Routes in Northern Territory for selected grade

Good test of forearm endurance, route finding, and foot placement. Crux is the transition on and off the golf ball a few panels from the top.

Harder than you think, crux just after panel with orange line, requires good sequence. Reachy finish.

Sustained lower section that moves into delicate no holds 1st crux to the right of the tear drop. Move up and left to roof ladder panel for the 2nd crux to reach and pull over to finish last two panels.

Good sustained crimpy climbing. Crux is the set up and reach between the third last and second last panel.

Juggy Holds, overhung route. Tough section off the ground, then sustained jugs to the top.

Sustained climbing to roof with a small dyno mid way, pumpy crux when pulling over the roof.

Stand Start, getting high feet on the left side and side pull on medium crimp before a high step up right, step up and upward. walk off top-out

Superb face climbing in the shade. Straight up the middle of the face then following the major line in the middle of the crackling on the upper face.

Start at flared crack in middle of the face to the left of "Pincer".

Start on left of same face as FLASC, but on left of the tree. Go up the shallow crack without starting on the boulder or touching the tree for any reason other than placing a sling around it for pro. Once at the roof, pull through and finish as per Cephalothorax.

Obvious imposing corner/roof crack. Left of Goldhangers.

The lowest climb close to the water on RH side of creek. Takes the right hand slabby face with a thin seam up it's centre. Chain lower off.

TREE IS OUT. Sustained climb, great fun.

Probably will fall over if climbed but to cool not to put on the crag

Old top rope problem. Kelly Hansen holds the honor of having first top rope ascent of this little beastie.Up crack to lip then crimp hard onto very thin face. Tenuous and balancy moves under right leaning Flake to thank f*#K jug. 2BR, 3BB.

Immaculate and graceful bolted line just left of HRF. Slabby start leads to excellent face climbing, with a tricky bulge guarding the finish. 6BR

Just right of HRF around the corner is a very sunny little wall. This somewhat testy little number follows the flake on the right side of the wall up to a prominent horizontal. Delicate bulgy moves to BR.

Start as for UN1 and 2. From ledge follow poorly protected and unusual right leaning arête to a very welcome BR. Very Delicate and technical finish. 2BR, 2BB

Sttepish and tricky right hand crack line. 8m, 20

Short Sharp and really pumpy. Tough start of the deck, traverse left across face to difficult second clip. Finishes on easier ground up groove and small headwall. 3BR, 2BB

The yellowish north facing wall has about 6BR up it. The line starts near a small crack at the bottom, and wanders left of the wide crack a little theough 5BR.

Right of Guten Tag 2 bolts exist on near side of arete. Steep slightly overhanging fingery challenge starting from Camp Rock and finishing on carrot bolts, walk off back.

Mixed pro, desperate 2nd bolt.

Stick clip, very high first bolt

Stick clip high bolt, Short and sharp.

Straight up perfect bit of rock between arete and corner. Stay away from aerete until finishing jug. Located a few hundred meters behind 'Kingpin".

First line on the LHS of the Sanctuary, named for Richard’s impressive first descent, and remains today as somewhat of a testpeice. Overhanging start with open corner above. If you want to cheat, stick clip the fixed hanger, then grunt, groan and hernia your way to a rest at 5m. Beware of patch of manky water affected choss at mid height. Easily up corner. 1BR

Thin and balancy face with three bolts to crack with natural pro finish

Smooth red face just right of Pot Belly. Delicate and fingery moves straight up the face past 3 FH’s . Easier through bulge to top (SLCD’s). 3BR, 1 fixed SLCD.

Thin and improbable looking face with very scarce protection 10m upslope from KBL. Bouldery start leading to crimpy face moves to ledge. Easier but poorly protected finish. Do not attempt without a black alien or SLCD of similar diminutive stature.

Starts 1m left of Who Dunnit, then continue up orange wall to small ledge at the base of the corner crack on I Did It. The route continues up wall to the left of the large corner crack on ID.

Start on the right of Whipping Boyís deep Chimney. Follow small crack system up to roof. Strenuous moves on small holds around roof. Finish on same ledge as AA.

Sharp overhanging arête on left hand margin of GAG wall

Looking just to left of GAG you will see a very prominent roof with ripply sandstone underneath. One strong move straight over and that’s it. Nice cams under roof. Short but by all accounts quite stiff for the grade.

