grade to V6 on reflection. PA: Peter Reynolds, 14 Oct 2019 | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Land of the Overhangs Ash's to Ashes Boulder | |||||
V6/7 | ★★ Ashes in our Mouthes
Tough stand start matched on the obvious hold on the left side of arete between AtA and FT. Hard for the grade. Will go from a sit start via a couple of proper hard moves. Static start for the grade, V6 with a hop. | 3m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Scorpion Rocks | |||||
V6 | ★★ Acquiesce
The brother to Live Forever. Sit start at the jugs on the left hand side and traverse right and up to finish up the mantle of Live Forever. Really good. PA: Peter Reynolds, 9 Abr 2015 | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander The Lord Area | |||||
V6 | ★ Fatherhood
Sit-start and traverse leftwards to top out. PA: Peter Reynolds, 2010 | ||||
V6 | Beautiful Sunset
Stand-start and climb the bulging arete. PA: Peter Reynolds, 2010 | ||||
V6 | Cerebellum Strike
Climb the thin wall to large holds and traverse right to the big ramp. Finish up the ramp. PA: Simon Weill | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander The Diamond | |||||
V6 | ★ Carbonado
Three metres right of Conflict Diamond. Stand start with a high right foot and tiny holds. PA: Mike Hitchcock, 2015 | 5m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Pullout bouldering | |||||
V6 | ★★ Polar opposite
Start matched on the obvious jug. Mantle with a high heel and crimp on the face. Slab top out. Located on the edge of the quarry. Might be easier or harder than v6. PA: 28 Sep 2019 | 6m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander The Pullout | |||||
26 | The Quarryman
| 12m, 3 | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Dog Rocks Deep South | |||||
V6 | Sandblast
Sit start at low mega jug flake right side of the trackside face. Straight up via some tricky tenuous moves to gain the obvious bulb then mantle. I was all over the show today so grace could be out. These had chalk in them so will see what they thought... | 3m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Dog Rocks | |||||
V6 | ★★ Mother and Child
Climb the wall and right arete just right of the bouldering slabs. Stand start. PA: Peter Reynolds & Peter Reynolds, 2012 | 3m | |||
27 | Finger Food
Traverse seam right then head up thin edges to DRB at the top. | 15m | |||
26 | ★ The Corner of Discontent
Square cut corner uphill from LBP and visible through the gully left of that route. Easy to ledge then boulder corner (bout V6) past 3 rings/Us (cant remember). Bolted by KP. PA: 2012 | 10m, 3 | |||
V6 | Squeeze Machine
Eliminate line near the arete to the right of The Dyke using a right-hand sidepull and left-hand crack-crimp to reach crimps/slopers, and then move left to jugs and top out. No arête on right. PA: Peter Reynolds | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander The Blue Hotel | |||||
V6 | ★★ Old Growth
Crouch start low on the arete (don't stand on the adjacent boulder). Climb the arete on it's right-hand side to half-way. Then move left to jugs and climb up via tricky moves to a slabby finish. PA: Peter Reynolds, 19 Sep 2020 | ||||
V6 | Street Drunks
Around the corner from HBA. Stand-start and climb the left-hand wall of the blank face via long reaches to a big potato hold. From here move up and left, swarming around the arete to finish. Solo after top rope. PA: Peter Reynolds, 19 Sep 2020 | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Khazad-dum Durin's Bane Area | |||||
V6 | ★★ Grit or Greed
Start to the left of Durin's Bane in patch of lighter coloured flakes and climb straight up into end of Durin's Bane. LH start on big pinch/sidepull. RH start on low small two-finger undercling. The close detached block for footholds is on. PA: Len Dalit, 21 Abr | ||||
V6 | ★★ Cave Troll
Short burley climbing up a steep face. Sit start matched in horizontal crack and climb up to lip and tricky mantle. PA: Matthieu Burgess, 20 Abr 2023 | 3m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Hillside Manor | |||||
V6 | ★ Olympic Gold
Climb the thin wall right of Sprint Finish - harder than it looks. Could sneak to V7. PA: Peter Reynolds, 7 Ag 2016 | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mt Alexander Boundary Lane | |||||
