Grade | Route | Gear style | Popularity | ||
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Queensland South East Granite Belt Donnelly's Castle The Brain Area | |||||
V8 | ★★★ 11 Months of Summer
Hope you have been training your crimp strength on 8mm’s. Squat start on the left side of the bloc, matched on low recognizable crimp rail, now traverse leftwards into “8 months of Winter”. Finish as this. Set: Jimmy Blackhall, 2023 | 4m | |||
Queensland South East Granite Belt Donnelly's Castle The Lookout | |||||
V7/8 | ★★ Post it
Strong stand start- up the twin seams, trending left to the vertical slot. Powerful pulls, to an airy mantle out. | 5m | |||
Queensland South East Granite Belt Donnelly's Castle Dirty Action Area | |||||
V8 | ★★★ The Big Zee
Sit start on poor left rail, up on crimps, sidepulls and jugs to the left. One of the best hard lines on the Granite Belt. | 4m | |||
V8 X | ★★ MA Forever
Just like the visionary alpinist himself, Wild, bold and technical, on some of Donnellys best rock. Great featured corner and arete to navigate across and up. | 6m | |||
Queensland South East Granite Belt Donnelly's Castle The Caves Sector | |||||
V8 | ★ The Seamless Unspeakably Something
Hard moves through the seam grants you with a huge jug. Tough on the feet and fingers. Just plain tough. | ||||
V8 | Pencil Pines and Wine
Tough exit off a difficult face. Grade needs confirmation. | ||||
Queensland South East Granite Belt Pozieres State Forest Northern Sector | |||||
V7/8 | ★★★ Pitter Patter
Stand start with obvious good sloper LH and RH pencil thin crimp. Punchy move up, then long, reachy moves up the high face. Set: Jimmy Blackhall | 7m | |||
V8 | ★★ Slip slop slap
Stand start on the decent but hard to use hold on the arete. Slap up the rails to the top. FA: Sam Bowman, 2024 | 4m | |||
Queensland South East Granite Belt Passchendaele State Forest Middle Sector | |||||
V8 | ★★★ The Warped Wall
Give yourself a run up for this incredible french start. Then find a way to reach the good jug using the slanted sloper rail Was first sent by topping it out as a highball but it’s a truely a one move wonder so it adds nothing at all to the grade. Feel free to take the send once you hit the jug from the first move if highballs really aren’t your thing. It is really satisfying to top out though! FA: Liam Daniel, 28 Apr | 7m | |||
V8 | ★ Chicken Nuggets
To the left of Pink Bits. Stand start with LH fang and RH sidepull. A very long move up and leftwards! Very reach dependant. * Has not been repeated since two large flakes have been removed* FA: sam bowman | 4m | |||
V8 | ★★ Timbre
FA: Peter Crane | ||||
V8 | Match Fit
FA: Peter Crane | ||||
V8 | ★★ Shopping Bags
Stand start with use of the detached rock, with high crimps and figure out the puzzle up the cool cracked, bulgy face to a committing, intense mantle. Thoughtful stacking of pads are needed for the tilted landing. FA: Matthew Cochrane | 5m | |||
V7 - 9 | ★★★ Jesse’s Cool Proj
| 4m | |||
Queensland South East Granite Belt Passchendaele State Forest Yuri's Place | |||||
V8 | ★★★ Curiosity
Start in the small gully, matched low on the rail. Move up to a row of crimps and throw to the lip and mantle to top. FA: Peter Crane | 3m | |||
Queensland South East Granite Belt Passchendaele State Forest The Lane | |||||
V8 | ★★★ Oh Bee Hive
FA: Matt Cochrane | 5m | |||
V8 | ★★★ Wild Honey
FA: Matt Cochrane | 8m | |||
V8 | ★★★ Disclosure
Start as low as possible on the beautiful arete feature. Up and right to a tough top out. Some holds have broken since the first ascent - it was originally graded V7 FA: Peter Crane, 2016 | 4m | |||
Queensland South East Granite Belt Passchendaele State Forest The Backyard | |||||
V8 - 12 | Cherubim project
| 4m | |||
Queensland South East Granite Belt Passchendaele State Forest The Battlefield | |||||
V8 | Signal to Noise Stand
FA: Peter Crane, 2014 | ||||
Queensland South East Darling Downs Esk | |||||
30 | ★★★ Low Libido
Super fun boulder sequence into confusing fuckery. Set: Sam bowman & Harry Bowman FA: Sam Bowman | 10m, 5 | |||
29 | ★★ Blue Beam
