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Moonarie - best time and logistics 19-Mar-2010 At 10:55:49 AM ado_m

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Autumn or spring would be the best, it's hot as haedes in the summer and would be dark and cold in the winter. I'd just drive there from Canberra if you have a car and a lazy day each way to drive the 1300km, it's a wicked road trip across miles and miles of nothing and pokey little country towns. It'd be about the same as melbourne, we did it in less than 12 hours, and it means you can bring loads of gear and food etc!

It's a great crag if you're climbing in the 23+ trad range. If you are climbing anything less than 18 on trad I def wouldn't bother taking the epic journey from canberra out there ie the sub 20 routes are mostly rubbish apart from a there are a couple of cracking 19s (downwind and pine crack), and a whole lot of starred sub 20 routes which are frankly rubbish for one reason or another. Take eg flying buttress which may get 3 stars for position and history, but I think it was a horrible trench.

I've onyl been there once, but if I went again I think i'd bivvy up at top camp it's a really special place and you save two hours of hard slog walking up and down the crag.