Australia is the largest single working in the Dinorwig Quarries, consisting of a vast open cwm high on the side of Elidir Fawr. The quarrymen thoughtfully developed the area in tiers, giving walls of around 30m in height and allowing relatively easy access to the various sections along terraces. Most of the best walls are on the west side where there are around six or seven tiers of quality walls and slabs. The north side and east walls have less to offer, but still feature the odd decent bit of rock.In the late noughties this area saw a boom in easy sport climbing. The Sidings is one of the best areas in the quarries for low-grade clip-ups, although there are many other routes in this area that cover the full spectrum of the slate experience. Australia has become a very popular place to sport climb, although there are some excellent trad lines to be found as well, and some that blur the lines between the two. The nature of the walls on the western side means that it is possible to climb routes on successive tiers creating some enjoyable long link-ups.
Order | Climb | Buttress | Stars | Grade |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Great Bores of Today | Lower Walls | 2 | 7a |
2 |
The Wow Wow | Lower Walls | 2 | E4 6a |
3 |
The Dunlop Green Flash | Lower Walls | XS | |
4 |
Fontaineslab | Lower Walls | 1 | 7a |
5 |
Darkness Visible | Lower Walls | E4 6a | |
6 |
Oyenstikker | Lower Walls | 1 | 7a+ |
7 |
Illegal Smeagol | Lower Walls | VS 4a | |
8 |
Runup | Lower Walls | VS 4a | |
9 |
Dekophobia | Lower Walls | 7a | |
10 |
Son of Rabbit | Lower Walls | E2 5c | |
11 |
Temple of Boom | Lower Walls | HVS | |
12 |
My Secret Garden | Lower Walls | 7b | |
13 |
Arnie Meets the Swamp Monster | Lower Walls | E1 5a | |
14 |
Toilet Trouble | Lower Walls | E2 5c | |
15 |
Stinky Boots | Lower Walls | E2 5b | |
1 |
Joie De Vivre | The Rognon | HS 4a | |
2 |
Theftus Maximus | The Rognon | E1 5b | |
3 |
Little Mo | The Rognon | HS 4a | |
4 |
Abattoir Blues | The Rognon | 1 | E2 5c |
5 |
Genital Persuasion | The Rognon | E3 5c | |
6 |
Single Factor | The Rognon | 1 | E2 5c |
7 |
Second Thoughts | The Rognon | VS 4b | |
1 |
Puddy Kat | Looning the Tube | 5a | |
2 |
Just for Fun | Looning the Tube | 1 | E2 5c |
3 |
The Burning | Looning the Tube | 1 | 6b+ |
4 |
Groovy Arete | Looning the Tube | 1 | 6a |
5 |
The Mutant Strain | Looning the Tube | 1 | 6b |
6 |
The Deceptive Dyke | Looning the Tube | 1 | 5c |
7 |
1066 | Looning the Tube | 6b | |
8 |
N.E. Spur | Looning the Tube | E3 5c | |
9 |
Loony Toons | Looning the Tube | 1 | E3 5c |
10 |
Brief Encounter | Looning the Tube | 1 | HVS 5a |
11 |
Astroman from the Planet Zzzoink | Looning the Tube | E3 6a | |
12 |
The Man Who Fell to Earth | Looning the Tube | E2 5c | |
