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Grade Route Gear style Popularity Crag
2022
17 Go Further in Lightness.

Left hand route starting at the bottom of the gully. Nice scoops and small over lap to a deceptively steep finish.

Set: Matt Tranter

FA: Matt Tranter, 2022

Sport 10m, 5 Penrose Forest
2021
V2 Belly Ache

Start at the right hand end of the boulder, lowest point. Small ledges to belly flop.

FA: Matt Tranter, Jul 2021

Boulder 3m Berrima Bouldering.
V1 Savage Love

Start on the small foot ledge, trend left to the obvious hold and then up to the immensity satisfying band of iron stone to top out.

FA: Matt Tranter, 2021

Boulder 6m Penrose Forest
V2 Glory Days

Centre of the slab on small holds. Exit on iron band ripple.

FA: Matt Tranter, 2021

Boulder 6m Penrose Forest
V2 Georgia Rose

Obvious crack. Tricky start. Watch for finger jams.

FA: Matt Tranter, 2021

Boulder 6m Penrose Forest
2020
V3 Chalkstormish

Right in the middle of the wall. Small ledge for your foot. Balance up. Mantle to the top.

FA: Matt Tranter, Dec 2020

Boulder 4m Penrose Forest
V2 Beached as Bro.

Left hand edge. Balance to hold on left edge. Flop to the top.

FA: Matt Tranter, Dec 2020

Boulder 4m Penrose Forest
19 Frail Deeds.

FA: Matt Tranter, 16 Nov 2020

Trad 10m Belanglo State Forest
17 Age Shall Not Weary Them

First route at the bottom of the descent gully. Start by pulling with care on the rickety flake. Clip the low bolt to avoid dropping into the muddy abyss if you underestimate how tricky this little slab is.

FA: Matt Tranter, 11 Nov 2020

Sport 10m, 5 South Pacific
18 Dust to Dust

Just left of the trad crack. Run out in the middle.

Set: Matt Tranter

FA: Matt Tranter, 23 Oct 2020

Sport 10m, 4 New Nowra - Braidwood Road
16 Happy Father’s Day.

First line of bolts in the orange buttress. Pull over bulge. Choose your yellow flakes with care. Anchor bolts over the top ledge.

Set: Matt Tranter, Sep 2020

FA: Matt Tranter, 6 Sep 2020

Sport 14m, 4 The Sanctuary
V2 Spring

Straight up the middle

FA: Matt Tranter, 1 Sep 2020

Boulder 4m Mount Alexandra Lookout Road bouldering.
V1 Sprung

Right side of the face on large ironstone holds

FA: Matt Tranter, 1 Sep 2020

Boulder 4m Mount Alexandra Lookout Road bouldering.
16 Shoot The Breeze

Arete.

Set: Matt Tranter, Sep 2020

FA: Matt Tranter, Sep 2020

Sport 9m, 4 New Nowra - Braidwood Road
15 Two Sheets to the Wind

Obvious corner crack. Large gear. Two belay bolts set well back from the top can be used to belay.

Set: Matt Tranter, Sep 2020

FA: Matt Tranter, Sep 2020

Trad 10m New Nowra - Braidwood Road
17 Blows a Futile Horn.

Centre of the slab. Nowra slabs and ledges.

Set: Matt Tranter, Sep 2020

FA: Matt Tranter, Sep 2020

Sport 11m, 4 New Nowra - Braidwood Road
16 Wind of Change

The zig zag trad crack trending leftwards.

FA: Matt Tranter, Sep 2020

Trad 14m New Nowra - Braidwood Road
V1 East Coast Low.

First route encountered. Sit start to knobs., Throw to small ledge. Finish standing on large mantle with hands on the pebbles.

FA: Matt Tranter, 1 Aug 2020

Boulder 4m Penrose Forest
17 All Rung Out

Just right of the rungs. Choose your starting holds with care until you reach the satisfying iron band ridges. Trend right. Fun.

FA: Matt Tranter, Aug 2020

Sport 8m, 4 Penrose Forest
17 Should Have Brough a Husky

Middle of the next pillar. Long reach for the crux. Satisfyingly sequencey.

