Grade | Route | Gear style | Popularity | ||
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Hunter Valley Newcastle Glenrock Lagoon Bouldering Waterfall Bouldering Area Waterfall Wall | |||||
V11 | ★★★ Fight Milk
Start on flat jug at the left of the wall. Reverse Butt Rodgers and continue up A Crow Left of the Murder. Rather than going right to the jug, keep moving straight up to finish on crimp rail. FA: Ben Schaeffer, 2 Nov 2021 | ||||
Hunter Valley Newcastle Glenrock Lagoon Bouldering Waterfall Bouldering Area Tree of Life Bloc | |||||
V11 | ★★★ Forbidden Fruit
Sit Start 1.5 metres to the right of 'Tree of Life' hugging the roof. Right hand utilises the obvious right angle brick edge/pinch on the lip of the roof, left hand underneath in a small slot just above the flake. Launch out left via some cool moves dropping into the flake & start holds of Tree of Life. Finish as for this. FA: R. Hofmann, 12 Jul 2023 | ||||
Northern Tablelands Gara Gorge Upper Gara Gorge South-Western Boulders Crack Boulder | |||||
V11 | ★★★ Ikarus
Only known repeat by Matt Wrigley. FA: Fred Nicole, 2000 | 5m | |||
Northern Tablelands Gara Gorge Upper Gara Gorge Northeast Boulders Northeast Group Fluming area | |||||
V11 | ★★★ Fluming
FA: James Scarborough, 2001 | 3m | |||
Northern Tablelands Mt Yarrowyck Trackside area Trackside Boulder | |||||
V11 | ★★★ Vampire Dagger
SDS at pointy jug with detached block for feet, climb right and up on crimps. FA: Fred Nicole, 2000 | ||||
V11 | ★★★ L'Envers du Decors
SDS. Follows obvious crack to the left and up, either staying underneath on slopey holds or trending high and using underclings. FA: Fred Nicole, 2000 | ||||
Northern Tablelands Closed Beulah Eastern areas Rolled Quad Boulders Power Boulder | |||||
V11 | Escaped Monkey sit start
Sit start on the tiny sharp holds to join Escaped Monkey. | 5m | |||
Central Coast Copacabana | |||||
V11 | ★★★ Aquagamma
Starts matched on the lowest flat edge with a bad right smear foot and heads straight up, using edges and underclings FA: Tom Hodgson | ||||
V11 | ★★★ Siren Song
Start on the two slotted edges and do a tricky 1-2 dyno to the lip. Easy mantle into the dish. Tom Hodgson (FA) FA: Tom Hodgson, May 2024 | 4m | |||
Central Coast Blackwall Underworld | |||||
V10/11 | ★★★ Sloths in the Attic
Start as for room with a view but halfway out exit straight left through some tough moves to reach the jugs. The a large throw to lip before heading straight up the headwall to walk off. FA: Michael Tonon, 19 Sep 2015 | 15m | |||
Central Coast Bouddi National Park Hawkes Head Cave | |||||
V11 | ★★★ Braveheart
Usual cave start. Traverse out left to the slotted jug (effectively reversing Mad Max) then straight through the roof on two poor left hands. Huck for glory! FA: Tom Hodgson | ||||
V11 | ★★★ Braveheart (Direct)
The most direct line for Braveheart. Start on slotted jug as per Mad Max, and head straight out the roof as for Braveheart. FA: Tom Hodgson | 5m | |||
V11 | Chicken Run
Start as for Braveheart Direct. After gaining the jug, before Braveheart crux, bust out left to an edge. Right hand to a nothing hold then making a crux move to the slopey lip. Traverse right to finish as per other problems. FA: Sam Healy | ||||
V11 | The Chicken That Ran Further
Starting as for Braveheart, make some tricky moves from the sit start to join into Chicken Run. Finishing for that problem. Could be 12 FA: Sam Healy | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan Hornsby and the North Galston Gorge The Graveyard Upper Side | |||||
V11 | ★★ Health Insurance Recommended
Start in the two pockets, slap up left to the very slopey scoop, and aim for the second very slopey hold on the left. Super hard. FA: Jarred Jordan, 2018 | 3m | |||
Sydney Metropolitan Hornsby and the North Ku-ring-gai Chase McCarrs Creek | |||||
V11 | ★★ The Encounter
Stand start on the undercling right hand and crimp at the same height to the left. 2 hard bumps up to go for the top and over. Watch out for Eli FA: Yossi Sundakov-Krumins, 6 Sep 2021 | 4m | |||
Sydney Metropolitan Sutherland Bangor Blocs Blocs | |||||
V10/11 | ★★★ Fools Gold
A direct line up from the Goldfinger start via pocket and undercling then dyno to a slopey crimp on the lip and up the v easy top. FA: Chris, 1 Jun 2022 | 3m | |||