packs a hell of a punch for a short climb, feels like bouldering. start with the first 2 bolts clipped in, long stick clip required to reach the second. Set: Corey Batten & Harry Bowman FA: Corey Batten, 31 Jul 2020 | 15m, 7 | |||
30 | ★★ Deer Hallucinations
start standing in front of the tree then head slightly right and upwards to some punchy and super rad climbing Set: Corey Batten, alex mougenot & harry bowman FA: Sam Bowman, 24 May 2020 | 20m, 11 | |||
29 | ★★★ Chicken Crimpys Project
Still a project, Thin and wild. Shares the last two bolts and anchor of Deer Hallucinations. Set: Corey Batten, 30 Aug 2020 | 20m, 10 | |||
29 | ★★ The Cats Pyjamas
Prepare your tendons. Your gonna have a bad time if you clip the bolts for Chicken Crimpys, stick to the right bolts Set: sam bowman, corey batten & harry bowman FFA: Corey Batten, 15 Jun 2019 | 20m, 11 | |||
Queensland Central Bowen Coral Bay | |||||
V8 | ★ Nick's Stolen Roof
Start at the base of the roof on a big jug and out to the big jug on lip. Drop off here - though it could be linked into "Nick's Stolen Roof Top". FA: Nick Larsen | ||||
Queensland Central Bowen Horseshoe Bay South Side Fat Cave | |||||
V8 | ★★ Steve Obesity
Start as Holy Matrimony and then follow the line of pockets across the roof to a tricky crux. Out the cave via jugs to a committing mantle. FA: Nick Larsen | ||||
Queensland Central Bowen Murray Bay Traverse Boulder | |||||
V8 | ★★★ Star System's a Hoax
Sit start, climb to the lip with some fun and big movements traverse right then topping out above the other boulder. Tricky to spot and pad the top-out. Previously undocumented but named 'Cameron's v7' which was the same line although didn't top out it just walked off on the other boulder, seen in the Due North climbing video by SB. Found and climbed with top-out by Andy Lampard. FFA: Andy Lampard | ||||
Queensland Central Bowen Murray Bay Mango Boulder | |||||
V8 | ★★ The Great Mango Heist
SS up arete. FFA: Andy Lampard | ||||
Queensland North Cairns Barron Gorge The Boulder Field | |||||
V8 | ★★ Malevolent Forces
Sit start crossed on diagonal crimps. Make your way left and up on a series of diagonal edges and an underling. FA: Callum Mather | 4m | |||
V8 | ★★★ Spick and Span
Sit start with slopey edge low on arete and the hold just above big undercling. Slap slap slap and finish as for the stand start. FA: Callum Mather | 3m | |||
V8 | ★★ Weeping Angel
Start in the corner, move left and finish up arete. Trust those feet! FA: Callum Mather | 4m | |||
V8 | ★ Leap Frog
Start on set of small crimps, traverse left through big moves on good edges, then finish as for Tadpole. FA: Callum Mather | 5m | |||
V8 | ★★★ Decompression Sickness
Start low on the arete and on lowest good edge in the steep, compress your way through the sickness to glory. FA: Callum Mather | 3m | |||
Queensland North Cairns Barron Gorge Down from Mackas | |||||
V8 | ★★★ Brainiac
Crouch start on crimps, campus up and move left through edges and a pinch before throwing for the jug. Stunner! FA: Callum Mather | 5m | |||
Queensland North Cairns Barron Gorge The Zen Garden | |||||
V7/8 | ★★ From Within
The extension to Intuition. Start ~2m underneath roof with good undercut edges above the freestanding boulder below. Using this boulder for feet, move through series of edges on roof to gain the sloping lip. Traverse L through crux into -and finish - as for Intuition. FA: Cameron Wycherley, 20 Sep 2018 | 3m | |||
Queensland North Cairns Barron Gorge The Secret Garden | |||||
V8 | ★★★ Neanderthal
Start LH good edge and RH small nubbin crimp, move right and up on incut sidepulls. FA: Callum Mather | 3m | |||
Queensland North Cairns Barron Gorge Split Rock Area | |||||
V8 | ★★★ Storm Chasers
Starting from wobbly block in the corner of the rooflet, work out right and over the lip via slopey holds. The wobbly block recently came out, but the boulder will still go at a similar grade. FA: Glen Hayford, 24 Jan 2020 | 3m | |||
V8 | ★★ Squashed
Start on LH crimp slot and deep RH two finger pocket. Up on pocket and crimps, finish as for Squish 'em. FA: Callum Mather | 3m | |||
V8 | ★★ Wandering Albatross
Start low matched on deep scoop in bottom left corner of boulder. Move right via big moves and finish as for Venus. Currently unclimbable due to recent flooding. Would need to dig out the new landing to access the start holds. FA: Callum Mather | 3m | |||
