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Grade Route Gear style Popularity
Booroomba Rocks South Buttress Possum area
9 Jack's Crack

This is the easy angled, slanting crack 15 metres left of Rise and Fall. Scramble up a tree to start, walk up to another tree then up the crack.

FA: Jack O'Halloran & Peter Aitchison, 1966

Trad 30m
Booroomba Rocks South Buttress Cocker's Gully
9 Zing

Start about 25 metres down the gully from Crack of Dawn. Climb the crack on the left of the buttress, up the rubble blocks and a crack to the top.

FA: Tony Wood & John Hoskins, 1972

Trad 24m
Booroomba Rocks Middle Rocks Descent track
9 Recompense

More of a bushwalk than a climb. Start at a short crack 20 metres left of 'Vinegar Stroke'.

  1. 20 metres - Up the crack then walk right to an easy angled crack and climb this to a tree.

  2. 10 metres - Traverse right around the boulder then move left up a tight groove.

  3. 15 metres - Up the crack and chimney on the right to a ledge.

  4. 25 metres - Easy walking for eight metres then up a slab to finish near the lookout.

FA: John Hoskins & Tony Wood (alt.), 1969

Trad 70m, 4
9 Roderick

The short, wet, hanging chimney bordering the southern end of the 'North Buttress'.

FA: Graham Gorricks & Graham Still, 1969

Trad 25m
Booroomba Rocks North Buttress Northern Slabs
9 Sunstroke

An easy, well-protected popular classic. Climbed on a searing summer's day, it was the first climb done on 'The Northern Slabs', taking the line of least resistance. Start at a slanting crack eight metres left of 'Equilibrium'.

  1. 40m - Rightwards up the crack, then follow the groove leftwards to a sloping ledge. Belay at some wedged blocks.

  2. 20m - Doddle leftwards up the groove to a belay in the corner.

  3. 25m - Bridge and layback up the short corner, then left and up the steepening groove. Continue to a ledge and belay on the right.

  4. 35m - Up the twin grooves to a large terrace covered with loose rock.

This is often run together into two pitches (1/2, 3/4) rather than four. If you love slabs it's also possible to combine P2 and P3 by slabbing up as for Ephemeros, avoiding the short corner on P3.

FA: Peter Aitchison & Ian Raine, 1968

Trad 120m, 4
9 Sunstroke Variant P2-3

2b. 20m - From the first belay, climb the groove for six metres and traverse right to a parallel crack; climb this and the large blocks to a good stance.

3b. 25m - Move left across the slab, back to the main groove and third belay.

FA: Unknown

Trad 45m, 2
9 Aquanaut

Start 35m left of 'Prohibition' (and 10m past Aquanaut Direct Start) at a right-leading, vegetated ramp.

  1. 30m - Scramble up the ramp to a large flake (you can also start here - belay required), up this then the grippy slab to the ledge. Trad belay at the left end of a ramp, about 5m left of the first belay on 'Drunken Delight'.

  2. 38m - Up the slab keeping to the left edge of the white scoopy rock to a ledge and abseil anchors. Finish up the third pitch of 'Drunken Delight' or walk off right.

FA: Ian Taylor & Tony Wood, 1970

Trad 64m, 2
Booroomba Rocks Dirty Harry Rocks
9 Feeling Lucky?

The chimney 3m left of Magnum Force.

FA: B Aikman, Nov 2018

Trad 12m
Orroral Ridge The Cloisters The Hello Boulder
9 Breakaway

Just right of Sasha. Up the obvious flake, then left around the bulge along the obvious line.

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

Trad 15m
Orroral Ridge The Cloisters Simple Simon Slabs
9 Smooth Dancer

Up the left crack to the apex, continue up the crack then step left into a wide groove.

FA: Bernie McLachlan, T. McLachlan, John Smart, Ray Lassman & Norm Booth, 1978

Trad 20m
Orroral Ridge The Cloisters The Cereals Buttress
9 Crackle

The first and worst climb done at 'The Cloisters'. Up the middle crack.

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

Trad 10m
Orroral Ridge Legoland Poachers
9 Centre Direct

In the middle of the low angle slab (back side of the 'Information' block) scramble up to the wide ledge at the start from the left to belay and start the routes here. Up the slab past 1 bolt to a trad belay. Scramble down

Set: Duncan Brown, Nov 2016

FFA: Duncan Brown, Nov 2016

Sport 10m, 1
Orroral Ridge Legoland North-west
9 Playdough

The other side of the Duplo flake. Start and slab finish are the same.

FA: Andrew Cadogan-Cowper, 26 Dec 2018

Trad 15m
Orroral Ridge Sentinel Rocks
9 The Bannister

The chimney with a slanting crack in the left wall. Belay from a flaky bollard, as for 'Lazy Dynamite'.

FA: Ray Lassman & Norm Booth, 1974

Trad 20m
Orroral Valley Orroral Tor
9 Uraken

On the next boulder is an impressive flared off-width with an overhanging start, and further left is a wide gully. Uraken is on a terrace halfway up the other side - the short, leftwards leaning crack (start marked).

FA: Lincoln Hall & John Spahr, 1975

Trad 10m
9 Wankel Rotary Engine

The chimney in the right-hand wall of the grassy gully (start marked).

FA: John Stone, Phillipa Stone, Alex Taylor & Roland Taylor, 1978

Trad 15m

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