13 |
Donald Duck | Looning the Tube | 1 | 6c |
14 |
Gadaffi Duck | Looning the Tube | 2 | 6b+ |
15 |
Sad Man Who's Sane | Looning the Tube | 1 | VS 4c |
16 |
U.B.L. | Looning the Tube | HS 4b | |
17 |
Hyperfly | Looning the Tube | 1 | 6a+ |
18 |
Turn of the Century | Looning the Tube | 2 | E2 5c |
19 |
Maximum Tariff | Looning the Tube | 1 | 6b |
20 |
Buffalo Smashed in Head Jump | Looning the Tube | E4 5c | |
21 |
Dried Mouth Sesame Seed | Looning the Tube | 5c | |
22 |
Technical Hamster | Looning the Tube | 6c | |
23 |
Technical Hamster Dance | Looning the Tube | HVS 4b | |
24 |
Dried Mouth Frog | Looning the Tube | HS 4a | |
25 |
Swan Hunter | Looning the Tube | 2 | E4 6b |
26 |
Goose Creature | Looning the Tube | 2 | E3 6a |
27 |
Menai Vice | Looning the Tube | 2 | E4 6c |
28 |
Looning the Tube | Looning the Tube | 3 | E1 5a |
29 |
Hysterectomy | Looning the Tube | 1 | E5 5c |
30 |
Zzzooming the Tube | Looning the Tube | 1 | E3 6a |
31 |
Pruning the Tube | Looning the Tube | 1 | E2 5c |
32 |
Exhuming the Tube | Looning the Tube | 1 | E3 5c |
33 |
Bise-Mon-Cul | Looning the Tube | 2 | E2 5c |
34 |
Mad on the Metro | Looning the Tube | 1 | E4 5c |
35 |
Gerboa Racer | Looning the Tube | E4 5c | |
36 |
Fuck Les Clotures | Looning the Tube | 1 | 5a |
37 |
A Selfish Act of Loonacy | Looning the Tube | 1 | 6b |
1 |
Sport 4 All | Above the Rails | 5a | |
2 |
Kinder Surprise | Above the Rails | 1 | 5a |
3 |
Surprise Surprise | Above the Rails | 1 | 6a |
4 |
Shorty's Dyno | Above the Rails | 1 | 6a |
5 |
Orangutang Overhang | Above the Rails | 2 | 6a+ |
6 |
Cyber World Sl@te Heads | Above the Rails | 1 | 6a+ |
7 |
Slatehead Arete | Above the Rails | 1 | 6a+ |
8 |
Steps of Glory | Above the Rails | 2 | 5a |
1 |
Cartoon Lesbians | Railtrack Slab | 6a+ | |
2 |
Patio Doors of Perception | Railtrack Slab | E3 6a | |
3 |
The Fat Controller | Railtrack Slab | 1 | 6b |
4 |
Scarface Claw | Railtrack Slab | 2 | 6b+ |
5 |
Red Throated Diver | Railtrack Slab | 2 | 6b+ |
6 |
Second Class Passenger | Railtrack Slab | 1 | E2 5c |
7 |
Sleeper | Railtrack Slab | 1 | 6c |
8 |
Crazy Train | Railtrack Slab | 2 | 6c |
9 |
Ancestral Vices | Railtrack Slab | 1 | E4 6b |
10 |
Off the Beaten Track | Railtrack Slab | 3 | E3 5c |
11 |
Uncle Nick's Broken Toe | Railtrack Slab | 1 | E5 6b |
12 |
Here to Stay, Gone Tomorrow | Railtrack Slab | 1 | E3 6a |
13 |
Between Here and Now | Railtrack Slab | 2 | E3 6a |
14 |
The Toms Approach | Railtrack Slab | E4 5c | |
15 |
Now or Never Never | Railtrack Slab | E5 5c | |
16 |
A Grand Day Out Pitch 1 | Railtrack Slab | 6a | |
17 |
Psychodelicate | Railtrack Slab | 2 | 7c |
18 |
The Ghan | Railtrack Slab | 1 | 6b |
1 |
Zut Alors | The Salt Pans | 3 | 6c+ |
2 |
Y Rhaffwr | The Salt Pans | 2 | 6c |
3 |
