Mount Cuthbert part of the series of monadnocks (exposed granite domes). Perth's premier slab climbing, some say best in WA. The rock is unusually polished. Climbing requires good footwork & technique
With difficulties, from grade 10 to 24 with sport, mixed and traditional climbing. Routes ranging from 15m to 50m high and 100m wide.
Mt Cuthbert is within the Monadnocks Conservation Park. Care must be taken to protect the beautiful surrounding jarrah forests. Be mindful of hikers as the popular Bibbulmun track leads past the top of the crag.
Travel south from Armadale along Albany Highway for 33.7km (or 9km past the Gleneagle picnic site) until a quarantine track (Herold Road, not sign posted), is reached on the left, On the west (right) side of the highway and some 20meters north of Herold Rd, there is a dirt track. Good spot to hide your car.
The walk takes 40minutes. Proceed on foot along Herold Rd heading east, turn left after 8minutes at a T-junction, then after 10minutes you will reach a Y-junction. A distinct foot track heads off right from here. Follow this and after 50metres the scrub things out as the ground rises towards Mt Cuthbert. Follow the foot track east towards the slabs following some cairns & faded tape markers. Use these and odd patch of scrub to gain the northern spur of Mt Cuthbert. Once on top, a large cairn should be visible. This is the very top of the slabs. Continue down to the left, down low angle slab terrain to the base of the crag.
Development & the first climbs were put up in the 90s. Between July and September the first 8 routes were up. By the end of October 1990 the frenzy was over. It laid dormant until 2010 with a few more finals additions.
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