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nmonteith

25-Nov-2002
10:14:48 AM

Dalai and myself spent sunday up at the Cathedrals doing some new boulder problems on the summit rocks of the Sugarloaf. We did about 5 new routes - nothing very hard but some quite nasty highballs. The problems were really fun and all quite continious. They are all quite steep, generally 20' overhung and use small crimpy pockets, slopers and flared cracks. The summit topouts are all really good on HUGE buckets (sometimes they feel too big). Dalai also gave me the grande tour of his established problems. There certainly is lots to do in the area and stil quite a bit of potential for harder lines - although many will be quite contrived. For boulderers climbing in the sub V4 grades (like me!) this area is a great day out. Check the photos here

http://www.mrppp.com.au/nhb/reports/24112002/index.htm

earwig

14-Jan-2005
4:38:29 PM

G'day - I was wandering around Sugarloaf this morning. Are these the boulders on the Canyon Track near the summit? There's about three or four overhanging slabs next to the track in that area - maybe 10m high - that looked like fun.

BoaredOfTheRings

14-Jan-2005
6:18:49 PM

On 14/01/2005 earwig wrote:
> overhanging slabs

What the?????????

earwig

18-Jan-2005
2:45:24 PM

On 14/01/2005 BoaredOfTheRings wrote:
>On 14/01/2005 earwig wrote:
>> overhanging slabs
>
>
>What the?????????

Chunks of rock, then. Pedant.

dalai

18-Jan-2005
3:01:17 PM

Overhanging slabs is anything under 115 degrees which these are.

Earwig, they are the same boulders on the Canyon Track near the summit which Neil mentions. There is also more on the uphill side of the bedding fins on the walk in up Wells Cave track to the Sugarloaf cliff itself.

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