Stretched to the Limit | The Salt Pans | 1 | 6c+ |
4 |
The Rack | The Salt Pans | 1 | 6b+ |
5 |
Narcolepsy | The Salt Pans | 1 | 7a+ |
6 |
The Australian | The Salt Pans | 2 | 6b |
7 |
Jenny Wren | The Salt Pans | VD | |
8 |
The Stream of Obscenity | The Salt Pans | 1 | 7a |
9 |
Kosciusko | The Salt Pans | 1 | VS 4b |
1 |
Puffing Billy | The Sidings | S 4a | |
2 |
Sidings Enigma | The Sidings | 1 | 6a |
3 |
Not Known | The Sidings | 1 | 6a |
4 |
Glass Axe | The Sidings | 1 | E5 7a |
5 |
'N' Gauge | The Sidings | 1 | 5c |
6 |
Side Line | The Sidings | 1 | 4c |
7 |
Derailed | The Sidings | 4a | |
8 |
Thomas the Tank | The Sidings | 1 | 4a |
9 |
The Level Crossing | The Sidings | 1 | 5c |
10 |
Rack and Pin | The Sidings | 1 | 5c |
11 |
Sodor | The Sidings | 1 | 6a |
12 |
The Mallard | The Sidings | 1 | 5c |
13 |
The Polar Express | The Sidings | 1 | 5c |
14 |
Ivor the Engine | The Sidings | 1 | 5a |
15 |
Gordon | The Sidings | 1 | 3c |
16 |
Being a Bob | The Sidings | 1 | 5a |
17 |
'Those who climb...' | The Sidings | 1 | 5c |
18 |
Choo Choo | The Sidings | 1 | 5c |
19 |
Hogwarts Express | The Sidings | 1 | 5c |
20 |
The Railway Children | The Sidings | 2 | 6a |
21 |
In Loving Memory | The Sidings | 2 | 6a+ |
22 |
A Grand Day Out Pitch 2 | The Sidings | 2 | 5a |
1 |
Solitude Standing | Fruitbat Level | E3 6a | |
2 |
Eric the Fruitbat | Fruitbat Level | 1 | E3 5c |
3 |
Harder than it Looks | Fruitbat Level | 2 | 6a+ |
4 |
M.I.L Arete | Fruitbat Level | 1 | E1 5b |
5 |
Genevive | Fruitbat Level | 1 | E2 5c |
6 |
Rory's Unfinished Business | Fruitbat Level | HVS 4c | |
7 |
Pontiac Arete | Fruitbat Level | VS 4c | |
8 |
Stretched Limo | Fruitbat Level | 1 | E2 5c |
9 |
Gymnastic Fantastic | Fruitbat Level | 1 | 6c+ |
10 |
Slatebite | Fruitbat Level | 2 | 7a |
11 |
Albatross | Fruitbat Level | 2 | 7b |
12 |
The Christening of New Boots | Fruitbat Level | E1 5b | |
13 |
Rock Athlete's Day Off | Fruitbat Level | HVS 5b | |
1 |
Jepp the Knave | Zippy Level | 1 | 7b+ |
2 |
Thumberlina | Zippy Level | 2 | 7c |
3 |
Last Chance for a Slow Dance | Zippy Level | E3 5b | |
4 |
In on the Kill Taker | Zippy Level | 1 | E5 6b |
5 |
Beanstalk | Zippy Level | 2 | 7a |
6 |
...and a Pen Please | Zippy Level | HVS 5a | |
7 |
Boulevard of Broken Dreams | Zippy Level | 1 | 6c+ |
8 |
Rastaman Vibration | Zippy Level | 1 | E2 6a |
9 |
Razorback | Zippy Level | 2 | HVS 5a |
10 |
Putting on Ayres | Zippy Level | 1 | E4 6c |
11 |
Feeling Rusty? | Zippy Level | 1 | 6b+ |
12 |
Zippy's First Acid Trip | Zippy Level | 1 | E1 5c |
13 |
Your Ma | Zippy Level | 2 | E1 5c |
14 |
Ziplock | Zippy Level | 2 | 7b |
15 |
Indiana Jasmine and the Topple of Doom! | Zippy Level | 1 | 5c |
16 |
Second's Chance | Zippy Level | VS 4c | |
17 |
Cross Eyed Tammy | Zippy Level | HVS 5a | |
