Mt Buffalo
The Gorge
The view from the drive up, near Eurobin slabs. From right to left is Queen Victoria Buttress (facing camera); the mighty North Wall (facing left); the waterfall; and the South side of the Gorge. Angels buttress is the first major section of rock left of the waterfall, below the orange patch of rock.
The North Wall
The legendary aid route Ozymandias heads up the highest part of this wall. Some flyspeck climbers can be seen on Big Grassy near the bottom of the photo - thats the first bivouac! Angels buttress is in the sun, visible through the trees at the bottom of the pic.
Another view of the North Wall, from Pulpit Rock. Pretty steep huh!
The South Side
Angels buttress is the obvious major feature from bottom left to top right. Guidebook aficionados will immediately recognise the black and orange streaked wall at top right - see the front cover! And the hang glider ramp is at top left.
*** Where Angels Fear to Tread 260m 17 (OS)
A view of this magnificent buttress from the South Side Track walk-in. Jerry Maddox is the poor soul shown who I've conned into leading me up the hard bits!!! :-)
Nice view eh? The beautiful Lake Catani as seen from the Monolith, with the campground under the trees at the left end of the lake, Catani Crag poking out from the trees (above the left end of the lake), and Chalwell Galleries on the skyline further left.
The Cathedral & The Hump
The view of The Cathedral from the road. From left to right: Sultan (20) goes up the corner under the hulking rooves on the left; Maharajah (17) starts on the right of the highest block (some flyspeck climbers can be seen halfway up it) and up its right face; the cleancut corner at centre bottom is Compulsion (13); and the major smooth arete at far right is The Dreaming (23) - 90m high!
A zoomed view of The Hump and The Cathedral, with The Cathedral on the left. The highest part of The Hump is a massive 90m slab with classics such as Glossop Skins and The Initiation up it.
Dreamworld
A view of Jerry rapping off this lovely vertical wall. The rap anchors could do with replacing! Buffalo Soldier (* 16) is 1m R of the rap rope, while This is Not Our Land (** 20) follows the obvious dyke/flake up the L side of the wall.
The Horn
The view of The Horn as you approach.
A zoomed view. Peroxide Blonde is the obvious sharp arete up high. The arete on the next level down and 15m to the left has the awesome thin flake of The Pintle L Variant up it.
* The Pintle 70m 14
A great view of pitch 1, also showing the superb line of The Pintle Left Hand Variant (the flake on the arete above).
Me on pitch 3. Peroxide Blonde is obvious on the left.
Backwall
The view of Backwall from the top of the Horn.
A zoomed view of Backwall, showing those beautiful lines. Oh, and its up to 160m high, and there's less than 20 routes on the entire thing . . .
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© 2002 Will