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Geerak Track Roadside Crag Goldfinger Wall |
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Goldilocks
The thin crack in the middle of 'Goldfinger' Wall has a problematic layback start leading to energy-sapping jugs. |
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Wrong Side Of The Crate
If you haven't got a bed to get out the wrong side of. Vague line 2 metres right of Goldilocks. |
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Brownfinger
We have all used the occasional tree for assistance but this climb is half over by the time you're out of it. Climb the curving tree right of Goldilocks until it is possible to step onto the wall beneath a break in the bulge. Climb over the bulge and continue diagonally left. |
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Lebanese Goldfish
Enjoyable crack at the right-hand end of "Goldfinger Wall". |
Geerak Track Roadside Crag |
Roadside Crag - Main Face
A good trad-climbing cliff with a variety of climbs in the middle grades and a short approach. It would be a good morning destination on a warm day. There are a fair number of loose blocks lurking and some patches of poor rock so take care. Some of the climb names reflect these risks. Helmets are a good idea. |
Geerak Track Roadside Crag Roadside Crag - Main Face |
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Vestigial Remnant
Worthless leftover. Down on the main face, at the left side is a black wall just left of an undercut section. Take the groove on the left side of the black wall, heading slightly left to stay out of the gully continuation. |
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Dead Ignorance
Wandering, with loose blocks. Start a metre or two right of Vestigial Remnant, 1 metre left of the beginning of the undercut section. Up diagonally right for 10 metres then go left a little to a flake on the right edge of the black rock. Up and right to finish through loose-looking blocks. Scramble off with care. |
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Collector's Item
Some people will do anything to get their name on a crag. A more direct version of "Dead Ignorance". Start 3 metres right of Dead Ignorance and go straight up the buttress right of the black wall. Finish just left of a large prow. |
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★ Rainbow Road
Not quite the offwidth one is expecting; not at all bad. Originally done in two pitches. Start in much the same place as Collector's Item, a couple of metres right of the left end of the undercut section. Move up then go right just above the undercut to gain the lowest and leftmost of the diagonals. Steep climbing leads to an exit right into a guano-stained niche (belay on first ascent). Follow the line above with good moves around the bulge. |
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★ Another Roadside Attraction
Good climbing with a fingery start. Start at the pocketed scoop 6 metres right of Rainbow Road. Difficult climbing through the pocketed scoop. Above, move right into the diagonal right of Rainbow Road and follow it. |
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Peace, Love And Happiness
Serious, contrived crux section can be avoided. Start: Start at the next clear spot at the base of the cliff, 10 metres right of "Another Roadside Attraction".
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★ Making Movies
Excellent climbing along the largest of the diagonals. Start: Start 2 metres right of "Peace, Love And Happiness".
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Mae West
Start: Start 10 metres right of "Making Movies" at the right-hand end of the undercut, 12 metres left of "English Heatwave".
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Mae West Direct Finish
Climbing restrictions apply to many crags in Gariwerd/Grampians. Some of these restrictions are likely to change over time as assessments are completed. Tags are being applied to most crags to reflect their current status. Additional access-notes are provided to clarify restrictions where required (and will over-ride this notice). Current and further Parks Victoria advice can be found at https://www.parks.vic.gov.au/places-to-see/parks/grampians-national-park/rock-climbing-in-gariwerd |
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Space Invaders
Move steeply up the wall to confront the purplish-coloured overhang with a crack through it. Pass the overhang and climb the juggy but tiring wall to a large ledge. Easily to the top. Start: Start 5 metres right of "Mae West" and 5 metres left of "Pebble Finish" |
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Pebble Finish
An airy route taking the left arete of the huge corner.
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★ English Heatwave
The huge corner near the right end of the main face. Some doubtful rock.
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★★ Split Second
Portable belays take note. Start: Start as for "English Heatwave".
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★★ William Gripper
Start: Find "War Is Hell" and start 3 metres left of it; that is 2 metres right of "English Heatwave".
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War Is Hell
So-so. Everything is two grades harder than it looks. Start: Start 5 metres right of "English Heatwave" ata steep orange face with a roof and corner line.
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Peregrination
Moss city. Start: Start 5 metres right of "War Is Hell", 10 metres right of "English Heatwave".