V6 | ★ Honey
Extended start to Simple Sugars starting on big holds at the tree and doing a few moves including a tricky drop-down to get into the original problem. Finish as for Simple Sugars. PA: Peter Reynolds, 14 Sep 2018 | ||||
V6 | ★ Storytelling
Sit-start and climb the groove to a long and hard move gaining the sloping edge on the blank wall. Another tricky moves gains the rock scar above and an easier topout. PA: Peter Reynolds, 15 Ag 2019 | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds The Cathedral Range Ten Fathom Ridge | |||||
26 | Surface Tension
Thin line up the L side of the main wall. Wires needed for the start and finish. 4 FH. Beware possibility of flipping upside down at the 2nd FH. | 24m, 4 | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds The Cathedral Range Jawbone Creek Track-side Boulders Slippery Boulder | |||||
V6 | ★★ Someone's Gotta
Sit start under rooflet with pocket and crimp, use slopey holds to climb the crack and try not to fall off the edge. PA: Callum Mather | 3m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds The Cathedral Range Bisset's Pinnacles Main Pinnacle | |||||
26 M1 | Thrills And Spills
Steep and technical. Will go free at some point. Starts at the wall down and L of Smiler. Boulder the wall with no pro to a pea-pod and a fixed pin (about Gr 19). Hard moves up and onto the ramp and follow this to the black wall. One or two aids brings the diagonal to hand. Swing R and up this to the top. PA: Glenn Tempest, 1985 | 25m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Black Hill The Olive Grove The Golden Egg | |||||
V6 | The Shred Low
Low start on very poor side pulls to gain jug and up. | 5m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Black Hill Middle Earth Hidden Gold | |||||
V6 | ★★ 1-3-5
Stand start at high single joint edge on right side of face. Campus to jug edge and again to sloped lip. Just your typical black hill horror mantle on nothing to gain slab and freedom! | 4m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Black Hill The Stack | |||||
V6 | ★★★ Liptasm
Exquisite. Sit start in the middle of the middle block and traverse the sinuous lip left, through and up to a climactic finish and mantle back right (lying down or bridging on the left block at the finish is a definite no no). | 4m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Black Hill The Northern Group Upper Tier Upper Tier Bouldering | |||||
V6 | Lost and Lethal
Sharp sit start 1.5m left of BVL. Layaway edges up and left via small flat tops and continue left to good layaway just inside arête | ||||
V6 | ★ Half Man Half Crack Sit Start
Sit start with big underclings and make powerful moves into line until the obvious large side pulls at 4m (or just swallow the medicine and keep cranking through insecure groove to top) | 4m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Black Hill The Northern Group Upper Tier | |||||
26 | ★ Highball Crack
Undercut and difficult getting off the ground. Pull up on good locks and through the flaring groove above. Grade 14 above 5m, so makes a reasonable highball boulder problem... although has also been described as "insecure 24 exiting onto the slab at 6-7m with a big dead tree lying on the ground behind you", so you might want to rope it first! PA: Likely some gumbie in high tops. | 10m | |||
26 | ★★★ Spy Works
Half Man Half Crack then up thin bolted face above (3FH, DBB below capstone). The capstone can be climbed at about 14 on jugs for those committed to topping out. 2018- Apparently some douche has stolen the hangers (which can’t be reached from adjacent crack climbs) PA: Mark Rewi, 2015 | 15m, 3 | |||
26 | ★★ Ugly Voyage
Consensus 26 to avoid the broken bits of the previous routes. Climb to first bolt on BV then traverse into PUM and up. 7 RB. Rebolted 06/23. Bolts and glue provided by Safer Cliffs Victoria. | 20m, 7 | |||
27 | ★ The Diamond Tipped Finger Saw
Sounds appealing! This is actually a pretty good and significantly harder companion for Anguish. Good face climbing leads to a desperate slab finish past last bolt. PAL: Mark Rewi, Nov 2016 | 18m | |||
27 | ★★ Anguish
Outstanding climbing direct up the middle of the face. Classic. FFA Steven Wilson ~2010 | 20m | |||
26 | Cult Master DS
Boulder out hard start of Overlord and finish as for Cult Master. | 20m, 5 | |||
