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Bouldering near Melbourne

DaveH

2-Feb-2010
10:27:27 PM

Is there any bouldering on real rocks within 1 hr drive of Melbourne? Maybe the
Dandenongs?

jkane

3-Feb-2010
12:01:36 AM

I don't know for sure but probably NOT the Dandenongs. Can't remember seeing any exposed rock while walking there but haven't been everywhere in the nongs.

Use the search function for similar threads. There are already a couple about this subject. Camels Hump is mentioned in one and is about 1 Hr from Melbourne. Apparently it's no Fontenbleu (sp?) but I'm not a boulderer so what would I know?

wallwombat

3-Feb-2010
12:32:42 AM

Charlie Creese wrote an article in Rock a couple of years ago about bouldering at Black Hill near Kyneton and Cobaw near Lancefield but I think thats a little bit further than an hours drive from Melbourne. Maybe not. It looked alright though.

The article was in Rock no70 Autumn 2007.

dalai

3-Feb-2010
9:43:27 AM

Nothing worthwhile in the Dandenongs. There are three spots but best to go elsewhere as suggested above - along the Calder highway corridoor is best if keeping to one hour from the CBD. Couple of spots in the You Yangs are good too though an aquired taste.

Dandenong spots

- Singleton track boulders - couple of boulders on the steep hillside above the Singleton track discovered a couple of times - first I am aware of was by then local Simon Ozolins. Main block is actually not bad, but perched on a narrow terrace above a gully isn't something you would want to fall off. Later another group got half way to drilling an anchor on this block but their drill ran out of charge...

Lookout Rock behind the Olinda Golf course. Granite blob with some slabby numbers, a traverse with the hardest line about V4. Most likely well overgrown again.

Quarried wall junction Jasper and Old Coach road. Easy access but that is all.

On 3/02/2010 jkane wrote:
>Apparently it's no Fontenbleu (sp?) but I'm not a boulderer

LOL Definitely not a boulderer as otherwise you would know how to spell Fontainebleau... ;-)

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