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Crankers Wamp
Start: Start about 5 metres right of "Peregrination" where a short crack slants up left through steep rock.
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Swinging Couples
Start just right of "Cranker's Wamp" just before the rock becomes much smoother. Climb the faint groove, tending right to the top. |
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Bored Of Discipline
Looks reasonable. Start a few metres right of "Swinging Couples" at a short slab-corner. Go left and up to the top of the slab, then step right and go up the line. |
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Dirk Strutter
Two hard sections and some obscure moves. Start: Start 2 metres right of "Bored Of Discipline", 1-2 mteres left of the next obvious break. Go up a thin face through an area of weird 45-degree strata and then up a fine line on grey rock with a hard sit-down(!) move. Now easily on. |
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Winter Chills
Apparently Mikl was leaving this for the foxy team. Sadly, they didn't make it and it was left for Terry to claw past their chalk a year later in bitter weather. Start: Start 2 metres right of 'Dirk Strutter' at a break in the overhang. Climb the break in the overhang and step right into the left-leaning corner. Climb the corner to easy finish. |
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Dum Dum Daze
Pumpy. Dangerous to second as it parallels the hillside for a time. Start 2 metres right of "Winter Chills" Go diagonally right up the corner and around the roof. Layback the delicate flake leading left and up. |
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Slow Hand
Climb diagonally left below the overhangs until you can pull through on jugs. Go up easily to the final bulge where things pep up a bit. Start: Right of "Dum Dum Daze" and left of the descent chimney, a slab slants up left. |
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Heavy Bruceing
Pretty pumpy. Sort of like 'The Gallery' without the fixed gear. About 80 metres up the hillside is a steep wall. Start 4 metres left of "Pump It Up". The remains of an old fireplace may still be visible here. Climb the wall, moving right to within 1 metre of Pump It Up below the final bulge. Pull over the bulge and hand-traverse left to the corner. Now motor out the 3-4 metre roof. |
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★ Pump It Up
Really steep and good. Go straight up to the notch at the right-hand end of the roof. |
Geerak Track Roadside Crag |
Lizardry Outcrop
Lizardry Outcrop is across right (south) from the main crag boasting a prominent roof and corner system. |
Geerak Track Roadside Crag Lizardry Outcrop |
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Old Bones
Left of the main corner system is a compact orange wall. Start on nose below an obvious break in the bulge at half-height. Pull up[ right then back left onto pedestal. Tackle wall then continue up and over crack in bulge. Easier climbing leads left and up. (The obvious finish up the break in the arete has atrocious rock and poor protection) |
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Lizardry
Climb up the weakness in the wall to a ledge. Step right and go up the corner. Traverse 2 metres right just below a loose block and then go up to where you can escape or climb a left-leading flake into the crack above the roof and go up this crack. Start: Start below and just left of a corner on the right wall of the big corner. |
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Cold And Flu
Slope up the wall and climb the bulge. Continue up the wall and finish directly over the top overhang. Start: Start 4 metres right of 'Lizardry' below a cracked bulge at 4 metres. |
Geerak Track Roadside Crag |
Roadside Prow
Roadside Prow is 50 metres or so right of the Lizardry outcrop, a pinnacle with a steep orange prow facing the road. |
Geerak Track Roadside Crag Roadside Prow |
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Sink The Slipper
Climb steeply past good horizontals to orange turret. Step left then up to finish. Start: Start on the left side of the south face, just right of orange prow. |
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My Beautiful Laundrette
Climb the right side of the wall right of 'Sink The Slipper'. |
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Remains Of The Day
Quite sustained and steeper than it looks. Start: Start on the next wall right and uphill from Roadside Prow. Climb seams on left side of wall until an awkward move right gains a finger crack. Up to horizontal, step left and pull up on good edges. Buckets appear soon after. |
Geerak Track |
Chatterbox Rock
Small crag uphill and directly behind the 'Lizardry' outcrop. |
Geerak Track Chatterbox Rock |
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Job On The Way