V11 | ★★ Onslaught
Start Warmup Warren and traverse right into Massive Attack. FA: Mattias Braach-Maksvytis, 5 Sep 2022 | ||||
V10/11 | Evasive Manoeuvres
Start Massive Attack and traverse left into Warmup Warren. FA: Mattias Braach-Maksvytis, 5 Sep 2022 | ||||
V11 | ★★★ Tiny Defence
The right exit to Massive Attack. FA: Mattias Braach-Maksvytis, 26 Dec 2017 | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan Sutherland Villas The Villas Cliffs | |||||
V11 | Hairy Joe's Banana Shack
1st problem in the little cave next to the pipes. 'Excellent' and hard. FA: Paul Westwood, 2000 | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan Sutherland Villas Closed The Villas Cave | |||||
V11 | Potato Salad
Direct finish to Shoosh - go straight up around the lip without using the juggy lip hold out right FA: Tom Farrell | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan Sutherland The Wing Cave | |||||
V11 | The Hangover Cure
Climb Porn, but finish way up high and right on the jug. Let the old chalk guide you FA: Tom Farrell, 2011 | ||||
V11 | ★★★ Groove Terminator
FA: Paul 'Punk' Westwood | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan North West The Balkans The Frontline The Main Wall | |||||
V11 | Siege From Down Under
FA: Tom Farrell, 2007 | ||||
V11 | Energy Into Love
Link up. 'Pockets of Resistance' into 'American Siege'. FA: Chris Webb Parsons, 29 Jun 2014 | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan North West The Balkans The Frontline Front and Centre | |||||
V11 | They call me Brock Landers
Sit start below Akhtar on the obvious slot and climb only the low lip left into El Kooko. FA: Fab, 9 Aug 2014 | ||||
V11 | ★★ Dumbo The Flying Elephant
Dyno from the start of Diplomatic Immunity to the top of I Am Twelve. FA: Joe Hodgson, 2011 | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan North West The Balkans The Frontline Frontline Right Hand Side | |||||
V11 | ★ The Vineyard
Levitate off the underclings to the jug. No crash-pad cheating now! Start: Sit FA: Tim O'Neill | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan North West The Balkans The Frontline Area Q | |||||
V11 | ★★★ L'homme Obu Left | 4m | |||
V11 | ★★★ L'homme Obu
'Rocket Man' sit start. Start up If The Shoe Fits and finish up Rocket Man. FA: Fred Nicole | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan North West The Balkans The Lip | |||||
V11 | ★★ One Grubby Little Paw In The Honey Pot
Hard slapping and compression moves with crazy toe hooking. From the hard low start of tablets rehearsed ride the lip to link into blue and green and red all over. FA: Dan DaSilva, 2011 | 3m | |||
V11 | The Smiling Assassin
Start as for Grubby Paw but climb direct through to hueco without using the lip then finish with The Black Pearl. Maybe V12. FA: Damien Alexander, 19 May 2015 | 3m | |||
Sydney Metropolitan North West The Balkans The Trenches The Mess Kitchen | |||||
V11 | ★★★ Battle of the Bulge
Start directly under the prow on pockets then straight up for a desperate top out. FA: Ivan Vostinar, 2000 | 4m | |||
V11 | ★★ Get On Top
Start as for Porn Star and traverse into and finish up Bianca's Boobies. FA: Alan Pryce | 4m | |||
Sydney Metropolitan North West The Balkans The Trenches The Caves | |||||
V11 | Inspector Gadget
Stand start to Mr Winston. Both hands start on the block, then throw a high left foot behind you onto the scoop, and engage in flexible trickery to get your right foot off the ground. The ledge out right is off as for all problems. Finish up the Y2K exit. FA: Peter Jeavons, 11 Aug 2018 | 7m | |||
V11 | Arcane Power
Mr Winston variant. from the lowest part of the head wall head up on tiny crimps. Top is currently overgrown FA: Aaron Liu, 2002 | 4m | |||
V11 | Witchcraft
Stand start to Arcane Power. Same start as Witchcraft finishing up the Arcane Power Variant exit. Requires real magic. FA: Peter Jeavons, 31 Oct 2017 | 5m | |||
Sydney Metropolitan North West The Fear Factory The Courtyard | |||||
V11 | ★★★ Where The Wild Things Are
Start under the roof over the pit of death and head toward the lip. Crux on the face and up high and left to finish. Spotter and pads are advisable. FA: Neil Wallace, 2015 | 7m | |||