The delicate face above the tiny roof between two cracks. Climb straight up through the right end of the roof, keeping out of Butt Crack (right). Once through the roof move left onto the face, still keeping away from Butt Crack and the arête to left. 3BR

To many this is the best climb in the valley. Certainly Jules and Jules’s finest moment here. Climbs the distinctive blackened 3rd wall on the RHS of the crag past the Amphitheatre and waterfall. Slightly overhanging face set back into cliff. Start below and left of first BR. Up and right to first BR, up past 2 more BR’s, left and up to finish on ledge. So named after it repelled all male attempts pre Julie’s ascent claiming it as one for the ladies. A slippery proposition on a hot build up day. 4BR, 1BB

Good slabing with a sting in the tail, 4 carrots and one br.

Line of carrots and fhs to the right of frangipani.

Take the ramp and follow the chalk, glory jugging on an overhung wall. Alternate start to ramp, climb bougainvillaes start at the same grade.

Great route, sustained and great quality.

Tricky crux through strange ramp, great climb at the grade.

Great short technical climb, starts right of ride my ramp.

The scary stemming corner, dodgy pro and rock. Not for the faint hearted.

Follow line of 4 carrots one br, shares anchor with dynamite.

m the platform just at water level clim the from face of this pillar through technical, dicky and barely protected move at 1/3 height. Steadily up to the rooflet and through the left side near small tree. Traverse slightly right and finish up.

Look for featured face on the right side of the gorge, to the left of a major gully. Climb the right side of this face following a vague crack line. Rap off fig tree. Gear: Heaps of small wires and cams up to 0.4".

Follow the obvious crack on the west side of pinnacle. Right of cro magnon. Shady until midday. Crux is thin moves onto the false platform near top. Double rack of cams recommended.

Stick to the thin crack in middle of face. Nice moves through lower section with slight run out to third bolt. Careful of some lose blocks on the left side.

Start at water climbing obvious thin crack straight up the face. Incredible climbing which is sustained from bottom to top.

Up the layback flake and pull straight through roof on micro crimps, moving up to anchor

Slight right of HLAG there is a slight left diagonal weakness, follow this.

Would have more stars if longer. Up middle of the face taking the thin crack while staying away from the corner and the wider crack to the right.

Great climb with hard blank face. Start up corner crack, pull through 2 roofs up face and left of fig tree then though large roof. FFA done on 2 dodgy bash in carrots that stuck out 1.5". Carrots have since been replaced by 3 bolts.

Start to left of AA, moving through the left side of the face without using the arete. Great moves early on with a very thin crux. Finish up the thin crack on left side of face.

Start on large shelf, follow small overhung corner then up center blank face. Trust there is micro pro here. Once over the 2 horizontal cracks traverse left to the ledge and fig tree. Go up left of fig and through crack in roof. bring plenty of micro wires.

Straight up centre of climb. High L pinch is helpful those taller people trying to get off the ground.

Awesome natural line. Climb the crack left of white streak until it runs out. Tricky move to traverse right to gain the flake. climb the double crack and then the left facing corner as it gets steeper and finally onto the face to the anchors.

Starts inside the cool chasm, below the rock choke. Straight up following interesting pocket rock.

Scramble up to belay on the ledge on the left side of the south face. Up the right facing corner leading to thin cracks. Up the orange face on pockets to a rooflet with a crack. Pull through the rooflet to a belay ledge. Scramble left and descend from gully. Take some micro cams, small wires, standard rack

Watch the loose rock top of this climb.

Thin crack right of CC. Start left of crack through small overhang then straight up fine crack. Excellent and balancy climbing spoilt only by the poorly protected and slightly chossy finish.

About 7m right of UN1, you will find an overhanging wall with a few somewhat fragile looking undercling flakes. Up this obvious line of weakness, on poor protection to first piece of worthwhile gear in good horizontal crack. Stretchy move over small rooflet to pumpy but reasonably well protected conclusion.

Centre of the Enclosure wall. Climb straight up the face just right of the Stay Low crack, not using the crack at all. A popular old top rope project, which has seen many pained ascents before Mr. Hart’s somewhat visionary effort (go son!) Finishes directly through the centre of the roof. Twin Ropes!!!

Final completion of old route Never ending Story (18) by Chris Cannard. Climb up and through some steep terrain past old decayed sling, and aid for 1 move through featureless roof.

