With almost 3000 different climbs at Arapiles it is hard to give a short list of the absolute best. However some routes do stand out above the rest. Below is a short list of a few classics at different grades:

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1. Sunny Gully, Dec Crag

2. Bullet Buttress, Bushranger's Bluff

3. Tiptoe Ridge , Pinnacle Face. Hammer, Dec Crag.

4. Introductory Route, Pinnacle Face

6. Exodus, Mite Rock.

7. Diapason, Organ Pipes.

8. Marshmallow Sea , Dec Crag. Keyboard, Organ Pipes.

9. Conifer Crack, Organ Pipes. Siren, Pinnacle Face. Spiral Staircase , The Pharos. D.Major, Organ Pipes.

10. Eskimo Nell, Dunes Buttress. Syrinx, Tiger Wall. Arachnus, Watchtower.

11. Agamemnon, The Atridae. Blockbuster, The Bluffs. Bastress, Grotto Wall. Piccolo, The Organ Pipes. Trapeze, Castle Crag.

12. Bard, Bard Buttress. Panzer, Right Watchtower Face. Kestrel, Tiger Wall. Bluff Minor, The Bluffs.

13. Muldoon, The Atridae. Horn Piece, Organ Pipes. Megalomaniac, Mari Buttress.

14. Hot Flap, Watchtower Faces. Lamplighter, The Pharos. Toccata, Organ Pipes. Resignation, Tiger Wall.

15. Marmots Mall , Dec Crag, D Minor & Libretto, The Organ Pipes. Beautiful Possibilities, Central Gully Left Side. Open Road & Pibroch, Yesterday Gully. Witch Hunt, Mitre.

16. Brolga, Right Watchtower Face. Coming on Chris, Uncle Charlies. Arab, Dunes Butress. Nativity, Northern Group.

17. Swinging, Castle Crag. Missing Link, The Bluffs. Surface to Air, The Atridae. Checkmate, Bard Buttress.

18. Golden Echo, Northern Group. Skink, Right Watchtower. Daily Planet, The Atridae, XI, Fang Buttress. Oceanoid, The Pharos. Morghul Khan, Mitre.

19. Tannin & Lemmington& Wyrd, The Organ Pipes. Morfydd, Major Mitchell Gully. Judgement Day , The Pharos. Tony's Route, Bard Buttress.

20. Stranger's Eliminate, Kitten Wall. Little Thor, Dec. Crag. Quo Vadis , The Bluffs. New Image, Grotto Wall. Pilot Error, The Atridae.

21. Auto Da Fe, Right Watchtower. A Taste of Honey & , Kachoong & Comic Relief, The Northern Group. Chinese Algebra, Voodoo Buttress. No Future, Tiger Wall. The Wraith, The Organ Pipes.


22. Trinity Wall, The Pharos. Los Endos, Central Gully Right. In Lemon Butter, Yesterday Gully. Dreadnought Variant, Dreadnought Gully. Starless and Bible Black, Starless Buttress. Scorpion Corner, the Bluffs.

23. Birdman of Alcatraz, Death Row Pinnacle. Beside Myself, King Rat. Curtain Call, Curtain Wall. High Dive, Northern Group. Feverpitch, Yesterday Gully.

24. Orestes & Debutantes and Centipedes, The Atridae. Despatched, The Bluffs. Cliff Hanger, Curtain Wall. Common Knowledge, Kitten Wall. Lowdown, Castle Crag. Blue Eyed and Blonde, The Northern Group.

25. Ride Like the Wind, Starless Buttress. Have a Good Flight, The Atridae, Spasm in the Chasm, & Punks in the Gunks, Uncle Charlies. Henry Bolte, Dogger's Gully. Tjuringa Wall, Kitten Wall.

26. Anxiety Neurosis & London Calling & Bounds, The Bluffs. Yesterday, Yesterday Gully. The Fortress, Dogger's Gully. Exodus, Skyline Wall. Wild, Drugs and Crazy Sex (erroneously called Hit the Deck), Dec' Crag.

27. Body Recession, Grotto Wall. Mind Arthritis, Slopin' Sleazin', The Pharos. Akakage, Kitten Wall. Final Departure, The Bluffs.

28. India, Uncle Charlies. Slinkin Leopard, Dogger's. Cobwebs, Cobwebs Gully. Use No Chooks, Yesterday Gully. Down to Zero, Organ Pipes Gully. Lats have feelings too, Kitten Wall.

29. Steps Ahead, Dec Crag. Masada, the Pharos. The Last Temptation, Central Gully, Right Side.

30. Ethiopia, Uncle Charlies. Leaps and Bounds, The Bluffs.

31. Lord of the Rings, Dogger's Gully. Punks in the Gym, Uncle Charlies.

32. Punk Addiction, Uncle Charlies.