Set: Matt Tranter

FA: Matt Tranter, Aug 2020

SportProject 10m, 4 Penrose Forest
21 Puppy Love.

Start to the left of the crack. Pull up on sharp ironstone edges, trending left. Long reach to the final ledges and glory.

Set: Matt Tranter, Apr 2020

FA: Matt Tranter, Aug 2020

Sport 4 Penrose Forest
17 Operation Snowflake

Start on the irresistible orange and ascend the over hanging ledges. Grope over the lip for the hold, swing into space, take the hero photo and pull with care onto the head wall.

Set: Matt Tranter

FA: Matt Tranter, 2 Jul 2020

Sport 12m, 5 The Sanctuary
V2 The Umbrella Academy

Start on small handholds on the face. Trend right past ironstone Hole to first ledge.

FA: Matt Tranter, 2020

Boulder Penrose Forest
V2 Monsoon

Blunt right scoop / crack to second ledge.

FA: Matt Tranter, 2020

Boulder 5m Penrose Forest
V2 Noah

Blunt arete to second ledge.

FA: Matt Tranter, 2020

Boulder Penrose Forest
V2 The Great Unwashed

Undercling crack and lunge for the top.

FA: Matt Tranter, 2020

Boulder Penrose Forest
13 Thomas’s Thumb

FA: Matt Tranter, 2020

Sport 10m, 3 Badgerys Lookout
V1 Catacomb Calamity.

Sit start below mini ledge. Pull up trending left. Top out.

FA: Matt Tranter, 2020

Boulder 3m Mount Alexandra Lookout Road bouldering.
V1 Lost.

Left hand end of slab. Sit start.

FA: Matt Tranter, 2020

Boulder 4m Mount Alexandra Lookout Road bouldering.
V1 labyrinth

Middle of slab. Sit start.

FA: Matt Tranter, 2020

Boulder 4m Mount Alexandra Lookout Road bouldering.
V1 Traverse half stack

Start at the far left of the crag. Use a mixture of ironstone bands and the large pebbled ledge. Drop at the nose.

FA: Matt Tranter, 2020

Boulder 8m Penrose Forest
V1 Found.

Right hand side of the slab. Sit start.

FA: Matt Tranter, 2020

Boulder 4m Mount Alexandra Lookout Road bouldering.
2019
V1 Amon

Easy ramp leading to rounded top out. Finish standing on top of the boulder.

FA: Matt Tranter, Dec 2019

Boulder 6m Penrose Forest
18 Dora the Explorer (and the lost crack of gold.)

Enter the crumbling ruins that guard the first high bolt. Crux move to second bolt. (Can be avoided by stepping far right.) Ramble through the ledges and moss filled cracks to the fabled city of gold. Fun. Long. Exit from chains on the final ledge. 60m is perfectly fine.

Set: Matt Tranter, 2019

FA: Matt Tranter, 8 Oct 2019

Sport 30m, 10 Mount Alexandra
19 Flu Season

Up mini crack and ledges. Thin and getting thinner as all the edges round off.

Set: Matt Tranter

FA: Matt Tranter, 11 Sep 2019

Sport 8m, 3 Penrose Forest
16 Tuffa on a Rope.

2 metres further right up the gully. 2 bolts on small features to the ironstone ledge before a difficult finish.

Set: Matt Tranter

FA: Matt Tranter, Jun 2019

Sport 9m, 4 The Monastery
20 Back in the Saddle

2 metres right up the gully. Follow tufa to ironstone ledge, balance with difficulty to next ledge. Throw to sloppy top.

Set: Matt Tranter

FA: Matt Tranter, Jun 2019

Sport 9m, 4 The Monastery
17 Pioneers, rebels and mutineers.

2 metres further right. Start on the flake of rock, up the clean slab and over the overlap. Romp to top.

FA: Matt Tranter, 26 May 2019

Sport 20m, 8 Mt Gibraltar
16 Winters Coming

Straight up the guts of the wall. Protect with small Friends.

FA: Matt Tranter, 24 Mar 2019

Trad 11m Point Perpendicular
20 Bring Back Winter

Start on the scree slope and single bolt of No Country For Old Men and head right. Follow the right slanting thin crack using the crack as far as you like, breaking for the slab when you feel like it. Hard to clean. Exit with care through right hand break in summit cap and Belay from large tree at top.

