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The Blue Mountains (NSW)
The Blue Mountains are an enormous area of semi-wilderness about 2 hours west of Sydney. The most obvious feature
of the area is the hundreds of kilometres of cliff line, formed by the numerous streams that cut into the soft
sandstone plateau that makes up the area.
The vast majority of the established crags are on these sandstone cliffs, although there are also a couple of
scattered igneous outcrops in the mountains (the granite at Tarana, for example).
The Blue Mountains sandstone is quite variable in quality, with everything from unclimbable choss through to rock
that is as good as that found at Mt Arapiles. This variability has resulted in the numerous features found in the
mountains; there's everything from enormous juggy rooves to thin crimpy slabs to exposed aretes to superb crack
lines.
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