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Start 1.5m R of 'Birds Nest'. Thin face past about 5 stainless carrot bolts plus a cam, to loweroffs. The thin crux is unfortunately much harder than the rest of the route. Rebolted 2012.

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Route history

1984First ascent: J.Smoothy & A.Penney

Warnings

Location

Lat/Lon: -33.55258, 150.22142

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Grade citation

21 Assigned grade
21 Rockclimbs in the Upper Blue Mountains
22 [21 - 22] + grAId

ethic

Many and varied, please try to respect them all!

Retro-bolting has occurred several times over the years and is generally condemned and dealt with swiftly.

inherited from Mount York

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Quality

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Overall quality 46 from 15 ratings.

Tick Types

Onsight 5
Flash 2
Red point 2
Top rope 2
Tick 3
Attempt 9

Comment keywords

horrendous arete flake fingers rest traverse super tough hard crux

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Author(s): Simon Carter

Date: 2019

ISBN: 9780958079075

Simon Carter's "Best of the Blue" is the latest selected climbing guide book for the Blue Mountains and covers 1000 routes and 19 different climbing areas. For all the sport climbers out there, the travellers, or just anyone who doesn't want to lug around the big guide that's more than 3 times the size - cut out the riff-raff and get to the good stuff! This will pretty much cover everything you need!

Author(s): Simon Carter

Date: 2019

ISBN: 9780958079082

The latest comprehensive, latest and greatest Blue Mountains Climbing Guide is here and it has more routes than you can poke a clip stick at! 3421 to be exact. You are not going to get bored.

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