Sydney Metropolitan North West Dural Big Wall Environs | |||||
V11/12 | ★★ Big Spoon
Start down in the little cave and power your way up through the crimps and pockets, heading left and linking into Little Spoon. (Open project with proposed grade of v11/12) | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan North West Jessicca's | |||||
V11 | Liquid Dreams
Start as for Ladder II and when you get to the jugs, head left following the rock contours and some tiny crimps to a very slopey top. FA: Chris Webb Parsons, 2010 | ||||
V10/11 | Motivation For The Meaningless
Start as per Big Mitch then a bit left and up to little dish and a crimp then to the top break. Top out or don't top out. You do you FA https://www.instagram.com/p/B0c2HO2jWPn/ FA: Sage G, 28 Jul 2019 | 4m | |||
Sydney Metropolitan North West Marsfield | |||||
V11 | ★★ Banana Split
Left variant to Prometheus. Start with the undercling and the crack, head straight up. FA: Sam Healy, 27 Jun 2020 | 5m | |||
Sydney Metropolitan North West Bidjigal Reserve - Stevenson's Creek Water Bloc of Fine Aromas | |||||
V11 | ★ Rusty Nail
Start on the left side of the big break, do a few long moves to top out over the bulge. FA: Sam Healy | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan North West Bidjigal Reserve - Stevenson's Creek Biame Bloc | |||||
V11 | ★ Ymir The Fallen
Stand start with LH on the big jug ledge out left and RH on the good edge in the roof. Follow the crack / sloper ledge to top out right. FA: Sam Healy | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan North West Bidjigal Reserve - Stevenson's Creek Starcourt Mall | |||||
V11 | Abaddon's Gate
A one move wonder. Stand start on the reinforced crimps, trust the terrible feet and do a big slap to the lip. | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan North West Bidjigal Reserve - Stevenson's Creek Double Domino Area | |||||
V11 | ★★★ The Iron Lung
A classic on some of the most perfect pockets you can imagine. Stand start in the big jug under the roof and do some big moves to a committing topout. FA: Patrick Reynolds | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan North West Bidjigal Reserve - Stevenson's Creek The Games Room | |||||
V11 R | ★★★ Friend
Stand on top of the big fallen boulder to reach the starting holds. Follow the beautiful features to a committing topout. Another Pat Reynolds highball testpiece that has not seen a repeat yet!!! FA: Patrick Reynolds | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan North West Bidjigal Reserve - Stevenson's Creek Whipper Real Estate | |||||
V11 | ★★ I Am Better Than My Fear
Shared start with Obsession but go directly up instead, exiting between the two horns on the slab. FA: Liam Healy | ||||
V11 | ★★★ Moments Of The Past
Sit start on the good edges in the far back of the overhang, head diagonally left to reach the side pull flake and slap your way to the top. FA: Sam Healy | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan North West Bidjigal Reserve - Stevenson's Creek The Bird Bath | |||||
V11 | ★★ Birds of Paradise
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Sydney Metropolitan Northern Beaches The Den | |||||
V11 | ★★★ Romper Stomper
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V11 | C-Four
FA: Marc Edwards, 2006 | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan Northern Beaches North Curl Curl Scattered Boulders | |||||
V11 | Broken Empathy
Start off pedestal block and compress upwards. | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan Northern Beaches Black Cave | |||||
V11 | ★★ Plunge Pool
The Plunge into Aquarius. FA: Crag Care | 2m | |||
V11 | ★ Plunge Pool Variant
The Plunge into Cruel Sea. | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan North Shore Killara The vape cave | |||||
V11 | ★★★ Midas touch
Direct finish of Super birdman. | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan North Shore Killarney Heights Project Wall Bouldering | |||||
V11 | Critical Mass
FA: Micheal Tonon | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan North Shore Killarney Heights Crumbly | |||||
V11 | ★★★ Mushi Brain
