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| Grade | Route | Gear style | Quality | |||
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| Sat 15th Jun 2024 - Woodford Island | ||||||
| Sandy Corner Sandy Caves | ||||||
| 18/19 |
Holey Moley
| 9m | Don't Bother | |||
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Link up. Doesn’t add anything
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| Fri 1st Mar 2024 - Sand River | ||||||
| BBQ Crag The Balconies | ||||||
| 19 |
★ Tarzan
| 9m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
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The moves were ok, but fall potential left me nervous. Quite hard.
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| Sun 18th Feb 2024 - Mount Wellington | ||||||
| The Organ Pipes Central Buttress | ||||||
| 20 ~21 |
Alpine Style
| 22m, 8 | Average | |||
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Pretty crappy climbing up to a hard and interesting crux sequence. Harder than any move on influenza. Not sure it’s worth the effort, but it filled in the afternoon.
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| Tue 14th Nov 2023 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Mount Victoria Area Bardens Lookout Electric Blue Area | ||||||
| 18 |
★ Frisky Two Times
| 20m, 8 | ★ Good | |||
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Much better than I was expecting
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| Tue 14th Nov 2023 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd The Dam Cliffs Steep Wall | ||||||
| 23 |
★ School's Out
| 12m | Don't Bother | |||
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Contrived.
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| 21 |
★ Friendly Fire
| 12m, 4 | ★★ Very Good | |||
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My taste has clearly changed. Did this 20 yrs ago and thought it average. It was the best route we did today.
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| Tue 14th Nov 2023 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Bells Line of Road & Chifley Rd The Dam Cliffs Mossy Wall | ||||||
| 19 |
★ B1
| 15m, 5 | Average | |||
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Better than route to left
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| Thu 1st Jun 2023 - Warrumbungles | ||||||
| Canyon Cliffs | ||||||
| 19 |
★★ Testing The Waters
| 17m | ★ Good | |||
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Nice climb, pretty good sandstone, and surprised no one else has put up a few more fine sports routes.
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| Wed 10th May 2023 - Woy Woy | ||||||
| Phegans Bay | ||||||
| 18 |
★ So wat’cha want
| 10m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
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May have improved with traffic. Quite good, except for whomever coated each hold with chalk- totally unnecessary and reduces friction. Single bolt anchor up top. May be a good area to do the rebolting and fix anchor arrangement.
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| 16 |
★ The maestro
| 10m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
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Quite interesting for the grade. Rpt, from aeons ago.
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| Sun 23rd Apr 2023 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Mount Victoria Area Mount Piddington Eternity Area | ||||||
| 18 |
Executioner
| 10m | ★ Good | |||
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Very old school grade, very mossy and second bolt looks suss. Despite this it is an interesting climb that deserves a re bolt. Best to continue up hand crack above ledge ( past dead tree ) to cartwheeling mid anchors.
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| Sun 23rd Apr 2023 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Mount Victoria Area Darlz Walls Buttress 6 | ||||||
| 16 |
★ Paraphernalia
| 27m, 12 | ★ Good | |||
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Nice long route, the rock on the ledge is obvious to avoid
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| Sun 23rd Apr 2023 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Mount Victoria Area Darlz Walls Buttress 3 | ||||||
| 18 |
★★ Off to the Glue Factory
| 12m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
| Tue 18th Apr 2023 - Sand River | ||||||
| The Panopticon Panopticon South | ||||||
| 20 |
★★ Cat Burglar
| 12m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
| 18 |
Stitched up
| 10m, 5 | Average | |||
| Wed 8th Feb 2023 - Mount Wellington | ||||||
| The Organ Pipes The Columns | ||||||
| 17 |
★ Datsun Sunny
| 14m, 8 | Crap | |||
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Even weirder bolt placement. Perhaps an early attempt at the dark art? Maybe I was just grumpy because it was freezing and climbing in mist and there didn’t seem any point getting on the better routes up here
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| Sun 29th Jan 2023 - Mount Wellington | ||||||
| The Organ Pipes Teardrop Gully | ||||||
| 19 |
★ The Unrideable Chicken
| 10m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
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Really nice moves and rock up top
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| 18 |
★ Gone Viral
| 12m, 5 | Average | |||
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The top half was good
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| Wed 25th Jan 2023 - Mount Wellington | ||||||
| The Organ Pipes University Buttress | ||||||
| 19 |
★★ 19 Shades of Grey
| 15m, 6 | ★ Good | |||
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Quite good, a direct finish would work but at the moment feels run out and makes you head left
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| 16 |
★ Catch the Sun in Flight
| 12m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
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Deserves a star, interesting climb
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| Sat 21st Jan 2023 - Mount Alexandra | ||||||
| Vox Populi Wall | ||||||
| 14 |
★ Selective Cleansing
| 10m, 3 | Don't Bother | |||
| Wed 21st Dec 2022 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Mount Victoria Area Bardens Lookout Historic Wells | ||||||
| 14 |
★ The Cat that Fought Back
| 15m | Average | |||
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Less crux than the two right of it, soa better lead for our friend
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| Tue 20th Dec 2022 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Mount Victoria Area Bardens Lookout Historic Wells | ||||||
| 16 |
★ Trick of the Light
| 20m | Average | |||
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The engineering job on the shaking flake is a bit scary. Would have best been trundled or wall left alone.
