Mount Gibraltar Bouldering and Climbing Sess

A trip brought to you by James Bultitude, Matt Hamlyn and Nicola Tan.

So, we should all be a little bleary eyed after Friday nights pubgaine, and some of you might be looking to do a little climbing.  Here is your absolution from a hungover day of nothingness.

Mount Gibraltar (The Gib) is my favorite crag. It’s close enough to sydney, has a nice view and has a wide variety of climbing on a different rock type to the normal sydney sandstone fare.  The guide is here, But don’t get too scared, you can walk to the base of most routes.

http://routes.sydneyrockies.org.au:8080/confluence/display/nswrock/Mt+Gibraltar

A less complete guide is here.

http://www.thecrag.com/climbing/australia/mt-gibraltar

We will allow up to 6  beginners to come along and jump on some top ropes and bouldering. For everyone else, here are your options for the day:

Bouldering:

Currently there is no bouldering developed at The Gib. There are however a lot of good looking boulders. Bring a brush, some shoes and bouldering pads and have a boulder. Everything is a first ascent! Make sure any thing you climb gets recorded. As the rock is very hard, you can use a wire brush for cleaning here. The potential varies from short and overhanging to slabby and highball.

Sport Climbing/ Top Roping:

The Area designate 14 wall in the guide will be getting some shiny new bolts to replace some of its older, crappier ones throughout the day. It will have top ropes set up on it. Bring some soft climbing shoes and find out what this slab nonsense is all about. There is a variety of harder funky sport climbing around as well.

Multipitch Trad or Sport: 

There are a number of awesomely good multi-pitches on offer. Ask me for a route idea and i’ll give you one. In particular Big Bird is classic and sport bolted. There is even potential for some new trad routes to get climbed!

There is no real cap on the number of experienced members that can come. However, everyone should contact me before they assume they are coming, either via facebook (James Bultitude) or Call/Text me on 0432866307.