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Last Updated 29th June 2001
Drive 8.7km from Halls Gap along the Halls Gap/Mt Zero Road. (MAP) Turn left into rough dirt road and follow this to T junction (4WD required). Turn left and drive aprox. 300m along this road past a small creek crossing and park. If you don't have a 4WD take care when parking, the edges of the track are very soft and you WILL get bogged. Bush bash uphill following the pink tape markers for 10 minutes to base of Lower Lunar Crag. To reach the upper cliffs walk to far right of the lower cliff and upwards to obvious big red cave. If you don't have a 4WD walking time is aprox 25min.
Climbs the highest and nicest part of the lower wall. Up wide crack to ledge. Up line in loose slab to nice orange rock. Climb right side of this to big break (#4 cam) then crank up bulging thin line above on small wires to top and tree belay.
FFA Neil Monteith (onsight) & Mat Shears 7/6/98
80m left
Two move wonder, Up wall on edges to bulging smooth section. Desperatly up this on small crimpers to juggy top.
FTRA Neil Monteith 8/8/98
20m left is the obvious Arapiles Block which has four quality top-ropable boulder problems all around grade 20.
Up on jugs to obvious big jug under roof. Step right and grapple sidecling. Traverse back left on slopers to juggy finish.
FTRA Neil Monteith 8/8/98
Staright up to break. Get crimper then big dyno to good jugs.
FTRA Neil Monteith 8/8/98
Up broken corner traversing left under bulge. Up to break then lunge up to edges. Lunge again to jugs.
FTRA Neil Monteith 8/8/98
Hard start up sideclings to mini roof. Pull over this on edges then lunge for jugs at top.
FTRA Neil Monteith 8/8/98
The first four routes are located on the obvious tall buttress at right side of crag. A single FH backed up with SLCD's and small wires services the belay on top.
Easy slab with good protection at the far right side of Left Side Lunar Crag. Step off block and up to top of 'pillar' with a single FH for belay. Downclimb the northern side of the pillar to decend.
FFA Neil Monteith (onsight) & Mat Shears 7/6/98
Pleasant slab. Start just down left of Apollo at a small pillar.Up the pillar, then continue up just left of the arete.
FFA Wayne Maher, Melanie McIntosh, James McIntosh, Peter Cunningham 29/12/98
3m left
Thin face with two FH's. Hard moves are located in the bottom half. The top half is technically easy but hard to protect.
FTRA Neil Monteith 31/5/98
FFA Paul 'NZ' Christoffersen (redpoint) & Nick 'Tarzan' McKinnon 4/10/98
Climb groove at left arete of the Lost in Space Pillar until about 8m above the ground, step right then up the left edge of the wall.
Attempted by Nick McKinnon 4/10/98
FFA Peter Cunningham, James McIntosh, Wayne Maher, Derek Vissor. 29/12/98
3m left
Falun Gong 20m 18/19
Diagonal crack in right wall of gully left of Lunar Lander. The finish is dirty.
FFA Chris Baxter & geoff Gledhill 25.11.2000
3m left
Marginal protection makes for engaging climbing. This is the slab just left of Falun Gong. Start in the centre of this on a ledge below two cracks forming a V. Climb cracks to a narrow ledge then slab (crux) to another narrow ledge. Follow the flake then up slightly right to a larger ledge with tree.
FTRA 31/5/98
FFA David Jupp & Matthew Jones 6/11/2000
The next climbs are ten metres left of Moonscape on a textured grey wall. A rap station is situated above Sea of Tranquility.
Surmount bulge at start then up to break. Hard moves in shallow corner (FH) lead to a juggy overhang. Over this then upwards to belay ledge. A sandbag at the grade?
FTRA Neil Monteith 31/5/98
FFA Paul 'NZ' Christoffersen (onsight) & Nick 'Tarzan' McKinnon 4/10/98
2m left
Start as for Sea of Tranquility but heads up and right to FH. Up hard wall then twin seams above keeping left of Zero Gravity. A bit contrived.
FFA Adam 'Decker' Demmert (onsight) & Neil Monteith 4/10/98
Thin start with limted protection to break then more hard moves to seam and jugs. Up reachy bulgy wall to rap station on ledge.
FTRA Neil Monteith 31/5/98
FFA Neil Monteith & Adam Demmert 4/10/98
3m left
Great seam and face on left side of the Left Side Lunar Crag. From large block step across to crack and motor up this to blank section. Over this (crux) then up to jugs. Into faint corner (FH) and up to break. Step right and climb bulge and sloping face to top. Rap off anchors above Sea of Tranquility.
FFA Neil Monteith & Mat Shears (couldn't do crux) 9/6/98
2m left
Tricky moves up the closed obvious corner for eight metres then bridge up to roof passing a FH. Jam left across crack and around to corner. Jam up this to top. Bring heaps of wires for this classic grunt fest.
The first half was aided at A1 by Neil Monteith 18/7/98.
Nick McKinnon attempted to free it 4/10/98 but didn't get off the ground!
FFA Neil Monteith, Poul Christofferson & Thomas Wimmer (GER) 6/2/99
Instead of finishing out left, hand traverse out right along sloping break to finish up Crescent Crack.
4m left
The good looking diagonal hand crack. A chain will be needed on ledge.
The following three routes are found on a black wall about 60m left of Abyss.
Thin layback flake on ledge up and right of main wall. Finish up blocks to tree belay.
FFA Neil Monteith & Poul Christofferson 6/1/99
Slabby wall to small ledge then wall above.
Rounded arete on left side of wall. FH's?
40m left of Sputnik is a small creek. The next route is on the wall on the right side of the creek.
On the left side of the wall. Up overhung start on jugs to FH. Tricky balancy moves on crimpers leads to second FH. Step left onto arete and crimp up on layaways to good holds. Upwards to sloping ledge (cams). Surmount overhang on jugs to ledge. Up over next overhang on limited protection but excellent rock.
FTRA Neil Monteith 8/8/98
FFA Neil Monteith & Adam Demmert 4/10/98
The next route is on the small wall on the left side of the creek.
Overhung start, hard, to break. Long move to next break. Up on crimpers and pockets to top
Several hundred metres above the red cave is a two tiered wall. From the road it would proberly take close to an hour of technical scrambling to reach it. The lower right hand side has the better rock. It is easily distinghed by the 'fin' of pocketed rock located in the middle of the cliff. The upper tier of Upper Lunar Crag looks promising from the road but is generally much to juggy or loose to bother with.
The obvious route up the arete made by the fin. Some very intersting small pockets down low. FH's?
Bouldery start up soft rock 30m left of Fin then up face.
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