Queensland North Cairns Barron Gorge Calmer Waters | |||||
V8 | ★★ Schism
Sit start with obvious low jugs below the large, rounded and vertical sidepull. Climb through the steepness to gain sloping edges at base of the headwall, finishing up the scooped slab with opposing vertical rails. Cameron Whycherley Glen Hayford Callum Mather FA: Cameron Wycherley, 19 Nov 2018 | 4m | |||
Queensland North Cairns North Wangetti Pretty Beach Grey And Balding | |||||
V8 | ★★★ Blinding Rage
Start as for Golden Age but escape left via big move to the slopey rail. Mantle as for Golden Age. FA: Callum Mather | 5m | |||
Queensland North Cairns Port Douglas | |||||
V8 | ★ Coral
Sitstart on double underclings, move up through crack (tape up - painful!). Exit without using adjacent boulder. Good features for topout. Approach from Rex Smeal Park (see Approach). FA: Peter Reynolds | 2m | |||
V8 | ★★ Abyssal
Start as for Snappy but immediately break left, following the seam to the arete through a set of small crimps and a big move. Roll over and top out up slab. FA: Callum Mather | ||||
Queensland North Cairns Fitzroy Island White Rocks | |||||
V8 | ★★ Gelateria
Sit start on good flake, make your way out the scoop via underclings. Follow the lip left before mantling up the nothingness. FA: Callum Mather | 3m | |||
Queensland North Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Inner Circle The Fun Parlour | |||||
V8 | Subtle Manipulation Sit
Add the sit-start, with the lower of the two left-hand sidepulls and a right-hand sidepull barely off the ground, for a tough, thin and sustained problem. FA: Steve Baskerville, 2003 | ||||
Queensland North Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Inner Circle The Stack | |||||
V8 | ★ Globalisation Left
Sit-start the left-hand arete of the steepness. Starts with right-hand pinch and left-hand on arete. Up into Global. Two pads used for the sit-start on first ascent. FA: Steve Baskerville, 2004 | 4m | |||
V8 | ★★ Super flash
Lower start to “Rice Bubbles” on side pull and low knob. | ||||
Queensland North Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Inner Circle The Pass By Boulders | |||||
V8 | ★★★ The Nerd
An arete with fantastic body tension. | ||||
Queensland North Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Inner Circle The Upper Terrace | |||||
V8 | ★★★ Best In Tension
The steep highball arête on the top L side of the boulder. Up via underclings and slopers to a crux rockover at about half height. FA: Madoc Sheehan, 2002 | 4m | |||
Queensland North Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Gallery The Red Boulder | |||||
V8 | Riot Act
A broken foothold has made this a little harder. Sit start (you may need to crouch if you are too short) off LH pinch and RH crimp. Up via good edges with big moves. Classic. FA: SB | ||||
Queensland North Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Gallery Alley Of The Giants | |||||
V8 | ★★★ Pickpocket
Super classic arête from the low start adds 4 moves (starting position shown in guidebook). FA: SB | ||||
Queensland North Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Gallery The Happy Boulder | |||||
V7/8 | The Influx Mantle
Crimpy sit start with diagonal LH and small RH. Straight up. Hard. FA: SB | ||||
Queensland North Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Bus Shelter Lovely Legs | |||||
V8 | ★★ Dan's Arête
The obvious steep arête with two cruxes, the higher of which is pretty terrifying. FA: Dan the Man | ||||
Queensland North Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Bus Shelter The Black Boulders | |||||
V8 | ★★★ Kaffir
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Queensland North Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Bus Shelter The Serious Boulders | |||||
V8 | ★★★ The Grusome Nothingness
Tips, underclings and tiny scoops - hard! FA: Tully Rohrer | ||||
V8/9 | I am Beagle
SS 1m L of ‘High Society” awaits a ropeless ascent. Super low start that traverses in from the L below ledge is an open project. FA: Andy Lampard | ||||
V8 | ★★ Gutter Halo