The flakes, moving left into an open crack to finish. Start: Start at small break in wall 1 metre left of "Birdie's Perch" |
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Birdie's Perch
Flake to overlap, moving left to finish up flake. Start: Start at small flake 1 metre left of "Urban Paranoia" |
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Urban Paranoia
Traverse delicately right below bulge. Climb crack through bulge with easier moves to finish. Start: Starts under the nose on the left side of the compact front wall. |
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Wall Street
Initial corner then crack/corner 4 metres right of "Urban Paranoia" Start: Start as for "Urban Paranoia" |
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Uncle Toucan
Start at a short corner. Good steep climbing up the right arete. |
Geerak Track |
Pot Wall
Compact grey and orange wall with distinctive pillars uphill and behind Roadside Prow etc. Large pockets high up on the right end are a feature. |
Geerak Track Pot Wall |
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Rocky Road
"Pot-hole never felt so good." Start: Towards the righe end, scramble up to terrace. Climb the ragged flake to right-leading crack. Pull onto beautiful grey, pocketed wall and go up. |
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Flagman Ahead
Argus May 95 |
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Champion Ruby
Argus May 95 |
Geerak Track |
Minmin Hill
Three tiers of rock across saddle and about 1 km in from roadside Crag. Best approached up the creek below 'Pot Wall' and to the south of 'Roadside Crag'. |
Geerak Track Minmin Hill |
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Yams Are Yummy
Good climbing with a bold crux on the upper tier. Climb the obvious right-leading crack to the bulge, reach around bulge (crux), then continue up wall above. |
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The Cut-Throat Business Of Haberdashery
Start on left-hand side of wall of the main tier. Climb wall just right of arete. |
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Real Life
Traverse right then up to gain right-veering crack. Up crack to take bulge on left. Start: Start 4 metres right of "The Cut-Throat Business Of Haberdashery" |
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Salt Water Wells In My Eyes
The prominent line 5 metres right of "Real Life". Climb the right-curving flake-line to bulges. Continue straight up. |
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Genesis Gorge
Take faint line in middle of cliff to ledge. Start: Start 3 metres right of "Salt Water Wells In My Eyes" |
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Dances With Hakea
On the first grey wall on the lower, broken wall. Climb to horizontal, up flake, step right and up. |
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Series 2000
Climb the wall 1 metre right of "Dances With hakea" past a small blank crack. |
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Rappanewy
Geddit? The next wall down has a pillar forming its left arete. Climb the crack 1 metre right of the arete. |
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Just Do It
Prominent right-veering crack about 50 metres downhill and right of the other climbs. |
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Flamed Again
Slab moves lead to thin crack. Climb crack to flakey jugs. Start: Start 4 metres right of "Just Do It" |
Geerak Track |
Nowhere Crag
Climbing restrictions apply to many crags in Gariwerd/Grampians. Some of these restrictions are likely to change over time as assessments are completed. Tags are being applied to most crags to reflect their current status. Additional access-notes are provided to clarify restrictions where required (and will over-ride this notice). Current and further Parks Victoria advice can be found at https://www.parks.vic.gov.au/places-to-see/parks/grampians-national-park/rock-climbing-in-gariwerd |
Geerak Track Nowhere Crag |
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The Middle Of Nowhere
Start through steep orange bulges veering left. Move right to grey face. Slab moves to central seamy crack. Up crack to roof, exit right. |
Geerak Track |
Pump Wall (Cambell's Rock)
A substantial cliff with one major line amongst a sea of choss. Little further potential, but the existing 2 climb are worth a visit. |
Geerak Track Pump Wall (Cambell's Rock) |
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★★ Forbidden Fruit
Potentially a 'Grampians' classic taking the huge, right-facing sickle in the middle of the cliff.
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★★ Fruits of Good & Evil
A surprisingly good route on mostly clean diagonal line on the L wall (looking up) of the main descent gully. About halfway up - locate large left leading diagonal lines. Climb takes the thin face that leads into main diagonal. Obvious crack on the L could be an easier alternate to the somewhat desperate first pitch.