26 | ★★★ Toxic Shock and Razor Blades (Unfinished Business)
| 30m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Black Hill The Northern Group Middle Tier Middle Tier Bouldering | |||||
V6 | ★ The Animal Farm Memorial Traverse
Long ground level traverse of the squeal like a pig slab. Best done right to left starting at giant pocket. Hard moves for first 4m to blackened stump then miles of slabbng to gain obvious ground level hands free about 2/3 away across face (start of The Squealing) | 25m | |||
V5/6 | ★★★ The Dragon Sit
Reach dependent sit start at right end of dyke. V4 if you stack to reach jug, V4/5 if you can reach the good edge mid height on the dyke, V6 from slimps at base of dyke. | 7m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Black Hill Dino Eggs | |||||
26 | ★★★ Never Tell Me The Odds
Named after Chris' dog, Han Solo. The huge, overhanging offwidth facing east when you enter the area. Difficulty will change depending on size of hands/legs/feet etc. Watch out for the loose(ish) victory jug on left. PA: Chris Ferre, En 2018 | 18m | |||
26 | ★★ Out of Africa
Up the West coast of Africa past two ring bolts, then traverse right along the North coast of Africa and into Europe past two fixed hangers. The crux comes between the third and fourth bolt. Has been heavily damaged by the last bush fire. Should still go but probably harder. PA: steven wilson | 14m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mount Beckworth The Main Group Alpine Style Boulders | |||||
V6 | ★ Thin Air
Stand start on crimps and top out through the scoop. Almost gets a star. PA: Evan.C, 2016 | ||||
V6 | ★★ Heavens to Murgatroyd
Traverse the sloping ledge right to pull onto the narrow face and mantle out. PA: Evan.C, Abr 2016 | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mount Beckworth The Main Group Mountain King Boulder | |||||
V6 | ★★ Mountain King
Pull onto the wall at full span from the low right undercling and high left sloper, then top out. Note: A large nearby tree has fallen blocking this whole side of boulder. PA: Evan.C, 2015 | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mount Beckworth The Menagerie Reptile Boulder | |||||
V6 | ★★★ OMG Snake!
Check start holds for the eponymous serpent - scaley bugger delayed my FA by two weeks! Dyno straight to the flat lip then mantle and top out. PA: Evan.C, 2015 | 5m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mount Beckworth The Menagerie Scorpion Boulder | |||||
V6 | ★ Scorpio
Sit start at the triangular flat hold then head right. Mantle finish. PA: Wojjy, 2020 | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mount Beckworth The Menagerie El Toro Boulder | |||||
V6 | ★ Total Bull
PA: Evan.C, 9 Ag 2015 | 3m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mount Beckworth The Menagerie Currawong Boulder | |||||
V6 | ★ Curralong
Pop up onto the slab with absolutely no hand holds then magic your way into the bottom of the splitter crack. Helps to be 6 foot Plus! PA: joe tynan, 14 Mayo 2017 | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mount Beckworth The Menagerie Spare boulder | |||||
V6 | ★★ 7/10 split
Sit start, bust out to the lip and climb to glory. PA: Wojjy, 2020 | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Ben Cairn Main Cliff | |||||
26 | ★★ Fiction
Simply superb, but at the crux you have to make something out of nothing. Unfortunately a chipped foothold appeared on the crux bulge about a year after the FA; ironically for many subsequent ascentionists it is in a poor location and doesn't get used. Rebolted 2016 Start: Start 5m R of 'Gnipples', under the only clean streak up this face. PA: Mike Law, Steve Howden & Brian Fish (de-mossing by Steve Toal), 1982 | 20m, 3 | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Cobaw Forest Skittle Boulder Skittle Boulder | |||||
V6 | ★★★ Origami Arete
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Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Benloch Langley Nature Conservation Reserve | |||||
V6 | ★★ Podcast
From a stand down left of the shelf climb direct with no hugging around right. Probably V5 but punting the last hard lay aways could hurt. PA: Mark Rewi | ||||
V6 | ★★ Wedge
