#hiking #climbing #glasshousemountains #adventure
With nothing much to do last Friday, I drove up to the Glasshouse Mountains to climb Tibrogargan via the 'Caves Route'.
Tibrogargan (the mountain) is one of the more popular summits in the area and almost everyone ascends via the 'normal' summit track - a scamble-y ribbon of rock that runs directly up the western side of the mountain.
That's all well and good but for there's a more interesting, dramatic and steeper line on the impressive eastern face. This unmarked route cuts across the lower half of the near-vertical face and climbs through 2 caves before traversing across the upper face to a ridge on the North-eastern side of the mountain. From the ridge it's an easy hike up to the summit.
It's not overly difficult in the technical sense but for me it seems much more of a 'mountain experience' - it also helps to have a 'head for heights' as the exposure can get pretty extreme!
From the summit, I descended via the normal route, which is more direct and less exposed.
For a full description of the route, visit my blog:
www.theadventurousfew.com/blog...
20 сен 2020