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| Thu 10th Nov 2022 - Mount Wellington | ||||||
| The Organ Pipes Great Tier | ||||||
| 20 |
The Trump Tower
| 24m, 7 | Don't Bother | |||
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Looked interesting, turned out to be junk, apt name.
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| Sat 29th Oct 2022 - Glenrock Lagoon | ||||||
| Waterfall Area | ||||||
| 19 |
★ All Climb and No Belay Makes Jack a Shit Mate
| 8m, 3 | Average | |||
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Thin start
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| Sat 15th Oct 2022 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Medlow Bath Valley Farm | ||||||
| 19 |
★ Virgins with Rifles
| 15m, 6 | ★ Good | |||
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Good as a long megapitch
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| 19 |
★ Bus Stop Boxer
| 20m, 9 | ★ Good | |||
| Sat 15th Oct 2022 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Medlow Bath The Sunbath | ||||||
| 22 |
★ Wok Hay
| 15m | Average | |||
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Go the kneebar
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| Wed 12th Oct 2022 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Mount Victoria Area Mount York Mezzaluna Area | ||||||
| 16 |
★ Stinkeye
| 12m, 5 | Average | |||
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Reckon I’ve been at this wall before but nothing logged
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| Mon 3rd Oct 2022 - Area 51 | ||||||
| 21 |
★ 51 Equipe
| 17m | ★ Good | |||
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The step left was a bit daunting
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| Sun 28th Aug 2022 - Glenrock Lagoon | ||||||
| Centennial Glen-rock | ||||||
| 19 18 |
★ Code Blue
| 8m, 4 | Average | |||
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2 routes, 4 climbs
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| Wed 29th Jun 2022 - Popran | ||||||
| 24 |
★★ Ophidiophobia
| 26m, 9 | ★ Good | |||
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Alzheimers os, to the anchors of Mr C. Easier than 24 but maybe better for the short
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| Sun 5th Jun 2022 - Nowra | ||||||
| Babylon Areas Occupied Territories First Canyon | ||||||
| 19 |
★ Escape Artist
| 10m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
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I quite liked it
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| Sun 5th Jun 2022 - Nowra | ||||||
| Babylon Areas Occupied Territories Slabs | ||||||
| 16 |
★ Crunchy Nut
| 10m | ★ Good | |||
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Clearly bolted and graded by someone tall
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| Wed 1st Jun 2022 - Nowra | ||||||
| The Grotto Cliffline Hogwarts | ||||||
| 20 |
★ The Golden Snitch
| 12m | ★ Good | |||
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Getting off the block was the hardest move. Too cold
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| 15 |
★ Sirius Black
| 12m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
| Tue 5th Apr 2022 - Sand River | ||||||
| The Panopticon Panopticon Central | ||||||
| 19 |
★ Break Out
| 18m, 10 | ★ Good | |||
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Cruxy
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| Fri 1st Apr 2022 - Launceston (Cataract) Gorge | ||||||
| The Sunny Side Offal Buttress | ||||||
| 16 |
★ Tripe
| 12m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
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The arete part was good
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| Thu 31st Mar 2022 - Mersey Cliffs | ||||||
| 21 20 |
★ Migdafinga (Unknown)
| 20m, 6 | Average | |||
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Prett sure this is Migdafinga. Bouldery start.