Much loved except by lovers of sheep. The really obvious mantelshelf near the base of

NES. Really just a boulder problem, however it is usually toproped due to the dangerous

landing.

Starts on top of the obvious mantelshelf ledge (Sheeplovers Bane), move right through over some small roofs to striking red vertical face traverse left on pockets and small SLCD placements. Clench your cheeks and do very gymnastic and exposed move left around corner. Up to under large roof crack (beware of loose blocks in the cave). Blast through roof crack to jugs and glory. Has probably been climbed earlier but exact FA details unknown.

Takes the clean streak just left of blackened waterstreak on LHS of the Forth Wall. Nice face climbing, increasing in difficulty towards the top, but nothing very hard. Sketchy traverse in from ledge, or water-start.

From a jug on the left, traverse right through slopey pockets. Move off big pockets up 1.5m, then continue right for 5m. Down climb to water in corner or jump off.

In between crack and arete, on big edge and thin crack. Just after bulge, traverse right and finish up AJ.

Straight up middle line. Over bulge with parallel cracks. Don't use left gully.

Start 2m left of arete up slopey bulges then left to finish up shallow crack. Sandy, chossy, slopey black rock. Not enough pro for trad.

On wall opposite 9th gorge campsite. Starts on huge ledge one third of the way up the cliff.

Can be accessed by a walk with airy traverse from sandy beach on far left, or easy scramble up juggy blunt arete from far right gully.

Onto a ledge at 6m. mantle onto rectangular block. Up obvious left facing corner with crack at top.

Rap of tree 6m left facing cliff to descend.

Sit start, left foot and hand matching, high right hand, up through dinner plates on trail side of boulder.

Stem up the chimney to finish with both hands on top of wedged block.

Start low on the right hand side of the face, traverse left along the two pockets and then straight up and over. Watch the finger slicer.

Left of Slopey Grasper - sit start hand on rail and two punchy movies up and left as shown in topo

Sit start, fingers crunching on anything and everything. Watch for the breakables near the top.

Sit start hands on the ledge, awkward feet out left to gain enough height to pull in tight and reach for slope next holds.

Sit start, one hand on corner, Traverse the side, finish with one hand on the corner

Sit start, Left side of the boulder

Follow the large crack on the left and top out.

Follow the crack on the right side.

Stand Start. Up chimney. Recommend knee pads or long pants

Use the 2 middle features going up top out

The landing is a little dangerous. Can set a top rope easy. A fall has been taken on this and was fine.

Sit on the bench and climb the face.

Start right hand side in crack traverse left than out at vertical crack

Sit Start, use cracks

Stand start up arette

Fairly worthless edition, first climbed onsight and ropeless as a warm up. Start 2 metres left of Unsuspecting below a faint, blank looking scoop. Up through intermittent crimps to easier ground just past half height. Trad anchor possible for top roping or bring crash pads as there’s no gear in the climb itself.

Large scoop 2m R of AC to block, up to high BR, then straight up on delicate crimps (don’t give into temptation and step left into jugs) past another BR to DBB.Now equipped (as of April 2021) with FH 2m off the ground to protect the start

Pumpy and solid at the grade. Start 1m R of TM, directly under FH. Climb though bulge and move up face past 2 BR. Belay as for TM

This and the next two climbs are located on a small buttress 15m right of the main cliff. Access to DBB (carrots about 5m back from the edge) is via the right hand end of the cliff. This climb is the crack on the left edge of the face. Slopey holds, tough for the grade and sparse on gear

Fun climbing with just enough protection. Start 1m right of guano streak below twin caves at the right end of the cliff. Up committing face (small wires can be found) to ledge and cave. Ignore the ancient carrot and continue up and right, around the arete and up slab, passing another carrot to SBB

A Brilliant mix of technical and strenuous climbing. As for SOB to the cave, then straight up the sustained crack system above (beware potential loose rock)

Can be top roped from DBB. Left trending crack, layback to the awkward mantle onto the ledge, then continue on easier ground to a second left trending crack.

Start as for WTFIA up the left trending crack to good protection and awkward moves up onto the ledge. Move up the ramp to the left below the shield, then as per Crazy Sexy Cool over the bulge via suss flake and borderline protection trending slightly right to the top

Up the L tending crack R of FT. Up to bolt, then smear like a demon through the crux. Continue up line to DBB.