18 |
Resurrection Shuffle | Zippy Level | 2 | E4 6b |
19 |
The Samba Drum | Zippy Level | 1 | E3 5c |
20 |
Pulverised | Zippy Level | 7b | |
21 |
De Nouement | Zippy Level | 7b | |
1 |
Digital Delectation | Skyline Buttress | 2 | HVS 5a |
2 |
Good Afternoon Constable | Skyline Buttress | VS 4c | |
3 |
Dolmen | Skyline Buttress | HVS 5a | |
4 |
Menhir | Skyline Buttress | VS 4c | |
5 |
The Skyline Club | Skyline Buttress | 1 | E2 5c |
6 |
Antiquity | Skyline Buttress | 1 | E1 5a |
7 |
Act Naturally | Skyline Buttress | 1 | VS 4b |
8 |
Ruby Marlee Meets Dr Holingsworth | Skyline Buttress | 2 | E1 5b |
9 |
Ronald Reagan meets Doctor Strangelove | Skyline Buttress | 1 | E2 5b |
10 |
Lindy Lou | Skyline Buttress | HVS 4b | |
11 |
Plastic Soldier | Skyline Buttress | 2 | 6a |
12 |
Clash of the Titans | Skyline Buttress | 2 | 6a |
13 |
The Dreaming | Skyline Buttress | E1 5b | |
14 |
Mad Dog of the West | Skyline Buttress | 2 | VS 5a |
15 |
The Methane Monster | Skyline Buttress | E1 5b | |
16 |
Binwomen | Skyline Buttress | VS 4b | |
17 |
Up the Garden Path | Skyline Buttress | HS 4b | |
18 |
Billy Two Tokes | Skyline Buttress | E1 5b | |
19 |
Youthslayer | Skyline Buttress | E3 5b | |
20 |
Slab Slayer | Skyline Buttress | 2 | 6b |
21 |
Harri Bach Llanrug | Skyline Buttress | 1 | 6a |
22 |
Rock Yoga | Skyline Buttress | 2 | 7a+ |
23 |
Put it on the Slate Waiter | Skyline Buttress | 2 | 6b+ |
24 |
Toe Be or not Toe Be | Skyline Buttress | 7b | |
1 |
Mynd am Aur | The Gorbals | 1 | 7a |
2 |
Slab Rog | The Gorbals | 3 | 6b+ |
3 |
Olympic Torch | The Gorbals | 2 | 6b+ |
4 |
The Shining | The Gorbals | VS 4c | |
5 |
Mister Blister | The Gorbals | 1 | 7a |
6 |
Men at Work | The Gorbals | 2 | E3 6a |
7 |
The North Face of the Aga | The Gorbals | 1 | E3 6a |
8 |
Filler | The Gorbals | 1 | E3 6a |
9 |
Sprint Finish | The Gorbals | 1 | 6a |
10 |
Old and Complicated under the Oak Tree | The Gorbals | 1 | 5b |
11 |
Youthanasia | The Gorbals | E2 5b | |
12 |
See You Bruce | The Gorbals | 2 | E3 5b |
13 |
Glasgow Kiss | The Gorbals | 2 | 7c |
14 |
The Gorbals | The Gorbals | 2 | E4 6a |
15 |
Slabaholics Anonymous | The Gorbals | 2 | 7a+ |
16 |
Black Daisies for the Bride | The Gorbals | E5 6b | |
17 |
Slabology | The Gorbals | 1 | 7a |
18 |
Fetzer | The Gorbals | E2 5b | |
19 |
Tennent's Creek | The Gorbals | E2 5b | |
20 |
Franzia | The Gorbals | E2 5b | |
21 |
Turkey Trot | The Gorbals | VS 4c | |
22 |
A Swarm of Green Parrots | The Gorbals | VS 4c | |
1 |
The Ghostly Hipster | Alice Springs | 1 | 5b |
2 |
The Last Amendment | Alice Springs | 1 | 5b |
3 |
Bear Knee Cessity | Alice Springs | 2 | 6a+ |
4 |
Koala Bare | Alice Springs | E2 5b | |
5 |
Men of Leisure | Alice Springs | 2 | 6c+ |
6 |