Start with opposing sidepulls, up R to a terrible sloper and blast to the jugs. | ||||
Queensland North Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The West Bank The Dark Side | |||||
V8 | One Inch Punch
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Queensland North Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Lonesome Boulder | |||||
V8 | Lone Ranger
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V8 | Butter Tastes Better Than Margarine
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Queensland North Townsville Harvey’s Marbles The Three Brothers | |||||
V8 | The Reluctant Gardener
Starting low, moving up the underclings. Shoot for the pocket on the right-hand side of the arete, then left and up the arete to finish. FA: Andy Lampard | ||||
V8 | Porcelain
Starting under overhung dihedral move up and left to the obvious rails, follow right to finish. Beautiful white rock. FA: Andy lampard | ||||
Queensland North Townsville Frederick Peak North Sentinel Fishbowl | |||||
30 | ★★ Manic Possibility
Up to the double kneebar for a rest before last boulder problem. Set: Steve Ioannou FFA: Steve Ioannou, 31 Oct 2014 | 25m, 16 | |||
29 | Megalodon
FFA: Steven Ioannou, 9 Apr 2016 | 17m, 11 | |||
30 | ★★ The Kraken
The extension of Short Kraken. Set: Steven Ioannou, 22 Dec 2014 FFA: Steven Ioannou, 17 Jul 2015 | 18m, 12 | |||
29 | Black Rain
Set: Steven Ioannou FFA: Steven Ioannou, 12 Mar 2016 | 12m, 8 | |||
Queensland North Townsville Frederick Peak South Sentinel Tranquillo Zone | |||||
29 | ★★ Cursor
start up Gomminator getting set in steep v groove then follow right line of u-bolts through a hard sequence boulder problem to finish on small ledge Set: Christopher Glastonbury, 19 Aug 2018 FFA: Christopher Glastonbury, 23 Aug 2018 | 15m, 9 | |||
Queensland North Townsville Frederick Peak South Sentinel Supernova Wall | |||||
29 | Eye of The Storm
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29 | ★★★ Aitherios
Set: Steve Ioannou, 2014 FFA: Steve Ioannou, 19 Jul 2014 | 35m, 21 | |||
29 | ★★★ Insanity and Beyond
The first unbroken route through all of "Supernova Wall". King ling encompassing 50m of Fredericks finest rock. Up "Primosanity", then power through a tough boulder problem into "Hypernova". Only question is, are you insane enough to take on this monster? FFA: Steve Ioannou, 2013 | 50m, 30 | |||
29 | ★★★ Transcontinental
Words can't do this route justice. Undeniably a world-class, "you should travel here to do this" route. Starts with stickclipping the bolt a couple of metres right of Citizen Arcane. Technical slab/groove start to the Facebook-famous dyno. Motor up the crack and confront the "press". Seam section to monster pockets. An unforgettable finale to cap things off. FFA: Lee Cujes, 2012 FA: Lee Cujes, 2012 | 22m, 9 | |||
Queensland North Townsville Frederick Peak South Sentinel Jungle Gym | |||||
29 | Crimp or Fly
FFA: Steven Ioannou, 15 Jul 2017 | 16m | |||
Queensland North Townsville Frederick Peak South Sentinel The Fairy Garden | |||||
29 | ★★★ Head In The Clouds
Climb Burnt Ice and go left through roof, get around the lip and finish up the face. FFA: Steven Ioannou, 9 Dec 2017 | 33m | |||
29 | Snowblind
Climb Burnt Ice and go way right and finish on Hyperbole FFA: Steven Ioannou, 27 May 2017 | 36m, 20 | |||
30 | Sick Day
FFA: Steven Ioannou, 26 Jul 2019 | 38m, 17 | |||
29 | ★★ Tinkerbell
Keep climbing past anchors of Revenge of the Pixies into hole and straight through roof. FFA: Steven Ioannou, 24 Jun 2017 | 18m, 9 | |||
Queensland North Townsville Frederick Peak South Sentinel The Alcove | |||||
29 | Reactivated
FFA: Steven Ioannou, 27 Aug 2016 | 40m, 20 | |||
29 | Activated Opiate
FFA: Steven Ioannou, 27 Aug 2016 | ||||
Queensland North Townsville Mt Stuart The Pinnacle | |||||
30 | ★★ Mainstage
True king line of Stuart, all the best parts mixed into one route! FFA was done from ground rather then from the anchors of P1 on Midlife Crisis. FFA: Glen Hayford, 18 Nov 2018 | 15m, 10 | |||
30 | ★★★ Mainstage Direct
A direct start to Mainstage, one main boulder right into where it all kicks off. The start of the route isn't so hard. FFA: Glen Hayford, 5 Jul 2020 | 30m, 16 | |||
29 | Skipped
