Begehungen in Corroboree Walls

2nd ascent with M Baker. Hmmmm. Shares the crux and some other moves of Screen Gems (22) Brackets would be useful. Mind your ankles.

Climbed from the ground to the top of the cliff in 1 50m pitch with two ropes and only minor rope management. I actually thought Screen Gems had been Retrobolted and I was following that line. Took a rack of cams and I'm glad I did, though it's still excitingly run-out at times. I think the crux move is probably more 22 than 19, though the rest of the route is about right at 19-20. I got confused with the divergent carrots at the crux and rested to try and figure it out. Not bad. Adventurous!

Awful rock on the first pitch

coming back for the second pitch, great exposure, but the first is a choss fest.

Yes the 1st pitch is icky and a bit hard but the 2nd pitch is the money. So airy and take just 1 or 2 smallish cams...not a full rack! Typical summer arvo from smoke-filled, baking 28C to 15C, heavy mist and massive windchill. As noted this does the Screen Gems crux and then some. Multi-ing is a good option and yes you can walk off.

Cheeky after work lap checking out my new top rope solo set up. Interesting climbing over some mossy holds. A bit of loose rock near the mantle move kept it spicy. Don’t know if I would hurry back to lead it.

Brilliant addition to the world of Bluies aretes, and I didn't even try the money pitch. Very cool to have been a part of this.

Led all pitches, done as a 15m pitch (P1) and a 55m pitch (P2-P4) belayed from the ground. Old school equipping and commitment, and as psychologically demanding as it is physically demanding on the crux pitch. Rope management is crucial to keeping this safe. P2-P4 (as a giant pitch) probably warrant "classic" status for the unrelenting arête-y nature of the climbing. P2 is crazy overhanging in the first half!

Repeat attempt (not clean today). Pitches 2 & 3 only (as a giant pitch).

Sure, this is obscure, but P2 is radical bold-ish gritstone-style arete climbing. Better than I remember, and also quite a bit harder.

Would be a Classic with a rebolt, and without the utterly hellish mantle on P1. With Hugh. Lead all pitches. P1 (Dog) - Fell off at the mantle (15m up), then various falls working out the other nails moves. Quite a bit of gear to supplement the 8 bolts on this pitch (I brought all the wrong gear, so got to place "bad gear" instead). P2 (Dog) - A single fall at another very improbable mantle at the 3rd bolt, but otherwise clean. P3 - Onsight. P1 has a very "gritstone" trad start at about gr22 up to the V5 mantle, which I could do all the "sections" of, but have no chance in hell of linking into the rest of the pitch. After that its a series of extremely powerful (but rad) face moves, then tenuous and desperate (and scary!) moves up the arete to the fully-hanging belay. P2 - Has a steep start, a nutty V3 mantle (think "Dynamics of Change" on the Grit), then tenuous (and run-out) moves up the arete. P3 - A slabby exit pitch. Nothing special.

Yep, that mantle is still nails. V5ish? Had no trouble on the rest of this route this time (probably hard 25 without the mantle) and its a bloody awesome line to climb as a giant push from the ground, with great run-out arête climbing... Just that damned mantle to contend with... ugh.

Solid - Nice & Shady on a hot afternoon

one fantastic jam

Not worth the 4 stars in guide but a fun trad climb. Needs some gardening / more climbers. Wonder why the guide gives it 4 stars but no topo, which hardly encourages climbers to go there!

very exciting second pitch... moth plague in fourth pitch chimney

Avoid at all costs. Don't know what we were thinking. With Mike and Paul.

Forgot about this one...

Ai trad lead in 3 pitches. First and last two pitches very cruisy. Great gear and comfy placement stances. Fun chimney at end.

Very Interesting. Watch for loose stuff

nice protected chimney. toby p1, p3, me p2.

4 stars in a 15 stars system maybe! Fun in it's own way. Bad rock, bad gear, good times.

One star for the funky chimney at the end. The rest was a bit contrived with questionable rock before the ramp.

Truly became one with the vegetation. Tricky crux pitch 2

Done in three pitches - a vegitated grovel, a great thrutch, and a solo. I thought it was worth doing, an easy access tradventure with a great 2nd pitch. We took a rack of 0.5-4 with doubles of 0.75-3 and some longish slings for the tree belays.

I (surprise surprise) LOVED this! Let's be real: there are definitely not 4 pitches (or anywhere close to 86m) of climbing here, but 2 of the 2.5-3 pitches that do exist are fantastic despite some shonky rock (especially on that first pitch - however, you can mostly avoid it). There was adequate gear despite forgetting both our wires AND hexes (DO bring a #5 camalot though, it's pretty handy). Popping up in the middle of a cliff at the end had a 10/10 novelty factor.

TRS x 3. Short, but quite intense. Felt desperate in today's heat/humidity. Lots of very thin moves with surprising variety, and an interesting gristone finale.

The bolts are indeed glued-in thread with hangers and nuts. But this is a BYO spanner route, as the nuts undo themselves if a stiff breeze hits them. An absolutely bizarre effort of bolting.

Boulder start is good rest is fragile

Yeah the trad

Top Rope Solo Investigatory lap. P2 clean. P1 clean to where the climb turns the first bulge (15m? - 22 to here), then lots of rests piecing it together and finding holds. I don't know what to say about this climb, what stars to award it, what quality to ascribe to it. The climbing is rad, and aesthetically it's quite beautiful... But it is blatantly (and rather hideously) chipped, the money-pitch features 3 Shale bands to negotiate, and the rock is the very sharp crystal-y large-grain sandstone. Regardless, I enjoyed the climbing, which has a LOT to it, with quite a few hard sequences, but no "shut-down" crux. (Having said that, the moves to gain the anchors at the end of P1 could be a killer on link). I'll be back... I'm just not sure whether or not to recommend it to others.