Start as for Nasty and make big moves out rightwards, finishing up 'Sushi Train'. Pumpy. FA: T O'Neill, 2000 | ||||
V11 | ★★ Abacus(stand)
Standing Start FA: T.O'Neill, 2000 | ||||
V11 | ★★ Life Changes
Do the first move of Abacus, then traverse backwards through Mushi Brain to finish up Nasty. No traversing straight into the Sushi Train start holds. FA: Chris Webb Parsons, 2010 | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan North Shore Forestville Sissy Crag | |||||
V11 | Fortuitous
Start up Bowels of the Devil, finishing up The Solution of 1993. FA: Peter Jeavons, 20 Aug 2019 | ||||
V10/11 | ★★★ Silent Bob Extension
Silent Bob into High Up Over Yonder. | ||||
V11/12 | ★ Eye of the Beholder
Start as for Silent Bob Low, and climb directly out via the micro crimp, skipping the wet rail from Silent Bob. Once on the soccer ball sloper after the lip go directly to the jug. The other holds further right on the ledge are out. FA: Damien Alexander, 27 Oct 2015 | 4m | |||
V10/11 | ★★★ Bubble O'Bill
Start on Elliptical jug of Blinky Bill, move directly out to the slot jug, grab any pocket and go big to the letterbox jug of Mr Smiley to finish as for Mr Smiley. Never done a move quite like this outside so hard to grade. Could be harder? FA: Mattias Braach-Maksvytis, Jul 2020 | ||||
V11 | ★★ Sisstamatic | ||||
V11 | ★★ Spooge Makes Mr Bill Travis Foam And Smile Backwards
Start up Spooged, reverse Foam, reverse Mr Smiley and finish up Bill Smith. FA: Neil Wallace, 16 May 2015 | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan North Shore Forestville Fox Cave | |||||
V11 | Hard Labour
Great moves linking in to Voodoo Child. | ||||
V11 | ★★★ Agent Orange
Start at the back wall just left of the smiley face (in a small hueco), head straight out the to the infamous slopers and a thin break, finishing over left on a jug. | ||||
V11 | ★★ The Threat
Grimacing into Anthrax FA: Mattias Braach-Maksvytis, 2018 | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan North Shore Timbarra Boulders Man of Steel | |||||
V11 | Squatty Potty
Man of Steel without the dyno. Aurel Gelot FA: Aurel Gelot, 18 Oct 2016 | 5m | |||
Sydney Metropolitan Eastern Suburbs Bronte Beach | |||||
V11 | ★★ Di Giorno Preti Di Notte Gay Fetish
Upper body intensive moves: Campus to the good hold, followed by an easy exit. FA: Dadevi Corà, 2019 | 5m | |||
Sydney Metropolitan Eastern Suburbs Queens Park The Throne Room | |||||
V11 | ★★★ Gallipolli
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Sydney Metropolitan Inner West Iron Cove Rodd Park Ergometer Wall | |||||
V10/11 | ★ Water Rats
Start with left hand in pockety feature and right hand on sloper in low break. Move up to the lip and mantle. FA: Mattias Braach-Maksvytis, 22 Oct 2021 | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan South West St Helen's Park Cave | |||||
V11 | ★★★ Red Alien
Sit start as for "Blue Alien" heading left to a large pocket and a sharp crimp with a thumb catch. Make some difficult moves to gain the large left hand pocket on the lip before heading to the break. FA: Byron Glover, 2012 | 4m | |||
Sydney Metropolitan South West Wedderburn Cave | |||||
V11 | ★★★ Vertical Outburst
Short Fuse exiting via the final Persistence Boulder. Radical! FA: R. Hofmann, 19 Jul 2020 | ||||
V11 | ★★★ Anger Management
Sit start matched on a large jug at the far right end of the cave. Traverse about a meter left on some crimps to meet the Sloper Rail line running along the roof. Follow this to the crack and all the way out the cave traversing right along the face before a scary top out. FA: Byron Glover, 2011 | ||||
V11 | ★★ Wrong Way Go Back
Climb Anger Management to the ledge then exit left through Danger Zone. | ||||
V11 | ★★ The Long Weakender
Start as for Persistence, climb this to finish out the crack as for Anger Management. FA: Mattias Braach-Maksvytis, 26 Apr 2017 | ||||
V11 | Dishonour
Starting on the slot under Major Lightweight, climb into the hueco where From Dust Til Dawn starts, finishing right hand in the 2 finger pocket, left hand on the mega side pull jug. Not a pretty climb, but one of the last sectors left unclimbed. FA: Peter Jeavons, 16 Jul 2020 | ||||
34 | ★★ Dress Rehearsal
Dishonour into Dust Management. 50 moves of hard v13. FA: Peter Jeavons, 15 May 2023 | ||||