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| 22 |
★★ Mumble Bee
| 17m, 6 | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Had placed draws on way down from KCS but hadn’t inspected moves. Some good crimping
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| Fri 4th Feb 2022 - Sand River | ||||||
| Fire Wall | ||||||
| 17 |
★★ The Arsonist
| 12m | ||||
| Thu 3rd Feb 2022 - Waterworks Quarry | ||||||
| 19 |
★ COVID
| 10m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
| Sun 19th Dec 2021 - Kaputar | ||||||
| Lindsay Rock Tops Waterfall | ||||||
| 18 |
★★ Meritorious
| 20m, 11 | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Rpt
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| Wed 10th Nov 2021 - Boomerang | ||||||
| Boomerang Slabs | ||||||
| 15 |
★ Woomera
| 20m | ★ Good | |||
| 17 16 |
★★ Hunting Spear
| 20m | ★ Good | |||
| Sat 16th Oct 2021 - Watagans | ||||||
| Monkey Face Smear Slabs | ||||||
| 17 |
★ Electric Turkey
| 20m, 6 | ★ Good | |||
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Enjoying the rebolt
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| Mon 30th Aug 2021 - Glenrock Lagoon | ||||||
| Middle Earth | ||||||
| 17 |
★ Tolkien's Pockets
| 12m, 3 | ★ Good | |||
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I did get some beta spray…
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| Mon 26th Jul 2021 - Mt Tibrogargan | ||||||
| Halfway House | ||||||
| 20 19 |
★ Rocketsauce
| 12m, 6 | ★ Good | |||
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Hard at 19.I had to fight quite hard.
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| Sat 24th Jul 2021 - Mt Ninderry | ||||||
| Caves Area | ||||||
| 15 |
★ Tim Burton Tunnel
| 13m | Don't Bother | |||
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The way we approached BoP. Not a fan
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| Thu 22nd Jul 2021 - Brooyar | ||||||
| Point Pure | ||||||
| 19 |
★ Unleash the Swarm
| 15m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
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Sandy but interesting moves, good rock up higher
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| Wed 21st Jul 2021 - Brooyar | ||||||
| Black Stump Buttresses | ||||||
| 19 |
★★ Beyond the Black Stump
| 15m | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Really nice moves and rock. Quite a reach from the flakes to the headwall
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| 16 |
★★ Sun Chaser
| 15m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
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Nice rock, too many holds to make it interesting
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| Mon 19th Jul 2021 - Brooyar | ||||||
| Black Stump Buttresses | ||||||
| 17 |
★★ The Enticer
| 14m, 5 | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Nice feature. Pretty easy at the grade
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| Sun 18th Jul 2021 - Brooyar | ||||||
| Hungry Jacks, Home of the Whopper | ||||||
| 15 |
Happy Meals make Good Meals
| 15m | ★ Good | |||
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Apart from the sandiness that these routes suffer from, it was a good route with committing mantle
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| Thu 15th Jul 2021 - Mt Tinbeerwah | ||||||
| Main Wall | ||||||
| 20 |
★★ Thin Is In
| 40m, 12 | ★ Good | |||
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Pretty nice moves and mostly clean. Lower off at dub easy with 70 m rope
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| Tue 13th Jul 2021 - Girraween | ||||||
| Sphinx Rock | ||||||
| 15 |
★ Snow White
| 15m, 2 | ★ Good | |||
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Would definitely feel better with one more bolt
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| 23 |
★★★ Alex in Wonderland
| 15m, 3 | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Very nice, would like some extended draws to lead it
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| Sat 19th Jun 2021 - Coffs Harbour | ||||||
| Glenreagh Waihoo 354 | ||||||
| 18 |
★ Planet Money
| 10m | Average | |||
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Probably just first climb of the day syndrome, but I didn’t like it that much.
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| Sun 11th Apr 2021 - Watagans | ||||||
| Gate Crag Walls of 2000 | ||||||
| 20 |
VB for me (Another unknown)
| 12m, 3 | Average | |||
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Contrived, if you are tall you could bridge the whole way until the exit.
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| Fri 2nd Apr 2021 - Bare Rock | ||||||
| Boneyard | ||||||
| 23 |
★★ Fire in the sky
| 30m, 16 | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Got more engaged the higher I went.
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| Thu 1st Apr 2021 - Bare Rock | ||||||
| Main Face | ||||||
| 23 |
★★ Mornings Minion
| 83m, 14 | ★★★ Classic | |||
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Pretty Sustained, beautiful climbing, glad of a few good rest stances to de pump
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| Mon 22nd Mar 2021 - Bruny Island | ||||||
| Cloudy Bay Hidden Zawn Beaufort Wall | ||||||
| 22 |
★★★ The Null Hypothesis
| 30m | ★★★ Classic | |||
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Start was wet for about 8m with some weird ocean spooge factor. Onsighted really but Dave had put some draws on on the way down. Great rock apart from being wet.
