IDP wrote:It is interesting that you rate North so high. I’ve only done Savages, South, Mezzanine, standard SE, Logans, and North. On the 4 or more times up North (all of them continuing to East Peak then down SE), I’ve never found it very difficult at all (maybe apart from the increasing amount of scrub bashing from the cairn on Logans across Rocky Creek to North proper that is). Whereas I still find Logans more challenging despite having done it many times. Similarly with the crux on Savages.
Not criticising, just interesting how we all view difficulty differently.
I rate north higher for 2 reasons: the lower part is very scrubby and infested with vines ATM, very slow going. The upper part, I follow the rocky ridge proper, without escaping to the gullies. I stay on the rock. And this is an exposed continuous scramble. Unlike logan's, where you have short scrambly sections and none of them are particularly exposed, on north, the position on that particular section (probably just 150-200m) is more delicate and a fall most likely lethal. But yes, we all see difficulty differently. For example, I don't remember finding any particular difficulty on the final chimney on savages, before the summit, where everybody seem like mentioning a compulsory rockclimbing move. If my memory serves me, the only single hard move on any bushwalking barney route, is the boulder problem at the top of the chimney on short leaning ridge.