Routes in Nowra for selected grade

Start RH edge of cave at bottom, working up flake, then traverse left above cave and over bulge. Then straightish up.

RH Variant of 'To Death'. Start as for 'Messi Dog', straight up then moving right through the little cave, then straight up. Much easier moves than left of the bolts TD even with half the bomber hold being torn off near the 3rd bolt.

Up wall for a couple of moves then reachy span to arête. Up to ledge then cool head wall above.

Delicate climbing with a thought provoking crux at mid height.

3RB's to 2RB anchor.

Left of BITS. Start up slight left of bolts before drifting right and powerful crux move. Interesting variations of moves through the block makes this an interesting climb.

A hard move up the initial face is followed by an interesting slab towards the top. Finish direct or chicken out and take the easy option by moving left. 6RB's to 2RB anchor.

An unusual climb and well worth doing. After a hard start to get established traverse right along the front edge of the block before mantling to clip the anchors. 4RB's to 2RB anchor.

Layback the right hand side arête of the block, mantle and finish at the anchors of the 'The Edge'. 3RB's to 2RB anchor.

Although not hard this climb has a couple of tricky sections that are not initially obvious and require some thought to overcome. At the 6th RB move left and find the hidden pocket around the arête which allows you to get through what appears to be an impossibly blank section. It's still not over as the last move to clip the anchors is no give away. 7RB's to 2RB anchor

Start as for 'Weapons Of Mass Destruction' but after the 1st couple of moves once you can reach the block, traverse right before continuing up the wall. Though the rock on the bottom section is not great the climbing on the upper half is good and quite thought provoking. 7RB's to 2RB anchor.

Climb the left hand side of the arête past 3RB's before moving right onto the wall and then up. The rock at the start is average but the main wall is reminiscent of an easier version of 'Vanderholics'.

8RB's to 2RB anchor.

Start: Start 3m right of 'Philosopher's Stone' just left of the arête.

Probably the most popular route at Nowra at the grade. Great friction work.

Left wall of the big chimney. Up to low anchor. Funky.

Start: 2m right in gully finishing on New Nowra is Old News anchors.

THIS SMALL WALL BELOW COWBOY JUNKIES IS CLOSED. AND IS VERY UNLIKELY TO EVER BE RE-OPENED TO CLIMBERS, PLEASE RESPECT THAT.

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Starts on left side of arête. Straight up to finish.

Optional friend no longer needed to protect start.

Start on the right side of arête, finish by traversing left to the shared anchors with 'Maddest Hatter'.

Another good fun doddle.

Start: Start on the far right hand side of the wall.

Left of SM. Tricky 1st move

Stay Direct. Once described as soft. Often considered reachy and difficult. You decide.

Looks bad, but is actually quite good - in an adventurous way.

Start: Start next to the path, just left of the mossy corner.

Major crack line splitting the face starting just right of 'Vanderholics' - a great trad route. Up crack for 10m to horizontal break, traverse right across 'Gina Hardface' and continue up corner crack above (ignoring the bolts). Rap off rings above 'Gina Hardface'. Medium to large cams.

Rebolted 20-05-2006

First 3 ascents done on gear. Now has ring bolts. There is a small - fist sized - rock that is loose above the roof. One day it will be loose enough to come out. Until then take a little care.

Start: Climbs crack and peapod 4m left of AVNS.

Climb the bottomless chimney with the aid of a horizontal fig , joining arette to lower off. Either start direct (unbolted) or scramble up to base on left. Take care of large loose block at first bolt. Quite possibly Nowras finest sport route.

Start in middle of face at shallow cave/indent, shares first bolt with Bullwinkle. Then exit following the line of bolts to the right and up. Lovely slabbing reminiscent of Turtle Wall. FA: Rod Young

4 RB's to lower off.

Start: Wall 5m right of 'SL'

Starts 10m left of Ryobocide. Up crack and then slab.

Takes the line up the middle of a 20m wide, slabby pillar. Starts climbing the lefthand flakes of a cave. Start is same as MoshPit, but straight up.

The blunt RH arete

Start behind the big tree to the left of the cave. Up through the jugs traversing right. Will improve with traffic.

A rap in affair above JP. Sweet easy exposed climbing :

not even a 19

The left route

The direct line between Sloth and EbtW, goes all the way to the top of the cliff. Watch that rope !!

Right most route on this wall. Dont fall off clipping the 3rd bolt. Better than its neighbour..

Up Incepterkong, and when it goes left keep going straight past a couple more bolts to anchor.

Just right of Gecko.

Starts 20 mtrs right of lounge lizard.. Hard parts done by mid height but beware things that look like holds may vary in size...

Starts just right of the big cave, just before the boulders at the end of wall.

Travers left past the cracks and up the face. One bolt halfway up is a bit misplaced to the right. Sorry for that!

Avoids batman start by tip toeing up the pointy boulder. Obligatory crimp to start and then romp to the top.

Start 30 mtrs south of Trango immediate left of large cave..

Left of overlap. Graded 18 in Rod Young's guide - I changed it from the misleading 21 - this agrees with other comments.

These walls are really great climbing. You're mad if you don't give them a go next time you scurry past.

Start: Cracky thing just right of P's Dog.

Start a few meters right of Sid Vicious. Up the wall to the single U anchor. Considering that the route finishes at a single bolt lower off in the middle of the wall, after 9m of mediocre climbing, and is the first half to the route Paul Cook, it's a route that seems to be worth forgetting (plus it's sandbagged). But don't let that stop you.

The bolted crackline. Finishes at the top of cliff after a leftward traverse. Single U anchor is to assist with cleaning.

Way hard for a 16 better climb solid 18 before you jump on this little number, now consensus grade is 19

Start: At undercut groove thing just right of WOAR

The arete right of Worm. Bloody hard for a 16.

2x clip-and-go biner anchors.

Undercutting stand start right of arete, move straight up via presses and ledges.

Start as for DDD and traverse right 1.5m then up.

20m to the right of Cereal after all the chossy black wall. Start finger crack at the right end of the black, up the finger crack to gain flake and up to tree.

Sit start on arete. Climb straight up to top out.

up the nice looking boulder on the not so nice rock.