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Grade | Route | Gear style | Popularity | ||
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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 | 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 | 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'.
FA: John Hoskins & Tony Wood (alt.), 1969 | 70m, 4 | |||
9 | Roderick
The short, wet, hanging chimney bordering the southern end of the 'North Buttress'. FA: Graham Gorricks & Graham Still, 1969 | 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'.
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 | 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 | 45m, 2 | |||
9 | ★ Aquanaut
Start 35m left of 'Prohibition' (and 10m past Aquanaut Direct Start) at a right-leading, vegetated ramp.
FA: Ian Taylor & Tony Wood, 1970 | 64m, 2 | |||
Booroomba Rocks Dirty Harry Rocks | |||||
9 | Feeling Lucky?
The chimney 3m left of Magnum Force. FA: B Aikman, Nov 2018 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 15m |
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