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| Tue 9th Feb 2021 - Sand River | ||||||
| Colosseum Area Eldorado | ||||||
| 17 |
★ The Blade
| 16m, 8 | ★ Good | |||
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One weird bolt
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| Mon 8th Feb 2021 - Sand River | ||||||
| The Panopticon Panopticon Central | ||||||
| 20 |
★ Good Yard
| 16m, 9 | ★ Good | |||
| Tue 12th Jan 2021 - Glenrock Lagoon | ||||||
| Waterfall Area | ||||||
| 18 |
★★ Peeking Possum
| 10m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
| Sun 16th Aug 2020 - Bulahdelah | ||||||
| Black Wall Major | ||||||
| 18 |
★ Unknown 4 (Unknown)
| 15m, 7 | ★ Good | |||
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Nice climbing at start, the short will find the second bolt tricky to clip.a good addition
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| Sun 9th Aug 2020 - Mt Tibrogargan | ||||||
| Summit Caves | ||||||
| 22 25 |
★★ Bird of Prey (Bird Of Prey p1)
| 35m, 7 | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Had to dial the brain into this style of climbing pretty quick. Not exactly a sport route, we had a cam and several wires in.
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| 20 |
★★ My Karma Just Ran Over Your Dogma (My Karma Just Ran Over Your Dogma p1)
| 45m | ★★★ Classic | |||
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Just beautiful technical climbing that keeps you engaged the whole way. And a great name.
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| Sat 8th Aug 2020 - Mt Ninderry | ||||||
| Enter the Ninja Sector | ||||||
| 19 |
★★ Enter The Ninja
| 27m, 6 | Average | |||
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The rock quality and spaced bolting didn’t do it for me.
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| Sat 8th Aug 2020 - Mt Ninderry | ||||||
| Ocean Vista Area | ||||||
| 20 |
★★ Chim chim cheroo
| 27m, 9 | ★ Good | |||
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So not one grade easier than venom. Quite fun climbing.
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| Tue 28th Jul 2020 - Mt Maroon | ||||||
| Paparazzi Cliff | ||||||
| 18 |
★★ Prancing Puntz
| 45m, 14 | ★ Good | |||
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Presuming bridging is allowed at this grade
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| 19 |
★ Luftwaffel. Long version.
| 50m, 13 | ★ Good | |||
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A few bits of trad wouldn’t go astray.
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| Sun 19th Jul 2020 - Blue Mountains | ||||||
| Medlow Bath Sooty Crag | ||||||
| 18 |
★★ Abbey Road
| 20m | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Really nice moves. The “New” guidebook isn’t very good for this area.
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| 20 |
★ Filed Away
| 20m | ★ Good | |||
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A little ledge, Harding start
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| Fri 17th Jul 2020 - Bulahdelah | ||||||
| Hoppy's Cave | ||||||
| 20 |
J Wilde route
| 30m | Average | |||
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Just guessing at grade. It is a nice position, and may clean up with traffic, and provides another warmup option which is all good.
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| Thu 2nd Jul 2020 - New Nowra - Braidwood Road | ||||||
| Tianjara Falls Huskinson Homo (Ricky) and the (Graeme) Hill Top hoods gully | ||||||
| 17 |
★ God save the Queen
| 15m, 5 | Average | |||
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Felt stiff, probably because it was cold and the wind was knocking me off
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| 20 |
★★ Je Veux vous Entendre Siffler!
| 22m, 8 | Average | |||
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The crux is definitely the starting slab. The corner is ok but a shame it was retrobolted. I guess other people like it.
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| Wed 1st Jul 2020 - New Nowra - Braidwood Road | ||||||
| Tianjara Falls Rick's Cafe | ||||||
| 21 |
★★ Double Decaf
| 20m, 8 | ★★ Very Good | |||
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I hate it when I spend the day doing routes I did before, but obviously not remembering them. Must be attracted to the same lines....
