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Climbing at Mt Kuring Gai - any advice? 24-Jun-2010 At 1:36:11 PM vwills

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There is definitely crap- some of which I am responsible for, but then you sometimes hear people actually enjoy things you thought was pretty ordinary and was just bolted as a filler. Each to there own. The area doubles the number of safely bolted sports climbs in Sydney in the 16-23 range I reckon, and its a lovely spot in winter with no midges, and not a carrot in sight! We can't all traipse off every weekend!

The best wall is lost and found: all the climbs on the main wall (from Farewell to Fear through to Aerospace) are good and grades are:19,18,22,23/24,20,22,18. ALso good in that area is Bummaggedon, Foundlings and the climbs to its left.People also seem to like Woken Furies though its short.

Faraway Wall: the best routes are Vitruvian man 23, unless you are shorter than 177 cm in which case the full off dyno to a crimp will add 2 grades and ruin your teeth as you gnash them, Memory Cathedral 22, Death Adder19?? (which got a retrobolt so is now safe), Dark Con of Man 22? though it will need a brush, and Chris Yeomans route 20 that I forget the name for.

MotoX wall is good for a warm up before you go down the hill. Heresy 22 is probably the best climb there. Try Ragged Claw 23 (evil laugh) you might do the coveted second ascent! Very Bill Collins.

I'd give middle wall a miss unless you've done everything else in the area.

Fossil wall is short and the grades probably correspondingly hard, but its close to the car park and you could easily tick the wall in a half day. Captain Underpants 18 and The Mind has Mountains 20 and Unguarded moment 21 are good climbs here.

There is actually a few lines still to bolt around the place