Set: Matt Tranter

FA: Matt Tranter, 2 Jan 2019

Trad 22m Hillbilly Highway Walls
17 Late to the Party

Face climbing to nice ledges. Trend slightly right.

Set: Matt Tranter, 2019

FA: Matt Tranter, 2019

Sport 9m, 4 Penrose Forest
17 Tree Huggers Delight

start left of the tree. Use the tree for as long as your legs can reach. Pull up the ledges to a tricky top. Can you do it without the tree?

Sport 10m, 4 The Monastery
17 Lurch

Dynamic reaches between iron stone bands. Easier for the tall. Take care with clipping.

Set: Matt Tranter, 2019

FA: Matt Tranter, 2019

Sport 8m, 2 Penrose Forest
2018
18 Look Ma, No Hands

First route on the mini slab. Pull past horizontal break and then up to the reinforced hold. Micro holds all the way to the final over lap and jugs.

Set: Matt Tranter

FA: Matt Tranter, 19 Dec 2018

Sport 15m, 8 Mt Gibraltar
17 Paved With Good Intentions

Right hand side of the slab. Start on the conveniently positioned old tree trunk. Pull up slab into curving crack, lay back with style and surmount the head wall with care.

Set: Matt Tranter

FFA: Matt Tranter, 18 Dec 2018

Sport 15m, 10 Mt Gibraltar
18 Here be Dragons
1 15
2 17
3 17
4 18

Start at the very low point of the crag. Meanders up through the old descent gully on really cool features.

  1. (15) - Grit stone-esk slab. Follow 5 bolts to large ledge and tree. Double bolt belay.

  2. (17) - Up short wall behind anchors(Tree often used as a footer.) Traverse right 3 metres to base of giant gully. 7 bolts up blunt arete, through less than perfect rock to another large ledge and tree. Double bolt belay.

  3. (17) - 8 bolts up face to large ledge. Belay from double ring bolts on the right.

  4. (18)- Trend left over easy broken ground to the bottom of the giant blocks. Pull up through blocks, taking care on the final boulder problem. Addition protection from an old bolting Friend in the crack if you are feeling a little exposed. (Hard move but sympathetically bolted.) Pointless but so much fun.

Set: Matt Tranter

FA: Matt Tranter, 18 Sep 2018

Sport 52m, 4, 32 Mt Gibraltar
12 Checkpoint Charlie

The leftward slanting crack, starting at The Bridge and ending at the anchors of Cereal Killer. Clip the first (and second if you like you ankles to remain undamaged) bolts on The Bridge and then trad it up to the convenient anchors at the top of the crack.

FFA: Matt Tranter & Simon Vaughan, 16 Sep 2018

Mixed trad 12m, 1 Nowra
17 The Golan Heights

2 metres right of Cereal Killer, up through gold towards the honeycomb roof.

FFA: Matt Tranter

Set: Matt Tranter

FA: Matt Tranter, 12 Sep 2018

Sport 10m, 6 Nowra
12 Orb

First route on the wall. Easy jug hauling.

FA: Simon Vaughan & Matt Tranter, 14 Apr 2018

Trad 10m Point Perpendicular
15 Smooth as Silk

Up through the cheese following the slight hanging flake. Trend right at half height or when you can be bothered. 2 bolts set back from the lip to avoid the bash through the spider infested jungle.

FA: Matt Tranter & Simon Vaughan, 14 Apr 2018

Trad 11m Point Perpendicular
12 Foot fetish

Bay to the left of Snitches. Left hand crack and wall. Exit left onto slash Wall ledge.

FA: Simon Vaughan & Matt Tranter, 7 Apr 2018

Trad 11m Point Perpendicular
16 A face full of bush

Long reaches to good ledges. Trend right. Exit with care into bush above. 2 bolts over the lip to access or lower from.

FA: Matt Tranter, 7 Apr 2018

Trad 11m Point Perpendicular
12 Last of the summer wine

Mini wall with the descent station of Raptures Wall on it's far left side. The obvious crack on the right hand side of the wall.