Project no more. Amazing line on great rock. Thin and techie! PA: Ian Boorman | 5m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Coopers Coopers Main Sector | |||||
V6 | ★ Extra Sparkling
Start as for "sparkling" then finish as for "Extra stout". Protruding block on left of the cave is in other wise all other low blocks in cave are out. Traverse along the rail then punch up the crimps on the face. Equip: James Roberson, 1 Feb 2021 | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Buckley Falls Buckley Falls Boulder | |||||
V6 | ★★★ Direct Proof
PA: Angus Fuller & Declan Koenig, 25 Mar 2023 | 2m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mornington Peninsula Mornington Fishies North Side Pewter City | |||||
V6 | ★★ A Dream
Sit start with hands matched on the low protruding block. A very bunched start leads to some shouldery moves leads to a top PA: Fraser Gust | 2m | |||
V6 | ★ A Nightmare
Sit start heading up the overhanging face. Start with left hand pinching arete and right on a low undercling. Power up to good right hand sidepull, slap to the lip and mantel direct PA: Fraser Gust | ||||
V6 | ★ Nine Ten AM
Start with left hand on blocky high under cling and right on the sloper/crimp on the corner of the lower rh face. Squeeze hard to stand up and powerfully slap wherever you can hold to top out direct for the full experience. Note that this could be over graded. PA: Angus Cameron, 29 Sep 2021 | 1m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mornington Peninsula Mornington Fishies North Side Examination Cliffs Theo's Doom | |||||
V6 | ★★ Pandemic Panic
Jump up to the break and then head to the top using small face holds (No use of left arête or chossy crack on right) PA: Fraser Gust | ||||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Mornington Peninsula Fingal Beach | |||||
V6 | ★★ Mavericks
From right most holds, traverse left to top out through a poor crimp and long moves. Steep, cool. PA: @dalai, 21 Abr | 7m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Cerrado Hanging Rock | |||||
26 | ★ Jug Abuse
| 25m | |||
Victoria Melbourne and Surrounds Cerrado Ba Sing Se Upper ring | |||||
V6 | ★ Leech
Start at the lowest point of the lip and blast your way through the awesome shouldery, heel-hooky sequence, around the corner, up and out. Should be two stars but the annoying boulder underneath (that isn't in) really gets in the way. climb might go at an easier grade once removed... | 4m | |||
Victoria Gippsland Nowa Nowa Armchair Flat | |||||
27 | ★★★ Le Sud de Vic | 10m | |||
Victoria Gippsland Wilson's Promontory Squeaky Beach | |||||
V6 | Megalodon
Start matched on the low undercling at the lowest point on the boulder. Move up to the lip and traverse the lip rightwards until topping out on the highest corner (traverse 3 sides of the boulder). PA: Mattias Braach-Maksvytis, En 2022 | ||||
Victoria Gippsland Wilson's Promontory Turtle Rock | |||||
24 - 26 | ★ Teenaged Turtle
Climbs to the top of bulge on 'Mutant Ninja'. Nice moves! PA: Grant, Luke Baxter & Stephen Baxter, 25 En 2015 | 7m | |||
Victoria Gippsland Wilson's Promontory Little Oberon South Norman Beach Boulders Bumpy Boulders | |||||
V6/7 | ★★★ Apple Picking
Up the nicely featured arete, sit starting with opposed pockets and up using hold on both sides of the arete. Best climb in the area so far! Unsure of grade PA: Brynn Clayton | ||||
Victoria Gippsland Wilson's Promontory The Treacherous Coast | |||||
V6 | ★★ The Ice Block
Small compression boulder with a wide start. Sit-start with hands on both aretes. Hard compression leads to a good edge before an easier exit. PA: Jamie, 10 Mar | 2m | |||
V6 | ★★ A Soliloquy to Hope
A nice lip traverse on jugs and slopers with many heel hooks! Crouch-start with left hand jug and right hand on pinch under the roof. Slap up onto slopers and traverse rightward on decent but sharp slopers until the juggy crack (shared with 'A Penchant for Dreaming (V5)'). From here, mantel difficultly using chicken heads. PA: Jamie, 9 Mar | 5m | |||
New South Wales and ACT Northern Rivers Urbenville Battery Hill | |||||
26 | ★★★ Snail Trail
R of Ginsu. Climbs the steep blank wall with the "snail trail" and 5 or 6 FHs, using very few very small crimps. Thin is the word. 2016: The 'snail trail' mark no longer exists - but you can't miss the route. Blankest, meanest bit of cliff that has bolts on it. PA: Gareth Llewellin, 2006 | 25m, 6 | |||