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| Wed 1st Jul 2020 - New Nowra - Braidwood Road | ||||||
| Tianjara Falls Chunders Glenn - Lower Wall | ||||||
| 20 |
★★ Tassi Rabbi
| 15m | Average | |||
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Rpt, some spaced bolts keeps one engaged
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| 19 |
★★ Maurice the Fart Freak
| 25m | ★ Good | |||
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Actually enjoyed this one today. No recall of times past
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| Tue 30th Jun 2020 - New Nowra - Braidwood Road | ||||||
| Tianjara Falls Indian Head (north) Impressionist Wall | ||||||
| 18 |
★★ First Impressions
| 30m | ★ Good | |||
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Pretty soft for grade. May have felt 18 on trad.
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| 18 |
★★ Working Woes of a Worried Wombat
| 28m | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Nice rock and sequence up high. The hardest and better of the 3 18s
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| Sun 8th Mar 2020 - Sisters Beach | ||||||
| Corruption Wall | ||||||
| 19 |
★ Doggy Style
| 15m, 3 | Average | |||
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A boulder problem on a rope.
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| Fri 28th Feb 2020 - Sand River | ||||||
| The Panopticon The Far East | ||||||
| 18 |
★ Absent friends
| 13m, 5 | ★ Good | |||
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Reachy between horizontals at first bolt
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| Thu 20th Feb 2020 - Bruny Island | ||||||
| Cloudy Bay The Aviary | ||||||
| 19 |
★ Your Tern
| 25m | ★ Good | |||
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Was ok, feels a bit crumbly still. 3 D climbing.
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| Sat 18th Jan 2020 - Sand River | ||||||
| Riverside | ||||||
| 22 |
★ Grey Goshawk
| 15m | Average | |||
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A soft dave Humphris route?
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| 18 |
★ Currawong
| 15m, 6 | ★ Good | |||
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Pumps warm up
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| Fri 17th Jan 2020 - North West Bay River | ||||||
| Dog Leg Bend Main Cliff | ||||||
| 22 |
★ Pure Bred
| 15m, 4 | ★ Good | |||
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The mantle(s) are fine, but was grateful for draws on as the bolts are all out of reach off each stance, and getting to the “ crux” mantle was actually more crux for me
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| Thu 9th Jan 2020 - Hidden Face | ||||||
| 23 |
★★ Wagon Wheel Express
| 25m | ★★ Very Good | |||
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The crux for me was around the third bolt, going from left to right and up. Step around arete fine.
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★★ Mission Brown
| 25m, 8 | ★ Good | |||
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Quite flaky which I found disconcerting
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| Tue 7th Jan 2020 - Mount Wellington | ||||||
| The Organ Pipes Central Buttress | ||||||
| 21 |
★★ Thesaurus
| 24m, 10 | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Good face climbing with other areas of interest
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| Wed 4th Dec 2019 - South Sister | ||||||
| Caramel Slice Buttress | ||||||
| 20 |
★ Almost Twenty Seven (All Most 27)
| 18m, 8 | Average | |||
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The top was nice
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| Sat 30th Nov 2019 - Sand River | ||||||
| Colosseum Area Eldorado | ||||||
| 20 |
★ Buried Treasure
| 15m, 6 | ★ Good | |||
| Sun 24th Nov 2019 - New Nowra - Braidwood Road | ||||||
| The Gold Mine Cafe Cruiser Wall | ||||||
| 20 |
★★★ Bromance
| 30m | ★★ Very Good | |||
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Pretty nice steepness.
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| Thu 21st Nov 2019 - Elanora Heights | ||||||
| The Underground | ||||||
| 21 |
★★ So Far To Go
| 20m, 9 | ★ Good | |||
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Deduct a star for the gross starting mantle/ grovel. It’s ok, not 3 star and definitely not the best 21 or 22 in Sydney.
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| Sun 16th Jun 2019 - Bulahdelah | ||||||
| Black Wall Major | ||||||
| 14 |
Dave’s Directissima
| 15m | Don't Bother | |||
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Could be toproped easily
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| 16 |
★ Fifth Clip Kickflip
| 20m, 6 | ★ Good | |||
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The best of the routes in this area with the most sensible bolting
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| Fri 3rd May 2019 - Sand River | ||||||
| Colosseum Area Plebeian Wall | ||||||
| 19 |
★ Minions
| 12m, 6 | ★ Good | |||
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Would have been a great trad route
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| 19 |
★ No more heroes
| 18m, 11 | Don't Bother | |||
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Contrived and doesn’t flow
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| 11 |
★ Via Appia
| 10m, 5 | Average | |||
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To get up to ledge
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