Crag Descriptions

NSW, Australia SYDNEY REGION *** Blue Mountains (30 pages) ** Sydney (25 pages) NORTH FROM SYDNEY * Central Coast (3 pages) *** Warrumbungles  * New England Tablelands (2 pages) SOUTH COAST * Mt. Keira ** Nowra (8 pages) *** Pt. Perpendicular SOUTHERN TABLELANDS, ACT ** Bungonia Gorge * Mt Alexandra *** Booroomba Rocks * Orroral Ridge * The Rock Queensland ** Frog Buttress ** Glasshouse Mountains . . . . .

Victoria MELBOURNE REGION * The You Yangs Werribee Gorge * Camel's Hump Black Hill Barfold Gorge Mt Alexander * Warragul Rocks ** Cathedral Range Ben Cairn WESTERN VICTORIA *** Mt. Arapiles (18 pages) *** The Grampians (29 pages) NORTHERN VICTORIA *** Mt Buffalo (15 pages) * Mt Pilot EASTERN VICTORIA Buchan Little River Gorge South Australia FLINDERS RANGES *** Moonarie Canada *** Squamish . .

U.S.A. OREGON ** Smith Rock CALIFORNIA * Shasta - Castle Crags * Lake Tahoe Area ** Lover's Leap * Consumnes River Gorge *** Yosemite Valley (20 pages) *** Tuolumne Meadows Glen Canyon (B) * Castle Rock (B) *** Tahquitz & Suicide *** Joshua Tree * Stoney Point (B) Horse Flats (B) * Sespe Gorge NEVADA * Lake Tahoe Area *** Red Rocks UTAH ** Zion NP * Capitol Reef NP ** Fisher Towers *** Castleton Tower * Arches NP ** Potash Road *** Indian Creek ** Canyonlands WEST VIRGINIA ** New River Gorge ** Seneca Rocks

Europe FRANCE *** Ceüse *** Verdon Gorge ** Fontainebleau (B) More French Crags ENGLAND ** Stanage * Froggatt ** The Roaches More Peaks Crags SPAIN ** Prades/Siurana *** El Chorro More Spanish Crags ITALY *** Dolomites Genoa South America BRAZIL *** Rio de Janeiro (3 pages) Paranagua BOLIVIA * La Paz PERU, CHILE, ARGENTINA Peru Chile Argentina

Africa MOROCCO *** Todra Gorge Chefchaouen Midelt * Gorges du Dades Ourzazate Marrakech * Gorges d'Ouzoud EGYPT Aswan * Sinai Asia THAILAND Hat Yai *** Krabi/Raylae (10 pages) MALAYSIA ** Batu Caves (KL) Ipoh Penang Kedah Langkawi New Routes . . . .

Abbreviations Used on This Site

Hangerless bolts (aka "carrot bolts") are common in Australia. The main problem in describing bolts usually arises in differentiating a hangerless bolt, a fixed hanger, and a ringbolt. "BR" has gained some acceptance for hangerless bolts BUT the way I see it, 'runner' is any type of pro, therefore 'bolt runner' (BR) describes any type of bolt, and therefore I consider it imprecise to use this term with reference to hangerless bolts only. Feel free to disagree but here's the terms I try and stick to on this site:

BB: a carrot (hangerless bolt) (often used in Australia as belay bolts, hence BB).
DBB: double belay bolts (2 carrots for belay)
TBB: triple belay bolts
FH, DFH, TFH: fixed hanger, double fixed hanger, triple fixed hanger
RB, DRB, TRB: ringbolt, double ring bolts, triple ring bolts
PR: piton
P: pitch
L : left or led (use your brain)
R : right
N, S, E, W : North, South, East, West
Solo: to climb the route without a rope (not recommended!)
Rap : Rappel, or abseil.
FA: first ascent
FFA: first free ascent (FA is preferred, except when previous ascent(s) were not free)
FCA: first complete ascent (for multipitch routes which have been partially climbed previously), or first clean ascent (for previously aided routes)
FFTRA: first free toprope ascent
FRA: first recorded ascent, used when someone might have done it before the first known ascentionist.
HB: hanging belay
SHB: semi hanging belay
OS: I onsighted the route (ie redpointed the route on the first attempt)
RP: I redpointed the route (to lead the route without weighting the rope, but having been on the route before (either a prior attempt at leading or possibly as a clean second))
L: I have led the route (ie done all the moves on lead but I had to weight the rope)
YP: I have yellowpointed the route (either toprope or second without weighting the rope)
TR: I seconded or toproped the route, but I had to weight the rope.

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