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Area	Location	Sub Location	Crag	Links
VIC Grampians	Halls Gap	(General)	(General)	[ Grampians Guide \| Images ]

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Where's Crock Wall? 14-Jun-2014 At 11:41:44 AM BA

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This wall sort of faces south and is at almost right angles to Weathered Wall. The first picture, above, shows Animated Wall. James Mc should be able to provide more detail as I have never been to this particular crag.

Also of note is that the peak to the North is called Relph Peak, after Arthur J Relph an early photographer who produced a booklet containing photos of the Grampians and lots of flowery, romantic words to accompany them.

ANIMATED WALL

This is the grey buttress on the left side (facing out) of the descent gully for WEATHERED WALL. It could easily be considered to be a continuation of Weathered Wall, and may well be considered as such in the next guide.

**Animated Sequence 35m 24
Climb the wall then the crack as for Frigging In The Rigging. Move left and up the face just left of the arete, passing a bolt. A classic. Glenn Tempest. 9.12.89

*Frigging In The Rigging 35m 20
An attractive wall. Begin up the crack and from the layback step left and follow the left leaning ramp to a cave. Geoff Butcher, Chris Lawrence. 23.12.89
Frigging In The Rigging VF 21
Follow the route until the orange hole in the face, then move right and up to finish up the higher wall. Geoff Butcher. 2.3.91

Gardens Of Babble On 35m 16
1. 20m Start up Frigging In The Rigging, then traverse right to a crack and up to the ledge. 2. 15m Step right onto the face and up into a dirty chimney. (Typical, let the women do the dirty work. Ed.) There is a good-looking direct finish waiting to be done here. Gary Schmitt, Matilda Schmitt. (alt) 23.12.89

Virga 18m 15
“.... the rain that evaporates before it reaches the ground.” Nice climbing but unfortunately it does not start from the ground. It's a small right facing corner starting from a ledge and finishing at a bulge in a smooth recess about 50m right of the Animated Wall routes. Rap down to the ledge at a cairn. If you want to do an on-sight ascent then you will have to avert your eyes. James and Melanie McIntosh, Frank Zgoznik, David Clark. 20.1.91 Note that the wall underneath it is dirty, unpleasant and would be about grade 20, need bolts and would not be worth doing.