FA: Matt Tranter & Simon Vaughan, 4 Apr 2018

Trad 11m Point Perpendicular
17 Barking Knuckles Pitch 3 Crack Finish
  1. 15m (17) 3 x FH to vertical hand/feet crack. Cams #1-3 then to DFH belay. The money pitch. Fun feature climbing up to the crack where your cams come into play. What's your crack plan? Lay back or jam?

Set: Brendon Flanagan

Set: Jeffrey Crass & Brendon Flanagan, 12 Dec 2017

FA: Brendon Flanagan, Jeffrey Crass, Kip Newing, Matt Tranter, Phuong Ho, Geoff Cooper, Sandy & Ian, 18 Mar 2018

FFA: 18 Mar 2018

FA: Brendon Flanagan, Jeffrey Crass, Phuong Ho, Matt Tranter, Geoff Cooper, kip, Ian Ryan & Sandy, 18 Mar 2018

Mixed trad 55m, 3, 19 Mt Gibraltar
13 Barking Knuckles

Three good easy pitches going leftwards up the spine of the buttress

  1. 20m (11) 5 x FH to DFH belay. Beginner fun on easy slab.

  2. 20m (13) 5 x FH to DFH belay. More beginner fun on easy slab.

  3. 20 (10) 5 x FH. Head up diagonally left, over step, and left up seam DFH belay, walk off carefully left (or stay belayed)

Set: Jeffrey Crass & Brendon Flanagan, 12 Dec 2017

FA: Brendon Flanagan, Jeffrey Crass, Phuong Ho, Geoff Cooper, Chanté Fisk, kip, ian, sandy & Matt Tranter, 18 Mar 2018

Sport 60m, 3, 19 Mt Gibraltar
17 Barking Knuckles Pitch 3 Crack Finish
  1. 15m (17) 3 x FH to vertical hand/feet crack. Cams #1-3 then to DFH belay. The money pitch. Fun feature climbing up to the crack where your cams come into play. What's your crack plan? Lay back or jam?

Set: Brendon Flanagan

Set: Jeffrey Crass & Brendon Flanagan, 12 Dec 2017

FA: Brendon Flanagan, Jeffrey Crass, Kip Newing, Matt Tranter, Phuong Ho, Geoff Cooper, Sandy & Ian, 18 Mar 2018

FFA: 18 Mar 2018

FA: Brendon Flanagan, Jeffrey Crass, Phuong Ho, Matt Tranter, Geoff Cooper, kip, Ian Ryan & Sandy, 18 Mar 2018

Mixed trad 55m, 3, 19 Mt Gibraltar
17 Mad Dogs and Englishmen
1 16
2 17
3 17

Start, walk about 40m R of The Road less travelled etc at a body high flake you can just squeeze thru (or walk around).

  1. (16) Start on top of the flake at the bottom of the buttress, high first bolt. Pull with interest onto the wall, 6 bolts to large ledge, lower off here if you're doing the first pitch only, or continue to double rings set back on ledge.

  2. 10m (17) Cross over Orchid Alley to right line of bolts to next large ledge.

  3. 14m (17) Right of top pitch of Orchid Alley, 4 BRs contributed by James Bulititude and then a further 2 bolts through the final head wall. Belay from double rings.

Set: Matt Tranter & James

FA: Matt Tranter, 11 Feb 2018

Sport 60m, 3, 18 Mt Gibraltar
16 Half Mast

The left most route as you arrive after the scramble down the descent gully. Thankfully stops before the band of choss is encountered. Short and fun warm up.

Set: Matt Tranter, 2018

FA: Matt Tranter, 21 Jan 2018

Sport 10m, 5 Point Perpendicular
20 Riding Shotgun (Underneath the Hot Sun.)

Middle of the slab. Thin moves well protected.

FA: Matt Tranter, 2018

Set: Matt Tranter, 2018

Sport 15m, 8 Mt Gibraltar
2017
17 Im The Party Pooper

Clip the first two bolts from the ground to avoid swinging. Heel hook for all you are worth. Avoid anything that is not a massive hold (everything else my well give way!) and thug your way to the top. Enjoyable, surprisingly.

