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Grade Route Gear style Popularity
Booroomba Rocks South Buttress Integral face
12 Big Flake

Eight metres to the left of Euryproctus is a large flake leaning against the cliff. An awkward move to start, then easily to the top of the flake. Swing left into the corner and up the crack.

FA: Tony Wood, Graham Horrocks & A. Wadsley, 1967

Trad 15m
12 Running Crack

A good intro to jamming. The crack 10 metres left of Big Flake; many people continue with the second pitch of Marmalade.

FA: Peter Aitchison & John Price, 1967

Trad 12m
Booroomba Rocks Middle Rocks Descent track
12 Recompense Variant Finish

A considerable improvement on the original.

4b. 30 metres - Walk left for 10 metres along a ledge. Climb the wall until able to move left into a corner then up this to a ledge. 5b. 6 metres - Up either the chimney or crack above.

FA: Tony Wood & R. McIntosh, 1970

Trad 36m, 2
Booroomba Rocks North Buttress Determinant Sector
12 Little Hermes

Popular. Start in a small recess just right of a large pillar directly below the roof pitch of 'Hermes'.

  1. 32 metres - Climb the slabs and ledges to a tree, then up the crack and wall to a good ledge. Up the slab using the leftwards slanting crack to a grassy ledge and tree belay ('Hermes' second belay).

  2. 18 metres - Pleasant. Start from a belay at big blocks 15 metres to the right of the tree, climb a short wall, pull through the hanging flakes and the corner above, then up a rib on the left of a gully. Tree belay.

FA: Tony Wood & I. Raine, 1968

Trad 50m, 2
12 Little Hermes Left Hand Variant

An alternative and slightly harder variation from the ledge on the second pitch. Instead of the rib, climb the leftwards slanting groove to the left.

FA: Tony Wood & G. Still, 1969

Trad 18m
Booroomba Rocks Darwin Buttress
12 Ape Chimney

The undercut cleft just left of 'Deadwood Crack'. Climb to the overhang, move left and up the chimney and wall above, traversing right to finish.

FA: Peter Cocker & John Armstrong, 1971

Trad 30m
Orroral Ridge The Cloisters The Hello Boulder
12 Cocolossal

Up the corner groove and out through the chockstones.

FA: John Smart, Norm Booth & Ray Lassman, 1978

Trad 15m
Orroral Ridge The Cloisters Simple Simon Slabs
12 Breezin' Easy

Through the passage and left around the corner from 'Evil Ways' is a chimney with a flake to its right. The flake is 'Breezin' Easy'.

FA: Rohan Reynolds, Hugh Ward, John Smart & Ray Lassman, 1978

Trad 6m
Orroral Ridge Legoland Atrium
12 Full House

The arete left of Ace High. Start from adjacent boulder, reach first bolt then step on and right to the slab and up past 3 bolts to a trad anchor and then walk off.

Set: Ray Spencer & Duncan Brown, Nov 2016

FFA: Ray Spencer & Duncan Brown, Nov 2016

Sport 15m, 3
Orroral Ridge Legoland Valley side
12 Eavil Weevil

The mossy crack a few metres right of 'Manic Depression'. Done in two pitches.

FA: Peter Mills & Lincoln Hall (alt.), 1974

Trad 20m, 2
Orroral Ridge Trojan Wall
12 Hector's Staircase

Scramble up to a wide, mossy chimney above and right from 'Snow Queen'.

  1. 20 metres - Up the sloping chimney into a cave.

  2. 20 metres - From within the extensive cave system, scramble out through a roof hole using a vertical flake, or more easily to the right.

  3. 20 metres - Cross the small courtyard and finish up a corner chimney.

FA: A. Sternbeck, P.Mcrae (alt.), John Armstrong (#1 & 2), 1973

Trad 60m, 3
12 Minitour

Start from the first belay on Labyrinth.

  1. 14 metres - walk in at the base of the chimney on the e right, and up this past several chockstones

  2. 6 metres - Up the short chimney to finish.

FA: Peter Cocker, John Finnigan & Richard Curtis (solo), 1975

Trad 20m, 2
Orroral Ridge Sentinel Rocks
12 Midnight Rambler

The slab just left of 'Cat Scratch'.

FA: Ray Lassman (solo), 1975

Trad 15m
12 Cat Scratch

The thin crack up the slab. Well protected.

FA: Ray Lassman & co., 1975

Trad 15m
Orroral Valley Thunder Bluff
12 The Dormouse

Hidden in the boulders below and against the main wall is a pleasant juggy slab in a cave, finishing through a hole to a branch belay. Take wires.

FA: Liz Milbourne, Anne Hastings & Paul Daniel, 1991

Trad 10m

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