An underrated gem, a must do mountain traverse full of character and diverse terrain. The best 5- in rum packaged into an achievable 1 day objective full of big mountain adventure.
Time: Going easy, 5 hours to the summit, 1.5 hours descent, 1.5 hour walk back to the cove. Shade all day can be done in summer.
The TH guide book 1 paragraph description and dotted line topo is remarkably useful. The climb starts at the cove on the west side of north barrah. Take the gully which goes up to the left with some squeeze sections to the hanging valley. Stay on the left of the hanging valley and go almost all the way to the end. Take the ramp back up the left side to reach a water worn groove with a jammed toaster sized block.
f4 Scramble over the jammed block passing some obvious cracks on the right.
f5- Take the slab back up right pull over the fun overhang (golden wonder crisps?) to a bolted station.
f4 easy slab on to the exposed dome to another bolted station.
f3 easy traverse back into the big gully.
f5- (eyeball from the left the big chimney, the groove and the thin cracks.) climb straight up the crack, to the left of the pedestal, brittle rock.
f5- climb up right on top of the pedestal, traverse right to the chimney. Super cool easier than it looks with good protection (f4-) to a single bolt above a large hollow flake. (Potentially dangerous)
Descent
Follow the skinny siq, through the white powder sands and arching walls to a number of entertaining technical squeeze sections (f4). After these it opens up into a plateau. The TH guide book mentions 2 abseils however we didn't find these (assume these are in the main siq). From the plateau leaving the main siq and trending to the left we followed cairns and scrambled down the rest of the way to sands on the east side.
