Last December Glenn Tempest wrote a blog (Problems with Falcons Lookout and Ironbark Gorge Carpark) commenting on the awful state of the walkers/climbers trail into Falcons Lookout at Werribee Gorge State Park. This trail is one of the most heavily used in Victoria and can see anything up to 60 people use it a day.… Continue reading Falcons Lookout Trail Improvements
Category: Rockclimbs Around Melbourne
Rockclimbs Around Melbourne iPhone App
Open Spaces and iCrag are excited to announce that the popular climbing guidebook, Rockclimbs Around Melbourne by Glenn Tempest, is now available as the iCrag – Melbourne app through the Apple App Store here. This app covers a selection of the best climbs on eight of the most popular crags within one and a half… Continue reading Rockclimbs Around Melbourne iPhone App
Problems With Falcons Lookout Walk and Ironbark Gorge Carpark
There are four official public entrances into Werribee Gorge State Park. The main entrance is via Myers Road on the eastern side of the park and is accessed via the Western Freeway from just past Bacchus Marsh. The other three entrances are located along Ironbark Road via Western Bluff, Ironbark Gorge and Ingliston Gorge Carparks.… Continue reading Problems With Falcons Lookout Walk and Ironbark Gorge Carpark
Jawbone Track Repairs Finished
Last week Greg and I walked up to the top of the North and South Jawbone Peaks in the Cathedral Range State Park. I was really keen to check out the new trail work on the Jawbone Track leading up to the Farmyard. The 2009 Black Saturday bushfires really hammered this part of the range… Continue reading Jawbone Track Repairs Finished
Camels Hump: Digging in the Dirt
Each of the three routes described below have been worked on in consultation with other local climbers and with the first ascentionists. These three climbs were all suffering from major issues and were either unclimbable, badly bolted and/or dangerous. Sluts Honour has had a slightly different start added (one bolt) by coming in from the… Continue reading Camels Hump: Digging in the Dirt
Rockclimbs Around Melbourne Corrections
These corrections have been listed by page number. They have been provided by the author and various other users of the guide. If you have any corrections that you believe are relevant please send them to Tracey Skinner at admin@osp.com.au. Corrections in black text have already been added to our Rockclimbs Around Melbourne iPhone app.… Continue reading Rockclimbs Around Melbourne Corrections
Rockclimbs Around Melbourne – new guidebook out now!
Open Spaces today released the new Rockclimbs Around Melbourne guide by Glenn Tempest. It will be available in most good climbing shops and in our online bookshop from today at a RRP of $29.95. This full colour selected climbs guide is 156 pages and has been produced in a unique landscape format to better cope… Continue reading Rockclimbs Around Melbourne – new guidebook out now!
South Jawbone, Post Fires
Tracey and I wandered up to South Jawbones the other day to check out some of the routes for the new Rockclimbs Around Melbourne guidebook that we are all working on at Open Spaces at the present. Joining us was Michael Hampton who really knows this crag well. I haven’t climbed on South Jawbone since… Continue reading South Jawbone, Post Fires