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★★★ Orca 18

Grade context: AU
Length: 25m
Bolts: 8
Ascents: 1909

SPORT

description

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

Optional friend no longer needed to protect start.

Top rope access

Route history

1991	First ascent: Ant Prehn, Rod Young, Craig Paul & Trudy Bretherton

Location

Lat/Lon: -34.86953, 150.57417

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Grade citation

18	Assigned grade
16 [16 - 17] --	grAId

Mostly developed as a sport climbing and bouldering area. Some trad climbing exists, mainly the pure cracks. If developing new areas keep an eye and and ear out for Aboriginal cultural heritage, including cave art.

inherited from Nowra

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Overall quality 81 from 901 ratings.

Difficulty - 18

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Based on 52 ratings.

Suggested Grade

16
17
18

Based on 52 ratings.

Tick Types

Onsight	515	515
Flash	209	209
Red point	179	179
Tick	317	317
Pink point	25	25
Top rope	2	2
Attempt	46	46

Comment keywords

pumped challenging hard crux difficult desperate stuffed sustained balancy crazy chossy pockets crap face arete rest slippery easy dry epic polished jugs smooth reachy traverse interesting technical dodgy hands cruisy tricky fall intimidating scary exposed runout committing rad superb beautiful classic pleasant super enjoyable good brilliant lovely ripper amazing perfect awesome great cool classy sweet satisfying stoked incredible fantastic nice wicked fun

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Nowra Climbing Guide Book

Author(s): Simon Carter, Carlie LeBreton, Rob LeBreton, Neil Monteith, Rod Young

Date: 2016

ISBN: 9780994278449

The new Nowra guide is the most comprehensive guide to one of Australias largest sport climbing destinations. Coincidently it also includes New Nowra or Braidwood Park as it is now known which contains 650 routes in itself. With over 1500 routes all up it will be impossible to run out of projects to get yourself spanked on ever again.

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