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Geerak Track |
Brown's Creek Gorge
Short, remotes climbs with a reasonably long walk. These first climbs are not actually in the gorge and there is (allegedly) further potential upstream. If Neil Barr is to be believed, the area is worthless. |
Geerak Track Brown's Creek Gorge |
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New Romantic
The shallow box corner on the right side of the overhanging face. |
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Lizane's Valentine
Straight up wall, over ledge and wall behind. Start: Start on the left side of small face at the left end of the outcrop. |
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Michele's Valentine
Diagonally out right and over bulge just left of arete. Over ledge then follow wall just left of arete. Start: Start as for Lizane's Valentine. |
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Hawkerboy
Continue a further 15 minutes further up the creek from New Romantic to an orange buttress on right, about 160m downstream from the start of the gorge. Gr 089520. Total access time around 50 minutes. (There is another orange buttress about 60m further upstream, that is, about 100m from the start of the gorge.) Start about 15m right of orange overhangs. Up right facing corner to large ledge at third height. Continue up corner, passing overhang by stepping left onto ledge then back into corner. |
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McDonald Creek Gorge
Short climbs on good rock in a remote setting. The original approach directions were claimed to be "hard to follow on a map". There was a good reason for that, apart from being complex they at one point sent people off due west rather than east. The access has been reviewed (May 2010). The directions appear complex but it's not too bad. Tracks are suitable for 2WD vehicle with care when it is dry, but could get very boggy in winter. |
Geerak Track McDonald Creek Gorge |
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Face Full Of Black Boys
Nice. Vague line on nose. |
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Pedestrian Crossing
Gem. Start: Start at line one metre left of 'Face Full Of Black Boys'. Up line, left to next line and up. |
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Shaggy Dog Stories
Good. Line from cave left of 'Pedestrian Crossing'. |
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The Arc Of A Diver
Arete of clean wall above platform around left of 'Shaggy Dog Stories'. |
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Big Max
The next routes are on an attractive orange wall just to the right of the creek and waterfall. Solid jamming solves the crack lust left of the arete. At the horizontal, traverse left and climb the crack and wall to its right. Step right to exit. |
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Effy The Emu
Climb the ragged crack left of Big Mac to the horizontal break. Step right and continue up the crack, a few metres left of Big Mac's final crack to a tricky exit. Watch out for loose blocks. |
Bullawin Road
The cliffs on the east side of the southern 'Victoria' range sit high above 'Bullawin Road' and have tough approaches. |
Bullawin Road |
Cyclops Wall
Remote climbing high on the range. The existing climbs don't look too good but there is potential, but it's a tough approach. |
Bullawin Road Cyclops Wall |
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Bitter Stick
All pitches about the same grade.
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★ Scratch Game
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Stony Road
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Bullawin Road |
Gavin's Gash
Three levels of cliff can be seen a little south of 'Crawfords Crag'. It is generally disappointing with few lines and little to interest climbers. Mr Gavin owned properties below the cliffs |
Bullawin Road Gavin's Gash |
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Windrows Are All The Go
Towards the left-hand end of the cliff is a compact wall with an obvious crack line. Up the line to the roof, left unde the roof and up. |
Bullawin Road |
Crawford's Crag
Not the remotest crag in Gariwerd but it's not far from it. Definitely an adventure crag, set high up in the lonely southern 'Victoria Range'. Best visited in the cooler months to avoid being cooked. When descending the large blocks of scree rolling about your ankles is unsettling. |
Bullawin Road Crawford's Crag |
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★★ Lambs To The Slaughter
A big adventure route with a poorly-protected crux pitch. The sheer effort required to for the three trips to make the free ascent demands respect. Start: Towards the right-hand end of the northern-most crag is a wide corner system with an impressive left wall in the upper part. Start about 15 metres left of the corner itself, where the cliff is at its lowest.
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★★ Lambs To The Slaughter Variant Start
Better Than the original start. Start 10 metres to the left up an easy line. At 5 metres go diagonally right and up the grey wall to a shallow, left-facing corner that leads to the large ledge. |
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★★ Beastmaster
A ripsnorter of a route. Despite having quite a bit of easier climbing it is constantly clean and offers some spectacular exposure. Start: Scramble up from the little camping cave left of 'Lambs To The Slaughter' to a large ledge from which two obvious parallel lines start.
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Gluteus
Start: Scramble to the highest block below the left-leaning crackline on the left buttress. There is a fork in the line at half-height.
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Any Old Choss Just Won't Do Wuss!
Up left of rooflet and up righthand crack to tree. Step up left to stance then swing on to arete to buckets. Thin and gritty climbing leads to top. Start: Scramble on to terrace towards south (left) side of crag. |
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Fight For The Filly
Climb the poorly protected wall right of Any Old Choss Just Don't Do Wuss!. Finish up the steep central crack on good holds and much better pro. |