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any climbing near ballarat?

yorkshireboy

3-Feb-2003
9:36:27 AM

um thats about it realy, is there any climbin/ bouldering around ballarat?? anyone know???

Dalai

3-Feb-2003
10:48:17 AM

Go to the Guide page, select the Western District map for areas close to Ballarat.
Mt Beckworth is less than 30 minutes of of town, offering granite boulders for climbing and bouldering.

Mike

3-Feb-2003
10:53:15 AM

That depends on how you define "near". Beckworth is probably only half an hour away. Loddon River Falls is also close by. As is Meredith. And a whole host of other, smaller granite blobs, all documented in the South Western Victoria guide available from the VCC.

Robin

3-Feb-2003
12:32:19 PM

There is some good bluestone bouldering just behind ballarat station. I can't track down my instructions how to get there but looking at Vic Roads 255 N 11 it should be on the corner of Ebden St and Scott Pde. The Bluestone runs allong a drainage line (Yarrowee River ?) You access it via a ladder on the North West Wall. Two main boulder problems exist south of the road bridge (which you walk under). The SW wall is about 21/22 equivalent and the SE wall about 20/21. The wall NE of the road has an 'endless' problem. It's pretty easy (probably 15/16 equivalent) but it keeps going for 100m+.

Let me know how you get on if you get a chance to check it out.

climbermum

25-Apr-2011
10:09:39 AM

the Western Victoria Climbing Club has a small indoor wall too, it's open at 6.30pm every Tuesday night at the Barkly Senior Campus, opposite fire tower in Barkly St

Jimi

25-Apr-2011
1:29:55 PM

I picked up a thick, little (?size A6? - 147 pages) guidebook called "Rock Around the Rat - Rock Climbs in the Ballarat Area" edited by Chris Watson & Tony Wilson. 4th edition July 1997. I got it from Steve at Rock Hardware on sale. He may still have a few copies left.
No idea if it's been updated, (since 1997, you'd kinda hope so!) but it seems to mainly focus on the Mt Beckworth area and crags to the south of Ballarat.
I've not read through it yet, but it lists;
- Mount Beckworth
- Baal Rock Spur
- The Main Group
- The Upper Valley
- The Plantation
- East Side Boulders
- Eastern Peake
- Leigh River
- Devil's Kitchen
- Lal Lal Falls
- Moorabool River

Hope that helps a little

skegly

25-Apr-2011
10:03:31 PM

If you want to climb Loddon falls or Mt Alexander give a yell.

BA

26-Apr-2011
11:38:11 AM

On 25/04/2011 Jimi wrote:

>No idea if it's been updated, (since 1997, you'd kinda hope so!) but it
>seems to mainly focus on the Mt Beckworth area and crags to the south of
>Ballarat.

It has been updated several times and it is now incorporated into the NORTHWEST Victoria guide (not the Southwest Vic guide).

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