Geryon

This letter came from Mike Stacey. 

Hi,
We've just been to Tassie for some climbing and walking and found the Craglets guide a good source of general info. Having written a few guides myself I know how hard it sometimes is to get people to write down their new routes so (whether it's useful or not) here's some info.

We went up to Mt.Geryon with a copy of Baxter's "Rock" guide in hand - what a worthless piece of shite it is too. After wasting a good deal of time we threw it to the shithouse and navigated around on our own "feelings". Repeated a couple of old world longish grovels to the magic place of South Peak summit. The main thing I wanted to let you know about was a short single pitch thing we did in the gully at the top of the scree chute. I wasn't sure whether it'd been done or not so I wrote it up anyway.   All directions facing cliff.

Stain Master 18 30m
Start : At the very back of the gully at the top of the scree chute, as far as you can go, is a ledge. On the R wall is a crack with a body length peapod section at the start, this is it.
1.30m Up crack to ledge then thinner flake/crack on L. Where the crack forks, take the thin L branch (the R branch is fists) to grassy ledge. Go along R to belay. There's some slings, blocks, trees to rap off at R end of ledge.  Mike Stacey, Lorna McManus, Jan'98.

To the R of this route and further down the gully are some great looking harder things but weather didn't allow a closer look. Do you know if they've been done yet? If so, could you let me know - also if the above route has been done?

Keep up the good work.
Regards,
Mike Stacey...

(Comment by RP: I don't know the area well enough to answer the questions.  Do you?   Baxter's guide is the "definitive" work to date but I could understand the area being hard to describe or follow; every crack is "obvious"!). 

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