A boulder problem on a rope, probably height dependant. Don't forget to clip! FFA: Glen Hayford, 2 May 2020 | 6m, 5 | |||
Queensland North Townsville Mt Stuart The Playground | |||||
30 | Gone in 60 Seconds
Slightly overhanging face climb on thin often chossy crimps. Two bolts and anchors added Jan 2018 for top half. FA: Doug Hockly FFA: Glen Hayford, 8 Apr 2018 | 18m, 7 | |||
Queensland North Townsville Mt Stuart Colorado Wall | |||||
29 | ★★★ Golden Orchid
Start as per Immortality (couple of small cams required) following it until the sloping ledge then continue straight up. Progressively harder moves with building pump culminating with an extremely thin crux at the last bolt. FFA: Kat Damjanovic & Steven Ioannou, 6 Aug 2021 | 24m, 10 | |||
29 | ★★★ Metamorphosis
Much more than your average crimp ladder, several aesthetic rails and unlikely kneebars guide the way through this sustained quest. FFA: Kat Damjanovic & Steven Ioannou, 20 Nov 2021 | 24m, 14 | |||
Queensland North Townsville Magnetic Island Picnic Bay | |||||
V8 | Terrifying
A terrifying V8 somewhere in the bay. FA: Tully Rohrer | ||||
Queensland North Townsville Magnetic Island Rocky Bay Left Side | |||||
V8 | ★★ American Invasion #2
A V8 to the R of "American Invasion #1", a sit start off the pockets into the orange scoop. FA: Matt Zimmerman | ||||
V8 | ★★★ American Invasion #3
About 25m further off the beach from "American Invasion #2" is a high cracked arête, and has a sloping slab to land on. FA: Matt Zimmerman | ||||
Queensland North Townsville Castle Hill Eastern Bluff Alias | |||||
30 | ★★ Where's My Drill Bit?
A clean line on exceptionally solid rock with intense crimps and pockets. FFA: Steven Ioannou, 28 Aug 2020 | 15m | |||
Queensland North Townsville Castle Hill Onyx Area Swiss Knife zone | |||||
V8 | ★★★ El Toro
FA: Glen Hayford, 2019 | ||||
South Australia Flinders Ranges Moonarie Callitris Corner | |||||
30 | Meditations Direct
Climb the bolted crack above the Meditations belay and continue up and across Meditations when that route is reached. FFA: Matt Warner, 2021 | 25m, 7 | |||
South Australia Flinders Ranges Moonarie Great Wall Area | |||||
29 | ★★ Drowning Direct
FA: Steve Pollard | 25m | |||
South Australia Eyre Peninsula Silly's bouldering Pride Rock Area Pride Rock | |||||
V7/8 | ★★★ Mufassa
Sit start on low twin undercling blobs, fire through good holds to large underclings. Monster throw to lip then a technical exit left and up slab. Classic! FA: Kelly Thorpe | ||||
South Australia Adelaide Morialta Thorn Buttress | |||||
29 | ★★ Following a Felch Is No Fun Part II
Climbs the initial boulder problem start of Olympus, then breaks left through the main roof (instead of avoiding it - see 'Olympus') to join 'No Mustard On Withdrawal' at its crux. Continue up headwall then trend right to arete and climb to the Gladiator chain. FA: Stuart Williams, 1991 | 20m | |||
29 | ★ Minor Threat
Starts as for Fred Radford then takes the Following a Feltch finish, ending at the chain of Gladiator. FA: Sharik Walker, 2000 | 15m | |||
30 | ★★ Fred Radford
The hardest route in Morialta. Boulder problem start through low roof above boulder (stick clip bolt shared with Olympus), 2m left of Pussy Cats. Join Following a Feltch through big roof then cut back right around arete via another bouldery sequence. Finish at loweroff shared with Kiss My Brain. FA: Sharik Walker | ||||
South Australia Adelaide Norton Summit The Cave | |||||
29 | ★★ Ticket to Ride
IP to the roof, then traverse left through Payneham, past North Terrace and head through the roof of Strolling/Crossroads direct FA: Thomas Boehm, 12 Sep 2020 | 20m | |||
South Australia Adelaide Norton Summit The Hole | |||||
30 | ★★ Come Out Fighting
First line of bolts on your left as you enter the Hole. Stuart Williams with the vision and Sharik Walker with the send. Originally graded 29. V10 if you boulder it. FA: Sharik Walker, 1998 | 8m | |||
30 | Burger Fight
Filipino Path boulder then traverse leftwards to the chains on Come Out Fighting FA: trentsearcy, 2021 | ||||
V8 | ★ Filipino Path
Filipino to the 2nd good pocket, then left through sidepull to finish at the Shining Path padlocked chain. | 6m |