V11 | ★★ Rodeo Clown
Start as for Persistence climbing this for about 2m before breaking off via an obvious perfect deep 2 finger pocket heading straight out to the cave entrance via some good holds. Then make a huge span move between 2 good holds heading right. Release the span via the Rodeo move and finish matched on the starting rail of Major Lightweight on the outside of the cave. Easier if you are taller. FA: R. Hofmann, 17 Jul 2017 | ||||
V11 | ★★★ Major Lightweight
Start matched on the large block. Make a couple of huge moves to a pocket, then big span out left to crimp side pull, head straight up the face before a scary mantle to top out. Powerful and big moves. Deceptive and seems to be rather solid for the grade. Elijah Mercado Mattias Braach-Maksvytis FA: Thomas Farrell, 2011 | ||||
V11 | ★ The Great Houdini
Start on the right of Major Lightweight on a left hand side pull and right hand edge. Big move to the pocked with the left hand, right hand crimp intermediate then to the gnarly 2 finger pocket, hand foot match the left and hold tight to pull over the bulge to small edge via sloper. Top out "RIGHT" via slopers and edges. Gymnastic and Powerful. FA: R. Hofmann, 25 Jul 2018 | ||||
Sydney Metropolitan South West Kentlyn Kentlyn Bouldering | |||||
V11 | Holocene
FA: Mattias Braach-Maksvytis, 15 Aug 2020 | ||||
Illawarra and Shoalhaven Wollongong Mount Keira West Face Boulders Nitro Wall | |||||
V11 | ★★★ Comfortably Numb
Sit start from LH finger pocket/crimp and RH pocket, move up via small pocket and crimp to match the lip. Committing move out left and up to mantle. Potentially already F.Aed in the late 90's FA: Nick Montague | 5m | |||
V11 | ★★★ Redline
As seen on "Comin At Ya Hyper" - climbing vid of the late 90's. Sit start from LH finger pocket/crimp and RH pocket, move right via small pockets (chipped) up the face/arete until you gain to micro crimps, feet up and funky mantle. Fingers of steel required! FA: Steve Bullen | 5m | |||
Illawarra and Shoalhaven Kiama Soufs | |||||
V11 | ★★★ Anger Management
Sit start matched on a large jug at the far right end of the cave. Traverse about a meter left on some crimps to meet the Sloper Rail line running along the roof. Follow this to the crack and all the way out the cave traversing right along the face before a scary top out. | ||||
V11 | ★★★ Ethics Terminator
The alternate unethical approach to https://www.thecrag.com/en/climbing/australia/sutherland/route/13097509 | ||||
Illawarra and Shoalhaven Nowra The Grotto Cliffline P.C. | |||||
34 | ★★★ White Ladder
Short but desperately powerful climbing. Excellent. Originally climbed as Attack Mode to the fixed biner and given grade 32. Start at the huge handlebar jug right of the massive fallen boulder. FA: Chris Webb | 13m | |||
34 | ★★★ The White Ladder
Climb original White Ladder then continue via one more boulder problem to the ledge. | 17m | |||
33/34 | ★★★ Direct Attack
Start Attack mode but go direct. FA: Ryan Sklenica | ||||
Illawarra and Shoalhaven Nowra Bomaderry Creek Lot 33 Bouldering | |||||
V11 | ★ I Want To Be A Pumper sit
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V11 | ★★ Klockwork Gate
Start as for ‘Klockwork Orange’ and finish as for ‘Stargate’. | 4m | |||
V11 | ★★★ Klockwork Orange
More consistent start into the finish of the next problem. Upgraded from V9 following the broken starting hold. FA: Toni Lamprecht, 1999 FA: Paul Punk Westwood, 2000 | 4m | |||
V11 | ★★ Bread
Starting at 'Nappy Nuggets' trending left. Ledge on the ground is NOT in! FA: Chris Webb, 2004 | 4m | |||
V11 | Fed Ex
Links into 'Special Delivery'. | 5m | |||
Illawarra and Shoalhaven Nowra Bomaderry Creek South Central | |||||
33 | Hats and Hoods
FA: Chris Webb-Parsons | 13m | |||
Illawarra and Shoalhaven Nowra Bomaderry Creek Cheesedale Leftside | |||||
33 | ★★★ Cheesecake
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34 | ★★★ Little Baby Cheese
Extension of Cheese Gobbler that goes all the way to the top of the cliff via a whole bunch of hard independent climbing and then the top of The Big Cheese. Original vision by Robbie, new vision and execution by Tom. Set: Rob Lebreton FA: Tom O'Halloran, Jun 2021 | 35m |