Okay, so Booroomba isn't really in NSW, it is in the southern end of the ACT in Namadgi National Park.It has some lovely cheese-grater slabs with good exposure. The rock is clean and solid with great friction, but watch out for those crystals that like to pop out after all these millennia just when you have your hand on them.
LOCATION: Go to Tharwa, 30km S of Canberra. Follow Nass road 10km S, make a right onto Apollo Road. After 5km, make a right on a dirt road (about 400m before the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station). Park at the end of this road and hike up and over the hill.
ROCK: Granite
CLIMBING: All grades up to 25, lots of slabs, cracks and faces. About 300 climbs.Natural pro, bolts. A little sport climbing.
WHEN TO GO: Beware that at 1300m above sea level, the weather is changeable. The best seasons are spring and fall, but summer can be glorious and winter is not out, although snow happens.
RECOMMENDED READING: ACT Granite -- edited by John Churchill and Mike Peck and put out by the ANU Mountaineering Club (1998)
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| Chris Warner, pitch three Space Wasted (23), Central Slabs, Booroomba Rocks. |
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