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Traversing routes/pitches

dave1962

7-Oct-2015
7:17:21 PM

Upstairs Downstairs,23, FFA Louise Shepherd, Kim Carrigan 1981 traverses almost the entire Great Wall at Moonarie

widewetandslippery

7-Oct-2015
9:29:08 PM

quits at piddo, thought i'd swing to lithgow

the grade 3 crater traverse at kaputar. 5 stars

Ithomas

7-Oct-2015
10:57:40 PM

Animal Act, 300m 15 M? and Party Trick 370m 16m? on Mt Maroon in SE Queensland are both genuine traverses high up on a big face. The latter utilises a huge kingswing to cross a section of bare wall.

gfdonc

7-Oct-2015
11:22:35 PM

We forgot Orestes.


Pat

8-Oct-2015
3:00:39 PM

Doesn't Scarab (bundaleer) have a funny little traverse pitch on it?


billk

8-Oct-2015
3:41:29 PM

On 8/10/2015 Pat wrote:
>Doesn't Scarab (bundaleer) have a funny little traverse pitch on it?

Yep.

Has anyone mentioned Flying Circus yet?


Macciza

9-Oct-2015
1:23:01 AM

The Long and Winding Road at NarrowNeck ~420m girdle . . .

robbio

9-Oct-2015
6:24:20 AM

The Grand Traverse (15), Narrow Neck, Blue Mtns


euce

11-Oct-2015
9:03:55 PM

Thank you :)

I have edited the first post to add the contributions (though skipping the ones I'm too ignorant to decipher).


jimmys

12-Oct-2015
7:58:02 AM

At the Chimney Pots, Catwalk (15) 3rd Pitch is a 30m traverse that is sliding on your belly through a slot till you see the light at the end.


Macciza

12-Oct-2015
9:07:48 AM

On 11/10/2015 euce wrote:
>Thank you :)
>
>I have edited the first post to add the contributions (though skipping
>the ones I'm too ignorant to decipher).

You really should add The Masterpiece, at Piddington;
And The Long and Winding Road , at NarrowNeck ....


IdratherbeclimbingM9

14-Oct-2015
9:54:48 AM

Since it seems gfdonc & Grinder are too shy to promote it, here is a link to Grampians: Red Tide, 1,013m grade 17 (19 pitches).
M. Jackson, S.Toal, 2-3 February 2013.
... Australia's longest route, and almost all of it a traverse that includes many easier grade (though still serious), pitches...

gfdonc says of the photo;
>Just to add some perspective, pitch 10 or 11 is on the left side of that shot - you're only seeing half the wall.

>There's a red stripe of sandstone at the 60-80m level that is the obvious line, hence the name. (Fizzles out about pitch12 unfortunately).


IdratherbeclimbingM9

14-Oct-2015
9:58:32 AM

And here is another, more popular route, of quite a different flavour...

Mt Buffalo; Cathedral: Sultan Gd 20 has a nice* traverse on P2.

(*Kind of like a miniature version of Out and Beyond, inasmuch as the further one traverses along it, the greater the exposure becomes.)

martym

14-Oct-2015
11:24:19 AM

Hot Flap
The Bard bum traverse
Lamp Lighter pitch 2
Watchtower Chimney first pitch has a very cool diagonal pitch
Skink 3rd pitch
- Mt Arapiles


shortman

14-Oct-2015
12:26:55 PM

On 14/10/2015 martym wrote:

>Watchtower Chimney first pitch has a very cool diagonal pitch

It's completely horizontal really and u walk rather than climb....cracker for a grade 12 climb though....

Ithomas

14-Oct-2015
12:59:30 PM

Don't forget the Sea Level Traverse at Frecycinet, Tasmania. Very sporting.


IdratherbeclimbingM9

14-Oct-2015
1:01:15 PM

On 14/10/2015 shortman wrote:
>On 14/10/2015 martym wrote:
>
>>Watchtower Chimney first pitch has a very cool diagonal pitch
>
>It's completely horizontal really and u walk rather than climb....cracker
>for a grade 12 climb though....

He was off-route?
Heh, heh, heh.
... But that's the thing about a lot of lower grade routes at Araps, being that enjoyable alternative variants exist?
;-)

lacto

14-Oct-2015
2:23:55 PM

Oedipus Complex 12 , Bard buttress - traverse right to Orepheus keep traversing in a wonky way to Eurydices second belay to the Bard Nose reverse Bards traverse

gfdonc

14-Oct-2015
3:54:39 PM

We did go back a while ago and added High Tide (18) which was also a traverse, only one pitch of it though. But scarier.

jdb

14-Oct-2015
4:17:40 PM

On 14/10/2015 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>Since it seems gfdonc & Grinder are too shy to promote it, here is a >HREF="http://www.chockstone.org/Forum/Forum.asp?ForumID=1&Action=Display&MessageID=118988&
>agePos=&Sort=">link to Grampians: Red Tide, 1,013m grade 17
>(19 pitches).
>M. Jackson, S.Toal, 2-3 February 2013.
>... Australia's longest route, and almost all of it a traverse that includes
>many easier grade (though still serious), pitches...
>
>

>
>gfdonc says of the photo;
>>Just to add some perspective, pitch 10 or 11 is on the left side of that
>shot - you're only seeing half the wall.
>
>>There's a red stripe of sandstone at the 60-80m level that is the obvious
>line, hence the name. (Fizzles out about pitch12 unfortunately).
>

I reckon traversing the last two kilometres of the big brown pipe to Carrum has more appeal (and is longer!)

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