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Nowra

Sport climbing in New South Wales, Australia. The rope and quickdraws to bring, and the send-temps forecast.

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What to bring

Bring a 60 m rope. It lowers off 97% of the 950 sport pitches listed here. A 50 m does 87%.

About 11 quickdraws. Few pitches here list their bolts, so that's estimated from pitch length.

What each rope covers

  • 50 m87%
  • 60 m97%
  • 70 m100%
  • 80 m100%
Median
14 m
Most common
10 m
Longest pitch
35 m

Route data from theCrag contributors (CC BY-NC-SA), collected 2026-09. Single-pitch sport routes only. theCrag

Conditions

Rope & draws

Bring

60m

50 m works for most routes

Draws

~11

Your 70 m covers every pitch

Median
14 m
Most common
10 m
Longest pitch
35 m

Draws: Estimate: about 1 bolt per 2.5 m

Your 70 m lowers off 100% of pitches here. That’s everything.
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Rope length

Route height (ground to anchor)

30m

Rope reaches

10 m of rope to spare.

Needed 60 mRope 70 m

Longest route or pitch

35 m

Comfortably ~30 m

  • •Knot the belayer’s end.
  • •Watch the middle mark.
  • •Topo heights are estimates.
  • •Traverses and roofs use extra rope.

Longest pitches at Nowra

  1. Little Baby Cheese3435 m–
  2. Muscle Hustler2635 m–
  3. Annually Fixated1733 m9 bolts
  4. The Wheel of Cheese3030 m15 bolts
  5. Worm On A Razor1930 m13 bolts

Rope by wall

The shortest rope that lowers off 90% of a wall's pitches (80 m where none does), and the share it covers.

WallRopeLongest
Thompson's Point345 pitches60 mcovers 97%35 m
Bomaderry Creek252 pitches50 mcovers 96%35 m
The Grotto Cliffline230 pitches60 mcovers 96%33 m
Babylon Areas89 pitches60 mcovers 97%30 m
Hospital Rocks32 pitches50 mcovers 100%15 m

Route data from theCrag contributors (CC BY-NC-SA), collected 2026-09. Single-pitch sport routes only. theCrag

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