Nodes em The Surgery

A great long bouldering cave tucked down behind some houses in blaxland.

Avoid like herpes after rain or on humid days.

All the problems have been renamed in a "Surgery" theme as the original names have been lost to antiquity. Names and grades are welcome for the unnamed problems, I just haven't done them.

Dave did the fa in about 1996. Start with both hands on the rail then big move up to the sloping lip. Speculated at the time to be v9 but who knows??

Note: Currently fallen tree blocking the dyno.

Start from the big jug. Out and up. Committing.

Long undercling traverse.

Start matched on the undercling. Big moves and Big fun.

Phillip Booth

Start as for Photocoagulator before finishing up Gingivectomy via crimps and slopers

Emmanuel Madayag

Start at the back of the cave, follow the flake feature through the roof, then head right after turning the lip and finish matched on jug ledge same as 'Oxycel'.

Phillip Booth

Start as for Prosthesis but climb left via small crimps and toe hook to end up going right hand to chipped pocket before finishing on jug rail

Might be slightly harder than Prosthesis

Emmanuel Madayag

Chipped and not that nice but the hardest problem here.

Same Start as Go Go Gadget but follows the left edge of the cave to finish on the flat ledge black jugs.

Phillip Booth

Same start as The nurse but then pushes left into the undercling match, a couple ok holds then the high finish as for Go Go Gadget.

Start in the rad underslot, big moves to a high finish

Double side-pull start then up via crimps and slopes to the rail jug. A great problem and tricky until you figure out the beta.

Not any harder just higher and more committing. Finish on the sweet jug in the water runnel.

Start as for the doctor, instead of doing the big move on the nurse, continue low for a couple more compression moves until you're at the slopey jug of Go Go Gadget then finish up Oxycel

Phillip Booth

Same start as Necrosis then hard move into The Nurse to finish at the jug rail.

Phillip Booth

Direct movement. Sit start as for Doctor. Gain ledge, then crimp, 2 finger pocket, move to slopey rail directly above, then up left to diagonal positive rail. Match high big hole for top.

Start at double undercling same as 'Doctor', move left then up via nice crimps to jug.

Start direct for a slightly easier V1 variant.

Phillip Booth

Long and funky, if a tad contrived. Start as for Go Go Gadget, but crank out right through some fun slopers, staying just below the finish hold of The Nurse. Keep traversing right along the break, before eventually finishing up Rocky Davis.

Start on jug right of the flake then undercling/side pull the the flake to finish on orange horn.

Start match on the undercling up via slopes and crimps to the camps ledge then big moves to high jug pocket.

Phillip Booth

Dyno.

Big roof dyno from start of Can You Campus to finish as for Dr Death/Hopspital. Will be hard

Simple campus from left to right

Start on the X jug rail above the ferns, traverse the roof until the campus ledge then finsh up P13

Sweet high sloper traverse, good but spaced holds the whole way. Start on a L finger jug and right crimp, up and work your way out left along the roof rib. Can you campus is off for your feet. Finish matched on the high pocket. Easier to campus most of the moves.

Awesome new 20 move problem with a dynamic crux at the start and solid rock nearly the whole way. Starts on the big pocket of Say Ahhhhhhh, a couple of easy start moves set you up for a big move out left from a bad off angle right before joining Hopes In Slopes..

A fun campus problem, start with a small pocket and crimp, move right to finger jug, left hand to small crimp above then swing right to a good incut high edge, match.

Start on the big jug up to another jug pocket with glue on it then big moves up and right via crimps. Keep trucking right past another jug pocket to finish as teflon.

Crag classic. Start in the back of the cave, big moves on big holds. Finish on the high big sloper.

Phillip Booth

Jug the Teflon start then long reach and hard match to move into Mosquito clamps start jug and continue. Only hard for 3 moves really but rad the whole way.

Jared Tyerman

Starting on say ahh and then traverse into mosquito clamps and out via the ledge.

Sit start to mosquito clamps. Going up via the edges and pocket and out through MC.

Start in the good flake jug and traverse right until you can step off. Can be wet for very long periods of time.

Straight up the face of the highball boulder. Use of either arête is "out".

HIGH.. This problem is 6m+ Has top rope anchors.

Scary ground up high ball, left hand on the arete. Has top rope anchors.

Got better holds then the right hand side. Has top rope anchors.

Straight up the middle of the face to top-out mantle. USE OF EITHER ARETE IS "OUT"..

Thin and balancy with all the hardest moves in the top half.

Harder of the two sides. Has top rope anchors.

Left Arete

The ants are gone...

Once renowned as a "speed ascent problem" (as the crucial hold contained a nest of angry ants that swarmed once the hold was used), it's now a conventional and safe boulder problem.

Stand start, up via the one and only hold to top-out.

Long block traverse from right to left. Start in small pockets on the top edge and traverse to the far left edge of the block