I was lucky enough to sample six quality climbs at Kangaroo Point in Brisbane (Queensland) last weekend. Sinead and my plans to head to Frog went amiss for a variety of reasons but at least we managed to have some fun on rock. I was told a lot of people bag Kangaroo Point but if I had the crag in my backyard I would be very grateful. Yeah some climbs are getting a little polished (nothing like Stanage or even worse Avon Gorge in the UK), but they were well equipped and a reasonable length so you can get stuck into them. The climb that will stick in my mind is ‘Idiot Wind’ which was my first lead there and very worthy of the two stars it gets; but not so sure I’d give it the 21 it gets as it felt more like a 19 compared to my local south-west WA crag of Willyabrup – that may however be as it was very much my style being a thin technical face climb.
Kangaroo Point has some 250 climbs and stands about 25m high:
Ground up me staring Idiot Wind (21**):
Good holds and nice moves make for a fun climb:
At the crux:
Sandbagged 