The Brown Room All Bouldering 56 routes in area

The coast's birth place of bouldering discovered by Anthony Alexander. Many fantastic problems in two main sections 'The pergola' & 'Brown Room' Many classic's included the three star 'power pergolas' v5 the slopey madness of 'knob jockey' v3, Jason Pipers highball roof 'persistence resistance' v8 and the mega pumper lip traverse 'Rats caused broken brains' v9.

Find Patonga drive, Umina, as you approach the top of the windy road that goes up the hill make a left hand turn into the little car park for the big water tower (It's before the road crosses Pearl Beach Drive. Park here and take the obvious fire trail to Mt ettalong look out, through the locked gate and up the trail a couple hundred meters. The track takes a slight left then right hand turn and there is a big obvious gum tree, look for the track on your left just before the tree. This will take you down to below the cliff line and into the pergola area which is the first low roof you come to. Beyond this is the big pocketed roof of the brown room.