Set: Adam Rabjohns

FFA: Matt Tranter

FA: Matt Tranter, 15 Dec 2017

Sport 5m, 4 Belanglo State Forest
17 Captain Barnacles

2nd route on the wall as you face the cliff. Great climbing with the exception of one band of choss. Great holds all the way up.

Set: Matt Tranter

FA: Matt Tranter, 17 Sep 2017

Sport 15m, 8 Point Perpendicular
20 Proof of Life

First line of bolts on this wall. Start 3 metres into the gully. Steep start, long lunge, beautiful holds. Short and fun.

FA: Matt Tranter, 20 Aug 2017

Sport 8m, 4 Nowra
15 The Gruffalo

Right of Snooze. Pull over two bulges and onto the crack and slab. Romp up the nice looking orange rock to the anchors shared with Snooze. The route starts just left of the bush 2m up, watch the tree when lowering!!

FA: Matt Tranter, 13 Aug 2017

Sport 24m, 9 Mount Alexandra
12 Schools out for Summer.

The second route as you walk in, located on the slab used by pesky abseilers. Bolted for the beginner leader and for the short (or more accurately a six year olds height.)

FA: Matt Tranter, 2017

Sport 15m, 7 Mount Alexandra
18 Crocodile

Start at the far right of the crag in the cool little gully. Up the middle of the little wall. Hard start, cool holds to finish.

FA: Matt Tranter, 2017

Sport 14m, 6 Belanglo State Forest
19 Boulevard of Broken Dreams

one missing bolt mid route as of 10/12/2017 Start up the fine finger crack and proceed with care through the bands of weird rock to an easy finish.

Set: Matt Tranter

FA: Matt Tranter, 2017

Sport 20m, 7 Belanglo State Forest
2016
16 The Eiger Sanction

Start in the cave. Back and foot up the chimney (if you are too young to know what that means then google it youth). Take care after the third bolt as it is run out, stay in the cave where it is nice and safe. Exit left with the grace of a goat or the flop of a whale to the anchor of Dole Bludgers.

Set: Matt Tranter

FFA: Matt Tranter, 28 Sep 2016

FA: 28 Sep 2016

Sport 12m, 6 The Sanctuary
18 Dole Bludgers

Crimpy moves flowing nicely up the faint line of weakness. Start 2metres left of the narrow cave.

FA: Matt Tranter, 15 Sep 2016

Sport 12m, 6 The Sanctuary
21 luz en una cueva

luz en una cueva (light in a cave) Opposite this route is a cave that has a gold circle of light that shines late afternoon like there is a lamp inside. Anyway, very technical and challenging climbing past 4 bulges on amazing rock. Only 1 star because of the batman to the first bolt.

Set: Simon Vaughan

FFA: Simon Vaughan & Matt Tranter, 11 Jun 2016

FA: Simon Vaughan & Matt Tranter, 11 Jun 2016

Sport 14m Nowra
21 luz en una cueva

luz en una cueva (light in a cave) Opposite this route is a cave that has a gold circle of light that shines late afternoon like there is a lamp inside. Anyway, very technical and challenging climbing past 4 bulges on amazing rock. Only 1 star because of the batman to the first bolt.

Set: Simon Vaughan

FFA: Simon Vaughan & Matt Tranter, 11 Jun 2016

FA: Simon Vaughan & Matt Tranter, 11 Jun 2016

Sport 14m Nowra
2015
20 No Country For Old Men

The big crack. Adventure trad. Dirty, loose and thruchy. Mmm. The large pillar at the bottom of the route recently detached so protect is a little limited for the first 3 metres. Have fun. Bolt added December 2018 to protect the landfall section. Care still required.

Set: Matt Tranter

FA: Matt Tranter, 10 Jan 2015

Trad 18m Hillbilly Highway Walls
2014
14 Short and Curly

Up crack and then step left on to blocks. Finish at tree.

FA: Matt Tranter & Ryan Hanvey, 2014

Trad 9m Mt Gibraltar
2013
17 Mostly Harmless

Same start as Ruined Childhood. At big ledge take the right hand thin crack. Care required with gear.