New South Wales and ACT Northern Rivers Urbenville The Crown | |||||
26 | Nightmare
Looks heinous!! Two FH's lead up and to the L to a rest before the crux at the third FH. Up past one BR to finish. Chain belay. PA: Matt Hutton & Greg Hambling, 1995 | 22m | |||
New South Wales and ACT Northern Rivers Urbenville Spot X | |||||
27 | ★ Foxy Cleopatra
5m R. Scramble up to high first bolt on far right of the choss ledge. A few bolts lead up and R (slab) until it kicks back. A long move to a flake begins the steep climbing. A pronounced crux lunge (stopper bloc?) leaves you with the last victory move to finishing jug. PAL: Lee Cujes, 25 Ag 2014 | 17m | |||
New South Wales and ACT Northern Rivers Urbenville Crossroads | |||||
26 | Typhon
Typhon was the largest and most fearsome of all creatures. His human upper half reached as high as the stars, and his hands reached east and west. Instead of a human head, a hundred dragon heads erupted from his neck and shoulders. 5m R. Up easy start just left of the platform, then orange wall, and steepness above. The finale through a steep little bulge is a heartbreaker. PAL: Duncan Steel, 19 Jul 2014 | 35m | |||
27 | ★★ Wyvern
The two-legged dragon with barbed tail, often seen as a symbol of strength and endurance. 10m R. Starts roughly in the middle of the wall, under the steepest looking section up high. Stickclip the first bolt for the tricky start, then it backs off for quite some time. At the point it becomes overhanging and you’ll jug haul through to a welcome camp in a cave where you can take your shoes off and ponder the view (24 to here?). From here, it’s all business pulling through the lip and into the superb stone of the 45 degree, powerful overhanging finale where you’ll either have some arms left, or not. 19 FH’s (long draws) to lower-off. Lowering off the top requires 80m rope. When it comes to cleaning, do it in two halves (chain+biner in cave). PAL: Lee Cujes, 2014 | 45m, 20 | |||
26 | ★★ Banshee
2m R. Stem off the boulder L past the bolt. Up the smooth tricky slab and then oodles of climbing which eventually runs into the multifaceted overhung corners just left of the big fig tree stump 30m up (steep!). The very top, up a runnel feature is super cool. The route features a number of tricky sections interspersed with good rests. May be on the easy side for 26 but I doubt there’ll be too many complaints. PAL: Lee Cujes, 2014 | 45m | |||
27 | ★★ Banyan
The giant tree. Tricky slab start, then onwards past lots of climbing and rests to get established in a rest below the punchy final overhang. Hard to read moves. Solid. PAL: Duncan Steel, 9 Ag 2014 | 40m | |||
26 | ★★ Monster
The white wall just right of fig tree roots. R-trending line up slab. As it steepens at about the 20m mark, there is a section which deviates 2m L to avoid a loose patch. Then, a tricky roof to negotiate on the orange rock, then steeply through blocky black overhang. Pumpy, with surprising incuts and jugs. PAL: Duncan Steel, 2014 | 40m, 18 | |||
26 | Garm
The monstrous hound Garm guards the entrance to Helheim, the Norse realm of the dead. 2m R. Another R-trending line. Stickclip, because it’s tricky just getting off the ground. Put a 1m sling on second bolt, and step R. Like Monster, you have a roof to pull at half height, but it’s a bit easier. PAL: Duncan Steel, 15 Jun 2014 | 40m, 18 | |||
27 | ★★★ (Project - Glenn)
Closed. 5m R of Garm at black corner crack. The rippled top arete is amazing with a heartbreaker finale! Take a handful of 1m slings to reduce drag. At least 20 clips. Equip: Glenn Ferguson, 2014 | 40m | |||
26 | ★★ Giant
“Five cruxes!” Starts 4m R at black slab with tree against cliff. Tree can be climbed to pre-clip first bolt before starting from ground. Good solid rock the whole way with at least 15 quickdraws and a go-for-it attitude required. 70m rope might work - tie a stopper or use an 80m. PAL: Duncan Steel, 2014 | 38m, 16 | |||
New South Wales and ACT Northern Rivers Urbenville Vesuvius | |||||
26 | ★★ Vulcan Mind Meld
The best piece of stone on the wall. Vertical, pure technicality with a brick hard crux traverse. Channel your favourite 80s sport climbing hero, and remember to vulcanize. Ringbolts. PAL: Lee Cujes, 2014 | 20m |