Mapo Tapo Newsletter #8

🇦🇺 Australia is an incredibly vast and diverse country and there is a great deal of rock waiting to be climbed.

 

The climbing here is mostly sport-climbing and bouldering, and it just so good that you'll probably live some of the your best cragging experiences here. 😍 

 

Make sure to check the local climbing grading scale and the type of bolts used on the routes. 🤓👇🏼

The Eternity - a classic single-pitch trad route in the Blue Mountains @Phillip Booth

Australia is a huge country with lots of rock climbing opportunities. Most of the climbing is sport or trad single pitches and bouldering. Yes, it misses some of the "alpine" feeling (with some exceptions 😉), but for sure you can experience both adventurous or more laid back, chill climbing.

 

Here is a selection of the best climbing spots in Australia: 👇🏼

1️⃣ Frogg Buttress: 1.5h from Brisbane. Climb on orange-streaked rhyolite. 400 single-pitch trad routes from 5a to 7c. Head here for quality crack climbing. Visit in spring or fall.

2️⃣ Blue Mountains: 2h west of Sydney. Over 6,000 routes on sandstone rock ranging from adventurous big walls, single-pitch sport and trad. Grades range from 5 to 8a. Climbing is possible year-round.

The Tiger Stripe Wall, Blue Mountains @Phillip Booth

3️⃣ Nowra: 1.5h south of Sydney. Over 1,300 single-pitch, sport-climbing routes with short approaches 😍. Most of the routes are graded 6b up. Bring your pads as there’s excellent bouldering nearby.

4️⃣ Point Perpendicular: 2.15h south of Sydney. Incredible place for exposed single-pitch, sea-cliff climbing. The routes here are mostly trad, and you need to rappel down to reach the crag. Some routes are bolted with "Aussie Carrots" (see more below 👇🏼).

Rex Hunt's Love Child (21 or 6b+), Point Perpendicular @Phillip Booth

5️⃣ Mount Arapiles: 4h from Melbourne. It is a word-famous sublime 140m tall quartzite cliff. You’ll find over 3,200 trad routes grading from 3 to 7b with easy approaches 😍. Visit in spring or fall.

6️⃣ The Grampians: 3.5h from Melbourne. This is a world-class famous climbing spot. There are more than 9,000 routes on sandstone rock. It is mostly sport climbing and bouldering grading from 3 to 9a+. Make sure to check local restrictions.

7️⃣ Tasmania: this magical wild place is home to the continent's only real mountaineering. Many mention that there might be more climbable rock in Tasmania than on the rest of the continent. Here you can find amazing sandstone, seaside granite, and columnar basalt rock. The main climbing hubspots to remember are Mount Wellington, Freycinet National Park, Tasman Peninsula (including Totem Pole and Mount Brown), Frenchman’s Cap.

The Moai Pillar, Tasman Peninsula @Kitale Wilson

While you can find ring bolts, fixed hangers and U bolts all around the world, carrots are a local specialty. 🥕🇦🇺

 

Carrots are machine bolts with a hexagonal head. To clip carrots you'll need removable bolt plates (or a nut in case of emergency 😅) and not all of the quickdraws can be used.

 

Only use quickdraws with a solid gate carabiner. Otherwise the bolt plate won't lock onto the carrot. Read more on the Aussie Carrots here. Check the video below to see how this works. 👇🏼

Yes, you know...different continent, different grades 😅. Check the table below and save this newsletter if you are planning a trip to Australia and don't want to forget about the local climbing grades. 👇🏼

More info about rock climbing in Australia. 😉👇🏼

 

🧗 Trip 👉 Rock Climbing in Victoria's Region, Australia 

📝 Aussie climbing grades 👉 Table

🗺️ Best climbing spots👉  Google Maps; TheCrag

🗞️ The "Aussie Carrots" 👉 Read more on these local bolts; See video tutorial

✨ If you'd love to start planning your next adventure in Australia or elsewhere in the world, we are here for you, just fill the form below and let us know 🥰👇

June was a record month for Mapo Tapo: hundreds of travelers booked their second, third, or even fourth Mapo Tapo trip.

How did that happen? Here is @Dani telling you all about it 👇🏼 

As we often do, we decided to run an experiment. We reached out to the thousands of travelers who had already traveled with us, offering them a 10% discount code 🎁 as a gift for the trust they have put in us and continue to give us.

This initiative was so successful that we thought, why not offer the same incentive to those who haven't had the chance to travel with us yet?

And here’s your gift that will hopefully lower the barrier to give us a chance: use the code  DISCOVERMAPOTAPO  to get a 10% discount on your next climbing, trekking, mountaineering, or via ferrata trip, valid for all departures listed for 2024 and 2025, until July 21st, at midnight ⏳.

Got questions? Hit reply or WhatsApp us anytime 📲.

Enjoy July's promotion and give Mapo Tapo the chance to change your idea of vacation 😊

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