FA: Matt Tranter, 2013

Trad 20m Area 51
17 Schadenfreude

Large crack on the main face. Start in the small cave. Either pull straight up at a grade harder or wimp out to the better rock on the right. Belay from the tree at the top.

FA: Matt Tranter, 2013

Trad 20m Area 51
15 Ruined Childhood

2 metres down hill from Schadenfreude. Up dirty dirty ledge to corner crack. Up to top.

FA: Matt Tranter, 2013

Trad 20m Area 51
19 Lapérouse

10 metres further around the headland. The next detached pillar. Climb crack until small roof. Round roof on right to loose top.

FA: Matt Tranter, 2013

Trad 18m Kiama
2010
20 Back to the Future

Climb up the Arete. Short and Sharp. Originally no protection, soloed by Tim Cartwright, now bolted. Start in the alcove below the Arete.

Set: Matt Tranter

FA: Matt Tranter, 2010

Sport 8m, 4 Mount Alexandra
2007
17 Loosing Your Virginity

Slab and crack system. For abseil, take a longer rope or two ropes as one of the pitches is longer than 30m.

FA: Martin Haworth & Matt Tranter, 2007

Sport 100m, 3, 20 Midgard
2004
{UK} HVS 5a More fun than shopping for shoes

2 expansion bolts anchor.

FA: Matt Tranter & Ben George, 2004

Trad 34m New Territories
{UK} HS 4c Doppelganger

Same anchor as More fun than shopping for shoes.

FA: Matt Tranter & Ben George, 2004

Trad 34m New Territories
{UK} E1 5a Broadway

FA: Matt Tranter & Ben George, 2004

Trad 34m New Territories
{UK} E1 5a Seamless

Trad anchor + 1 bolt. Scramble down for the descent (to the right facing the cliff).

FA: Matt Tranter & Ben George, 2004

Trad 34m New Territories
{UK} E1 5b Tailor Made

FA: Matt Tranter & Ben George, 2004

Trad New Territories
{UK} VS 4b Big boots

FA: Matt Tranter & Ben George, 2004

Trad New Territories
{UK} S 4a Clothes line

FA: Matt Tranter & Ben George, 2004

Trad New Territories
{UK} S 4a Zipper effect

FA: Matt Tranter & Ben George, 2004

Trad New Territories
{UK} S 4a Suits you sir

FA: Matt Tranter & Ben George, 2004

Trad New Territories
{UK} S 4a Big boots rule

FA: Matt Tranter & Ben George, 2004

Trad New Territories
2003
19 Nurse Hoogenbusum.

Easy buttress starting directly out of the Kloof bed. Trending right, Double ring bolt lower-offs.

Set: Matt Tranter

FA: Matt Tranter & Martin Haworth, 2003

Sport 22m, 7 Windhoek
Unknown year
V1 Flat Foot

Face climb. Sit start. Behind small tree.

Boulder 3m Mount Alexandra Lookout Road bouldering.
18 Heffalump Sport Spitzkoppe & The Pontoks
V3 Traverse full stack.

Complete the first half of the traverse and continue traversing until the end of the sector.

Boulder 8m Penrose Forest
V2 The Keep

Right hand arete.

Boulder 5m Mount Alexandra Lookout Road bouldering.
16 Hound

Start in the recess with the overhung book corner. Step right and romp to the top. Anchors over the lip in the top gold band.

Sport 14m, 6 Area 51
V2 Same as The Last but Thinner.

Sit start. Behind the big tree. Thin.

Boulder 3m Mount Alexandra Lookout Road bouldering.
V0 Shelter From The Storm

Left hand end of the cave. Up large holds past two ledges.

Boulder 4m Penrose Forest
V3 Damsel in Distress

Shallow arete / runnel.

Boulder 5m Mount Alexandra Lookout Road bouldering.
18 A symphony of sass

Start under the bookend corner. Trend left on large holds. A couple of great dynamic moves on dinner plate iron stone.

Sport 12m, 6 Area 51
V2 Tea Time

Start at Hole. Sit start.

Boulder 3m Mount Alexandra Lookout Road bouldering.
17 Last Breath

FA: Martin Haworth & Matt Tranter

Trad 22m Midgard

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