No Feart of the Boaby | Alice Springs | 2 | 6b+ |
7 |
Celtic Blood | Alice Springs | 1 | 6a |
8 |
Flying Death Fin (or is it Dutch?) | Alice Springs | HVS 4c | |
9 |
Captain Condom and the Mothers of Prevention | Alice Springs | E3 6b | |
10 |
Eyes Wide Shut | Alice Springs | 1 | E5 6b |
11 |
Where is My Mind | Alice Springs | 1 | E6 6b |
12 |
Goblin Party | Alice Springs | 1 | VS 4b |
13 |
Out There Left | Alice Springs | 5b | |
14 |
Out There Right | Alice Springs | 5b | |
1 |
A Very Trad Day Out | Grand Days Out | 2 | E1 5b |
2 |
An Extreme Day Out | Grand Days Out | 2 | E4 6a |
3 |
A Grand Day Out | Grand Days Out | 2 | 6b+ |
1 |
Big Thursday | Back Wall | 1 | XS 5c |
2 |
If You Kill People They Die | Back Wall | XS 5b | |
3 |
Conquistadors of the Useless | Back Wall | ABO | |
1 |
Another Wasted Journey | Darwin Level | E1 4c | |
2 |
Easy Routes Can Have Bolts Too! | Darwin Level | 5c | |
3 |
Room with a View | Darwin Level | 2 | 7b |
4 |
The Faffer | Darwin Level | 2 | E6 6b |
5 |
The Very Old and the Very New | Darwin Level | A3 | |
6 |
Wish You Were Here | Darwin Level | 3 | 7c |
1 |
Cape York Approach | Cape York Slab | 4b | |
2 |
Lucky Break | Cape York Slab | 2 | 6c+ |
3 |
Cape York Traverse | Cape York Slab | 1 | 6a+ |
4 |
Cape York Crack | Cape York Slab | 6a+ | |
5 |
High Stakes | Cape York Slab | 6b+ | |
6 |
A Brucie Bonus | Cape York Slab | 2 | 6b |
7 |
Cape York Slab | Cape York Slab | VS 4b | |
1 |
Ayer Head | Ayers Rock | 1 | 6c+ |
2 |
Kata Tjuta Rib | Ayers Rock | 2 | 6a+ |
3 |
Ayers and Graces | Ayers Rock | 2 | 6c+ |
1 |
Road to Botany Bay | East Face | 2 | 7a |
2 |
Impact Zone | East Face | 2 | 7a |
3 |
Wave Rock | East Face | 2 | 6c |
4 |
Sylvanian Waters | East Face | 2 | E2 5c |
5 |
The Garet Slide | East Face | 4a | |
6 |
Birthday Girl | East Face | 1 | 7b |
7 |
Spicy Little Octopus | East Face | 1 | 6a+ |
8 |
G'Day Corner | East Face | 1 | 7a+ |
9 |
Hogiau Pen Garet | East Face | 1 | 6a+ |
10 |
Walk this Way | East Face | 2 | 7a |
11 |
Raise the Roof | East Face | 1 | 7a+ |
12 |
The Koala Brothers | East Face | 6b | |
13 |
G'Day Arete | East Face | 3 | 6c |
14 |
Jack the Ripper | East Face | E4 6a | |
15 |
Far From the Madding Crowd | East Face | 1 | E4 6a |
16 |
The Curious Incident | East Face | 1 | 6a |
17 |
To Infinity and Beyond! | East Face | 2 | 6b |
18 |
Ride Like the wind! | East Face | 1 | 6b+ |
19 |
Cirith Ungol | East Face | 2 | 7a+ |
20 |
Atticus Finch | East Face | 6c | |
1 |
Not Quite Snakes and Ladders | The Dark Tower | HVS | |
2 |
Where the Green Ants Dream | The Dark Tower | E5 6a | |
3 |
The Dark Tower | The Dark Tower | 2 | 8a+ |
4 |
The Serpent Vein | The Dark Tower | 3 | 8b |
5 |
Buffer in a Crack House | The Dark Tower | XS 5b |
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